[5] He also leads the Health Services and Outcomes Research Program at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation.
[6] Sobolev started his academic career at the Radiation Epidemiology Institute at the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, studying cancer risk in relation to exposure resulting from the Chernobyl accident.
Sobolev is best known for pioneering the epidemiological approach to studying risk of adverse events in relation to time of receiving medical services.
[13] The purpose of this course is to develop competency in applying causal inference methodology to observational data.
Sobolev was awarded a Young Scientist Summer Program Fellowship at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna in 1990,[14] was the 2004 PWIAS Early Career Scholar award recipient,[15] and became the Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Modeling of the Health Care System in 2003 - a distinction he held through to 2013.