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Research Spotlight: Dr. Erin Michalak receives a CIHR Spring 2019 Project Grant and Priority Announcement Bridge Grant
Building on nearly a decade of work with the CREST.BD network, Dr. Michalak’s project, ‘Bipolar Bridges: A Digital Health Innovation Targeting Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder,’ aims to enable access to credible, evidence-based, and safe information for people living with bipolar disorder.
Research Spotlight: Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Research Excellence Cluster
Dr. Aline Talhouk and Stephanie Lam are spearheading the initiative to form a Patient and Family Advisory Council for survivors of gynecologic cancers as part of the new UBC Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Research Excellence Cluster, a partnership between women throughout BC and multiple research institutions, scientists and clinicians across the province.
Research Spotlight: A Q&A with Brock Williams, PhD student
Brock Williams, a PhD student working alongside Dr. Crystal Karakochuk, is co-leading the project “Folic acid supplementation in children with sickle cell disease: A double-blind randomized crossover trial,” which recently received a CIHR Spring 2019 Project Grant.
Research Spotlight: Dr. Davina Banner receives a CIHR Spring 2019 Project Grant
What supports exist within research networks to promote meaningful patient engagement? Dr. Davina Banner hopes to find out, through her CIHR Spring 2019 Project Grant project, “Organizational Factors that Foster Engagement-Capable Environments: A Study of Health Research Networks.”
Nature publishes an article featuring Dr. Moe Elgendi’s research
Dr. Elgendi’s recent work used machine learning to examine 200 articles for insight into common characteristics among highly cited papers.
P2RISM- Digging deeper into post-partum and neonatal lab tests
Lab physicians, Drs. Vilte Barakauskas and Kate Chipperfield, at BC Children’s and Women’s hospital alongside patient co-leads are spearheading the P2RISM study (Pregnancy and Pediatric Reference Intervals for Safe Medicine) to help improve care for pregnant women and newborns.
Dr. Wendy Norman received a CIHR Spring 2019 Planning and Dissemination Grant
The grant will be used to plan research priorities to support nurses in providing optimal medical abortion care.
Congratulations to the recipients of the MSFHR Health Professional-Investigator Awards
Among this year’s 11 recipients were WHRI members Dr. Janice Kwon and Dr. Katherine Plewes.
Highlights from the 23rd STI & HIV World Congress
The WHRI’s Global Control of HPV Related Diseases Research Program made a significant mark at the 23rd STI & HIV 2019 World Congress held in Vancouver from July 14 – 17. The group led a well-attended pre-conference workshop and were selected for several oral and poster presentations throughout the conference.