Nov 2020 CCHCSP ON Virtual Session - Routinely Collected Health Data for Chronic Disease Research

Objectives:
1. Describe the use of routinely collected health data to conduct research in pediatric chronic diseases
2. Provide examples of epidemiological and health services research that can be conducted using routinely collected health data
3. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of using large health data sets for research in pediatrics.

Eric Benchimol is a pediatric gastroenterologist at the SickKids Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre and Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. He is also Senior Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute, and Core Scientist at ICES. Dr. Benchimol chairs the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC), which conducts epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, outcomes, and health services research using the health administrative data from multiple provinces. By using novel distributed network methodology, CanGIEC is able to assess the national picture of IBD in Canada despite the provincial nature of our health system. Dr. Benchimol also has an interest in improving the methods used to conduct research using routinely-collected health data. In that capacity, he co-chairs of the RECORD Steering Committee, an international group which has created reporting guidelines for observational studies that use routine-collected health data for research. Dr. Benchimol was funded by a Doctoral Award, Career Development Award and Career Enhancement Program from the CCHCSP. He is currently co-Chair of the CCHCSP Curriculum Committee.