James Tiessen

James (Jim) H. Tiessen is Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Health Administration (Community Care) at Ryerson University. He has degrees from the University of Alberta (B.Sc.), Guelph (M.Sc.) and York University’s Schulich School of Business (Ph.D.). Jim was a McMaster DeGroote School of Business faculty member for 10 years before joining Ryerson in 2008.  Prior to his university career, Jim lived in Japan and later worked for the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). He has served as President of the Japan Studies Association of Canada. He has been a visiting Scholar at the Asian Institute, Munk Centre of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and visiting research fellow at the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo Japan.

Jim studies Japanese healthcare, particularly its hospitals, which sit at the centre of that system.  He and Dr. Ito Peng of the University of Toronto recently completed a report, An Asian Flavour for Medicare - Learning from Experiments in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, published by the Macdonald Laurier Institute.