Dr. Kevin Eva is Associate Director and Scientist in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship, and Professor and Director of Educational Research and Scholarship in the Department of Medicine, at the University of British Columbia. He completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology (McMasterUniversity) in 2001 and became Editor-in-Chief for the journal Medical Education in 2008.  

Dr. Eva maintains a number of international appointments including Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne (Australia), Affiliated Researcher at the KarolinskaI nstitute and Maastricht University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Bern (Switzerland).  

The core theme of his diverse research interests is the question of how can we improve decision-making in the context of health professional training and practice? Awards for this work include the Karolinksa Institute Prize for Research in MedicalEducation (Sweden), the Gold Medal from the Association for the Study ofMedical Education (UK), MILES Award for Mentoring, Innovation, and Leadership in Education Scholarship (Singapore), and the President’s Award for ExemplaryNational Leadership from the Association of Faculties of Medicine in Canada.