John Hirdes

John Hirdes, PhD University of Waterloo

Principal Investigator:

2015 Transformative Grant Program Pilot Study — Better tArgetting, Better outcomes for frail ELderly patients (BABEL) (TG 2015-15-P)

2014 (Fall) Strategic Impact Grant — Care of frail, acutely ill older persons: Making health care work like a system (SIG 2014F-31)

Dr. Hirdes is a Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo. He is the senior Canadian Fellow and a Board Member of interRAI, an international consortium of researchers from over 30 countries. He chairs interRAI’s Network for Mental Health and the interRAI Network of Canada.  He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.  

Dr. Hirdes has over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals and academic book chapters. His primary areas of interest include assessment, mental health, aging, health care and service delivery, case mix systems, quality measurement, health information management, and quantitative research methods. 

In 2012, Dr. Hirdes received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work on long term care through the Canadian Home Care Association and the Canadian Association on Gerontology.