Science & research

Dr. Terry Klassen

Career Profile

2010 to present: Director of Research for the Manitoba Institute of Child Health (MICH), the research division of the Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba; Associate Dean, Academic, Faculty of Medicine; Director of Research for the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba; and Pediatric Emergency Physician, Child Health Program, Winnipeg Health Region.

2009 to 2010: Clinician scientist and Director of Alberta Research Center for Health Evidence.

1999 to 2009: Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Leader for the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. During his leadership, the department grew from a small department of 36 members to a large 120-member department playing a major role in education and research. Research funding grew from about $4 million per year to just under $20 million per year. While in Alberta, Klassen was also:

• Founder of the Cochrane Child Health Field in 2000, an international group aimed at ensuring all child health research is synthesized and available for decision- makers.
• Founding Director of the University of Alberta Evidence-Based Practice Centre, one of 14 such centres across North America, generating about $2 million a year of funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the U.S.
• Founding Director of Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence (ARCHE).
• Founding co-Editor-in-Chief of Evidence-Based Child Health, a Wiley Interscience Journal. More recently, he and Dr. Martin Offringa, University of Amsterdam, have started StaR Child Health, a group aimed a improving the quality of pediatric RCTs.

Recently, he led a global effort to bring together the five research networks in pediatric emergency medicine in a collaborative initiative under the umbrella of Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN).

1996 to 1999: Director of the CHEO Research Institute. During his three-year tenure, external research doubled. While at CHEO, Klassen developed one of the premier research programs in pediatrics. Realizing the next great phase lay in national collaborative networks, he was the founder of Pediatric Emergency Research of Canada (PERC), which has placed Canada on the forefront of pediatric emergency research.

1995 to 1996: Founding Director of IM-PACT (Injuries Manitoba - Prevention of Adolescent and Childhood Trauma).

1988 to 1995: Moved to Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and the University of Ottawa to start career as an academic pediatric emergency physician. He was soon appointed Research Director in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and went on to develop one of the premier research programs in this area.

1986 to 1987: Served as pediatric physician in Brandon.

1985 to 1986: Chief Resident in Pediatrics, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Medicine.

1982: Graduated from University of Manitoba's Faculty of Medicine.

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