Cam Donaldson

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Full Name	Cam Donaldson
Occupation	Scientist
Date Of Birth	Nov 30, 1960(1960-11-30)
Age	64
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Scorpio

Cam Donaldson Biography

Cam Donaldson is one of the most popular and richest Scientist who was born on November 30, 1960 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Cameron Richard Donaldson was born 30 November 1960 and is a health economist. He is the Yunus Chair for Social Business & Health at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Donaldson was the Svare Chair of Health Economics at University of Calgary from 1998 to 2002. He established a group for health economists and held an appointment there from 1998 to 2011, returning frequently. He was also a co- convenor between 1998 and 2008.

Donaldson has acted as co-investigator on several economic evaluation projects over his career, and has made important contributions to methods development in this area. Each has involved collaboration with health care researchers and professionals in several clinical settings. These evaluations have all created new knowledge in their respective clinical fields and have had various degrees of impact (e.g. feeding into NICE technology assessments), notably in nephrology, care of frail older people, osteoporosis screening, general surgery, sexual health and stroke. He’s been a member of the National Institute for Health Care Excellence Appraisal Committee and chaired the Family Planning Association’s Expert Panel on the Economics of Sexual Health in England, which reported in August 2005. With respect to methods of economic evaluation, he has co-produced two important papers in health economics criticising the foundations of QALYs and demonstrating that, as with WTP, QALYs are influenced by socio-economic status.

Donaldson has led the development and use of an economic framework, known as programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA), in local (geographically defined) health care settings where funders are charged with meeting the needs of local populations from limited funding envelopes. This has involved working directly with decision makers in several contexts at various levels of health care systems in the UK, Canada and New Zealand, working largely with Craig Mitton at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, using mainly qualitative research networks to document experiences. The main objective has been to adapt economics to complex management processes, so enhancing its uptake in decision-making and the framework has been used in several hundred health organisations globally. Related to this work, Donaldson acted as Honorary Secretary to the International Society on Priorities in Healthcare from 2006 to 2011, hosting the records and accounts of the society at Newcastle University.

Donaldson lives in Glasgow, with Diane, his partner since 1992. Diane is a successful university administrator. Two children, Graham and Callum Imray, and a grandchild (Dominic) are their two children.

Cam Donaldson Net Worth

Cam Donaldson is one of the richest Scientist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cam Donaldson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Express Newspapers relocated his father’s job in Manchester in the 1970s. Donaldson, despite not having been a supporter of a Scottish football team, chose Manchester City after Denis Law, a famous Scottish footballer, finished his career there. He has remained a long-standing fan of the club. After being educated at Bishopbriggs High School, and Cheadle Moseley School For Boys, Donaldson studied Economics at Nottingham (1979-1982), which was immediately followed by a Master’s Degree in Health Economics at York. Because of the desire to use economics in the public sector, Donaldson became interested in health. Health was an exciting area to explore at that time.

Donaldson began his career in multidisciplinary environments from York. He worked at Newcastle University’s Health Care Research Unit (1984-1988), and at Sydney University’s Department of Public Health (his first Lectureship, 1989-1990). The majority of the 1990s were spent in Scotland as the deputy director of University of Aberdeen’s Health Economics Research Unit (1991-1998). He initially served as a part-time director, under the supervision of Professor Gavin Mooney. In 1996, he was appointed a professor at Aberdeen. He also served for five years as the national coordinator of the Health Economics’ Study Group (HESG), a UK organization for health economists researchers.

In 2001, the Health Foundation (a major charitable funder in the UK) announced a national competition for a chair in Health Economics. Any university applying had to team up with a named candidate. Donaldson’s colleagues (particularly Professors John and Senga Bond) at Newcastle invited him to be their candidate, and together they won the funding of £3m. What made Donaldson equally proud, however, was that three of the candidates who made it through to the final five were PhD students of Mooney.

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Donaldson has pioneered this method in health, having developed novel approaches to quantifying values of patients and the public with respect to treatment options, demonstrating that: WTP can ‘detect’ values of attributes of care beyond health gain (i.e. ‘process utility’), and; distributional concerns (i.e. that WTP is associated with ability to pay) can be accommodated in applying the results of WTP studies to publicly funded health care settings. Cam also produced (with Jan Abel Olsen) the first-ever attempt to use WTP to establish relative priorities across health programmes, and has led major projects exploring the relationship between WTP and quality adjusted life years (QALYs).

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