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Happy New Year to our Women’s Health Research Community! In this month’s e-blast, you’ll see some new mentions! We are very excited to welcome Sabina Dobrer as the WHRI’s senior biostatistician. Sabina comes with many years of statistical and analytical consulting, and will be offering free training opportunities to our trainees in the coming months for building a foundation in statistical skills. We also welcome Dr. Beth Payne into a new joint role between WHRI and BC Children’s Research Institute as our Digital Health Research Manager. Among the various initiatives Beth will take on, one is integrating the digital health research supports on the Oak Street campus and aligning them with a Digital Health research strategy. We also offer our heartfelt congratulations to former Executive Board member, Dr. Angela Kaida, who has taken on the role of Scientific Director, Institute of Gender and Health at CIHR. For those of you who have worked with Dr. Kaida, you will know that in addition to being a cutting-edge researcher, she is both a heavily sought after mentor to trainees and a marvelous leader. We are excited to watch her thrive in this role and wish her our very best.
If you are or work with a women’s health trainee who has not yet become a member of the WHRI, please share our website with them and encourage them to join. We have many trainee events planned for 2023!
Sincerely,
Lori Brotto, PhD, R Psych Executive Director | Women's Health Research Institute
Professor | Department of OBGYN, UBC
Canada Research Chair | Women's Sexual Health
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Dr. Angela Kaida appointed Scientific Director of CIHR Institute of Gender and Health
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On December 15th, Dr. Michael J. Strong, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, announced that Dr. Angela Kaida has been appointed Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health for a term of four years, effective January 1, 2023. Dr. Angela Kaida is a global health epidemiologist and community-based researcher at Simon Fraser University where she is an SFU Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Canada Research Chair in Global Perspectives on HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health. She leads a global research program focused on factors and environments that increase vulnerability or protect sexual and reproductive health in the context of HIV. Dr. Kaida works closely with community leaders and decision makers to integrate research evidence into health policy and programming with special attention to social and gender equity.
For the past four years, Dr. Kaida has been a part of the Executive Leadership team at the WHRI serving as a Scientific Advisor leading the Trainee and Mentorship strategic framework. With her new role as Scientific Director at CIHR, Dr. Kaida will step down from this role with the WHRI, and remain a member of the WHRI’s Scientific Advisory Committee. We are deeply grateful for the years of service, leadership, mentorship, and collaboration she has led.
Congratulations, Dr. Kaida!
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Dr. Sarah Munro appointed as Co-Director of the Contraception and Abortion Research Team
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Dr. Sarah Munro joins Dr. Wendy Norman as Co-Director of the Contraception and Abortion Research Team. The team is a multidisciplinary, pan-Canadian research network of researchers, clinicians, trainees, decision makers, and community advocates. CART members conduct impactful research that improves equitable access to abortion and contraception care. Outgoing Co-Directors Drs. Sheila Dunn and Edith Guilbert will remain as Co-Investigators and Mentors.
Dr. Munro is an Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (partner track), the Knowledge Translation Program Head with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, and a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar. She brings leadership as an expert in knowledge translation and implementation science, investigating the uptake of innovations in policy, practice, and education to bridge access gaps for equity-deserving populations. She supervises CART-GRAC trainees through the UBC Women+ and Children's Health (WACH) graduate program and supports fellows through the UBC Advanced Training Program in Family Planning.
You can reach Dr. Munro at sarah.munro@ubc.ca and on Twitter @DrSarahMunro.
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Welcome, Sabina!
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Please join us in welcoming Sabina Dobrer, our new Senior Statistician.
She brings with her over 20 years of experience in the area of social policy, health and clinical research, and is an expert in both experimental and non-experimental design and analysis. Sabina grew up in Latvia (former Soviet Union) and when the “iron curtain” was lifted she immigrated to Israel where she pursued a BA in statistics and an MA in demography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In Canada she worked on two large random assignment post-secondary education social experiments for SRDC in the area of addiction medicine and mental health for the BC Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, BCCSU, and BCCDC, and was part of the Genome Canada Transplant Consortium team working in the area of kidney transplantation. She is interested in the advancement of epidemiologic and clinical research through the development of innovative methods and by providing statistical consultations related to the design of complex datasets, sophisticated algorithms applications, and non-standard statistical analysis.
Sabina is avid classical music lover and for 7 years was a treasurer for the BC chapter of Canadian Music Competition, one of the most prestigious completions for classical young musicians in Canada.
In her free time, she enjoys reading, knitting, painting by watercolour or creating digital art on her phone, and going for a long walks with her dog.
Connect with Sabina
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Congratulations, Dr. Beth Payne!
We are excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Beth Payne to a new joint role as the Digital Health Research Program Manager for WHRI and BCCHR.
Beth has served as the Digital Health Research Program Manager at BCCHR since June 2021 and will be continuing in this role, now jointly reporting to both research institutes under the direction of Dr. Lori Brotto, WHRI Executive Director and Dr. Tibor van Rooij, Director of Research Informatics at BCCHR. Beth collaborated with WHRI for the past year on joint digital health initiatives (e.g. the monthly digital health research seminar series and the Michael Smith funded project to develop a shared research agenda in perinatal digital innovation). She is excited to expand these collaborations in her shared role. Beth brings over 15 years’ research management experience in the fields of global public health and health informatics focused on maternal and child health. In previous roles, she has managed several large, complex and multi-disciplinary research projects in regional, national and international settings. She brings a wealth of experience and expertise in health systems research and implementation science to support the research communities at both BCCHR and WHRI. In her role as Digital Health Research Program Manager, Beth will continue to build the digital health research program at both institutes by creating opportunities to learn and share knowledge related to digital innovations in women’s and children’s health. She will actively engage with decision makers in government and the health authorities to enable digital health research success and alignment of priorities. This to better support individual investigators at both research institutes in developing digital health research project plans and partnerships.
Connect with Beth
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Update to C&W Research Pharmacy & Research Medical Imaging Billing Procedures
Message sent on behalf of: Roxane Carr, Coordinator, Clinical Services, C&W Pharmacy; Heather Bray, Department Head and Medical Director, Department of Radiology; & Lori Brotto, Executive Director, Women’s Health Research Institute
The C&W Research Pharmacy and Medical Imaging (MI) departments are streamlining research services in partnership with BCCHR Finance to support cost-recovery and invoicing of research activities. We hope this partnership will help improve efficiencies in both departments to better support the needs of the clinical research community. Beginning January 2023 new and existing projects that are using C&W Pharmacy or MI for research services will receive a unique survey via REDCap from BCCHR Finance. Principal Investigator’s are asked to provide billing cost centre information and consent to pre-authorized payments. All future invoices will be automatically processed with the billing information provided. Study teams will be sent a notification of payment for their records, but no further action will be required. This process will help automate invoice payments and ensure timely payment for Research Pharmacy & MI services. If contact information or billing instructions need to be updated, study teams can notify BCCHR Finance at: Winston.poon@bcchr.ca We thank you in advance for your attention to this. We are committed to improving services for the clinical research community, so please do not hesitate to reach out should you have any additional questions or feedback.
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New episode of @WomensResearch
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Tori Ford, Founder and Executive Director of Medical Herstory, talks with Nicole Prestley and Melissa Nelson about the power of storytelling, lived expertise, and using social media to eliminate medical stigma.
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Join our team
We're hiring a Communications Coordinator!
This unique part-time role supports the development and implementation of internal and external communications strategies for the WHRI, ensuring that communications are high quality, consistent, and facilitate change while maintaining relationships among internal and external stakeholders. This role will have a keen focus on activities related to the WHRI website, podcast, social media programming, and event coordination. Experience with WordPress, Elementor, Notion, Canva, and HTML coding are an asset to this role.
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Digital Lab Inservice
The Digital Lab is a multidisciplinary team that is united by their passion for social impact, with a focus on improving the lives of children and families, locally and around the world. They started in 2016 with the goal to assemble a unique digitally-focused research and development team at British Columbia Children’s Hospital, integrated with the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute.
Event information
The purpose of this presentation is to provide a summary of the activities and opportunities for collaboration with the Digital Lab (bcchdigital.ca), an internal technology-oriented research and development unit at C&W, integrated with UBC. The Digital Lab was founded in 2015 with the mission of improving child and family health through digital innovation.
Agenda
12:00pm | General Overview
12:10pm | 3D Printing & VR Programs
12:20pm | Research Program
12:30pm | Q&A About the Presenter:
John Jacob (MBA, BA, MSc) holds two distinct roles at C&W: one, as the Executive Director, Medical Strategy and Operations, overseeing medical affairs and operations within the Office of the CMO; and secondly, as Head of the Digital Lab (bcchdigital.ca), a multi-disciplinary research and development lab, integrated with the UBC Department of Pediatrics. John’s clinical background is in pre-hospital emergency medicine and started his career as a Paramedic with BCEHS. John’s academic background also includes an MBA from the UBC Sauder School of Business, MSc in Health Economics, Policy, and Management from the London School of Economics, and PhD studies in health technology, economics and outcomes research through Bayes Business School, City, University of London. John is an Investigator with BCCHR and holds faculty appointments through both UBC and the Justice Institute of BC. John’s research focuses on health services improvement, technological innovation, and economic evaluation.
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BC Women's Research Rounds
Dr. Tara Sedlak will present "One year outcomes in a women's heart health centre" on January 20th at 8am PST.
Learning Objectives: - To describe MINOCA and INOCA as newly recognized entities in women’s heart health
- To describe one year outcomes in a women’s heart centre focusing on MINOCA and INOCA
Join via Zoom
Meeting ID: 693 8412 1933
Password: 581699
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Save the date for the Eighth Annual Women's Health Research Symposium!
Wednesday, March 8 | 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | In-person (Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre) + Virtual Theme of this year’s event is Advancing Women’s Mental Health through Research. This year’s event is being co-hosted by the WHRI and the BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute. Dr. Lori Brotto and Dr. Jehannine Austin (as Executive Directors of both Research Institutes) are co-leading the symposium planning committee. Please note that we will be hosting a mentorship and networking event for trainees engaged in women’s health research after the main symposium program. Please share this event with your networks. An email to register for the symposium will be sent out shortly.
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