Noralou P. Roos

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Noralou Preston Roos FRSC OC (born April 21, 1942, in Pomona, California) is an American-Canadian professor emerita of community health sciences. She has won several awards for her work in health policy, public health, publicly funded health care, and advocacy of evidence-based medicine and health promotion. [1]

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Biography

Noralou Preston grew up in California and Oregon with a sister and two brothers. Their parents were married for 67 years. [2] She graduated with an A.B. in 1963 from Stanford University. She married Leslie Leon Roos, Jr. on June 17, 1963, in Santa Clara, California. He was born in 1940 in San Francisco. She and her husband both became graduate students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3] She graduated with a Ph.D. in political science in 1968 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [4] Her Ph.D. thesis The Turkish Administrative Elite was supervised by Frederick W. Frey (1929–2020). [5] [6] She was at Northwestern University for three years before joining the University of Manitoba in 1972. [7]

Noralou P. Roos is a professor emerita in the Department of Community Health Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba. From 1973 to 1998, she was a National Health Research Scientist [1] supported by Canada's National Health Research and Development Program. [8] She has received numerous national and international fellowships and grants. She has published extensively in books and journals in collaboration with her husband. As of the year 2021, according to the Institute for Scientific Information, she is among the leading 100 Canadian scientists in terms of citations to her publications. [4]

Noralou Roos was the founding co-director, with her husband Leslie Roos, of the University of Manitoba's Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) and became a co-director of the Get Your Benefits (GYB) project supported by The Winnipeg Foundation. [4] She and her collaborators have researched variations in the medical practices of physicians, [9] [10] outcomes in surgery, [11] factors in the quality of medical care, [12] variations in health care use, [13] and quality, reliability, and use of data in managing the Canadian health care system, [14] [8] Leslie and Noralou Roos have a daughter and three grandchildren.[ citation needed ]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "2022 Inductee, Noralou P. Roos, PhD". Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
  2. ↑ "Obituary. Willard Orr Preston". Daily Bulletin. Astoria, Oregeon. February 10, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Leslie Roos, PhD". Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba.
  4. 1 2 3 "Noralou Roos, OC, PhD". Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba.
  5. ↑ Roos, Naralou Preston (1968). "The Turkish Administrative Elite". M.I.T. Library Catalog entry.
  6. ↑ "Fred Frey, Political Science". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. 68 (30). April 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Noralou Roos". Council of Canadian Academics/Conseil des académies canadiennes. 2012.
  8. 1 2 "Studying Health and Health Care, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy".
  9. ↑ Roos, Noralou P.; Roos, Leslie L. (1982). "Surgical Rate Variations: Do They Reflect the Health or Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Population?". Medical Care. 20 (9): 945–958. doi:10.1097/00005650-198209000-00007. JSTOR   3764526. PMID   7121099. S2CID   28992298.
  10. ↑ Roos, N. P.; Flowerdew, G.; Wajda, A.; Tate, R. B. (1986). "Variations in physicians' hospitalization practices: A population-based study in Manitoba, Canada". American Journal of Public Health. 76 (1): 45–51. doi:10.2105/AJPH.76.1.45. PMC   1646401 . PMID   3079630.
  11. ↑ Roos, Noralou P.; Ramsey, Ernest W. (1987). "A Population-Based Study of Prostatectomy: Outcomes Associated with Differing Surgical Approaches". Journal of Urology. 137 (6): 1184–1188. doi:10.1016/S0022-5347(17)44442-9. PMID   3586151.
  12. ↑ Roos, Leslie L.; Roos, Noralou P.; Gilbert, Penny; Nicol, J. Patrick (1980). "Continuity of Care: Does It Contribute to Quality of Care?". Medical Care. 18 (2): 174–184. doi:10.1097/00005650-198002000-00004. JSTOR   3764044. PMID   7206839. S2CID   35152046.
  13. ↑ Roos, Noralou P.; Mustard, Cameron A. (1997). "Variation in Health and Health Care Use by Socioeconomic Status in Winnipeg, Canada: Does the System Work Well? Yes and No". The Milbank Quarterly. 75 (1): 89–111. doi:10.1111/1468-0009.00045. PMC   2751034 . PMID   9063301.
  14. ↑ Roos, Leslie L.; Roos, Noralou P.; Cageorge, Sandra M.; Nicol, J. Patrick (1982). "How Good Are the Data?: Reliability of One Health Care Data Bank". Medical Care. 20 (3): 266–276. doi:10.1097/00005650-198203000-00003. JSTOR   3764295. PMID   7078285. S2CID   44870801.
  15. ↑ "Prof. Noralou Roos". Royal Society of Canada.
  16. ↑ "Alumni and faculty appointed to Order of Canada". University of Manitoba News. November 27, 2016.
  17. ↑ "UM stalwart honoured for leadership, public service". University of Manitoba News. November 18, 2020.
  18. ↑ "The Manitoba 150 Women Trailblazers announced". University of Manitoba News. February 3, 2021.
  19. ↑ "Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Names Dr. Noralou P. Roos as 2002 Laureate". The Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (chrim.ca). June 17, 2022.
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