1. Timothy Allen Caulfield was born on 1963 and is a Canadian professor of law at the University of Alberta, the research director of its Health Law Institute, and current Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy.
26 Facts About Timothy Caulfield
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Timothy Caulfield specializes in legal, policy and ethical issues in medical research and its commercialization.
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Timothy Caulfield is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
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Timothy Caulfield attended the University of Alberta, earning a B Sc.
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Timothy Caulfield completed a Masters in Law at Dalhousie University in 1993.
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In 1996, Caulfield became an assistant professor at the University of Alberta.
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Timothy Caulfield is a Health Senior Scholar at the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and has worked on a variety of advisory committees involved in medical and scientific ethics, including one with the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
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Timothy Caulfield has published numerous articles in academic journals and popular media on topics related to ethics and the effect of media hype on medical research.
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Timothy Caulfield is the editor for the Health Law Journal and Health Law Review.
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Timothy Caulfield is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
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Timothy Caulfield is a member of the Task Force on Ethics Reform at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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Timothy Caulfield has referred to the amount of misinformation surrounding the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic as an "infodemic".
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Timothy Caulfield has received funding from the federal government's Rapid Research Funding Opportunity to investigate how misinformation about COVID-19 spreads and to look for ways to stop it.
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Timothy Caulfield noted that this is the first time a global pandemic has spread in the time of social media, which allows for information to be shared quickly and often inaccurately.
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Some supposed cures of COVID-19 that Timothy Caulfield has debunked are drinking bleach, drinking silver, snorting cocaine, homeopathy, drinking cow urine, garlic soup and hydroxychloroquine.
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Timothy Caulfield is a spokesperson for ScienceUpFirst, a science communication initiative aiming at reducing the impact of COVID misinformation online.
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In 2020 Tim Timothy Caulfield collaborated with his brother Sean Timothy Caulfield, a University of Alberta professor, to use artistic images to share pro-science information in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Timothy Caulfield developed an interest in the health advice given by celebrities and the significant impact that it has on public health, especially when it is based on pseudoscience.
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Timothy Caulfield uses social media platforms, interviews, his books and his television series to counter some health claims made by celebrities such as actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow and alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra.
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Timothy Caulfield argues that the public should be wary of accepting health advice from entertainers and artists.
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Timothy Caulfield has advocated for medical professionals to not exaggerate potential benefits of new unproven treatments in fields that have only long-term potential.
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Timothy Caulfield is editor or coeditor of the following publications:.
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Timothy Caulfield is the host and main protagonist of the documentary series, A User's Guide to Cheating Death, presented in 60 countries, including Canadian specialty channel Vision TV.
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The first six-episode season presents Timothy Caulfield subjecting himself to various treatments of doubtful efficacy.
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In 2024, Timothy Caulfield tackled misinformation in the "manosphere" in his documentary "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" where he exposed the extremes that some men are going to in order to be seen as masculine.
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Timothy Caulfield suffers from motion sickness, which is one of the reasons he abandoned a fledgling career as a rock musician.