Ian Mitchell

Dr. Ian Mitchell

MD (Doctor of Medicine)

Positions

Professor Emeritus

Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

Child Health & Wellness Researcher

Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute

Contact information

Web presence

Phone number

Office: 403.955.7818

Background

Educational Background

MB, ChB Medicine, University of Edinburgh, 1968

M.A. Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2004

Research

Areas of Research

Asthma, Ethics, Respiratory, SIDS

 

  • Moral distress involving physicians in a variety of situations
  • Understanding of virtue ethics by trainee physicians
  • Reviewing Information on Jehovah's Witness approach to legal processes (Mentor to undergraduate students)
  • Determining factors leading to parents choosing to have a tracheostomy performed on their child, or rejecting this intervention
  • Impact of changing care paradigms for children with tracheostomy on healthcare costs
  • Canada-wide evaluation of RSV immune-prophylaxis
  • Asthma status of a cohort of adolescents followed since infancy
  • Changes in incidence and associated factor with SIDS

Participation in university strategic initiatives