Fahad Razak is an internist at St Michael’s Hospital and Canada Research Chair in Data-Informed Health Care Improvement at the University of Toronto. He co-founded GEMINI, the largest hospital research network in Canada, and has received over $310M in funding as Principal Investigator. GEMINI is used by an active community of more than 1,000 scientists, and health system leaders. He is also co-lead of VITAL, which has been funded through a $210M investment from federal and provincial sources to build a pan-Canadian platform for innovation with hospital data.
Fahad completed a degree in Engineering Science and Medical Doctorate at the University of Toronto, and was the first physician appointed as the David E. Bell Fellow at Harvard University. He served as Scientific Director for the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and contributed to over 50 science and policy briefs that shaped Canada’s response to the pandemic. He was a member of the Federal Expert Panel on Science Advisory and Research convened by Health Canada – “the Walport Panel” – the only Federal review of the pandemic. He is Vice President for Research at the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine, inaugural Chair of the Advisory Committee for Science at the Public Health Agency of Canada, and on the advisory board of the BMJ. He is also member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. He has received three major mentorship awards, include the inaugural Canadian Society for Internal Medicine National Award for Mentorship, and is a two-time recipient of the Teaching Award for Excellence from the University of Toronto.