Michael Epstein PhD

Michael Epstein holds a PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management, with concentrations in Decision Science, Organizational Behavior and Management Information Systems. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology.   

Dr. Epstein is a co-founder, along with Joseph Schnurr MD, of the Centre for Integrative Medicine, where he has been Managing Director since 2002. Since inception, the Centre has served as a focal point for collaboration among a broad spectrum of stakeholders from diverse professions, disciplines, organizations, and sectors. 

He has taught graduate courses in research methods, multivariate statistics, and evidence-based decision making; and undergraduate courses in organizational behaviour, information technology, applied statistics, and complementary medicine.

Selected reports and publications

He has authored commissioned reports on integrative medicine and the future of healthcare, for Health Canada, Human Resources Canada, Tsu Chi Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Tamara’s House Services for Female Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse.

As Educational Co-Chair of the Complementary Care Advisory Committee, Saskatoon Health Region, he authored a Handbook of Complementary Healthcare (191-pages), which was distributed to 1,500 members of the Health Region, including Senior Leadership Team, Directors, Managers, Supervisors, and Front Line Health Practitioners.

His work has appeared in Decision Sciences, Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, and Canadian Family Physician.

Keynote Presentations

Michael has been a keynote speaker at several national conferences on the topic of change leadership, including the Interdisciplinary Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Network (INCAM); Canadian Institute of Transport Engineering.

He has been a discussion panelist on CBC’s talk show The Current, and a featured speaker at the Ted-X Saskatoon event in 2015.