Gary Teare joined the Health Quality Council of Saskatchewan in January 2005 as Director of Quality Measurement and Analysis and is Adjunct Professor in the Dept of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan. Before moving to Saskatchewan, he was a Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto (Dept of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and Graduate Dept of Rehabilitation Sciences). He was also Adjunct Faculty at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, in Toronto. Gary retains his appointments with these Toronto academic centres due to ongoing research collaborations.

Gary's research has focused on health care performance measurement and reporting and on organizational learning, particularly in the continuing care sector. He has been lead researcher for the Ontario Hospital Report for Complex Continuing Care since 2000. In the field of organizational learning research, Gary is co-principal investigator on a study, funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, seeking to understand the multi-level factors that help and hinder the uptake and implementation of best practices (as outlined in clinical practice guidelines) by long-term care homes in Ontario.

Dr. Teare earned graduate degrees in Epidemiology (Doctor of Philosophy, University of Guelph) and in Immunology (Master of Science, University of Toronto) and a professional degree (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Guelph).