Joel Lexchin is a professor emeritus at the York University Faculty of Health where he taught about pharmaceutical policy, an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, an emergency physician at the Toronto General Hospital and a Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.[1][2][3] Lexchin is the author of over 160 peer-reviewed publications.[3][4]
Biography
editLexchin received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1977.[1]
From 1992 for two years Lexchin was a member of the Ontario Drug Quality and Therapeutics Committee. He was the chair of the Drugs and Pharmacotherapy Committee of the Ontario Medical Association from 1997 for two years.[1]
In 2013, he was quoted in a learned article on Drug patents: the evergreening problem,[5] and he wrote the article on the pharmaceutical industry for the Canadian Encyclopedia.[6]
Lexchin is frequently critical of Canada's drug regulator, the Health Products and Food Branch,[7][8] as has been noticed in the learned press.[9]
In 2006, Lexchin was quoted by Manzer: "Drug approvals are not all science. There’s always decisions to be made around how much risk are we willing to take in terms of drugs, and I think as the industry takes on a larger role in funding the regulatory bodies that those kinds of decisions tend to be made more in favour of the drug companies,"[10] and in 2010 was noticed in a Toronto Star article entitled "Health Canada keeps some drug studies secret".[11]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Faculty". York University. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "Joel Lexchin MS, MD". Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Technoscience and Regulation Research Unit - Our Team - Joel Lexchin". Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "Joel Lexchin". scholar.google.com.au. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ Collier, R. (2013). "Drug patents: The evergreening problem". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 185 (9): E385-6. doi:10.1503/cmaj.109-4466. PMC 3680578. PMID 23630239.
- ^ "Pharmaceutical Industry". The Canadian Encyclopedia. 4 March 2015.
- ^ Lexchin, Joel (2018). "Quality of evidence considered by Health Canada in granting full market authorisation to new drugs with a conditional approval: A retrospective cohort study". BMJ Open. 8 (4): e020377. doi:10.1136/BMJOPEN-2017-020377. PMC 5931291. PMID 29705760.
- ^ Lexchin, Joel (2019). "Health Canada's Use of its Notice of Compliance with Conditions Drug Approval Policy: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis". International Journal of Health Services. 49 (2): 294–305. doi:10.1177/0020731418821007. PMID 30587064. S2CID 58537973.
- ^ Blouin, D. (2004). "Canada signs agreements to potentially share drug information with the US and Australia". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 171 (2): 121. doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041031. PMC 450348. PMID 15262871.
- ^ Manzer, Jenny (December 2006). "Taking Care of Business: Up close with Health Canada". Michener Awards Foundation. Archived from the original on 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ^ Smith, Joanna (25 November 2010). "Health Canada keeps some drug studies secret". Toronto Star.