Neil Seeman is the Director and Primary Investigator of the Health Strategy Innovation Cell based at Massey College at the University of Toronto, where he is a Senior Resident in health system innovation. His work on health care innovation and health policy has been published in leading journals here and abroad, including Economist, the Washington Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Asian Wall Street Journal, Healthcare Quarterly, Policy Options and Electronic Healthcare. He has also co-published work in the Canadian Medical Association Journal and Healthcare Management Review. He was the national lead in ”health 2.0“ research at IBM Canada and a founding editorial board member of the National Post where he wrote daily editorials on healthcare topics. He is an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Health Services Management at Ryerson University and has lectured to major health organizations across North America. He currently writes a column on health innovation for the National Post and for Longwoods Publishing. He also writes a blog on myhealthinnovation.com, a project of the Innovation Cell. He has been listed in the Canadian Who’s Who since 2002 for his contributions to Canadian public policy. Psyche in the Lab: Celebrating Brain Science in Canada (Hogrefe & Huber, 2006), a book on mental health research co-authored with his mother, Dr. Mary Seeman, OC, was called ”inspiring, educational and hopeful“ by Prof. Tak Mak, one of Canada’s most honored scientific researchers. Neil was a chapter contributor to Better Medicine: Reforming Canadian Healthcare (ECW, 2002). The Economist highlighted Neil’s work in a special edition by best-selling author Vijay V. Vaiseethewaran on technology and healthcare in 2009. He has published over 800 articles for magazines, newspapers and journals. His articles and editorials have appeared in the Toronto Star, the National Post, the Financial Post, the Globe and Mail and National Review, where he was associate editor for the magazine’s online edition. Neil has a law degree from the University of Toronto, and a Master’s of Public Health degree from Harvard University.
