Professor, Family Practice/ Therapeutics Initiative, The University of British Columbia
Ken Bassett is a Professor of Medicine, in the Departments of Family Practice and Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, as well as a Faculty Member of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. He is also an Associate Member of the Departments of Ophthalmology and Health Care and Epidemiology. His ongoing research interests are in the systematic review of drug therapy and drug funding policy. He is chair of the Drug Assessment Work Group of the Therapeutics Initiative that conducts systematic reviews of the efficacy and safety of new and established drugs. He also conducts pharmaco-epidemiologic studies of serious adverse events associated with prescription drug therapy in British Columbia.
His international work has focused on the prevention and treatment of blindness, in Tibet, Nepal, India, Egypt and Tanzania. He has acted as the field director of a population-based survey of blindness as well as developing community ophthalmology programs in remote areas. In 2002, he became director of the UBC Centre for Epidemiologic and International Ophthalmology.