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Nine outstanding teams funded in 2023 Practice-based Research Challenge

The Research Challenge Advisory Committee is delighted to announce funding for nine outstanding teams in the 2023 Practice-based Research Challenge!

All project titles and team leaders are listed below. We want to especially acknowledge the team led by Emily Murtagh, whose project won the Person and Family Centred Care award for this year.

Improving care with research at the Providence Breast Centre

By Grace Jenkins


From left to right: Dr. Urve Kuusk, Kirsty Carpenter, Dr. Elaine McKevitt, Dr. Rebecca Warburton, Priscilla So, Nancy Khuu

A multidisciplinary breast health clinic at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital has shaped the way breast health problems are diagnosed, treated and managed in British Columbia

CSRC Town Hall - BCCSU

Join Dr. Darryl Knight, Jo-Lynn Mervyn, and Devang Raval for a town hall meeting on the Clinical Support and Research Centre (CSRC) at the New St. Paul's Hospital. 

This fully virtual event will take place on Zoom.

CSRC Town Hall - CHÉOS

Join Dr. Darryl Knight, Jo-Lynn Mervyn, and Devang Raval for a town hall meeting on the Clinical Support and Research Centre (CSRC) at the New St. Paul's Hospital. 

This hybrid event will take place in the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences boardroom and on remotely on Zoom.

CSRC Town Hall - HLI

Join Dr. Darryl Knight, Jo-Lynn Mervyn, and Devang Raval for a town hall meeting on the Clinical Support and Research Centre (CSRC) at the New St. Paul's Hospital. 

This hybrid meeting will take place in the James Hogg Conference Centre and remotely via Zoom.

PHC Ventures: Automating Access to Data

You are invited to join PHC Ventures and Providence Research on June 16th to learn about the launch and access to, the Integrated Health Informatics Data Lab (IHID).

Automating Access to Data

Special invitation: An Introduction to PHC Ventures Integrated Health Informatics Datalab

Celebrate Research 2023: A look at cardiovascular research in BC

By Grace Jenkins

On April 20, partners and colleagues from around the life sciences sector gathered for an evening of informative lectures at Celebrate Research 2023. Leading medical professionals gave presentations on their research in their respective areas of cardiovascular health, the focus of this year’s event.

Exploring the impact of frailty on patients with interstitial lung disease

By Grace Jenkins

Dr. Alyson Wong is a respirologist based at St. Paul’s Hospital and a Clinical Assistant Professor in UBC’s Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine. She is one of the winners of the 2023 Carraresi Foundation Early Career Clinician Investigator Award alongside the BCCSU’s Dr. Britt Dennis.

Celebrate Research

Join us for an informative talk on cardiovascular health with leading medical practitioners from BC's health care sector.

Register now.

Evanna Brennan and Susan Giles: Bringing Action Based Care to Vancouver’s Downtown East Side

By Grace Jenkins

Home-care nurses Evanna Brennan and Susan Giles have been providing life-saving care to people living with HIV/AIDS and significant health issues in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES) since the 1980s. They saw the beginning of the HIV epidemic and witnessed the drug and overdose crisis develop into what it is today. Throughout it all, they have remained stalwart pillars care and compassion for Vancouver’s most vulnerable population.