Hot off the press! Read the June 2019 edition of our monthly News, featuring the CREST.BD and Erin Michalak winning the CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Patient Engagement, a profile of Victor Espinosa and his work in REDCap & more! Read the full newsletter issue here.
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BC Health Data Platform Pioneer: Victor Espinosa and REDCap
While not officially a member of the staff team, Victor Espinosa’s accomplishments are noticeable in most of the work of the overall BC AHSN organization, as well as in the health research landscape across the province. Formerly at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHRI) and currently the Manager for Research Informatics and Statistics at […]
Erin Michalak, BC SUPPORT Unit Patient Engagement Methods Cluster Lead, wins CIHR Gold Leaf Prize
Congratulations to Erin Michalak and her research team, who have just been awarded a Gold Leaf Prize from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)! The recipients of the award were announced on May 23rd, 2019. Erin and her “Collaborative Research Team to study psychosocial issues in Bipolar Disorder” (CREST.BD) were recognized for their ground-breaking work in […]
BC AHSN News: May 2019
Hot off the press! Read the May 2019 edition of our monthly News, featuring the launch of the SPOR Canadian Data Platform, Clinical Trials BC at Island Health Research’s Five Days in May, the BC SUPPORT Unit Northern Centre’s Graduate Studentship Program winners, Research Ethics BC’s new partner (BCIT) & more! Read the full newsletter […]
Kim McGrail announced in press conference as PI for Canadian health data platform
On Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019, Kim McGrail, our Data Director, represented a pan-Canadian research team (as the principal investigator, or PI) for the launch of a new Canada-wide data platform, funded by CIHR under the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (see our photo album here). The announcement of this $81 million pan-Canadian initiative was made […]
BC AHSN News: April 2019
Hot off the press! Read the April 2019 edition of our monthly News, featuring a profile of Terri Fleming (Research Ethics BC), registration for N2 Canada and Clinical Trials BC’s upcoming regional meeting in Vancouver, Stirling Bryan (BC SUPPORT Unit) receiving a national award, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research’s upcoming #HealthXChange & more! Read […]
