Sholom Glouberman is Philosopher in Residence at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Associate Scientist at the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Adjunct Professor at McGill University and at the University of Toronto, and Fellow of the Change Foundation. He has a BA from McGill and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cornell University. For the past 25 years he has applied philosophical methods and conceptual analysis to organizations and systems. In recent years, he has focused increasingly on the notoriously intractable area of health and health care as the single most challenging and little-charted frontier.

From 1987 to 1992, Sholom was at the King’s Fund in London, England, where he remains a Visiting Fellow. In Canada, he leads a series of efforts in health policy research and advises senior managers of health care institutions. In the UK, his clients include a cross-section of organizations and individuals from the National Health Service.

After he returned to Canada, he taught at the University of Toronto and served as an advisor at Sunnybrook, Baycrest and the McGill University Health Centre. From 1997 to 2000, he directed the Health Network for the Canadian Policy Research Networks.

Sholom has worked with and spoken before a wide variety of health professionals, managers and policy makers in Europe and North America. He has written extensively. He edited Beyond Restructuring, a collection of papers from a King’s Fund international seminar, and wrote Keepers, a study of workers in total institutions. He has collaborated with Henry Mintzberg on papers describing the structure and dynamics of health care systems and organizations. His Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy is a major policy research effort which traces the trajectory of health policy from its beginnings into the next twenty-five years. His overview of health systems was a lead policy effort for the Romanow Commission. All are available on this web site.

Sholom's recent projects include: development of the International Masters Program for Health Leadership at McGill University, the establishment of the Clinamen Collaboration, a mixed group of writers on health and complexity, work on Reconnecting to Care a project at Baycrest to bring care of patients back to basics. Sholom is also workng on a narrative that links the patient's perspective on surgery with the medical record.