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Asif Khowaja, PhD candidate and trainee at C2E2 has received VCHRI Rising Star Award 2017

Asif Khowaja, PhD candidate and trainee at our center has received Rising Star Award for 2017 from Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI). This award recognizes Asif’s research accomplishments and outstanding contributions to the scientific community. We congratulate his academic mentors and family members for this achievement.

 

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Professor Boris Sobolev

A health services researcher and Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, the University of British Columbia focuses on access, delivery and outcomes of care delivery.

Research interest 1: Hip Fracture

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Internationally renowned arthritis researcher and health economist, Dr. Deborah Marshall, to spend 3 months at C2E2

Deborah Marshall, Professor at the University of Calgary and Canada Research Chair, Health Services and Systems Research is a Visiting Scholar at C2E2 on Research Leave until the end of March, 2017.

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Poor asthma management unnecessarily drives up health care costs

Two Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientists are uncovering surprising statistics about the cost of asthma in British Columbia. Dr. Mohsen Sadatsafavi of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, and his colleague Dr. J. Mark FitzGerald, director of the Centre for Heart and Lung Health, just completed a series of clinical trials and descriptive studies that all tell a similar story: asthma patients are costing BC a lot of money. And most of that spending could be avoided if patients were properly using available, affordable medications.

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