Colleen Metge, BSc(Pharm), PhD

Dr. Colleen Metge is an accomplished research scientist and professor in community health sciences at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. She earned her bachelor of science in pharmacy in 1975 and started her career as a front-line pharmacist in hospital and community settings. After working for the professional organization of pharmacists in BC, she pursued a doctoral program in pharmaceutical policy at the University of Maryland in Baltimore in 1990, where she earned her PhD with an emphasis on epidemiology and economics.

Dr. Metge accepted a position at the University of Manitoba after completing her PhD, where she taught ethics, epidemiology, economics, and pharmacy administration as a tenured associate professor in pharmacy until 2009. Her research interests and expertise span a broad range of topics, including health services and policy research, population and public health, and aging and social determinants of health. Dr. Metge managed an embedded research unit of 12 PhD/masters level colleagues who provided health services research and evaluation to Winnipeg's health authority and the province of Manitoba before retiring from the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority in June 2017.

Dr. Metge continues her work as a research scientist and professor at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, and she is affiliated with the Odette School of Business (University of Windsor) in supply chain management and with Women's College Research Institute in prescribing optimization. Over the past 20 years, she has been the principal investigator, co-pi, or co-applicant on 30 grants totaling $20.2 million and has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles. Her research has contributed to several population-level analyses at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, including appropriate use of pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical use by older adults, and pharmaceutical use in mental illness.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (BSc(Pharm))
• PhD in Pharmaceutical Policy with emphasis on Epidemiology and Economics