
Don Redelmeier
MD, FRCPC, MSHSR, FACP
Senior Scientist
don.redelmeier@sunnybrook.ca
Phone: 416-480-6999
Dr. Redelmeier serves as a Senior Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, a Professor at the University of Toronto, and a Staff Physician in General Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. His research spans a variety of areas emphasizing the psychology of decision making and the common pitfalls of reasoning.
Education
- MD 1984
- FRCPC 1990
- MSHSR 1991
Appointments & Affiliations
- Senior scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Tory Trauma Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute,
- Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto,
Research Foci
- Medical decision science
- Road traffic injury
Affiliated Labs & Programs
Selected Publications
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Redelmeier DA, Tibshirani RJ. The association between cellular telephone calls and motor vehicle collisions. New England Journal of Medicine 1997;336:453-8.
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Redelmeier DA, Tibshirani RJ. Why cars in the next lane seem to go faster. Nature 1999;401:35-36.
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Redelmeier DA, Stewart CL. Driving fatalities on Super Bowl Sunday. New England Journal of Medicine 2003;348:368-9.
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Redelmeier DA, Yarnell CJ, Thiruchelvam D, Tibshirani RJ. Physicians’ warnings for unfit drivers and the risk of a road crash. New England Journal of Medicine 2012;367:1228-36.
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Redelmeier DA, Staples JA. Fatal traffic risks with a total solar eclipse in the United States. JAMA Internal Medicine 2024;184(5):575-577.