Dr. Braden Manns, MD, Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine & Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
An essay by Dr. Braden Manns, MD

Dr. Braden Manns is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences and an Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions Health Scholar. He has expertise in Applied Health Economics, and clinical research in Nephrology and is co-PI for a multi-disciplinary team grant investigating chronic disease (www.icdc.ca/). Current interests include evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment based laboratory prompts for patients identified as having CKD, and examining the cost-effectiveness of population-based CKD screening, among other projects. He also has experience in pharmaceutical priority setting, having served on provincial (2002 – 2006) and national (2003 – 2008) committees for drug evaluation, including a term as Chair of Canadian Expert Drug Advisory Committee from 2006-2008. Dr. Manns is chair of the Canadian Society of Nephrology Scientific Committee and maintains strong links with researchers across Canada through his leadership of the Canadian Kidney Knowledge Translation and Generation Network (CANN-NET). Dr. Manns teaches a graduate course in economic evaluation and supervises graduate students at all levels of training.