Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is committed to supporting clinician-scientists in their efforts to conduct high-quality, impactful research that will improve the lives of British Columbians. The annual Investigator Awards, supported by the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, provides salary support to leading health research investigators to help move their work forward. The peer-reviewed awards allow clinicians to reduce their clinical practice commitments and expand their research capacity to make way for future discoveries.
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Dr. Samantha Pollard holds a PhD from UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, a Master of Science from McMaster University, and a BA (honours) from UBC. Dr. Pollard joined C2E2 in 2011 as a research assistant and PhD student, under the supervision of Dr. Stirling Bryan and Dr. Nick Bansback. Trained in epidemiology, healthcare ethics, and mixed-methods research, she is currently completing her post-doctoral fellowship with the Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control (ARCC) at BC Cancer.
Iraj Poureslami, Jessica Shum, Roger Goldstein, Samir Gupta, Shawn D. Aaron, Kim L. Lavoie, Claude Poirier, Saron Kassay, Kassie Starnes, Alizeh Akhtar, J. Mark FitzGerald, on behalf of the Canadian Airways Health Literacy Study Group
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It's been more than 50 years since universal health care was established in Canada, and while Canadian’s health care needs have changed significantly over that time, the system has failed to adapt sufficiently to those changing needs.
Dr. Trina Stephens completed a Master of Science in Experimental Medicine from the University of British Columbia in 2014. Upon graduating, she joined C2E2 as Project Coordinator for the Canadian Collaborative Study of Hip Fractures. Under the supervision of Dr. Boris Sobolev and Dr. Pierre Guy, she gained experience in health services research, and comparative effectiveness research, using Canadian administrative health data repositories.
20 Years of Health Reforms in Canada: The Experience of Seven Provinces
Over the last 25 years there has been in many cases a failure to adapt to emerging health needs and priorities within health systems in Canada. This provides a strong policy rationale to search for alternative strategies that might produce much-needed reforms.
This annual lecture will explore the transformative capacity of provincial health systems focusing on three questions:
Vancouver, BC – Adverse drug events could be avoided by sharing patients’ medication histories and previous harmful medication exposures among various health care facilities. That’s one of the key findings of a study published July 18, 2019 in CMAJ Open.
Led by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute researcher Dr. Corinne Hohl, the study’s conclusions are a wake-up call to urgently find new approaches to better protect the health and safety of patients.
Rural communities are striving to meet the needs of pregnant women and families. This seminar will describe the changing landscape of rural obstetric care, including the scope of obstetric unit and hospital closures in rural areas of the US, and its effects on patient access and clinical care. Policy and community solutions will be discussed.
