Congratulations to the recipients of the 2019 UBC Faculty of Medicine Awards
Among this year’s recipients were WHRI members Drs. Ron Abrahams, Lori Brotto, Blair Butler, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, and Paul Yong.
Among this year’s recipients were WHRI members Drs. Ron Abrahams, Lori Brotto, Blair Butler, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, and Paul Yong.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Dr. Elgendi’s recent work used machine learning to examine 200 articles for insight into common characteristics among highly cited papers.
The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.
As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.
We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.