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Results of the HPV FOCAL study published in JAMA
Dr. Gina Ogilvie and team published the findings of the HPV FOCAL RCT in JAMA this month! The study - which looked at the reliability of HPV testing in comparison to the traditional Pap smear for detecting cervical cancer - has been picked up by many major news outlets in the past weeks, including CNN, The Globe and Mail, the CBC, and WebMD.
Read more.
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Congratulations to WHRI members Drs. Ruth Grunau, Karin Humphries, Crystal Karakochuk, and Wendy Norman, recipients of the CIHR Spring 2018 Project Grants!
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As part of the #ItsNotInYourHead awareness campaign wrap-up, Melissa Nelson, Communications Assistant, and Ciana Maher, Research Coordinator, sat down with patient partner Lana Barry to discuss why involving a patient partner in KT work is important, and to explore how this collaboration between researchers and patient partners can catalyze a social media campaign.
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This summer there are four students working on projects with Dr. Gina Ogilvie's team! Sandy Zhang, Catherine Sanders, and Kara Plotnikoff are SFU Master of Public Health students completing their practicums over the summer, and Christine Lukac is an epidemiologist and UBC Medical student researching the impact of the school-based HPV immunization program.
Click here to read their full profiles!
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This month Natasha Orr was accepted into the Public Scholars Initiative, a program which provides professional, academic, and financial support to a group of brilliant doctoral students who are dedicated to doing research that directly benefits and involves the community. As a Public Scholar, Natasha will create a series of educational videos on the causes of sexual pain in endometriosis for patients and their partners.
Natasha was also awarded the 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award for a Master’s Student. This award is given to a student who has demonstrated success in research aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of families.
Congratulations, Natasha!
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Check out this new publication from the WelTel study
Congratulations to the CART study team for winning Best Poster Abstract - Gynaecology at the SOGC 2018 Conference
Dr. Moe Elgendi won the BCCHRI 2018 Outstanding Achievement by a Postdoctoral Fellow award |
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