Rate My Professor William Ghali

Dr. Ghali’s research program has attracted millions of dollars in peer-reviewed funding and centers on evaluating and improving health system performance to achieve better patient outcomes and greater efficiency. He has published more than 420 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including seminal works such as “Coding algorithms for defining comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data” (2005), “The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada” (2004), and “New ICD-10 version of the Charlson comorbidity index predicted in-hospital mortality” (2004). Under his leadership as Vice-President (Research) since March 2020, the University of Calgary has launched initiatives like the Institutes for Transdisciplinary Scholarship and the UCalgary Research Excellence Chairs program, achieved top 5 research institution status in Canada in 2021, and secured the largest research grant in its history through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund for One Child Every Child. Dr. Ghali is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada, was named the Canadian public health researcher with the highest publication H-index by the Globe and Mail in 2012, and recognized by Thomson-Reuters as among the top one percent of most highly cited researchers in his discipline.