UBC Medicine researchers fostering better health outcomes through 2024 Health Research BC awards
Fifteen UBC faculty of medicine researchers are among the 2024 cohort of Michael Smith Health Research BC scholars and health professional-investigators being awarded new funding to advance transformational health research.
The funding, announced today by Health Research BC, helps health professionals and early career researchers study pressing health challenges, develop innovative treatments and translate their findings into practice to benefit people across B.C.
The faculty of medicine recipients will address key topics including overcoming disparity in breast cancer patients care in rural B.C. and developing equity-centered language with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples to reduce anti-Indigenous discrimination in healthcare.
A total of 27 health researchers at UBC were awarded funding through the 2024 Health Research BC competitions.
The Scholar program supports early career health researchers, helping them form their own research teams, train the next generation of scientists and develop world-leading research programs. The Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) program supports health professionals who are actively involved in patient care to build their health research programs, train the next generation of scientists and make significant contributions to their field.
Faculty of medicine recipients
Scholars
- Stephanie Glegg, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Project: Bridging KT Connections: Using the social drivers of knowledge translation (KT) to improve health care service delivery
Host Institution: UBC
Research Location: UBC Vancouver - Andrew Ivsins, Medicine
Host Institution: UBC
Research Location: BC Centre on Substance Use
Partners: BC Centre on Substance Use/St. Paul’s Foundation - Catrina Loucks, Pediatrics/Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Project: Towards improving pain management for children using patient-specific genetic information
Host Institution: UBC
Research Location: BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute - Hudson Reddon, Medicine
Project: Evaluating the impact of cannabis exposure and access on substance use trajectories among people who use unregulated drugs during the fentanyl era
Host Institution: UBC
Research Location: UBC
Partners: BC Centre on Substance Use/St. Paul’s Foundation - Silvia Stringhini, School of Population and Public Health
Project: Life-course socio-economic adversity and trajectories of aging from early to old age
Host Institution: UBC
Research Location: UBC School of Population and Public Health
Health Professional-Investigators
- Tashmeeta Ahad, Dermatology and Skin Science
Project: Longitudinal non-invasive optical biopsy of skin cancers to monitor efficacy and response to treatment
Host Institution: UBC
Research Location: UBC Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Partner: Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation - Jessica Chan, Department of Surgery
Project: Developing equity-centered language with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples to reduce anti-Indigenous discrimination in healthcare
Host Institution: BC Cancer
Research Location: BC Cancer Vancouver - Stephen Chia, Medicine
Project: Understanding and Overcoming Disparity in Care of Breast Cancer Patients in Rural British Columbia
Host Institution: BC Cancer
Research Location: BC Cancer Centre for the North/BC Cancer Vancouver - Carol Cremin, Medical Genetics
Project: BC Familial Pancreatic Cancer Program-Improving access to germline testing at time of diagnosis
Host Institution: BC Cancer
Research Location: BC Cancer - Allison Ezzat, Department of Physical Therapy
Project: Co-designing the implementation of an injury prevention program in girls community soccer
Host Institution: Provincial Health Services Authority
Research Location: BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute/BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit - Denise Jaworsky, Medicine
Project: Seeking Rural Equity by Increasing Rural Engagement in Clinical Trials: An East Kootenay Clinical Research Program
Host Institution: Interior Health Authority
Research Location: Interior Health Authority - Souvik Mitra, Pediatrics
Project: The Better Outcomes for the Sickest & Tiniest (BOOST) Program – Rigorous clinical trials in babies born extremely preterm to improve patient and family important clinical outcomes
Host Institution: UBC
Research Location: BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre - Fiona Muttalib, Pediatrics
Project: EQUITY-PIC-BC: Epidemiology and Quality of Pediatric Intensive Care in British Columbia: a health equity perspective
Host Institution: UBC
Research Location: BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute - Alyson Wong, Medicine
Project: Administrative-based case-finding algorithms to evaluate health inequities: a methodological framework and an application in progressive pulmonary fibrosis
Host Institution: UBC
Research Location: Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes - Gang Wang, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine/BC Cancer
Project: Toward an immunohistochemical model for molecular subtyping and predicting of treatment response in bladder cancer
Host Institution: BC Cancer
Research Location: BC Cancer Vancouver
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