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Alejandro Jadad Bechara (born August 9, 1963) is a Colombian Canadian physician whose mission is to enable people - either as individuals or groups - to live healthy and happy lives, full of love, and with no regrets, until the last breath.〔Vogel C. On Living a Long, Healthy, and Happy Life, Full of Love, and with no Regrets, until Our Last Breath. Verhaltenstherapie 2013;23:287-289 (DOI:10.1159/000357490) http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/357490#AC〕 Jadad's research and innovation work seeks to identify and connect people, knowledge and tools across traditional boundaries to eliminate unnecessary suffering,〔Wagstaff A. Betting on e-collaboration. Cancer World, Sept-Oct, 2004〕 and to improve the capacity of humans to imagine, create and promote new and better approaches to living, healing, working and learning as part of a sustainable planet.〔Jadad A. The Global People-centred eHealth Innovation Forum. London: BMJ Group 2011 http://www.opimec.org/documentacion/1720/the-global-people-centred-ehealth-innovation-forum/#sthash.l3lEPkx1.dpuf〕 His projects follow a radical 'glocal' innovation approach designed to deal with distress fuelled by high levels of uncertainty, especially in the presence of life-threatening conditions, and to enable people and organizations to achieve maximum levels of health, happiness and tranquility through the judicious use of state-of-the-art approaches to scenario planning, design thinking and crisis management. Jadad is the Founder of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University of Toronto and University Health Network, where he is also professor, staff physician, and current holder of the Canada Research Chair in eHealth Innovation.〔Canada Research Chairs. Government of Canada http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=643〕 ==Early life== Dr. Jadad was born in Medellin, and grew up in Montería, Colombia. His parents were Enrique Jadad, a physician, and Ketty Bechara, an entrepreneur, whose families had migrated from the Middle East to South America at the beginning of the 1900s. Following the separation of his parents, at age 14, he moved with his younger brother, Enrique, to Cartagena, where they completed high school studies at (La Esperanza School ), the top institution in the country at the time. Inspired to become a physician by the example of his father and his maternal grandfather, who were very compassionate doctors, he obtained his medical degree in 1986 from Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogota. While still a medical student, driven by curiosity triggered by questions posed to him by small children in a very deprived school of Bogotá, he collected the largest data set on jargon, chemical composition and clinical implications of cocaine base (crack) abuse in Colombia.〔Jadad Bechara A. Basuco. Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology 1985; 13:257-267 http://www.revcolanestold.com.co/pdf/esp/1985/1985%20Julio%20-%20SEptiembre/mejor/Basuco.pdf〕 By the time he was 20, he had become an internationally sought after speaker, and an advisor to the Colombian Ministry of Health on drug-related matters.〔Alquichire C. Un sabio con alma de niño. Revista Abanico, December 4, 2009 http://www.spkrs.net/archivos_conf/un-medico-muy-sabio-con-alma-de-nino_1406200856.pdf〕 Before initiating his residence in anaesthesiology and intensive care at Pontifical Xavierian University, at age 22, he published his first textbook in this area, with Dr. Mario Ruiz, a Colombian anaesthesiologist whom he regarded as a father figure. This was the first textbook in neuroanesthesiology and neurolosurgical intensive care published in Spanish.〔Ruiz AM, Jadad AR. El Paciente Neuroquirúrgico: Manejo anestésico y de Cuidados Intensivos. Editorial Copilito. Bogotá: 1987 http://www.worldcat.org/title/paciente-neuroquirurgico-manejo-anestesico-y-de-cuidados-intensivos/oclc/318264696〕 In 1989, during the last year of his residency program, Jadad received a British Council Scholarship that enabled him to become a Clinical and Research Fellow at the Oxford Pain Relief Unit, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, where he gained experience in the management of complex pain cases and end-of-life care issues, while conducting research on advanced analgesic techniques. His groundbreaking work on the responsiveness of neuropathic pain (pain in numb areas) to opioids (morphine-like drugs) 〔Jadad AR, Carroll D, Glynn CJ, McQuay HJ, Moore DA. Morphine responsiveness of chronic pain: double-blind randomised crossover study with patient-controlled analgesia. Lancet 1992; 339: 1367–1371 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/014067369291194D〕 made him the recipient, in 1992, of the Overseas Research Student Award from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom That same year, he became a doctoral student at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he received, in 1994, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Medicine after completing a thesis entitled Meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials in pain relief,〔Jadad-Bechara AR. Meta-analysis of Randomised Clinical Trials in Pain Relief. DPhil thesis, Balliol College, University of Oxford, 1994 http://books.google.com/books/about/Meta_analysis_of_Randomised_Clinical_Tri.html?id=3OXXSgAACAAJ〕 becoming one of the first physicians in the world with a doctorate on knowledge synthesis. His supervisors were Henry J. McQuay, Professor in Pain Relief, University of Oxford, and Sir Iain Chalmers, the father of the Cochrane Collaboration. His examiners were Drs. David Sackett, one of the founders of the Evidence-based Medicine movement, and Adrian Grant, then Director of the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen. Dr. Jadad's doctoral work led to the creation of new tools to distill high-quality health-related information, new methods to build specialized bibliographic databases to support health-related decisions, innovative approaches the management of big data in health care, and the validation of the most widely used tool to assess the quality of clinical trials in the world: the Jadad scale. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alejandro R. Jadad Bechara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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