Scott Comber

Research Interests

Dr. Comber's research interests include healthcare systems (physician leadership and system complexity) and the scholarship of teaching and learning (management education).

Selected Awards and Honours

• 2019  Dalhousie's Early Career Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
  
• 2019  SSHRC Partnership Grant, Co-Principal Investigator: "Scaling up trauma and violence informed outreach with women affected by violence" ($2,499,946)
  
• 2016  CIHR Project Grant, Co-investigator: "Promoting equity for indigenous and non-indigenous people in emergency rooms" ($1,662,789)
  
• 2016  Dalhousie's Educational Leadership Award for Collaborative Teaching
  
• 2015  Faculty of Management Teaching Excellence Award
  

Selected Publications

• Understanding burnout to build resilience: A qualitative study of an interprofessional ICU team. Hancock, J., Witter, T., Comber, S., Daley, P., Thompson, K., Candow, S. et al. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, 67(11), 1541-1548  (2020)
• Emergency department access and flow: Complex systems need complex approaches. Petrie, D.A. & Comber, S. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 26(5), 1552-1558  (2020)
  
• Competencies physicians need to lead – A Canadian case. Comber, S., Crawford, K.C., & Wilson, L. Leadership in Health Services, 31(2)  (2018)
• Instructors' perceptions of networked learning and analytics. Comber, S., Durier-Copp, M., & Gruzd, A. Canadian Journal of Learning & Technology, 44(3)  (2018)
  
• Developing Canadian physicians: The quest for leadership effectiveness Comber, S. Leadership in Health Services (special edition on medical leadership), 29(3), 282-299  (2016)

Current Teaching

• COMM 3309  Management Skills
• MGMT 3320  Organizational Theory
• MGMT 5000  Management Without Borders
  
• BUSI 5003  Personal & Professional Effectiveness