Biography:
Dr. Simon Berthelot is a Canadian emergency physician and researcher at the CHU de Québec – Université Laval. He has been an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Université Laval since 2015 and a clinician-researcher funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS). Through his research, he focuses on the clinical, economic, and environmental efficiency of healthcare services. He applies time-driven activity-based costing to estimate the costs of care and life cycle assessment to estimate the ecological footprint of healthcare services. His projects aim to reduce the overuse of healthcare resources and develop mor efficient care pathways.
Title : A time-driven activity-based costing method to estimate the cost of personal protective equipment use in the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic
Title : Comparison of the ecological footprint of disposable versus reusable gowns in protecting healthcare providers and patients against the transmission of SARS-CoV-2