Sholom Glouberman is President of the Patients' Association of Canada, Philosopher in Residence at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Associate Scientist at the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, and adjunct at the University of Toronto. He has a BA from McGill and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cornell University. For many years he has applied philosophical methods and conceptual analysis to organizations and systems, focusing 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, and later served there as a Visiting Fellow. When he returned to Canada, he taught at the University of Toronto and served as an adviser at Sunnybrook, Baycrest and the McGill University Health Centre. From 1997 to 2001, he directed the Health Network for the Canadian Policy Research Networks. Between 2003 and 2010 he developed and directed the International Masters Program for Health Leadership at McGill University with colleagues from England and Canada.

After an elective surgical procedure which resulted in a prolonged stay in hospital in 2005 he became fascinated with the patient perspective in health care. In 2007 he founded what was to become the Patients' Association of Canada (PAC) and became its first president.

Sholom has worked with and spoken before more than 30,000 people - a wide variety of health professionals, managers, policy makers and patients in Europe, North America and Australia. 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 many others 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.

His most recent book, My Operation: A Health Insider Becomes a Patient was published at the launch of the Patients' Association of Canada in February of 2011 and is available in paper and in electronic form.

Sholom's recent projects all revolve around creating a clearer understanding of the patient experience in health care, and promoting and enhancing the patient perspective at all levels of health care. His blog posts, presentations and theoretical papers can be found here.