Muhammad M Mamdani

Muhammad Mamdani is a Canadian professor, pharmacist and epidemiologist, known for contributions to pharmacoeconomics, drug safety and the application of data analytics and artificial intelligence to medical systems.

Biography

Mamdani is a professor in the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine at the University of Toronto.

He completed a master of arts degree at Wayne State University, followed by a PharmD at University of Michigan and a master of public health degree at Harvard University.

He also is the Director and founder of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Healthcare Analytics Research and Training (LKS-CHART), a healthcare data analytics program based at Unity Health Toronto.

He founded the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN), a collaboration between policymakers and investigators in Ontario that serves to inform the province and the country on policy that affects system efficiency, quality of care and health outcomes. He also founded the Applied Health Research Centre, an academic research organization in Ontario, which has managed over 100 multi-site clinical studies since its inception in 2012. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed manuscripts in his career (over 40,000 citations), including in the areas of drug safety, pharmacoeconomics, and application of machine learning to clinical and policy problems.