| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adi Swaro | Dr. Mark Cembrowski | Using living human brain tissue to understand non-neuronal dysregulation in medial temporal lobe epilepsy | Epilepsy, Brain tissue, Medial temporal lobe |
| Aditya Nagrath | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | Role of Cav1 lysosome trafficking in the cell response to mechanical stress by hypotonic shock | Caveolin-1 functions, hypotonic shock, cell reaction |
| Adrian Tabari | Dr. Matthew Turnock | Behaviour of spinal anesthesia in low-gravity environments | Spinal anesthesia, low-gravity |
| Ahmad Asdo | Dr. Mark Ansermino | Use oxygen wisely: ensuring equitable and rationale use of a scarce resource to maximize clinical impact. | Oxygen, resource use, clinical impacts |
| Albie Gong | Dr. Ryan Hoiland | Impact of red blood cell transfusion on s-nitrosothiol release during cerebral circulatory transit | red blood cells, transfusion, cerebral circulation |
| Alice Erchov | Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez | Understanding Treatment-Resistant Depression Through Network Psychometrics: A Descriptive Analysis of a Combined Clinical Sample | depression, mental health, network psychometrics |
| Alisha Thapar | Dr. Jacqueline Pettersen | Do Relaxation Techniques Improve Recovery in Recently Concussed Individuals? The Relax-Concussion Pilot Study | concussion, relaxation and recovery |
| Alyssa Yoo | Dr. Catherine Van Raamsdonk | A sticky problem in ocular cancer | ocular cancer |
| Amir Asadi | Dr. Mahmoud Pouladi | Unraveling the Role of a Novel GPM6A Mutation in Intellectual Disability | intellectual disability, glycoprotein M6A |
| Andy Hsu | Dr. Janice Leung | Impact of cannabis smoking on respiratory illness development and exacerbations | cannabis impacts, smoking, respiratory illness |
| Angel Xu | Dr. Bradley Quon | Impact of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor on treatment burden and quality of life in adults with cystic fibrosis | cystic fibrosis, treatment burden, quality of life |
| Angela Zhang | Dr. David Granville | Understanding the impact of air pollution and allergen exposure on oxidized lipids in airways in asthmatics | asthmatics, air pollution, allergen exposure |
| Angelina D'Amico | Dr. Angela Lin | Annotating Electronic Pathology Reports for Training NLP Models | NLP models, eletronic pathology |
| Anna Daoust | Dr. Lara Boyd | Improved cognition after high-intensity exercise paired with motor practice in individuals with stroke and older adults: A randomized controlled trial. | stroke, cognition and exercise, motor practice |
| Annudesh Liyanage | Dr. David Harriman | Machine learning enabled optimization of perioperative hemodynamics in renal transplantation | machine learning, renal transplantation |
| Arshpreet Manku | Dr. Matthew kwok | Quantitative Resource Utilization of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Patients at a Community Hospital Emergency Department (ED) Observational Controlled Study (LEP-ED2 Study) | resource utilization, language |
| Arshvir Singh Dhari | Dr. Lynnie Correll | CRICKET: Critical Events in Anesthetized Kids Undergoing Tracheal Intubation: A Prospective, Multi-Center Observational Study | anesthesia, tracheal intubation |
| Ava Aminbakhsh | Dr. Tara Sedlak | Harmonizing data collection of demographic, clinical and sex-specific characteristics of women with non-obstructive coronary disease ((M)INOCA) | women, coronary disease |
| Bahman Panjavi | Dr. Jeffrey Pike | An Assessment of Outcomes in the Operative and Non-operative Management of Pediatric Radial Neck Fractures: a single-centre, retrospective review | pediatrics, neck fractures |
| Ben Westmore | Dr. Carol Dingee | A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Cosmetic Outcome of Electrocautery, Scalpel and PEAK PlasmaBlade for Surgical Breast Incisions | electrocautery, cosmetics, surgical breast incisions |
| Brian Martin | Dr. Femke Hoekstra | The implementation of virtual health innovations in rural and remote communities of British Columbia | virtual health, rural and remote areas |
| Cameron Ardiel | Dr. Mike Allard | Drone Transport Intitiative | drones |
| Caris Truong | Dr. Khaled Abdelrahman | M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor as a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's disease |
| Carol Shen | Dr. Zachary Laksman | Quantifying the sex-specific differences in cardiomyocytes treated with male or female hormones | cardiomyocytes, male and female hormones |
| Catherine Wang | Dr. Yu Tian Wang | Characterization of de novo GABAAR mutations in treatment-refractory epileptic encephalopathy | de novo GABAAR mutations, epilepsy, epileptic encephalopathy |
| Catrina Callow | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout | Visualizing lipid droplets in living neurons | lipids, neurons |
| Charis Au | Dr. Jeff Small | An Environmental Scan to Promote Effective Communication for Persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Live in B.C. Long-Term Care Facilities | environment, deaf or hard of hearing, care facilities |
| Chassy Leong Ka See | Dr. Nicole Fairbrother | New mother's thoughts of infant related harm and obsessive-compulsive disorder | infant-related harm, obsessive compulsive disorder, motherhood |
| Chloe House | Dr. Calvin Yip | Investigating molecular function of human HOPS and the basis of HOPS-associated neurological disorders | molecular function, human HOPS, neurological disorders |
| Christina Yuan | Dr. Kaethe Clarke | Clinical outcomes of squamous cell carcinoma of the rectum treated with chemoradiation | squamous cell carcinoma, rectal treatment, chemoradiation |
| Claudia Luongo | Dr. Sarah Hamilton | Evaluating the Impact of English Language Proficiency on the Quality of Care of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in British Columbia | language, quality of care, thyroid cancer |
| Cory Macklin | Dr. Peter Black | Comparative evaluation of apixaban versus low-molecular-weight heparins for thromboprophylaxis following radical cystectomy | thromboprophylaxis, radical cystectomy |
| Crystal Shan | Dr. Macro Marra | Effect of HPV integration on KLF5-KLF12 locus that is recurrently affected in cervical cancer | HPV, cervical cancer |
| Daivat Bhavsar | Dr. Horacio Bach | Efficacy of nanoparticle-based drugs for the treatment of leukemia: A systematic review | leukemia, nanoparticle-based drugs |
| Daniel Mu | Dr. Sunil Kalia | Examination of sunscreen, protective clothing and shade seeking amongst darker skin coloured individuals | sun protection, dark skin, sun exposure |
| Danlin Zeng | Dr. Videsh Kapoor | Quantifying the Impact of UBC's Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Program on Adolescent Girls in Nepal | sexual and reproductive health, adolescent girls |
| Davey Li | Dr. Christian Steidl | Investigating the therapeutic potential of STAT6 inhibitors in various well characterized cell lines of B-cell lymphoma and derived JAK-STAT-modified isogenic cell line systems | B-cell lymphoma |
| Dheyaa Al-Najafi | Dr. Shananjit (Sonny) Thiara | Corticosteroid Pretreatment in Deceased Organ Donors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | organ donors |
| Durr Al-Hajim | Dr. Arthur Lee | New carbon dioxide insufflation technique during mitral or aortic valve replacement surgery: a randomized clinical trial | mitral or aortic valve replacement surgery, carbon dioxide insufflation |
| Dylan Da Silva | Dr. Christopher West | Exploring mitochondrial function in lean people compared to people living with obesity | mitochondrial function, obesity, fitness |
| Edward Huang | Dr. Orson Moritz | Investigation of the ultrastructure of retinal deposits for comparison with human equivalents in a new animal model of retinal disease. | retinal deposits, retinal disease |
| Edward Sobczak | Dr. Helene Cote | Placental and Blood Mitochondrial DNA Variants and Their Association with Preterm Birth among Women Living with HIV | placental DNA, blood mitochondrial DNA, pre-term birth, HIV |
| Elaine Han | Dr. Fabio Rossi | Engineering iPSC-derived myogenetic cells to target TGFb-mediated fibrosis in models of chronic skeletal muscle damage | myogenetic cells, fibrosis, chronic skeletal muscle damage |
| Ella Barrett-Chan | Dr. Mohamed Ali Bedaiwy | Investigating the use of first-trimester US markers to predict live birth and first-trimester pregnancy loss: comparing the predictive value of combined mean gestational sac diameter and crown-rump length together to the use of either parameter alone. | live birth and first trimester pregnancy loss, gestational sac, crown rump length |
| Ellie Kalutycz | Dr. James Lee | Use of ventilator-assisted maximal inspiration chest physiotherapy for children and youth with neuromuscular disorders: a pilot study | ventilator-assistance, chest physiotherapy, youth and children, neuromuscular disorders |
| Elliott Gee | Dr. Oldani Graziano | Immunosuppression-free Transplantation of Autologous Livers Grown in Xenogeneic Species | autologous livers, xenogeneic species, immunosuppression-free transplantation |
| Emilie Wang | Dr. Saoussen Salhi | Imaging for craniofacial dermoid cysts with intracranial extensions | craniofacial dermoid cysts, intracranial extensions |
| Emily Park | Dr. Martin McKeown | Comparison of Precision-Designed vs Generic Electrical Vestibular Stimulation on Motor Performance in Parkinson's Disease | motor performance, parkinson's disease |
| Eric Bhang | Dr. Cheryl Ho | Evaluating the impact of concurrent chemotherapy therapeutic choices on the management of stage III non-small cell lung cancer | chemotherapy, non-small cell lung cancer |
| Esther Kaye | Dr. Daljeet Chahal | Characterizing mechanisms of brain dysfunction in liver failure patients | brain dysfunction, liver failure |
| Esther Stuart | Dr. Rose Hatala | Co-developing research priorities for improving palliative care for patients with advanced disease who also experience structural inequities | palliative care, advanced disease, structural inequities, |
| Farhad Ghasemi Nejad Tafres | Dr. Kulbir Gill | The Efficacy and Safety of a Tenectomy During a Preserflo Microshunt Implantation for Surgical Treatment of Glaucoma | tenectomy, glaucoma |
| Gabi Martinez | Dr. Mariana Brussoni | Centering Children's Voices in a RCT to Promote Outdoor Play | children, youth, outdoor play |
| Garshana Rajkumar | Dr. Rachel Liu Hennessey | Standardizing Use of Pain medication to Eliminate post-Robotic HErnia Repair Opioids: A prospective cohort study assessing opioid use after abdominal wall reconstruction using the da Vinci robotic platform (The SUPERHERO Study) | pain medication, post-Robotic HErnia Repair Opioids, abdomin, |
| Gilbert Lee | Dr. Lingsa Jia | Substance Use Resources and Services in Burnaby: Spreading the Knowledge | substance use, resource, services |
| Gracie Li-Ting-Wai | Dr. Rachel Carter | Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of the Paramedic Palliative Pathway in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside | paramedic palliative pathway |
| Graham Hill | Dr. Anamaria Richardson | Quality Improvement Analysis of the SIB Clinic's Operational Methods | operational methods, quality improvement |
| Gurkaran Singh | Dr. Ben Mortenson | Improving Self-Management Skills Among People with Spinal Cord Injury: A Mixed-Methods Randomized Controlled Trial | self-management, spinal cord injury |
| Gurkirat Singh Nijjar | Dr. Maureen Ashe | Exploring Volunteering and Social Prescribing: A Descriptive Analysis of Undergraduate Students' Perceptions and Experiences | volunteering and social prescribing, undergraduate students |
| Hans Bae | Dr. Andrew MacNeily | Predictors of renal disease progressions in posterior urethral valve: A retrospective cohort study | renal disease progressions, posterior urethral valve |
| Harry Chae | Dr. Christopher Nguan | Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP1RA) in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and kidney transplant patients | end-stage renal disease, kidney transplant |
| Hayley Yau | Dr. Evelyn Stewart | Examining sleep disturbance in pediatric autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and their comorbidity versus psychiatric controls | sleep disturbance, pediatric autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| Hong Lu | Dr. Ann Marie Craig | Leveraging synapse organizers to rescue deficits in brain-based disease | brain-based disease |
| Insha Insha | Dr. Ted Steiner | Examining the impact of Tr1 Cell Therapy on IL-1B production in DSS-Induced Colitis Mouse Models | Tr1 cell therapy, DSS-induced colitis mouse models |
| Jacob Shew | Dr. Pascal Lavoie | Neonatal screening DBS cards to measure RSV antibody immunity | neonatal screening, RSV antibody immunity |
| Jacob Stubbs | Dr. William Honer | Brain atrophy and mortality among people living in homelessness or precarious housing | brain atrophy, mortality, homelessness, precarious housing |
| Jay Hwang | Dr. Baljinder Salh | Corticosteroid Pretreatment in Deceased Organ Donors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | organ donors, corticosteroid pretreatment |
| Jay Seth | Dr. Jeffery Ludemann | Retrospective Chart Review of Regular Triune Tympanostomy Tubes (Duration of Function and Complications) at BC Children's Hospital (2012-2022) | regular triune tympanostomy tubes |
| Jayden Boxeur | Dr. Emilie Joos | Postoperative mortality and morbidity in Indigenous patients admitted to acute care and trauma services: A propensity-matched prospective study | mortality, morbidity, Indigenous patients, acute care, trauma services |
| Jiwon Hwang | Dr. Greg Moloney | Quantifying preoperative risk factors that predict pseudophakic dysphotopsia | pseudophakic dysphotopsia, preoperative risk |
| Joelle Regier | Dr. Sean Maurice | Evaluating the impact of the Healthcare Travelling Roadshow: A prospective cohort study | healthcare |
| Johan Bouwer | Dr. Connie Yang | Comparing outcomes of invasive vs conservative treatment in patients with community acquired complicated pneumonia with pleural effusion | invasive treatment, conservative treatment, pneumonia |
| Jordan Thompson | Dr. Dena Shahriari | Development of soft electronic implant to mimic detrusor muscles for bladder management | electronic implant, detrusor muscles, bladder management |
| Joshua Yoon | Dr. Darwin Yeung | Clinical and Echocardiographic Assessment of Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumours | neuroendocrine tumours |
| Joyce Ko | Dr. Anshula Ambasta | People with Prediabetes and mild diabetes; characteristics, management and outcomes | prediabetes, mild diabetes |
| Julia Pei | Dr. Daisy Dulay | Implementing Nurse-led Cardiovascular Screening for Unattached People Seeking Urgent Care at Urgent Primary Care Centres | nurse-led treatment, cardiovascular screening, urgent care |
| Justin Blackman | Dr. Joshua Giles | Two-Body Scapulohumeral Statistical Shape and Bone Property Modeling of Clinical Populations | scapulohumeral statistical shape, bone property modeling |
| Kara Moscovitz | Dr. Helen Tremlett | Interventional studies targeting the prodromal or preclinical phase of immune-mediated diseases to benefit patient outcomes: a scoping review of the literature | prodromal phase, preclinical phase, immune-mediated diseases |
| Karen Jiang | Dr. John (Norgrove) Penny | Early identification of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip through selective ultrasound screening in a community setting. | developmental hip dysplasia, selective ultrasound screening |
| Karen Masuda | Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe | Image Data Curation for Artificial Intelligence Applications | artificial intelligence, image data curation |
| Kelsey Stefanyk | Dr. Richard Cook | Robotically assisted minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass: incidence and mechanism of graft failure | robot assitance, coronary artery bypass, graft failure |
| Ken Zuo | Dr. Vladimir Marquez | Corticosteroid Pretreatment in Deceased Organ Donors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | organ donors, corticosteroid pretreatment |
| Kerry Shi | Dr. Decheng Yang | Functional role of transcription factor NFAT5 in coxsackieviral pathogenesis of viral myocarditis | viral myocarditis, coxsackieviral pathogenesis |
| Kevin An | Dr. Silvia Chang | Improving Positive Predictive Values of MRI Prostate PI-RADS Scores and Avoiding Unnecessary Biopsies | MRI, prostate, biopsies |
| Kevin Nishimura | Dr. Ben Chew | The Incidence of Urinary Tract Infection from Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in Patients with Previous Prostatectomy | urinary tract infections, prostatectomy, percutaneous nephrolithotomy |
| Komal Dhaliwal | Dr. Nitasha Puri | Substance User-Guided Design and Pilot Trial of a Culturally Resonant Intervention to Treat Substance Use Disorder Among South Asian Men in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. | substance use, culturally resonant intervention, South Asian men |
| Laura Best | Dr. Matthew Carwana | Exploring the Indirect Consequences of COVID-19 on Children and Youth in Canada: A Qualitative Study to Improve Pediatric Mental Health Outcomes | COVID-19, children and youth, pediatric mental health |
| Leiana Hoshyari | Dr. Del Dorscheid | Clinical asthma remission: a new definition is needed | asthma remission |
| Liam mccready | Dr. Sarah Purcell | Advertising efficacy for Remission Possible in conjunction with Lifestyle Rx | remission, conjunction |
| Lily Xu | Dr. William Panenka | Longitudinal Structural and Diffusion Neuroimaging Changes in Long-COVID Patients | neuroimaging changes, long-COVID |
| Lilyan Jia | Dr. Jeremy Penner | Family Planning and HPV Vaccination access among Young Women and Girls in Kisumu, Kenya | family planning, HPV vaccination, young women and girls |
| Linda Chen | Dr. Todd Woodward | Advancing Precision Neurosurgery: Task-Based fMRI Mapping of Cognitive Functions for Individualized Surgical Planning | neurosurgery, fMRI mapping, cognitive functions, surgical planning |
| Lorena Zoltan | Dr. David Huntsman | Evaluation of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Tumor Response to Targeted vs Non targeted Chemotherapies | ovarian cancer, tumour response, chemotherapy |
| Luke Greidanus | Dr. Anurag Singh | A Case Study of Decolonizing Research through the Hybrid Care Research Collaborative | decolonization, decolonizing research, hybrid care |
| Lynn Choi | Dr. Shernaz Bamji | Investigating the role of the palmitoylating enzyme, ZDHHC21, in synapse number and plasticity | palmitoylating enzyme, synapse number and plasticity |
| Mackenzie Campbell | Dr. Sarka Lisonkova | Comparing Adverse Maternal and Fetal Outcomes in Women with Multiple Previous Cesarean and Vaginal Deliveries | cesarean deliveries, vaginal deliveries, maternal outcomes, fetal outcomes |
| Masih Sarafan | Dr. Cathie Garnis | Heterogeneity in Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Activated by Extracellular Vesicles: Analysis of Expression and Function | cancer, fibroblast activation, extracellular vesicles |
| Max Schlagel | Dr. Katie Zhu | Topical Anesthetic Application for Children Receiving Needle Procedures in the ER | anesthetia, children, needle procedures |
| Maya Tharp | Dr. Troy Grennan | SQuID-PCR: Syphilis Staging Quality Improvement using novel Diagnostics with PCR | syphilis, quality improvement, novel diagnostics |
| Michael Li | Dr. Ram Mishaal | Baclofen Dosage Adjustment before Hip Surgery in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Impact on Recovery Time and Outcomes | hip surgery, children, cerebral palsy |
| Michelle Ling | Dr. Meera Rayar | Education in Childhood and Adolescent Neuro-oncology Survivors | childhood, adolescence, neuro-oncology |
| Michelle Yang | Dr. Lori Brotto | Predictors of sexual dysfunction and genital pain among breast cancer survivors | sexual dysfunction, genital pain, breast cancer |
| Mohammed Abbas | Dr. Ong Kevin | Risk factors for sudden cardiac death in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | sudden cardiac death, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy |
| Morris Huang | Dr. Eric McGinnis | Rapid identification of actionable gene mutations in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia using targeted long-read sequencing | gene mutations, leukemia |
| Muhammad Faran | Dr. Faizal Haji | Assessing the reliability of different classification systems for spinal lipomas | classification systems, spinal lipomas |
| Nahanni Musiani | Dr. Catharine Winstanley | Mapping neural activity after microdosing with psilocybin to further our understanding of a new potential treatment for gambling addiction | neural activity, microdosing, gambling addiction |
| Nate Allison | Dr. Joseph Puyat | Home-based and community-based activities that can improve mental wellness: an umbrella review | home-based activities, community-based activities, mental wellness, mental health |
| Nicholas Mitchell | Dr. Richard Gardiner | Using patient-reported outcome measures to evaluate the use of parasternal intercostal nerve blocks as adjunct pain control therapy for post-sternotomy cardiac surgical patient | parasternal intercostal nerve blocks, pain control therapy, post-sternotomy cardiac surgery |
| Nikola Pupic | Dr. Bruce Forster | The Canadian Undergraduate Medical Student AI Curriculum: A Delphi Study | artificial intelligence, medical students |
| Nimrit Sidhu | Dr. Eric Yoshida | Hematocrit-Adjusted Tacrolimus Levels Early Post-Liver Transplantation: Impact on Rejection and Acute Kidney Injury | liver transplant |
| Niyoosha Yoosefi | Dr. Margot Davis | The Association between Tricuspid Regurgitation and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis | tricuspid regurgitation, cardiac amyliodosis |
| Omer Faraz | Dr. Stacy Elliott | From Homefront to Battlefield: A Comparative Study on the Priorities for Recovery in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury | recovery, spinal cord injury |
| Paniz Ghavimi | Dr. Edward Conway | Exploring molecular mechanisms of increased thrombotic risk in type 2 diabetes | molecular mechanisms, type 2 diabetes, thrombotic risk |
| Quinn Stewart | Dr. Denise Jaworsky | Rural Equity in Advancing Clinical Trials | rural equity, clinical trials |
| Rahnuma Sara | Dr. Susan Lee | Family-Career Balance and Infertility Among Canadian AnESthesiologists (FACES) | family--career balance, infertility, anesthesiology |
| Raman Sangha | Dr. Christine Voss | Exploring adolescent and parent experiences of pediatric diabetes distress in the BC Interior | pediatric diabetes, adolescent and parental experiences |
| Ravi Bullock | Dr. Sarah Lucas | Training an Image-based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (I-JEPA) Artificial Intelligence Model for Chest Computed Tomography Applications | artificial intelligence, chest computed tomography, joint-embedding perdictive architecture |
| Rayan Ahmed | Dr. Bruce Forster | Efficacy of Artificial Intelligence in Segmentation of Rotator Cuff Muscles: A Systematic Review | artificial intelligence, rotator cuff muscles |
| Roberto Fedrigo | Dr. Jonathan Loree | A retrospective observational study assessing treatment attrition between lines of therapy and its impact on receipt of therapy and outcomes for well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumours in British Columbia | |
| Rose He | Dr. Michael Schwandt | Evaluation of low-cost portable air sensors deployment for public health protection | portable air sensors, public health |
| Ryan Kaffashi | Dr. Filip Van Petegem | Design of Novel Binders Against the Ryanodine Receptor Amino-Terminal Disease Hot Spot | ryanodine receptor amino-terminal disease, novel binders |
| Sabine Bonnor | Dr. Jessica Dennis | Genetic analyses of depression trajectories in aging adults | depression, mental health, genetic analyis, aging adults |
| Sahel Mirrazavi | Dr. Melanie Murray | The Interplay between Inflammation, Hormones, and Aging for Women living with HIV. | inflammation, hormones, aging, women, HIV |
| Saige Park | Dr. Soojin Kim | Parental Role in Transition Readiness among adolescents and young adults with Spina Bifida: A Mixed-Method Study | parental role, adolescents and young adults, spina bifida |
| Sam Davani | Dr. Christopher Ryerson | Treatable traits in Interstitial Lung Disease | interstitial lung disease |
| Sam Tholl | Dr. Amin Javer | Post-Operative Outcomes in Patients Undergoing In-Office Endoscopic Sinus Surgery for Chronic Rhinosinusitis | endoscopic sinus surgery, chronic rhinosinusitis |
| Samuel Herzog | Dr. Paul Winston | Effect of cryoneurolysis on pain, spasticity, and contracture. | cryoneurolysis, pain, spasticity, contracture |
| Sara Niyyati | Dr. Alana Flexman | Design and Implementation of a Patient Advisory Council (PAC) for Anesthesia research at Providence Health Care (PHC) | patient advisory, anesthesia research |
| Sarah Zhao | Dr. Mypinder Sekhon | Comparing liver transplantation outcomes from NDD vs. DCD grafts in British Columbia | liver transplant, NDD vs. DCD grafts |
| Serena Chan | Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen | Clinical utility of routine MAG-3 scan for surveillance of kidney allograft injury at 48h post-kidney transplant. | kidney allograft injury, kidney transprant |
| Sheena Jiang | Dr. Graeme Koelwyn | Exercise-induced modulation of innate immune dysfunction following sepsis | exercise, immune dysfunction, spesis |
| Shreya Gandhi | Dr. Annie Ciernia | The role of inflammatory bowel disease in the development of Alzheimer's disease | inflammatory bowel disease, alzheimer's disease |
| Sohat Sharma | Dr. Simon Rabkin | The role of blood pressure in the expansion of thoracic aortic aneurysm and the consequences after aortic dissection | blood pressure, thoracic aortic aneurysm, aortic dissection |
| SueRim Baek | Dr. Jugpal Arneja | Quality-of-life measured using the EAR-Q after the Mustardé otoplasty: A cross-sectional analysis | quality of life, Mustardé otoplasty |
| Susan Yao | Dr. Isabella Tai | The effects of Helicobacter pylori on the evolution of intestinal metaplasia to gastric cancer | intestinal metaplasia, gastric cancer |
| Terri Ser | Dr. Corinne Hohl | A systematic review of hospitalizations for repeat adverse drug events | hospitalizations, repeat adverse drug events |
| Thalia Hernandez-DePaoli | Dr. Alexis Black | Predicting individual differences in vocabulary development through neural decoding | neural decoding, vocabulary development |
| Thunuvi Waliwitiya | Dr. Mary Kestler | Exploring perceptions of menopausal therapy including hormonal menopause therapy, non-hormonal menopause therapy and natural health products amongst women living with HIV: A qualitative assessment | menopausal therapy, hormonal therapy, natural health products, HIV, women |
| Tiffany Chang | Dr. Ying Wang | Exploring biobanks as educational resources: A case study on the impact of biobank-led hands-on learning programs on stakeholder involvement | biobanks, hands-on learning, stakeholder involvement |
| Tracy Ngo | Dr. Kirk R. Schultz | Clinical Determinants That Impact NKreg Cell Frequency in Healthy Donor Peripheral Blood. | NKreg cell frequency, donor blood |
| Vasko Georgyev | Dr. Andrew Lukaris | Effects of blue light stimulation in retinal cells in an AMD cell culture model. | blue light stimulation, retinal cells, eye, vision |
| Victoria Porter | Dr. Matthias Görges | Effects of End Tidal Carbon Dioxide Concentration on Depth of Anesthesia in Children Undergoing Total Intravenous Anesthesia | intravenous anesthesia, children, carbon dioxide |
| Vivian MacLennan | Dr. Elizabeth Conibear | Effect of a Parkinson's Disease-causing mutation on the cellular protein recycling machinery | parkinson's disease, cellular protein |
| Wendy Liang | Dr. Scott Tebbutt | The Effect of Senescence and Senolytics on the Airway Epithelium | senescence and senolytics, airway epithelium |
| William Liu | Dr. Tashmeeta Ahad | Assessing the effectiveness of Ultraviolet A (UVA-1) phototherapy for morphea | ultraviolet A phototherapy, morphea |
| Yaseen Mandoub | Dr. Lynn Raymond | Quantifying Parvalbumin Interneuron Alterations in Huntington's Disease and it's Impact on Cortical Regulation and Neural Network Activity | huntington's disease, cortical regulation, neural network activity |
| Yasmeen Jalil | Dr. Babak Shadgan | Studying the muscle lactate threshold with NIRS during a progressive biking exercise | muscle lactate threshold, biking, exercise |
| Ying Jie Li | Dr. Amjad Tobia | Why Not a Cochlear Implant? | cochlear implants, hearing, ear |
| Zoe Kortje | Dr. Brian MacVicar | Novel mechanisms of pericyte degeneration in oxidative stress and Alzheimer's disease. | pericyte degeneration, oxidative stress, alzheimer's disease |
| Zovya Wasylyk | Dr. Jessica Liauw | Counting the Steps: Evaluating Antepartum Maternal Relocations for Higher Level Care in British Columbia | antepartum maternal relocation, high level care |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kellan Woo | Dr. Kathryn Isaac | Comparative Safety and Effectiveness Study of Autologous Breast Reconstruction | Breast Cancer; Breast Reconstruction; Autologous; Neurotization |
| Kudrat Mundi | Dr. Marie Wright | Use of long-term ventilation for preterm infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia in British Columbia | Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, preterm birth, chronic lung disease, long term ventilation, outcomes |
| Jean Oh | Dr. Joanne Matsubara | The Role of Microglia in Amyloid-Beta Clearance in the Alzheimer's Disease Eye | Eye, Alzheimer's disease, Microglia, Amyloid-beta, Confocal microscopy |
| Derek Chan | Dr. Alfonso Lovieno | Antibiotic resistance trends and outcomes in Pseudomonas keratitis in British Columbia: a retrospective study | pseudomonas, keratitis, antibiotic resistance, ophthalmology, microbiology |
| Briana Chau | Dr. Savvas Nicolaou | Radiologist's Evaluation of a Chest CT Imaging AI Model | artificial intelligence, chest imaging, respiratory, parenchymal patterns, CT |
| Yi Han Xia | Dr. Eric McGinnis | Immunophenotypic, genetic, and clinical features associated with RUNX1 mutation in acute and chronic myeloid neoplasms | flow cytometry, genotype-phenotype correlation, leukemia |
| Marko Tien | Dr. Jason Barton | The face-superiority effect: a novel method to study face perception | face/word recognition; perceptual expertise; word-superiority effect; part-whole task; holistic processing |
| Jennifer Zhang | Dr. Wendy V. Norman | What are the patient characteristics, timeline and clinical events leading to blood transfusion following mifepristone/misoprostol induced medical abortion: a systematic review | Medical Abortion, Systematic Review, Rural and Remote medicine, Practice Guidelines |
| Tammy Ng | Dr. Brenda Farnquist | Siamese Neural Network AI model for change detection in screening mammograms for breast cancer risk prediction. | Artificial intelligence; screening mammography; breast cancer; change detection; risk prediction |
| Nikola Deretic | Dr. Vishal Avinashi | Analysis and Findings from 10-year Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) Registry Data | Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Pediatric, Allergy, Gastroenterology, Multidisciplinary Clinic |
| Moe Saffarzadeh | Dr. Connor Forbes | Patient knowledge and perception of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) treatments | Benign prostatic hyperplasia, Side effects, Medical management, patient knowledge, patient perception |
| Christy Richards | Dr. Mandeep Tamber | Pediatric Intracranial Infection Complicating Sinusitis in Canada | intracranial infection; sinusitis; pediatrics; database; COVID-19 |
| Kelly Wei | Dr. Lien Hoang | Creation of a p53 Vulvar Biopsy Educational Dataset to Improve the Pathologic Detection of Differentiated Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia (dVIN), the Precancer to the Most Aggressive Subtype of Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma | Gynecologic Cancer, Cancer Diagnostics, Anatomical Pathology, Quality Improvement, Immunohistochemistry |
| Callahan Brebner | Dr. Brian Grunau | Intraosseous Vascular Access Sites and Outcomes | Intraosseous Vascular Access; Cardiac Arrest; Discharge Survival; Intravenous Vascular Access |
| Julia Handra | Dr. Roger Tam | AI Prediction of Cardiac Scarring from Electrocardiograms | artificial intelligence, machine learning, cardiology, radiology, medical imaging |
| Gurpreet Sohi | Dr. Gurpreet Salh | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in BC - Caregiver experiences in obtaining resources and supports for their child in the first year post-diagnosis | FASD; Caregiver experiences; Neurodiversity; early intervention; advocacy |
| Borna Naderi | Dr. Thomas Roston | Evaluating the Diagnostic Yield of a "Burst" Exercise Stress Test in Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia | Cardiac arrest, sudden death, arrhythmias, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, exercise stress test |
| Chelsea Smith | Dr. Kristine Chapman | Establishing a Patient-Centred Outcome Measures Panel for Chronic Inflammatory Neuropathy in Clinical Care Settings | chronic inflammatory neuropathies, patient-reported outcome measures, functional outcome measures, patient interviews, qualitative study |
| Jasmine Memar-Zadeh | Dr. Delbert Dorscheid | Modeling vapor exposure in human airway epithelial cells to characterize the elicited cellular responses | Vaping, airway epithelium, lung injury, smoke, inflammation |
| Valerie Mok | Dr. Jim Christenson | Trends in Drug-Associated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Epidemiology and Treatment | Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; COVID-19; Drug overdose; Emergency medicine |
| Stella Fang | Dr. Melanie Murray | Comparing prevalence of polypharmacy and rates of comorbidity treatment among women living with HIV and HIV-negative women in the BC CARMA CHIWOS Collaborations (BCC3) Study | Women's health, aging, HIV, comorbidity, polypharmacy |
| Dilpreet Bharaj | Dr. Sara Belga | Risk Factors for Developing CMV Retinitis in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Case-Control Study | CMV retinitis, solid organ transplant, cytomegalovirus (CMV), risk factor, immunosuppression |
| Arya Ardehali | Dr. Krishnan Ramanathan | Postoperative Myocardial Injury after Non-cardiac Surgery (MINS) in Kidney Transplant Patients | MINS, CKD, Kidney transplant, Troponin, Cardiology |
| Christy Zhang | Dr. Roxana Geoffrion | Arcus tendineus apical suspension compared to standard sacrospinous ligament suspension with synthetic sutures: Early operative outcomes | Women's health, pelvic organ prolapse, surgical outcomes |
| Delon Chan | Dr. Vishal Avinashi | A qualitative study of GBM who are clinically eligible for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis but have not used it. | Gay, bisexual, men who have sex with men, HIV prevention, pre-exposure prophylaxis, uptake |
| Zaanjana Zivaaria | Dr. Alan Tung | Testing the feasibility of using ropivacaine in spinal anesthesia for patients with lower back surgery | Spine surgery, anesthesia, feasibility |
| Wendy Xu | Dr. Mohamed Ali Bedaiwy | Euploid Pregnancy Loss in Patients with Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: Comparing Spontaneously conceived to IVF with PGT-A | Recurrent pregnancy loss, infertility, euploid pregnancy loss, IVF |
| Caroline Kim | Dr. Steven Miller | Effects of Postnatal Infection on Brain Development and Long-term Outcomes in Preterm Newborns | Neurodevelopment, postnatal infection, neuroimaging, preterm birth, socioeconomic status |
| Gaganjit Phulka | Dr. Alyssa Hodgson | Incidence and Characteristics of Chronic Pain After Cardiac Surgery | Prospective, observational, cardiac surgery, chronic pain |
| Chenille Wong | Dr. Simon Rabkin | Proteins and metabolites in heart failure with preserved versus reduced ejection fraction: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Heart failure with preserved EF, Heart failure with reduced EF, Meta-analysis, Metabolite pathways, Protein pathways |
| Kiki Yu | Dr. David Liu | The Incidence of Synovitis in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis | Osteoarthritis, imaging, chronic, pain, synovitis |
| Karanvir Gill | Dr. Julian Marsden | Developing a Standardized High-Quality ED Discharge Process with Clear Patient Instructions | Emergency Medicine, Quality Improvement, Patient Discharge, Patient Safety |
| Laura Samson | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew | An evaluation of the usage of internet resources by patients with thyroid cancer and YouTube videos on Radioactive Iodine Therapy | Thyroid Cancer, radioactive iodine, YouTube videos, patient education, internet utilization, social media |
| Gurmaan Gill | Dr. Marianne Vidler | Postpartum Screening for Anxiety and Comorbid Conditions: A Prospective British Columbia Cohort Study | Psychiatry; Mental health; Women's health; Postpartum; Anxiety; Screening tools |
| Benjamin Brakel | Dr. Serge Makarenko | Use of jugular venous pressure to optimize outcomes of vestibular schwannoma resection | Vestibular schwannoma, jugular bulb pressure, head positioning, intracranial pressure, intraoperative bleeding. |
| Lucas Rempel | Dr. Andrei Krassioukov | The effect of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation on lower urinary tract function in people with spinal cord injury | spinal cord injury, spinal cord stimulation, urology, urodynamics, rehabilitation |
| Shaheer Lakhani | Dr. Lily Zhou | Factors associated with longer inpatient wait time until carotid revascularization following minor stroke for transient ischemic attack (TIA) | Ischemic Stroke, Carotid Artery Stenosis, Carotid Stenting, Carotid Endarterectomy, Wait Times |
| Josh Paterson | Dr. M. Eugenia Socias | Improving community engagement of people who use drugs in clinical trials | cannabis, opioids, methadone, people who use drugs, community engagement |
| Elsie Wang | Dr. Mandeep Mahal | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in BC - Caregiver experiences in obtaining resources and supports for their child in the first year post-diagnosis | FASD; caregiver experiences; neurodiversity; developmental interventions; systemic change |
| Crystal McLeod | Dr. Sean Maurice | Media Discourse Analysis of Access to Blood Donation in Rural and Remote Canada | Blood donation; Media discourse; Canadian blood services; Rural health; Social services |
| Elaine Hu | Dr. Nadia Fairbairn | Improving Access to Substance Use Care and Supports: An Overdose Outreach Team in the Vancouver Coastal Region | Opioid use disorder, overdose, outreach, public health, harm reduction |
| Meghan He | Dr. Neil Chadha | Can we Predict Nasopharynx Distance in Children for Swab Testing? A Pilot Study | Nasopharynx, nasal swab, COVID-19, pediatric, nasal endoscopy |
| Quentin Michalchuk | Dr. Miles Mannas | Comparing Transrectal and Transperineal Biopsies at VGH | Biopsy, Urology, Radiology, Prostate |
| Alix Wells | Dr. Thomas de los Reyes | Transition to Adult Care for Patients with Urologic Conditions in British Columbia | transitional urology; pediatric urology; adult urology; transitional care |
| Davy Lau | Dr. Naisan Garraway | Humanitarian Organizations and Existing Policies on Sustainable Surgical Care in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones | Sustainability, Surgery, Global, Conflict, Scoping |
| Yolanda Zhang | Dr. Chieh Jack Chiu | Standardizing Use of Pain medication to Eliminate post-Robotic HErnia Repair Opioids: A prospective cohort study assessing opioid use after abdominal wall reconstruction using the da Vinci robotic platform (The SUPERHERO Study) | Hernia surgery; opioid stewardship; narcotic use after surgery; robotic surgery; post-operative pain management |
| Amelia Tjoa | Dr. Chelsea Elwood | Risk Factors Associated with Caesarean section (CS) Surgical Site Infection (SSI) | Caesarean section, Surgical Site Infection, Obstetrics, Infection |
| Rory Trevorrow | Dr. Lise Leveille | Perioperative Management of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) in Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction | ACL Reconstruction, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis |
| Brooke Cheng | Dr. Jocelyn Srigley | Barriers to health care worker's adherence to infection prevention and control practices in British Columbia during the COVID-19 pandemic | Infection control, COVID-19, Frontline health care workers, Public health, Quality improvement |
| Charley Cai | Dr. Ryan Flannigan | Single-cell Transcriptomic Assessment of Peyronie's Disease Plaque Microenvironment | Peyronie's Disease, Single-Cell Sequencing, Transcriptomics |
| Hannah Rojas | Dr. Paul Yong | EndoPhoto: A Photovoice Study of East, South, and South-East Asian People with Endometriosis | Endometriosis, chronic pelvic pain, COVID-19, mental health |
| Joanne Chi | Dr. Jerilynn Prior | Constipation Prevalence and Variance Related to the Phases of the Normal Menstrual Cycle | constipation, menstrual cycle, Menstrual Cycle Diary, ovulation, subclinical ovulatory disturbances |
| Ruth Liu | Dr. Charissa Patricelli | The iOAT-APP Study (Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy Administration in a Pregnant or perinatal Population) | Substance use, opioids, addictions, women's health, injectable opioid agonist therapy |
| Rebecca Kenny | Dr. Lyndia Wu | A longitudinal investigation of concussive and subconcussive mechanisms in an ice hockey | Concussion, Head Impacts, Hockey, Impact Biomechanics, Video Review |
| Mikayla Fan | Dr. Quynh Doan | The impact of COVID-19 on mental-health related pediatric emergency department visits in British Columbia | Mental health, COVID-19, Pediatric Emergency Visits |
| Raja Choudhary | Dr. William Guest | The Application of Augmented Reality in Pre-Operative Planning | Innovation, Education, Augmented Reality, Qualitative |
| Anna de Waal | Dr. Lina Roa | Developing an intervention for sexual dysfunction after obstetric anal sphincter injury | Obstetric outcomes, sexual dysfunction, physiotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, e-health intervention |
| Lexia Bao | Dr. Fuchsia Howard | Psychosocial Interventions for Intensive Care Unit Survivors: A Scoping Review | ICU, Psychosocial, Scoping Review |
| Sebastian Steven | Dr. Matthew Carwana | Identifying the impact of perinatal substance use screening on parents accessing RICHER clinic services | Participatory action research, perinatal substance use, trauma-informed care, pediatric care, health equity |
| Haydn Molcak | Dr. Michael Moran | Pseudotumor formation, serum ions, and revisions following metal-on-metal hip resurfacing arthroplasty: a retrospective single-center study and review of literature | Hip resurfacing arthroplasty, hip replacement, arthritis, pseudotumor, serum metal ions |
| Rajan Bola | Dr. Jason Sutherland | The association between surgical wait times and post-operative outcomes: a prospective cohort study of elective surgery patients in Vancouver, Canada | Depression, pain, patient-reported outcomes, perioperative, surgical waitlist |
| Kayoung Heo | Dr. Douglas Courtemanche | Carbon Footprint Associated with Travel to Oak Street Campus | climate change, quality improvement, environment, carbon footprint, sustainability |
| Melody Li | Dr. Bonita Sawatzky | Understanding the work/home life balance in women who are orthopaedic surgeons in BC | women, orthopaedic surgeons, quality of life, stress, work |
| Helen Hsiao | Dr. Tony Ng | The role of 3D scanning, medical imaging modalities, and surgical planning software in improving communication between pathologists and head and neck surgeons: A systematic review | Head and Neck surgery, pathology, 3D scanning, medical imaging, surgical margin |
| Shamikh Lakhani | Dr. Carolyn Taylor | Effect of increased interhospital transfer times on health outcomes in emergency acute cardiac care | Transfer time, interhospital, cardiac critical care, thrombolysis, percutaneous coronary intervention |
| Caitlyn Siu | Dr. Helen Tremlett | A Systematic Review of the Impact of Treating Comorbidities in Multiple Sclerosis on Disease Outcomes | Multiple sclerosis; comorbidities; intervention; treatment; disease outcomes |
| Josh Ma | Dr. Peter Black | Adverse events associated with electromotive drug administration of mitomycin | Electromotive, mitomycin, adverse events, BCG, bladder cancer |
| Katherine Bilan | Dr. Silvina Mema | Improving interdisciplinary collaboration across harm reduction and medical services at Shambhala music festival: A framework for better health outcomes | Mass Gathering Medicine, Harm Reduction, Electronic Music Festival, Prevention |
| Joshua Cunningham | Dr. Videsh Kapoor | Assessing the Need of Pain Management Education in the Dang Region of Nepal | Pain Management, Sickle Cell, Global Health, Longitudinal Community Education, Palliative Care |
| Connor Frey | Dr. Janessa Laskin | Comparison of Fresh versus Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) Tissue for Whole Genome/Transcriptome Analysis of Tumour Biopsies | cancer, genomics, transcriptomics, sequencing, bioinformatics |
| Zhina Majdzadeh Ardekani | Dr. Horacio Bach | Nanomedicine-Mediated Drug Delivery for Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis, Nanomedicine |
| Petar Koncarevic | Dr. Mypinder Sekhon | Neuroinflammation in pre-clinical models of global hypoxic ischemic brain injury: a systematic review | Hypoxic ischemic brain injury; neuroinflammation; pre-clinical; cardiac arrest |
| Mahan Maazi | Dr. Nicolas Murray | Prediction of Stroke Progression Through Imaging | Stroke, Radiology, Imaging, Clinical, Predictive |
| Will Clarke | Dr. Tamara Vanderwal | Individual differences in sensory decoding patterns: a pediatric fMRI study | |
| Simon Zhu | Dr. Jonathan Bush | Development of Rhabdoid Tumor Patient-Derived Xenografts Using the Chorioallantoic Membrane System | Patient-derived xenograft, chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) system, rhabdoid tumor. |
| Elaine Ling | Dr. Gordon Francis | Effect of Lysosomal Acid Lipase Overexpression on Cholesterol Mobilization in Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells | Atherosclerosis; Smooth Muscle Cell Foam Cells; lysosomal acid lipase; cholesterol efflux; ABCA1 |
| Kawami Cao | Dr. Anibal Bohorquez | Effects of spinal cord injury and autonomic dysreflexia on pulse rate variability and heart rate variability | Spinal cord injury, autonomic function, cardiovascular dysfunction, blood pressure, heart rate |
| Alex Huang | Dr. Brian Kwon | The therapeutic effects following intrathecal infusion of CRP in the porcine model of thoracic spinal cord injury | Translational research, spinal cord injury, preclinical research, CSPG Reduction Peptide, functional recovery |
| Taia Yuen-Joaquin | Dr. Peter Zandstra | Optimizing conditions of a fabricated curved cell stretching device to examine mechanical cues during blood cell emergence | blood differentiation, stem cells, cell stretch device, mechanical cues, niche fabrication |
| Michael Collins | Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen | Unadjusted glomerular filtration rate as stronger predictor of graft outcome in paediatric kidney transplants | End-stage kidney disease, paediatrics, bioinformatics, transplantation |
| Cindy Wang | Dr. Bradley Quon | Evaluating barrier formation in a human nasal epithelial air-liquid interface model of cystic fibrosis. | Cystic Fibrosis, precision medicine, in-vitro human airway epithelium model, air-liquid interface, barrier integrity |
| Elliott Gee | Dr. Amandeep (Anu) Ghuman | The Relationship between the Microbiome and the Development of Low Anterior Resection Syndrome (LARS Microbiome Study) | Microbiome, Rectal Cancer, Surgery, Radiation |
| Leiana Hoshyari | Dr. Scott Tebbutt | Characterization of airway epithelial cell migratory function with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein treatment | Airway epithelium, migration, repair, COVID-19 |
| Fares Burwag | Dr. Poul Sorensen | Elucidating mechanisms of enhanced oxidative phosphorylation in medulloblastoma | Medulloblastoma, OXPHOS, mRNA translation, metabolism, mitochondria |
| Navneet Gill | Dr. Brett Hilton | Association between axon growth competence and activity of the histone methyltransferase Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (Ezh2) | Axon growth, nerve cells, EZH2, chromatin, spinal cord injury |
| Kat Zaraska | Dr. Lise Leveille | Function Junction: Implementation for Functional Assessment for Neuromuscular Patients in a Home Environment | Cerebral Palsy, Elective Orthopedics, Functional Assessment, Multidisciplinary Care, Software, Patient-specific Care |
| Hannah Doyle | Dr. Brittany Bingham | Accountability in Care: Storytelling Methodologies for Measuring Indigenous Patient Experiences | Patient Experience, Cultural Safety, Storywork, Indigenous Research Methodologies |
| Tiffany Chang | Dr. Honglin Luo | Examining enterovirus-associated cardiac injury in the human myocardium: Is the cGAS-STING pathway a culprit behind the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis? | myocarditis, pathology, inflammation, virus, innate immunity |
| Jenicia Zhen | Dr. Bruce Verchere | The Role of Peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM) in Pancreatic Islet Function and Development of T2D | type 2 diabetes, islet, PAM, insulin secretion, cilia |
| Cecilia Lee | Dr. Leandro Venturutti | Unveiling new targetable dependencies in aggressive B cell lymphomas | lymphoma, b cell, molecular, toll-like receptor, cancer |
| Aleksandra Ratkovic | Dr. Tal Jarus | Understanding the Similarities and Differences between Academic Coordinators and Fieldwork Educators | Healthcare, disability, accommodation, clinical placement, equity, inclusion, representation |
| Trushaan Bundhoo | Dr. Yossef Av-Gay | Identification of novel therapies against Mycobacterium Abcessus | Lung Disease, antimicrobial resistance, Drug development, cystic fibrosis, Antibiotics |
| Sam Salitra | Dr. Gregor Reid | Investigating mechanisms of HD-ALL leukemogenesis using in-vitro tissue culture and ex-vivo mouse modeling. | ALL, Leukemia-Initiating Cells, Tissue Culture, Eμ-Ret Mouse, Flow Cytometry, RNA-seq |
| Niki Shahraki | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout | Identifying genes that control neuronal lipid droplet dynamics | Lipid droplet, neurons, body fat, brain, Drosophila. |
| Rabiah Dhaliwal | Dr. Sara Jassemi | Implementing Family-Centered Rounds for Patients with Medical and Psychiatric Complexity Admitted to a Pediatrics Acute Care Hospital | Family-centered rounds, Patient engagement, Communication, Patient safety, Collaboration |
| Samuel Leung | Dr. Amrit Singh | Using spatially resolved gene expression to understand the role of vascular smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis | spatial transcriptomics, R, blood vessels, atherosclerosis, biomarkers |
| Daniel Elesin | Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose | Impact of Exercise Training or Complex Mental and Social Activities on Intra-Individual Variability in Older Adults with Chronic Stroke | Cognitive function, Intra-Individual Variability, Exercise, Randomized Controlled Trial, Chronic Stroke |
| Michelle Park | Dr. Jessica Chan | The Linguistic Indicators of Framing Tool: Developing a tool to LIFT negative framing out of published health research involving First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples | Indigenous, language, equity, culture, oncology |
| Sarah Lim | Dr. Erin Michalak | PolarUs: An App to Support Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder | Technology, Bipolar disorder, Apps, Psychiatry, Mental illness |
| Chloe House | Dr. Calvin Yip | Investigating the impact of Vici syndrome mutations on the molecular function of the EPG5 autophagy regulator | Vici syndrome, autophagy degradation, EPG5, disease mechanism, protein structure and function |
| Boaz Li | Dr. Ying Wang | Modernization of current biobanking techniques to enhance biospecimen quality | Biobanking, RNA, vascular, histology, tissue. |
| Susan Zhang | Dr. Kelly Brown | Adenosine deaminase 2 (ADA2) mediated effects on vascular endothelial cell growth | Vascular damage, adenosine deaminase 2 (ADA2), childhood disease, endothelial cells |
| Christian Thorson | Dr. Teresa Tsang | AI Assessment of Stroke Risk with Atrial Phenotyping (AI-ASAP) | stroke, echocardiography, atrial volume, atrial function, artificial intelligence |
| Phoebe Lu | Dr. Mari DeMarco | Structural characterization of TMEM106B in dementia | TMEM106B, frontotemporal dementia, proteomics, mass spectrometry |
| Alyssa Yoo | Dr. Decheng Yang | Role of transcription factor NFAT5 in coxsackieviral pathogenesis of viral myocaditis | Myocarditis, coxsackievirus, pathogenesis, CRISPR/Cas9, NFAT5, antiviral |
| Karolina Moo | Dr. Don Sin | Evaluating the Lung Health Effects of Cannabis and E-cigarette Smoking Using Pulmonary Imaging | Lung health, cannabis, e-cigarettes, lung imaging |
| Catherine Xu | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother | Perinatal Anxiety Screening Effectiveness Study (PASS Effectiveness) | Perinatal, Anxiety, Screening, RCT, Mental Health |
| Lydia Puetz | Dr. Ipek Oruc | Investigating Retinal Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in Fundus Images | Alzheimer's Disease, retina, fundus image, artificial intelligence, deep learning |
| Kevin Wang | Dr. Janel Kopp | Characterizing the Stromal IPMN Pancreatic Tumour Microenvironment | Pancreatic cancer stroma, Tumour microenvironment, Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia, Macrophages, Fibroblasts |
| Sophia Shayan | Dr. David Harriman | Comparison of Surgical Outcomes Between Staged Versus Simulataneous Native Nephrectomy for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease | Urology, kidney, transplant, surgery, nephrectomy |
| Hadil Alfares | Dr. Maureen Ashe | Co-creating Knowledge Mobilization Products for Social Prescribing | social prescribing, knowledge mobilization, communication, qualitative research, eCourse |
| Amy Zhao | Dr. John Kramer | Turning down the dial on pain: Exploring neurophysiological markers of pain "onsets" and "offsets" using temperature evoked potentials. | Pain, Evoked Potentials, Neurophysiology, Electroencephalography, Humans |
| Ryan Hong | Dr. Kurt Haas | Multi-Functional Assessment of ACE2 Variants Reveal Insights Into COVID-19 Disease Pathophysiology | COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, ACE2, Functional Genomics, COVID-19 Therapeutics |
| Jeanna Pillainayagam | Dr. Lori Brotto | Examining the role of non-expert navigators in an online sexual health intervention | sexual health; digital health, women's health, video coding; intervention |
| Ravi Bullock | Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe | Application of Natural Learning Processing for Extraction of Cancer Diagnosis from Electronic Pathology Reports | Natural Language Processing, Cancer, Python, Medical Physics, HL7 |
| Kimia Ameri Shahrabi | Dr. Sam Wiseman | Building a Cancer Care Quality Checklist for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in British Columbia: A Pilot Study | thyroid cancer, quality checklist, cancer care quality, value based healthcare, quality improvement |
| Harkaran Dial | Dr. James Scott Durham | Virtual Pre-planning of Mandibular Reconstruction (ViPMR): a Phase II/III Randomized Controlled Trial | (1) Virtual Surgical Pre-planning, (2) Mandible Reconstruction, (3) Provincial Ethics Approval, (4) Operational Approval, (5) Research Database Management |
| Tyrone Ly | Dr. Todd Woodward | Working Memory Big Five Task-based Brain Networks Detectable by fMRI | neurology, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy |
| Steven Chen | Dr. Liam Brunham | The effect of CETP inhibition on HDL levels and consequent sepsis outcomes | CETP inhibition, HDL regulation, Sepsis outcomes |
| Johnny Huang | Dr. Cheryl Wellington | The association between Apolipoprotein E isoforms and acute ICU outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19 | Neurological injury, Genetics, Publication, Statistics, Clinical outcomes |
| Numa Rangara | Dr. Ethan Greenblatt | An in vitro system for monitoring the translation of autism-associated proteins | Translation, autism, fertility, oogenesis, RNA |
| Phoenix Au-Yeung | Dr. Ging-Yuek Hsiung | Diagnostic agreement of multi-site clinical assessment of participants in the Asian Cohort of Alzheimer’s Disease | Alzheimer disease, cognitive assessment, clinical agreement, multi-cultural |
| Florence Sanjaya | Dr. Hélène Côté | Effect of switching to an HIV integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI) regimen on blood mitochondrial DNA content in people living with HIV | HIV, antiretroviral therapy, mitochondrial DNA, blood, qPCR |
| Vivien Dang | Dr. Annie Ciernia | Examining the Roles of Hdac3 in Innate Microglial Immune Response | Neuro-inflammation, epigenetics, microglia, Azheimer's Disease, gene expression |
| Emily Zhang | Dr. Inanc Birol | Algorithms for targeted polishing of genome sequence and genome synteny visualization | genomics, genome synteny, algorithms, genome polishing, sequencing technology |
| Eknoor Toor | Dr. Faizal Haji | Surgical Care in the Post Pandemic World | Surgical Care, COVID-19, Digitalization, Ethics, Value-based Healthcare |
| Heather Lu | Dr. Clare Beasley | Effects of the antipsychotic medication olanzapine on microglial density in the hippocampus of exercising and sedentary rats | Antipsychotic, immune, schizophrenia, exercise, hippocampus |
| Goldman Lam | Dr. Rachel Murphy | Dietary intake among women with breast cancer | Cancer, nutrition, dietary intake, women's health |
| Paniz Ghavimi | Dr. Edward Conway | Discovering novel interactions between thrombosis, diabetes and obesity | coagulation, insulin, diabetes, obesity, blood |
| Trevor Fowler | Dr. Hamish Hwang | Assessing the Utility of a Library of Standalone Operative Videos for Surgical Education | surgical education, digital content, UBC Reticulum, operative video, general surgery |
| Carissa Chan | Dr. Karen Tran | Patient-Centered Care in the Hospital at Home Program | Patient-centred Hospital, Communication, Patient-involvement, Clinical, Continuity-of-care |
| Sukhman Mann | Dr. Wei Zhang | Evaluating and Informing Canada's Proposed Pharmaceutical Price Regulations | Pharmaceutical, Policy analysis, Evaluation, Health Economics, Pricing |
| Samuel Herzog | Dr. Paul Winston | Effect of the cryoneurolysis on pain and positioning in patients with wrist and hand contracture. | Stroke, osteoarthritis. cryoneurolysis, hemiplegia, ultrasound guided |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adith Vishnu Kumar | Dr. Victor Viau | Corticosteroid-binding globulin deficiency influences adaptive neuroendocrine responses | Sex differences, stress, glucocorticoids, central nervous system |
| Linh Tran | Dr. Eitan Prisman | Evaluating the role of transcervical ultrasonography in guiding oropharyngeal cancer resection during transoral robotic surgery | 3D ultrasound of the oropharynx, transoral robotic surgery, medical robotics, oral squamous cell carcinoma, head and neck surgery |
| Angela Zhang | Dr. Mark Cembrowski | Mapping the anterior thalamic nuclei at a single-cell, single-molecule resolution | Mouse, brain, thalamus, cell types |
| Tony Guo | Dr. Del Dorscheid | Respiratory diseases and the differentiation of the airway epithelium: implications for COVID-19 | COVID-19, ACE2, airway epithelium, differentiation, asthma |
| Derek Wu | Dr. David Granville | Profiling granzymes in inflammatory neuromuscular diseases | Granzymes, inflammatory neuromuscular diseases, myasthenia gravis, immune mediated neuropathies, idiopathic inflammatory myopathy |
| Josephine Ma | Dr. William Lockwood | Evaluating DUSP6 inhibition as a therapeutic target in lung cancer | Lung cancer, oncology, pharmacology, hyperactivation |
| Gurmaan Gill | Dr. Shernaz Bamji | Activation of signaling pathways in ZDHHC9-mediated myelination | Neuroscience, neurodevelopment, oligodendrocytes, myelination, intellectual disability, palmitoylation |
| Xiwen Zhu | Dr. Helene Cote | The effect of antioxidant and InSTI co-exposure in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) | HIV, antiretroviral therapy, antioxidants, mitochondrial toxicity, peripheral mononuclear cells |
| Astrid Bradshaw | Dr. Robert Stenstrom | Gender based inequity in the diagnosis and treatment of sepsis in the emergency department | Sepsis, infection, gender-inequity, treatment |
| Yaksh Shah | Dr. Luong Christina | Automated lvef in heart function clinic: AI augmented point of care ultrasound | Artificial intelligence, LVEF, point of care, ultrasound, echocardiographer |
| Emily Mayzes-Kotulla | Dr. Colin Mar | Exception handling in Deep Learning applications in breast cancer detection using mammography | breast cancer, screening, AI systems, exception handling, mammography |
| Donna Seraj | Dr. Stefan Taubert | Dissecting the role of efk-1/eEF2K in resistance to starvation-induced oxidative DNA damage | Starvation, stress, C. elegans, oxidative, DNA repair |
| Celine Yeung | Dr. Eric Accili | The effect of a bradycardia-associated mutation in the HCN4 channel on cAMP binding | Arrhythmia, heart, cAMP binding, HCN4 channel |
| Amar Sekhon | Dr. Bruce Verchere | A role for defective enteroendocrine cell prohormone processing in malabsorptive diarrhea | malabsorptive diarrhea, prohormone processing, enteroendocrine cells, intestinal growth, prohormone convertases |
| Kawami Cao | Dr. Anibal Bohorquez | Non-invasive transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation to improve cardiovascular control following spinal cord injury | Spinal cord injury, autonomic function, spinal cord stimulation, non-invasive, cardiovascular dysfunction |
| Mary Daniel | Dr. Wendy Robinson | Characterizing X chromosome DNA methylation in the placenta | Epigenetic, Bioinformatics, Placenta, Neonatal, Development |
| Lyanne Zhang | Dr. Honglin Luo | The role of cGAS-STING in the pathogenesis and progression of viral myocarditis | coxsackievirus B3, cGAS, STING, myocarditis, inflammation |
| Eleen Yang | Dr. Donald Griesdale | Optimal cerebral perfusion pressure using pressure reactivity index in diffuse axonal injury (IMPROVE DAI) | traumatic brain injury; diffuse axonal injury; cohort study; neurophysiology; neurologic outcomes |
| Maira Hosain | Dr. Joseph Puyat | Evaluating the impact of an intervention strategy to reduce burnout in long-term care staff | Burnout, Long-term Care, Medical Staff, Death, Dying |
| Kevin Wang | Dr. Janel Kopp | Association of MPO positive neutrophils with development of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia | Pancreatic cancer, intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia, tumour immunity, neutrophil |
| Hanny Yang | Dr. Xuesen Dong | Review of TOP2 and EZH2 in prostate cancer | Topoisomerase II, catalytic inhibitors, small cell lung cancer, leukemia, and targeted oncology |
| Jenna Ramji | Dr. Michael Krausz | Development of a module for Risk assessment and management platform (RAMP) for the treatment of trauma | EMH, Risk Assessment, Virtual Solutions, Trauma |
| Sashreek Datta | Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez | Analyzing autonomic nervous system dysfunction in pediatric depression using measures of heart rate variability | Major Depressive Disorder, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Heart Rate Variability, Autonomic Nervous System, Pediatric Psychiatry |
| Ali Murtaza | Dr. Peter Zandstra | In vitro generation of CD4+ T cells by over-expression of critical transcription factor, ThPOK | Stem cell engineering, in vitro CD4+ T cell production, Synthetic biology, gene regulation, cell therapy |
| Cara Kovacs | Dr. Don Sin | Lung immunoglobulins and adverse outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Post-covid syndrome; Hyperpolarized lung imaging; cardiopulmonary exercise test |
| Hannah Morstead | Dr. Meera Rayar | Impact and use of patient reported outcomes in pediatric neuro-oncology and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation cancer care in British Columbia | Patient reported-outcomes, pediatric, oncology, cancer care, quality of life |
| Ryan Hong | Dr. Kurt Haas | Multi-functional assessment of ACE2 variants reveal insights into COVID-19 disease pathophysiology in susceptible and marginalized populations | COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, ACE2, functional genomics, therapeutics |
| Nataly El-Bittar | Dr. Chris Carlsten | Effects of wood smoke exposure on human airway epithelial cells | wood smoke, airway epithelial cells, controlled exposures, inflammation |
| Gage Fairlie | Dr. Calvin Yip | Investigating the impact of Vici syndrome mutations on the molecular function of the EPG5 autophagy regulator | Vici syndrome, autophagy degradation, EPG5, disease mechanism, protein structure and function |
| Rishav Singh | Dr. Julie Bettinger | A descriptive analysis of the autoimmune population in the canvas COVID surveys | vaccines, comorbidities, adverse events, CANVAS, safety |
| Arian Sadigpour Seisan | Dr. Amin Javer | Pathogenesis and treatment of recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps | Chronic rhinosinusitis, type 1 inflammation, endoscopic sinus surgery: topical therapies, neutrophilic inflammation |
| Raha Masoudi | Dr. Kerry Jang | Publication support for an observational cohort study on primary Fentanyl users | PWUD, Fentanyl, Opioid crisis, overdose, clinical studies |
| David Yeung | Dr. Alison Elliott | How do adolescents perceive individuals affected with genetic conditions? | Adolescents, Perceptions, Disorders, Genetics |
| Paul Li | Dr. Sarah Henderson | The relationship between wildfire smoke meteorology and the surge of COVID-19 infections in the Greater Vancouver Area in September 2020 | COVID-19; Respiratory; Pathogens; Wildfire Smoke Meteorology; British Columbia |
| James Zhao | Dr. Decheng Yang | Role of transcription factor NFAT5 in coxsackieviral pathogenesis of viral myocarditis | Myocarditis, coxsackievirus, pathogenesis, CRISPR/Cas9, NFAT5, antiviral |
| Vince Bacarac | Dr. Annie Ciernia | Assessing the "two-hit" hypothesis: How does a two-hit immune activation affect microglial pro-inflammatory gene expression in the hippocampus | neurodevelopment, inflammation, gene regulation, neurodevelopmental disorders, cytokines |
| Chenille Wong | Dr. Tara Sedlak | Evaluating the impact of a dedicated Women's Heart Center (WHC) on clinical outcomes | Cardiovascular disease, Women's health, Epidemiology, Primary prevention, Longitudinal research |
| Ellie Tiliakou | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | Defining a novel role for ER shaping proteins in the formation of Mitochondria-ER contacts | Cancer, membrane, contact, CLIMP-63, RRBP1 |
| Ishana Lodhia | Dr. Amina Zoubeidi | Interplay between BRN2 and NuRD to support lethal prostate cancer | Prostate cancer, lethal neuroendocrine, nucleosome remodeling complex NuRD, BRN2 |
| Christina Yuan | Dr. Ipek Oruc | Interpretable AI in analysis of retinal fundus images using deep learning convolutional networks | opthalmology, artificial intelligence, retinal fundus imaging, deep learning, convolutional neural networks, |
| Fardad Asghari Zadeh | Dr. Filip Van Petegem | Structural investigation of muscle excitation-contraction coupling components | Muscle excitation-contraction coupling; ion channels; calcium signaling; structural biology; protein purification |
| Mikayla Poloz | Dr. Mahmoud Pouladi | Investigating claudin-11 related hypomyelinating leukodystrophy in HEK293 cells | White matter disease, rare genetic disorders, disease modelling, animal models, neuropathology |
| Sahar Zandi Nia | Dr. Matthew Wiens | External validation and updating of prognostic models to identify hospitalized children at highest risk of in-hospital mortality: A multicenter cohort study of hospitalized children in Uganda | Clinical risk prediction, global health, child death, in-hospital mortality, infectious illness |
| Gia Da Roza | Dr. Janis Dionne | Pediatric hypertension—clinical pathway development and cost savings analysis | Renal, Pediatric, Hypertension, Pathway, Cost |
| George Tang | Dr. Anna Blakney | Optimizing yield of high-quality saRNA from In vitro transcription | circularized saRNA delivery extending expression |
| Ali Hosseinzadeh | Dr. Andrei Krassioukov | No pain, no strain: Pain and constipation control using targin (oxycodone/naloxone) following spinal cord injury | Spinal Cord Injury, Chronic pain, Opioids, Opioid induced constipation, Autonomic Dysreflexia |
| Rebecca Wong | Dr. Bonnie Sawatzky | Does exercise at home or a gym offer better outcomes for people with SCI: A feasibility study | spinal cord injury, exercise physiology, quality of life, exercise prescription, feasibility. |
| Han-Jiun Ke | Dr. Tricia Tang | Peer support and diabetes distress: The significance of support from people "In the same boat" | digital health, peer support, type 1 diabetes, Mobile App, and rural health |
| Rameen Siddiqui | Dr. Ali Eslami | Prevalence and nature of ADHD diagnoses among first-generation immigrant adolescents visiting CAPE - A retrospective cohort study | ADHD, migration, adolescents, CAPE, retrospective study |
| Omar Barbir | Dr. Lindsay Rogers | A critical analysis of the potential health and immunogenic effects of AquAdvantage Salmon | AquAdvantage, Genetics, Policy, Aquaculture, Health |
| Kevin Fox | Dr. Pieter Cullis | Biomolecular corona composition as a function of LNP morphology | Lipid Nanoparticles, Genetic Medicine, Biomolecular Corona, Photoaffinity Seperation, Click Chemistry |
| Gurkirat Singh Nijjar | Dr. Maureen Ashe | Mapping social prescribing in BC | social prescribing, environmental scan, social determinants of health, stakeholders, technology |
| Shreya Gandhi | Dr. Lori Brotto | Adapting an online sexual health program, eSense, to survivors of gynecologic cancer | Sexual health; gynecologic cancer; survivorship; quality of life; digital health. |
| William Daniels | Dr. Andrew Thamboo | Accessing whether certain biomarkers in CRSwNP are relevant to disease severity and drug dose protocol | Surgery, otolaryngology, cytokine, TNFa, biomarkers, asthma, AERD, budesonide |
| Jiashuo Zhang | Dr. James D. Johnson | Identifying an adipose gene signature to predict hyperinsulinemia status | Hyperinsulinemia, Machine Learning, Transcriptional Signature, Adipose Tissue, Diabetes |
| Tiffany Chang | Dr. Scott Tebbutt | Using Enrichr to understand gene expression patterns in SARS-CoV-2-infected myocardium: Implications and challenges | COVID-19, pathology, cardiovascular, histology, transcriptome |
| Crystal Han | Dr. Todd Woodward | Transcranial alternating current stimulation: The effect of neuromodulation on behavior | current, stimulation, behavior, network, identification |
| Emma Finlayson-Trick | Dr. Titus Wong | Mind the gap: An analysis of the fit and function of double masking | COVID-19; Mask; Filtration; Fit; Function |
| Chantal Percival | Dr. Alan Nichol | Finding breast cancer relapses in 15F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) reports using natural language processing (NLP) | Artificial intelligence, Natural language processing, Breast cancer, Outcomes research, Positron emission tomography |
| Summer Zhang | Dr. Melanie Murray | Prevalence and treatment of age-related comorbidities among women living with HIV in the BC CARMA CHIWOS Collaborations (BCC3) Study | Women’s health, aging, HIV, comorbidity, polypharmacy |
| Joshua Yoon | Dr. Stephanie Sellers | Aortic stenosis pathophysiology following transcatheter valve replacement: Implications for valve durability & patient outcomes | valvular heart disease, transcatheter valve replacement, aortic stenosis, valve durability, patient outcomes |
| Salina Kung | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother | An investigation of the relationship between adult attachment styles, obsessive-compulsive disorder and separation anxiety disorder among postpartum mothers | Postpartum mental health, separation anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, adult attachment styles |
| Zovya Wasylyk | Dr. Christina Nowik | Pilot project to assess the reliability of transabdominal cervical length measurement to screen for short cervix in a Canadian cohort | Transabdominal, Endovaginal, Ultrasound, Cervical length, Pre-term birth |
| Farhad Ghasemi Nejad Tafres | Dr. Eduardo Navajas | Utilizing optical coherence tomography angiography to assess retinal capillary perfusion heterogeneity in diabetic retinopathy | Diabetic retinopathy, Pixel intensity coefficient of variation, Optical coherence tomography angiography, capillary density, micro aneurysm |
| Michelle Lisonek | Dr. Astrid Christoffersen-Deb | Practices for removal of retained placenta in the PRECISE cohort in Gambia, Kenya and Mozambique | Global health, pregnancy, placenta, Africa, pregnancy outcomes |
| Thomas Hoang | Dr. Brian Bressler | Comparing chromoendoscopy to high-definition white light endoscopy for dysplasia surveillance in patients with ulcerative colitis | 1) Dysplasia 2) Chromoendoscopy 3) White light endoscopy 4) Ulcerative Colitis 5) Surveillance |
| Gurwinder Singh Sidhu | Dr. Simon Rabkin | Assessment of epicardial fat in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction compared to heart failure with reduced ejection fraction | Cardiology, Heart Failure, Epicardial Fat, Echocardiography, Preserved Ejection Fraction |
| Rebecca Lim | Dr. Clare Beasley | Effect of clozapine on brain complement C5b9 protein levels | antipsychotic, schizophrenia, immune system, brain, complement system |
| Sila Rogan | Dr. Jan Friedman | Sharing their stories: Publishing case reports on individuals with novel genetic neurodevelopment disorders (NDDs) | Neurodevelopmental disorder, medical genetics, genome sequencing, molecular biology, case reports |
| Sukhmeet Sachal | Dr. Nadine Caron | Challenges and opportunities to screening and diagnosis of melanoma in northern British Columbia | Melanoma, screening, diagnosis, rural, primary care |
| Jessie Chai | Dr. Charissa Patricelli | The IOAT-APP study (injectable opioid agonist therapy administration in a pregnant or perinatal population) | Substance use, opioids, addictions, women’s health, injectable opioid agonist therapy |
| Lindy Moxham | Dr. Simon Whyte | Genetic differences in pharmacodynamic safety endpoints with propofol anesthesia in children | Pharmacodynamic safety, Propofol, Anesthesia, Genetic variability, Safe dosing |
| Zeer Al-Zeer | Dr. Richard Cook | Longterm outcomes following minimally-invasive mitral valve repair | cardiac surgery, mitral valve repair, minimally-invasive mitral valve surgery, sternotomy, long-term outcomes |
| Olivia Tsai | Dr. Paul Yong | Molecular biomarkers as predictors of pain outcomes after endometriosis surgery | Endometriosis, Chronic Pain, Tissue Biomarkers, Surgical Outcomes, Quality of Life |
| Ishmam Bhuiyan | Dr. Gang Wang | Biomarkers of successful immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma | bladder cancer, artificial intelligence, urothelial carcinoma, diagnostic tools, histological variants |
| Melissa Kong | Dr. Soojin Kim | Use of machine learning for renal ultrasound segmentation in assessing kidney function in children | ultrasound, radionuclide imaging, segmentation, machine learning, children |
| Clement Chui | Dr. Alana Flexman | Perioperative stroke screening tools in cardiac surgey patients (PESST- cardiac): A pilot study | perioperative, stroke, screening, cardiac surgery, G-FAST |
| Andrea Moir | Dr. Naznin Virji-Babul | Motor learning and transcranial direct current stimulation | Concussion, tDCS, EEG, athletes, recovery |
| Aysha Ayub | Dr. Catherine Biggs | The impact of early life serum IgG on pulmonary outcomes in children with cystic fibrosis | cystic fibrosis, immunity, immunoglobulin G, antibody-mediated, hypogammaglobulinemia |
| Norbert Banyi | Dr. Scott Durham | Constructing and analyzing a VGH laryngectomy database to determine optimal surgical management of laryngectomy lymph node dissection and flap use | pharyngocutaneous fistula, laryngectomy, neck dissection, laryngeal cancer, quality of life |
| Dana Wu | Dr. Hannah Piper | The impact of bloodstream infections on growth in neonates with intestinal failure | intestinal failure, catheter-related bloodstream infection, growth |
| Olivia Hunter | Dr. Manish Sadarangani | Examining the immunogenicity of pertussis vaccination during pregnancy for women living with HIV and their infants | pertussis, HIV, vaccine development, immunology, maternal child health |
| Darien Grace | Dr. Carolyn Taylor | Enhanced remote monitoring in hybrid cardiac rehabilitation | Cardiac Rehabilitation, Implementation Science, Quality Improvement, Virtual Healthcare, Remote Monitoring |
| Katherine Bailey | Dr. Judy Illes | Equity in rural and remote drug-resistant epilepsy | Ethics, neurology, pediatrics, rural health, epilepsy |
| Karen Rofaeel | Dr. Jerilynn Prior | Sleep problem prevalence and variance related to the phases of the menstrual cycle | Sleep problems, daily menstrual cycle experiences, menstrual cycle diary, ovulation, subclinical ovulatory disturbances |
| Marisa Dorling | Dr. Deborah Money | Changing obstetric care and perinatal outcomes of women living with HIV in BC before and through the pandemic period | HIV, pregnancy, antiretrovirals, perinatal outcomes, COVID-19 |
| Julie Zhu | Dr. Joanne Matsubara | The aging eye: Age-related macular degeneration | neurodegeneration, astrocytes, amyloid-beta, brain, imaging |
| Laveniya Kugathasan | Dr. Gillian Lauder | Perioperative multimodal analgesia including intravenous lidocaine infusion for pain management following idiopathic scoliosis correction surgery in children | (1) Perioperative IV lidocaine, (2) Opioid reduction, (3) Pediatric anesthesiology, (4) Clinical research, (5) Posterior Spinal Instrumentation and Fusion |
| Dushanthi Dissanayake | Dr. Doran Ksienski | Safety of pembrolizumab in older patients (over 75 years of age) with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) | Safety, lung cancer, age, pembrolizumab |
| Harjot Bhandol | Dr. Bradley Quon | Baseline lung function variability predicts short-term lung function response to Elexacaftor-Tezacaftor-Ivacaftor in adults with Cystic Fibrosis | Cystic fibrosis, CFTR modulator, medication adherence, nebulized therapies, treatment burden |
| Miles Jaques | Dr. Anya Smith | Standardizing a pathway for DDH screening and monitoring: Assessing current access to care | DDH, Orthopaedic, Ultrasound, Access-to-care, Remote Access |
| Jenelle Chen | Dr. Louis Scheepers | Core outcomes in children undergoing anesthesia and surgery: A multi-center stakeholder engagement study | Pediatric anesthesia, Pediatric surgery, Outcome measurement, Clinical research, Qualitative mixed methods study |
| Johanna Fee | Dr. Shannon Freeman | Assessing the health and human resource impact of COVID-19 in the long-term care setting in northern British Columbia | Medical Assistance in Dying, Implementation, Providers Perspective, End-of-life care, Knowledge Translation |
| Madeline Elder | Dr. Mandeep Tamber | Management of post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus - pIVH QI protocol | Hydrocephalus, Intervention, pIVH, Quality Improvement, Clinical |
| Brendan Tao | Dr. Jason Barton | Impact of language experience on attention to faces in bilingual and monolingual adults | Eye tracking, visual attention, face processing, language experience, linguistic processing |
| Casey Li | Dr. Sally Hynes | Burn documentation in the emergency department | Burn injuries, Documentation, Management, Pediatrics, Emergency department, Plastic surgery |
| Brandon Chai | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew | An evaluation of the usage of internet resources by patients with lung cancer and quality of YouTube videos for patient education | Lung cancer, YouTube videos, patient education, internet utilization, social media |
| Kaveh Rayani | Dr. Andrew Krahn | Sex differences in cardiovascular outcomes of patients carrying truncating titin variants | Titin, splicing, gene variants, arrhythmia, dilated cardiomyopathy |
| Jack Lofroth | Dr. Nadia Medvedev | Developing automated analysis tools for multiparametric flow cytometry based acute myeloid leukemia MRD detection | Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Measurable minimal Disease, Hematopathology, Bioinformatics, Machine learning |
| Kendrew Wong | Dr. Michael Humer | Treatment of esophageal cancer: Trends in the multimodality approach to treatment of potentially curable eophageal cancer by esophagectomy in Kelowna over the past 18 years | esophageal carcinoma, esophagectomy, mortality, neoadjuvant therapy, adjuvant therapy |
| Rohit Malyala | Dr. Christopher Nguan | Machine learning based optimization of intraoperative anesthesia parameters during kidney transplantation to promote graft function | Kidney transplant, machine learning, anesthesia, delayed graft function, surgery |
| Carmen Huang | Dr. Neil Chadha | Can we predict nasopharynx distance in children for swab testing? A pilot study | Nasopharynx, nasal swab, COVID-19, pediatric, nasal endoscopy |
| Adam Sage | Dr. Matthew Carwana | Far from home: The impact of geographic distance from tertiary pediatric hospitals on family experiences | Child Health, Pediatric Hospitals, Rural and Remote Health, Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities |
| Emily Yang | Dr. Roxana Geoffrion | Synthetic midurethral slings compared with autologous fascia slings of corresponding surgical type (retropubic or transobturator) | pelvic organ prolapse, apical prolapse, sutures, surgery, pelvic floor disorders |
| Sina Safabakhsh | Dr. Zachary Laksman | Mapping the phosphoproteome in atrial fibrillation | cardiology, arrhythmia, biomedical, clinical, phosphoproteomics |
| Karen Jiang | Dr. Amy Bazzarelli | Axillary surgery in invasive breast cancer | breast axillary surgery, axillary staging, sentinel lymph node biopsy, axillary lymph node dissection |
| Ali Khatib | Dr. Faisal Khosa | Gender disparity in academic internal medicine | Gender disparity, H-index, Leadership, Internal medicine, Academic rank |
| Jannie Ko | Dr. Alasdair Barr | An evaluation of neurological soft signs among the homeless and marginally housed of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside | Homeless; Brief Pain Inventory questionnaire; Impairment; Pain; Prospective study; |
| Connor Keane | Dr. Shannon Kolind | Using myelin water imaging to determine the role of demyelination on motor function deficits in patients with multiple sclerosis | Multiple Sclerosis, Myelin Water Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Demyelination, Motor Function |
| Hong Li | Dr. Caroline Mariano | Causes of death in older patients with high risk breast cancer | breast cancer, geriatric oncology, competing mortality |
| Madison Hinkley | Dr. Frank Scheuermeyer | Emergency department and hospital use of patients in marginalized housing | computed tomography angiography, neuroradiology, emergency medicine, cerebrovascular disease, intracranial pathology |
| Beenu Bajwa | Dr. Jugpal Arneja | The environmental impact of plastic surgery | Environment, Climate Change, Surgery, Current Practices, Attitudes, Barriers |
| Nikola Pupic | Dr. Bruce Forster | Development of a Canadian healthcare trainee artificial intelligence curriculum | Education, artificial intelligence, healthcare, curriculum, teaching |
| Austin Heffernan | Dr. Amanda Hu | Spasmodic dysphonia patients' perception of pain with botulinum toxin injections | Pain, Patient experience, Spasmodic Dysphonia, Botulinum toxin injection |
| Linden Lechner | Dr. Raymond Lam | Enhanced measurement-based care (eMBC) for Major Depressive Disorder | e-Mental Health, mobile technology, depression, functional outcomes, cognition, mood disorders |
| Elaine Liu | Dr. Peter Watson | Autophagy in T effector cell metabolism and survival | CD8 T cell, immune memory, autophagy, vaccine, metabolism |
| Alyssa Chen | Dr. John Kramer | Effect of stress on experimental pain: A meta-analysis and systematic review | Stress, Pain, Experimental, Meta-analysis, Systematic review |
| Sarah Wong | Dr. Jeff Yoo | A quality improvement project to enhance emergency department intubation performance through use of cognitive aids, to decrease complications and improve patient safety | Quality improvement, emergency medicine, endotracheal intubation, patient safety |
| Arshdeep Marwaha | Dr. Alfonso Iovieno | Interface keratitis after lamellar keratoplasty: A retrospective case series | Ophthalmology, cornea, transplant, infection, graft |
| Jenny Xiao | Dr. Juan Ruiz | Healthcare economics: Direct medical care costs of asthma and concurrent CRS-related care in British Columbia, Canada | Asthma, Multidisciplinary Clinic, Healthcare costs, Chronic Rhinosinusitis, Complex airway disease |
| Ashini Dissanayake | Dr. Jennifer Leavitt | Documenting health-related social needs on the antenatal record; Are we missing anyone? A retrospective chart review | primary care, maternity, social determinants of health, advocacy, retrospective chart review |
| Caroline Illmann | Dr. George Sexsmith | Developing an evidence-base for nuclear medicine education: Assessing the educational value of a national curriculum | Nuclear medicine, program evaluation, medical education |
| Melissa Lee | Dr. Desmond Nunez | Assessing short-term hearing disability and health-related quality of life in profound acquired unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (usnhl) after invasive and non-invasive intervention: A systematic review and meta-analysis (protocol) | Unilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Cochlear implant, Contralateral Routing of Systems, Bone conduction device, Quality of life |
| Vivian Ngo | Dr. Maulik Baxi | Characterizing female syphilis cases and history of overdose to identify opportunities for prevention and improving care in Fraser Health | Syphilis outbreak, substance use, overdose emergency, syndemics, epidemiology |
| Brandon Ng | Dr. Kathryn Isaac | Pedicled TRAM and latissimus dorsi flap breast reconstruction: A retrospective comparison of outcomes | Breast cancer, mastectomy, breast reconstruction, surgical outcomes, surgical technique |
| Aki Ediriweera Bandara | Dr. Esther Lee | Improving education and process around care for children with gastrojejunostomy tubes | Children with Medical Complexity, Gastrojejunostomy Tubes, Education of parents and caregivers, Quality Improvement |
| Kevin Zhang | Dr. Ronald Ree | Preoperative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin t as prognostic factors for myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery | MINS anesthesiology NLR perioperative troponin |
| Vincent Hou | Dr. Frederick Kozak | Assessing the etiologies of pediatric patients with meningitis-induced sensorineural hearing loss and their outcomes after receiving cochlear implantation at BC Children's Hospital | Meningitis, sensorineural hearing loss, pediatric cochlear implantation |
| Mehima Kang | Dr. Jacqueline Saw | Canadian SCAD study | fibromuscular dysplasia, non-atherosclerotic spontaneous coronary artery dissection, myocardial infarction, cardiology, coronary angiography |
| Yoojin Choi | Dr. Sonia Yeung | Extracellular Granzyme B in healthy human corneas compared to those with keratoconus | Aging; keratoconus; Cornea; Granzyme B; ultraviolet light |
| Daniel Wong | Dr. Lingsa Jia | Exploring gaps in knowledge and demographic factors of patients with substance use disorders | Addiction, substance use, retrospective, evaluation |
| Liza Roik | Dr. Kendall Ho | Timely and extended monitoring in emergencies and disasters (tx med) | wearable sensors, data science, emergency medicine, digital health |
| Sasha Voznyuk | Dr. Julia Ridley | BC Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines - 2022 | Palliative Care, Symptom Management, Literature Review, Clinical, Inter-Professional |
| Grace Nie | Dr. Wendy Norman | Systematic review on the antecedent factors associated with unintended pregnancy | Unintended pregnancy; health policy; family planning; systematic review; contraception |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janice Pang | Dr. Bruce Verchere | Impact of the islet secretome on macrophage metabolism | Diabetes, macrophage, islet, insulin, metabolism |
| Dorsa Mousa-Doust | Dr. Christopher Doherty | A clinical prediction model to inform pre-operative decision of breast reconstruction in the setting of post-mastectomy radiotherapy | Breast Cancer, breast reconstruction, radiation, machine learning, prediction model. |
| Rebecca MacLeod | Dr. Paul Yong | Pathways for patient-centered diagnosis and management of endometriosis-associated deep dyspareunia: A pilot randomized trial | Endometriosis, dyspareunia, sexual function, randomized controlled trial, self-management strategies |
| Damian Feldman-Kiss | Dr. Jessica Moe | Evaluation of continuous pulse oximetry at overdose prevention services during COVID-19 | Illicit drug toxicity, opioids, continuous pulse oximetry, COVID-19, overdose prevention services |
| Min Jung Kim | Dr. Jessica Liauw | Detecting fetal growth restriction using ultrasound versus pathology fetal growth charts | Fetal growth restriction, fetal growth charts, fetal autopsy, birth weight, obstetrics |
| Helen Chiang | Dr. Brenda Farnquist | Risk factor for breast cancer screening | Detection, screening, risk, cancer, women |
| Igor Sljivic | Dr. Fergal Donnellan | A cost effectiveness analysis of spyglass single-operator cholangioscopy compared to traditional ERCP for treatment of difficult bile duct stones and diagnosis of indeterminate biliary strictures | SpyGlass, choledocholithiasis, ERCP, cost-effectiveness, strictures |
| Geoffrey Liang | Dr. Helen Tremlett | Stability of the gut microbiota in persons with pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis and related demyelinating diseases | Microbiota, pediatrics, multiple sclerosis, stability, demyelinating syndrome |
| Mohammadali Saffarzadeh | Dr. Amin Javer | A comparative study assessing improvement in cognitive deficit secondary to chronic rhinosinusitis in patients treated with surgical management: A prospective trial | endoscopic sinus surgery, cognitive dysfunction, chronic rhinosinusitis, Modified Mini Mental State Examination, medical management |
| Cole Schonhofer | Dr. Theodore Steiner | A pilot study to quantify antibiotic-specific T cells in patients with hypersensitivity reactions to antibiotics and medications | Antibiotics, allergy, hypersensitivity, T Lymphocytes, CD25, OX40 |
| Mahraz Parvand | Dr. Jane Lea | Patient opinion regarding physician coaches in the operating room (OR) | Surgical coaching, otorhinolaryngology, patient education, quality of care |
| Amar Khaira | Dr. Steve Levasseur | Overnight postoperative face down positioning after macular hole surgery with internal limiting membrane peeling and sulfurhexafluoride (sf6) gas tamponade | Macular hole surgery, face down posturing, morbidity, novel technique, ophthalmology |
| Amos Zhi Yang Chua | Dr. Islam Mohamed | Deep learning for differential diagnosis and early detection of lung cancer | Deep learning, convolutional neural networks, artificial intelligence, CT scans, lung cancer |
| Larissa Rogowsky | Dr. Kathryn Isaac | Prevalence of chronic pain in post-mastectomy and alloplastic breast reconstruction patients in British Columbia | Breast cancer, chronic pain, mastectomy, breast reconstruction |
| Alexander Benny | Dr. Robert Olson | Impact of quality assurance and feedback on radiotherapy prescribing practices: A randomized controlled trial | Breast cancer, quality assurance and feedback, knowledge translation, prescribing practices, radiotherapy |
| Sumara Stroshein | Dr. Rachel Murphy | Towards food security: Assessing the needs of the UBC community | Food systems, food security, community-led action, public health, wellbeing |
| Jasper Yoo | Dr. Rachel Carter | Investigation of compassionate community related activities of community-based organizations in British Columbia | Compassionate community, public health, community-based |
| Minnie Teng | Dr. Thalia Field | Can facial expression patterns be used to classify dementia from controls? A feasibility study | Dementia, data science, eye-tracking, neurology, remote assessment |
| Queena Cheong | Dr. Joseph Puyat | Examining sex and gender differences in the pattern of leisure activities that can promote mental wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic | COVID-19 pandemic, public health, mental health, social isolation, leisure activities |
| Judy Cheng | Dr. Lynn Raymond | Behaviour characterization of the Q175-B6 mouse model of huntington's disease | Huntington's, mice, machine learning, behaviour |
| Lexia Bao | Dr. Peter Black | Does intravesical BCG for bladder cancer protect from COVID-19? | COVID-19, BCG, bladder cancer, intravesical therapy, prevention |
| Chenille Wong | Dr. Francis Lynn | Cell engineering to improve enrichment of insulin positive cells in a transgenic, stem cell-derived beta cell line | Diabetes, stem cell, beta cell, CRISPR, cell engineering |
| Bianca Zaidel | Dr. Brian Gruanu | Intraosseous vascular access for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Sites, success, and outcomes. | Emergency medicine, sudden cardiac arrest, cardiology, resuscitation research, out of hospital cardiac arrest |
| Emma Swan | Dr. Kendra Furber | Examining the effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids on cellular signalling pathways in myelination | Neurodegenerative disease, myelination, diet, fat, inflammation |
| Justin Park | Dr. Quynh Doan | Exploring the interrater reliability of billing code and the association between billing code and workload intensity at a pediatric emergency department | Pediatric emergency medicine, optimization, workload, resources, burn-out |
| Sofia Samper | Dr. Christine Voss | Adherence to Diabetes Canada: Clinical practice guidelines (2018) for children with Type 1 Diabetes in Interior Health | Pediatrics, diabetes, physical activity, diabetes distress |
| Claire Cheung | Dr. Pascal Lavoie | Measuring protein synthesis in monocytes to understand neonatal immune responses | Preterm birth, neonates, innate immunity, protein synthesis |
| Nicka Kalaydina | Dr. Timothy Kieffer | Insulin production from K cells for the treatment of type I diabetes | Type I diabetes, stem cells, organoids, gene therapy |
| Hallee Shearer | Dr. Tamara Vanderwal | Validation of an OCD symptom-provocation movie in a pediatric sample | Obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychiatry, neuroscience, pediatric, symptom provocation |
| Syed Rafid Haq | Dr. Lori Tucker | The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on families with children living with rheumatic diseases | COVID-19, pandemic, pediatrics, families, rheumatic diseases |
| Jia Tong (Judy) Song | Dr. Bradley Quon | Impact of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor on nebulized medication adherence in adults with cystic fibrosis | Cystic fibrosis, CFTR modulator, medication adherence, work productivity, effectiveness |
| Jeffrey Ding | Dr. Faisal Khosa | Authorship and impact of gender-specific research in major dermatology journals | Dermatology, authorship, impact, gender disparity, journal |
| Chi-Wei Tien | Dr. Jason Barton | Investigating the functional mechanisms of facial and visual word processing | Face/word recognition, perceptual expertise, many-to-many hypothesis, interference, logograph |
| Harry Chae | Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen | Adrenal insufficiency in pediatric kidney transplant recipients | Kidney transplant, adrenal insufficiency, pediatrics, immunosuppression, steroids |
| Iman Lahouaoula | Dr. Raymond Lam | Patient attitudes about light therapy and negative ion therapy for nonseasonal depression: An online survey study | e-Mental Health, mobile technology, depression, functional outcomes, cognition |
| Manreet Bhullar | Dr. S. Evelyn Stewart | Feasibility of online mindfulness groups for the postpartum population | Mindfulness, postpartum, depression, anxiety, online |
| Anastasia Stolzenberg | Dr. Ipek Oruc | Daily face exposure of adults with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) | Autism spectrum disorder, face recognition, visual experience, naturalistic observation, face-diet |
| Mikayla Fan | Dr. Cynthia Yarnold | Prevalence and disability of chronic post-sternotomy pain following cardiac surgery: A prospective cohort study | Chronic sternal pain, prevalence, predictors, cardiac surgery, quality of life |
| Shanna Yeung | Dr. Patrick Ma | The effect of internal limiting membrane removal during idiopathic epiretinal membrane surgery on functional and anatomical visual outcomes: A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials | Ophthalmic surgery, evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trials, meta-analysis, systematic review |
| Andrew Robinson | Dr. Christopher Carlsten | Genetic variants of TRP and TLR receptors influence airway responsiveness to diesel exhaust and allergen co-exposure in allergen-sensitized participants. | SNP, asthma, TRP, diesel, allergen |
| James Hethey | Dr. Li Wang | A study of whether selectively ordering peanut component resolved diagnostics increases diagnostic accuracy in children in a cost-effective manner | Peanut allergy, component resolved diagnostics |
| Justin Chhuor | Dr. Janel Kopp | Characterizing immune cells in the tumour microenvironment in pancreatic cancer | Pancreatic cancer, pancreas, tumor immune microenvironment |
| Angela Buchel | Dr. Jugpal Arneja | Burden of care for patients with cleft lip and palate | Cleft lip and palate, burden of care, child, multi-disciplinary, delivery of self care |
| Kelly Wei | Dr. Lien Hoang | Identification of novel protein biomarkers to distinguish mucinous carcinoma of the endometrium from benign mimickers | Gynecologic cancer, cancer diagnostics, anatomical pathology, proteomics, immunohistochemistry |
| Saambavi Charu Sankaran | Dr. Kevin Hay | Improving the persistence of CAR T-cells by targeting senescence | CAR T-cells, immunotherapy, leukemia, telomerase, senescence |
| Jessica Koe | Dr. Seth Parker | Elucidating how post-translational modifications regulate SLC38A2/SNAT2 localization | Pancreatic cancer, metabolism, transporters, amino acids, localization |
| Rachel Horng | Dr. Anamaria Richardson | Improving the health outcomes of caregivers of intellectually impaired children with self-injurious behaviour (SIB) through the development of a novel online curriculum | Intellectual impairment, self-injurious behaviour (SIB), caregivers, support group, online curriculum |
| Manish Toofany | Dr. Sunil Kalia | Analysis of sun safety attitudes and behaviors among canadians | Sun safety, skin cancer, skin protection, cancer prevention, health behavior |
| Winnie Fu | Dr. Deborah Money | Comparison of pregnancy outcomes in women exposed and unexposed to COVID-19 during pregnancy in British Columbia and COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant and lactating populations: A systematic review | COVID-19, pregnancy, preterm birth, SARS-CoV-2, womens health |
| Kenedy Olsen | Dr. Kathleen Martin Ginis | Implementation of the spinal cord injury exercise guidelines in the hospital and community setting | Spinal cord injury, exercise, coaching, psychosocial outcomes, physical activity behaviour |
| Tony Guo | Dr. Del Dorscheid | Modulation of ACE2, TMPRSS2, and furin by dexamethasone in the airway epithelium: Implications for COVID-19 | COVID-19, ACE2, airway epithelium, therapeutics, inflammation |
| Tien Do | Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe | Validation of ai models for identifying breast cancer in screening mammograms | Breast cancer, detection, AI, screening, mammograms |
| Catalina Ionescu | Dr. Michael Anglesio | Somatic KRAS mutations in endometriomas and chronic pelvic pain | KRAS mutations, endometriosis, endometrioma, chronic pelvic pain, cancer-precursor |
| Brody Lyons | Dr. Troy Grennan | Assessing the acceptability of doxycycline (syphilis PrEP) in a population of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) living with HIV | Syphilis, HIV, doxycycline, prophylaxis, gbMSM |
| Wendy Song | Dr. Robert Baird | Caudal and total intravenous anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair in neonates and infants: A comparative analysis | Neonatal inguinal hernia, laparoscopy, general anesthesia |
| Jenny Gui | Dr. James Scott Durham | Comparative study on the relative advantages of the fibula versus scapula for head and neck reconstruction | Donor site morbidity, patient-reported outcome, head and neck reconstruction |
| Jobanjit Phulka | Dr. Zachary Laksman | Implementation of cardiometabolic polygenic risk scores | Cardiology, MRI, quality-improvement, electrophysiology, virtual care |
| Junran Peng | Dr. Liam Brunham | Genetic testing to increase diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia | Genetics, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, familial hypercholesterolemia, polygenic risk score |
| Katerina Schwab | Dr. Joanne Matsubara | The eye and brain in Alzheimer's disease | Eye, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid beta, fluorescent, imaging |
| Rebecca Xu | Dr. Douglas Courtemanche | Opioid user types in British Columbia: A 5-year population study | Prescribing patterns, opioid user type, specialty, BC, longitudinal |
| Ava Aminbakhsh | Dr. Kourosh Afshar | Prevalence of bladder and bowel dysfunction (BBD) in pediatric patients with epilepsy | Epilepsy, BBD, pediatric, LUTS |
| Brookelyn Koersen | Dr. Charlotte Jones | Indigenous methodologies: Building capacity for telediabetes/obesity care in urban indigenous communities | Indigenous health, telehealth, diabetes, culturally safe care, diabetes management workshop |
| Lenssa Fantu | Dr. Deirdre Ryan | Mindfulness groups for families affected by postpartum depression and anxiety | Mindfulness, postpartum depression, anxiety, family, mental health |
| Olivia Sullivan | Dr. Annie Ciernia | Environmental Influences on ASD-relevant neurodevelopment and behaviour | Autism spectrum disorders, brain development, gene expression, social behaviour, chromatin remodeling |
| Olivia Ireland | Dr. Sarah Lucas | Radiation induced cardiac toxicity in breast cancer survivors | Cardiac risk, breast cancer, CT imaging, radiation therapy, artificial intelligence |
| Melody Li | Dr. Todd Woodward | Task-based functional brain networks involved in cognitive impairments in Alzheimer's Disease, and hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia. | Alzheimers disease, schizophrenia, delusions, hallucinations, functional neuroimaging, statistical methodology |
| Niyoosha Yoosefi | Dr. Jerilynn Prior | A systematic review and meta-analysis of micronized progesterone (P4) treatment for anovulatory polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) | Principal component analysis, Menstrual Cycle Diary©, androgenic Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, cyclic progesterone, spironolactone |
| Jenny Shee | Dr. Helene Cote | The effects of antiretrovirals used in pregnancy by women living with HIV on human embryonic stem cells | HIV, antiretrovirals, human embryonic stem cells, pregnancy, mitochondrial toxicity |
| Jackson Robinson | Dr. Carolyn Taylor | The development and outcomes of virtual cardiac rehabilitation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (VCR-COVID initiative) | Virtual healthcare, cardiac rehabilitation, COVID-19, cardiovascular disease, quality improvement |
| Sangwook Michael Woo | Dr. Richard Lester | Digital virtual support of cases and contacts to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) | Virtual care, mobile health, telemedicine, global health, COVID-19 |
| Emily Leung | Dr. Jenny Ko | Treatment patterns and outcomes of patients with locally advanced vulvar or vaginal cancer in British Columbia | Vaginal cancer, vulvar cancer, health outcomes, treatment efficacy, retrospective study |
| Maya Bird | Dr. Julie Bettinger | Determinants of HPV vaccine uptake in school-based programs in Canada | Human papillomavirus vaccine, children, immunization, determinants, school-based immunization programs, socio-ecological model |
| Lauren Gorfinkel | Dr. M-J Milloy | Patterns of social service use and adherence to HIV and addiction treatment in Vancouver's downtown eastside | HIV, ART, opioids, social services, homelessness |
| Simran Deo | Dr. Sophia Badowski | Preoperative analgesia by infiltration of the pudendal nerve prior to sacrospinous ligament suspension: the PAIN-S trial | Post-operative pain, sacrospinous ligament suspension, pelvic organ prolapse, pudendal nerve blocks, vaginal surgery |
| Bianca Marjan Vizcaino | Dr. Michael Humer | Characterizing the lung cancer surgical time to care in the interior health thoracic group for quality improvement | Emergency medicine, sudden cardiac arrest, cardiology, resuscitation research, out of hospital cardiac arrest |
| Gita Manhas | Dr. Janice Eng | Treatments of fatigue after spinal cord injury: A systematic review | Spinal cord injury, fatigue, medication, treatment, physical/mental health |
| Kayoung Heo | Dr. Tricia Tang | Is giving better than receiving? Psychosocial impact of delivering peer support to adults with type 1 diabetes living in rural and remote communities | Diabetes distress, Type 1 Diabetes, peer support, digital Health Care, optimism |
| Faraz Damji | Dr. Alex Scott | Anatomical risk factors for achilles tendinopathy: A matched case-control study using magnetic resonance imaging | Tendinopathy, achilles, sports medicine, rehabilitation, MRI |
| Joshua Ma | Dr. Serge Makarenko | Pituitary adenoma resection: Is there correlation between pituitary gland descent and post-operative diabetes inspidus? | Pituitary, adenoma, diabetes insipidus, transsphenoidal, relationship |
| Belinda Yee | Dr. Janice Leung | Mechanisms of chronic lung disease in patients living with HIV | HIV, COPD, exacerbations, microbiome, lung |
| Madeline Fawley | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother | Perinatal anxiety disorders screening study: A randomized controlled trial | Perinatal anxiety, reproductive mental health, screening, RCT, anxiety disorders |
| Yun Li | Dr. Mari DeMarco | TDP-43 stability in post-mortem brain tissue | Antibody, humoral immunity, COVID-19, long-term outcome, mass spectrometry |
| Anthony Wai-Him Yuen | Dr. David Moore | Attitudes of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) towards methamphetamine use and relation to reducing methamphetamine use in three Canadian cities | Methamphetamine, men who have sex with men, substance use, anxiety, depression |
| Julia Zhang | Dr. Jordan Guenette | Multi-dimensional characterization of dyspnea in patients visiting a rapid access lung clinic | Dyspnea, sex differences, multidimensional experience |
| Shayan Soleymani | Dr. Scott Tebbutt | A Meta analysis of potential serum biomarkers for diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis: The quest for a minimally invasive alternative | Eosinophilic esophagitis, biomarkers, non-invasive, serum, meta-analysis |
| Shera Fisk | Dr. Brian Kwon | Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers as a determinant of spinal cord injury severity | Spinal cord injury, ISNCSCI, biomarkers, cerebrospinal fluid, trauma |
| Supun Kotteduwa Jayawarden | Dr. Esther Lee | Creation of a database of the children and youth in the bc children's hospital's complex care program | Health care utilization, data management, children with medical complexity, family centered care, health improvement science |
| Jack Bottyan | Dr. Chris Maxwell | Assessing the necessity of cGAS in targeting B-ALL with centrosome clustering inhibitors | Breast cancer, BRCA1, mitosis, classification |
| Amir Shafiee | Dr. Siavash Atrchian | Prognostication of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR): Evaluating the association between organs at risk (OAR) radiation dose and NLR in patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) | Lung cancer, chemoradiotherapy, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, biomarker, prognosis |
| Cormac O'Dwyer | Dr. Marria Townsend | Knowledge gaps as barriers to care for patients seeking gender-affirming top surgery in BC | Gender-affirming care, transgender, non-binary, BMI, top surgery |
| Elsie Wang | Dr. Lori Brotto | Pilot randomized controlled trial of an online women sexual health program, eSense | Online interventions, sexual dysfunction, low desire, digital health, women's health |
| Adam Mesa | Dr. Anibal Bohorquez | Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of people with spinal cord injuries and their access to rehabilitation services and supportive care | Spinal cord injury (SCI), COVID-19, mental health, tele-rehabilitation, online questionnaire & interview |
| Yu Wen Zhong | Dr. Hannah Piper | Standardizing vitamin D administration to minimize deficiency in children with intestinal failure | Micronutrients, vitamin D deficiency, intestinal failure |
| Ngan Phan | Dr. Angela Lin | Use of natural language processing (NLP) for automated electronic medical record review | Lung cancer, oncology, natural language processing, computerized algorithm, detection |
| Zamina Mithani | Dr. Akber Mithani | Administering COVID-19 vaccines to nursing home staff and residents: Ethical and policy dilemmas | Geriatric, ethics, policy, COVID-19, vaccination |
| Rebecca Zhuang | Dr. Wan Lam | Non-malignant airway microbiome in pre-lung cancer development | COPD, lung cancer, microbiome, metabolism, metagenomics |
| Harkaran Dial | Dr. Anish Mitra | How novel therapeutic interventions impacted survival in critically-ill patients with COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study | COVID-19, critical care, dexamethasone, tocilizumab, mortality |
| Jaskirat Malhi | Dr. Leonard Foster | Comparing and contrasting pathogenic derived antigens presented on Major Histocompatibility Complexes (MHC) of immune cells for vaccine development | Vaccine, immune system, salmonella, MHC, bioinformatics |
| Jasprit Preety Nijjar | Dr. Thomas Kerr | Predictors of access to screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infection and human papillomavirus vaccination in sexually active, street-involved, drug using individuals in Vancouver | At-risk Youth, opioid agonist therapy, barriers, facilitators, addiction |
| Nicole Steinbrecher | Dr. Lisa Li | Regional nerve blocks in alloplastic breast reconstructive surgery: A pilot, randomized controlled trial | Nerve blocks in alloplastic breast reconstruction |
| Claudia Singh | Dr. Audi Setiadi | New markers for minimal residual disease testing by flow cytometry in patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Acute leukemia, minimal residual disease, flow cytometry, tumor microenvironment, B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia |
| Swati Shetty | Dr. James Kim | Opioid overdose events and patient history of pain or surgery | Opioid overdose, surgery, chronic pain management, substance use disorder, acute pain |
| Amit Sharma | Dr. Lindsay Machan | Correlation of hysterosalpingogram and fallopian tube recanalization in infertile women | Infertility, hysterosalpingogram, selective salpingography, interventional radiology, fallopian tubes |
| Yao Zhang | Dr. Pieter Cullis | Investigating the biological interactions of lipid nanoparticles for gene therapy | Lipid nanoparticles, gene therapy, bimolecular corona, siRNA |
| Kenneth Huang | Dr. Ben Chew | Rates of genitourinary injuries during gynecologic surgery for benign disease at two large tertiary referral centres: A retrospective review | Iatrogenic, genitourinary, injury, stent, surgery |
| Petar Koncarevic | Dr. Michael Law | Predictors of albumin administration in adult cardiac surgical patients | Albumin, cardiopulmonary bypass, cardiac surgery, priming solution, adults |
| Simrin Dhillon | Dr. Margot Davis | Associations between anemia and clinical outcomes among patients with cardiac amyloidosis | Cardiac amyloidosis, anemia, iron deficiency, preventative cardiology, epidemiology |
| Haydn Molcak | Dr. Zaid Mammo | Addressing altitude issues and patient safety following retinal surgery using a smartphone application | Retinal surgery, altitude, mobile application, gas, navigation |
| Ruijia Jin | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew | Spread of misinformation? An evaluation of the usage of internet resources by cancer patients regarding COVID-19 and the quality of relevant resources | Cancer, COVID-19, internet resources, patient information, medical education |
| Kamyar Taheri | Dr. Shannon Kolind | Use of brain MRI scans as surrogate for spinal cord MRI scan in measurement of spinal cord atrophy | Atrophy, biomarkers, spine, MRI, brain |
| Sara Sheikh-Oleslami | Dr. Aziz Ghahary | Combination of adipose micro fragments and meshfill for treatment of delayed wounds | Stem cell transplantation, tissue scaffolds, wound healing/physiology, fragmented fat tissue, reconstructive surgery |
| Sohat Sharma | Dr. Anna McGuire | The clinically relevant genomic and immune tumor microenvironment in early-stage lung cancer | Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), tumor microenvironment (TME), immunohistochemistry (IHC), cell sociology, genomic alterations |
| Abisola Adegbulugbe | Dr. Colin Mar | Exception handling in deep learning applications in breast cancer detection | Breast cancer detection, exception handling, artificial intelligence systems, screening mammography, |
| Alison Kelsall | Dr. Diane Lacaille | Evaluation of a nursing inter-professional model of care in rheumatology for underserviced areas | Health services research, quality of care, performance measures, rheumatoid arthritis, access to care, underserviced areas |
| Billy Zhao | Dr. Eric Lam | Efficacy and complications of endoscopic submucosal dissection of gastric and colorectal cancer | Gastroenterology, gastrointestinal cancer, oncology, endoscopic resection, clinical outcomes |
| Christian Francis | Dr. Perseus Missirlis | A genetic survey of cytochrome P450 2D6 haplotypes and clinical response to codeine and tramadol in postoperative pain management | Pharmacogenetics, personalized medicine, opioids, pain management, drug metabolism |
| Ashleigh Nazareth | Dr. Gen Ernst | External validation of the presto pediatric trauma risk adjustment tool | Risk adjustment, pediatric, trauma, quality improvement |
| Ryan Sandarage | Dr. Matthew Kwok | Removing language barriers using virtual interpretation during the COVID-19 pandemic | Quality improvement, interpretation, limited English proficiency, virtual health, barriers to healthcare |
| Xiu Yi Nie | Dr. Christian Schuetz | Investigating regional grey matter volume corresponding with response inhibition in healthy controls | Cognitive control, response inhibition, volumetric analysis, magnetic resonance imaging, healthy adults |
| Jungyup Do | Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose | Effects of computer-based cognitive training, with or without exercise, on brain volume in community-dwelling older adults | Cognitive training, exercise, neuroimaging, older adults, randomized controlled trial |
| Gurkiran Kaur Mann | Dr. Roxana Geoffrion | Urinary tract infection (UTI) in women after clean-contaminated reconstructive surgery post-implementation of evidence-based bundle of care strategy: A retrospective cohort study | Postoperative infection, urinary tract infection, bundle of care, pelvic floor reconstruction surgery, decision support techniques, clean-contaminated surgery |
| Zi Han (Henry) Li | Dr. Gang Wang | Correlation between molecular classification and histological variants of bladder cancer | Bladder cancer, histology, molecular classification |
| Maya Elle Koblanski | Dr. Victor Viau | The serotonin 1A receptor subtype contributes to different coping strategies in male and female rats | Serotonin receptors, stress, brain, behavior, sex differences |
| Khanh Linh Tran | Dr. Eitan Prisman | Virtual planning of mandibular reconstruction (ViPMR): A pilot randomized controlled clinical trial | Pilot clinical trial, surgical planning, head and neck surgical oncology, medical technology |
| Quentin Pierce Michalchuk | Dr. William Lockwood | Targeting drug-resistant lung cancer through oncogenic pathway hyperactivation | Lung cancer, oncology, pharmacology, drug resistance |
| Liam Raudaschl | Dr. Ainslie Sutherland | An investigation of surgical patients to assess the performance of a risk model for perioperative opioid usage and pain | Perioperative pain, opioid abuse, risk anesthesia |
| Mariana Gutierrez Salazar | Dr. David G. Williamson | A prognostic clinical prediction model for salvaging the infected tissue expander in alloplastic breast reconstruction | Plastic surgery, breast reconstruction, surgical outcomes, tissue expanders, alloplastic reconstruction |
| Katie Green | Dr. Julia Ridley | Evaluating the benefit of a knowledge translation intervention to student health care providers understanding of palliative care competencies | Palliative care, knowledge translation, health care education, online learning |
| Michal Pillar | Dr. Susan Lee | The Butt Out Pilot Study: Perioperative smoking cessation bundle in a tertiary care centre: Can turning virtual improve outcomes? | Smoking cessation, surgery, outcomes, intervention, virtual |
| Lydia Wood | Dr. Brodie Sakakibara | A telehealth intervention for stroke and lived experiences of transitional care: A qualitative analysis | Stroke, secondary prevention, telehealth, health promotion, qualitative research |
| Tishya Ravikumar | Dr. Ivan Torres | Self-awareness of cognitive functioning in treatment-resistant psychosis | Bipolar disorder, metacognition, neuropsychology, self-awareness |
| David Liang | Dr. Stefan Taubert | The roles of MED15 in oxidative stress and anti-tumor immunity | Cancer, oxidative stress, mediator complex, lung carcinoma, anti-tumor immunity |
| Bianca Vizcaino | Dr. Michael Humer | Characterizing the lung cancer surgical time to care in the interior health thoracic group for quality improvement | Lung Cancer, thoracic surgery, health equity, surgical wait times, access to care |
| Rebecca Tsow | Dr. Julia Schmidt | Understanding the barriers and facilitators of implementing a self-awareness assessment in occupational therapy practice with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) population | Self-awareness, traumatic brain injury (TBI), occupational therapy, rehabilitation, barriers and facilitators |
| Nadine Plett | Dr. Mark Cembrowski | The cell-type-specific organization and operation of the living human subiculum in health and epilepsy | Subiculum, human homologies, transcriptomics, big data, epilepsy |
Some projects were adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and could not be fully completed due to in-person research restrictions throughout the summer.
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin An | Dr. William Lockwood | Systematic validation of novel lung cancer drivers | Lung cancer, target discovery, combinatorial therapy, functional genomics, drug resistance |
| Lindsay Kastelic | Dr. Soojin Kim | Access to surgical care in high-income countries: A scoping review. | Healthcare access, surgery, high-income countries |
| Tami Lin | Dr. Adrian Bak | Water exchange therapy: a novel strategy to improve endoscopic success following incomplete colonoscopy | gastroenterology, colonoscopy, water exchange, pain, sedation |
| Victoria Lui | Dr. David Huntsman | Diagnosis and treatment of women with endometrial cancer across Canada | endometrial cancer, molecular classification, clinicopathologic data, retrospective study |
| Ran Ha (Lana) Hong | Dr. Raymond Lam | Enhanced measurement-based care (eMBC) for major depressive disorder | e-Mental Health, mobile technology, depression, functional outcomes, cognition |
| Rocio Hollman | Dr. Shernaz Bamji | Activity-dependent changes in hippocampal protein palmitoylation | Bioinformatics, DHHC enzymes, palmitoylation, learning event, post translational modifications |
| Dunavan Morris-Janzen | Dr. Nicholas Sparrow | Determining the feasibility of a study on a physician-delivered bundle of care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients in rural BC | Feasibility study, rural healthcare, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, emergency medicine |
| Sabrina Wei | Dr. Jugpal Arneja | Calgary Kids Hand Rule - external validation of a prediction model for acute pediatric hand fracture referral | hand fractures, children, validation, prediction model. |
| Sandy Wu | Dr. Paul Yong | Pathways for patient-centered diagnosis and management of endometriosis-associated deep dyspareunia: a pilot randomized trial | dyspareunia, sexual dysfunction, chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, |
| Shaina Dhalla | Dr. Anita Datta | The predictive value and comparison of focal spikes amongst different lobes in children | Pediatric, spikes, focal epilepsy, EEG, lobes |
| Sarah Wong | Dr. Jeff Yoo | Does the routine use of a pre-intubation checklist improve resident performance and patient outcomes during emergency endotracheal intubation in the emergency department? | Airway intubation emergency checklist performance |
| Elsie Wang | Dr. Kendall Ho | Real-Time Virtual Support: Perspectives of Rural Providers and End-Users | Virtual care, rural practice, emergency care, telemedicine |
| Amit Gupta | Dr. Troy Grennan | Screening for syphilis in primary care: evaluating the effectiveness of screening strategies and determining the efficacy of STI-PrEP in a cohort of men who have sex with men. | Syphilis, PCR, EIA, specificity, sensitivity |
| Jeffrey Toy | Dr. Karen Goddard | Late effects in survivors of childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia | Late Effects, Survivorship, Screening, Counseling, clinical evaluation |
| Sophie McGregor | Dr. Ran Goldman | Willingness to vaccinate children against influenza amongst the COVID-19 pandemic | COVID-19, Influenza, Vaccination, Parental attitudes |
| Sarah Mohn | Dr. Savvas Nicolaou | Machine Learning Model for Chest X-Rays | Artificial intelligence, machine learning, chest radiograph, emergency radiology |
| Drake Comber | Dr. Zachary Laksman | Characterizing the incidence of ACMG reportable secondary findings and related clinical outcomes in a large prospective cohort | Genomics, Arrhythmia, ACMG, Secondary Findings, Personalized Medicine |
| Miranda Tsuyuki | Dr. Joanne Matsubara | Granzyme B in the retinal pigmented epithelium of the mouse eye | retina, epithelial barrier function, aging, protease activity, vision impairment, blindness, vascular endothelial growth factor |
| Srijan Subedi | Dr. Delbert Dorscheid | Differentiating various asthma subtypes and potential therapeutics using analysis of a severe asthma registry | Asthma, phenotypes, treatments, cluster analysis, endotypes |
| Rene Tandun | Dr. Theodore Steiner | Type 1 T regulatory cell (Tr1)-dependent modulation of ER stress in patient derived enteroids | Inflammatory Bowel Disease, ER stress, Enteroids, Type 1 T regulatory cell |
| Rebecca Lim | Dr. Julie Bettinger | Knowledge and attitudes of children and adolescents towards vaccines: A systematic review of qualitative studies | Immunization, children, policy change, public health, population health |
| Devyani McLaren | Dr. Lara Boyd | The impact of robot-assisted upper extremity intervention parameters on motor performance, learning, and function in post-stroke adults: a systematic review | stroke, motor performance, robotics clinical outcomes |
| Mitch Wiebe | Dr. Qiuyan Li | Development of ultra-high resolution CT for differential diagnosis of lung nodules found using low-dose CT | Lung Cancer, Machine Learning, Early Detection, Differential Diagnosis, Micro-CT |
| Sandra MacDonald | Dr. Chris Baliski | Evaluating lymph node retrieval rate as a predictor of nodal recurrence in melanoma | melanoma, CLND, TLND, retrieval rate, recurrence |
| Andrew Li | Dr. Catharine Winstanley | Does inhibiting the nigrostriatal dopamine system affect risky decision making in rats? | Parkinson's disease, iatrogenic gambling disorder, chemogenetics, dopamine, decision making |
| Milena Kovacevic | Dr. Susan Lee | Labour pain relief information qualitative study: what women get, what they want, and how it influences their decisions and satisfaction | Labour Pain Information, Qualitative, Obstetric Anesthesia |
| Hannah Matheson | Dr. Stacy Elliott | The effects of penile vibratory stimulation and head-up tilt on the cerebral blood flow and autoregulation in young men following spinal cord injury | cerebral blood flow, spinal cord injury, sexual function, autoregulation |
| Nicolas Gauthier | Dr. Hélène Côté | Research activities on substance use on blood markers of aging & Outreach activities in HIV research | Effect of maternal smoking on infant telomeres |
| Stephanie Alexis | Dr. Peter Kim | Investigating a preoperative physical activity and nutrition care pathway for people undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC | Prehabilitation, preoperative optimization, quality improvement |
| Vanessa Cheng | Dr. Chris Carlsten | Air Pollution-Induced Oxidative Stress: Examining the Kinetics of Antioxidant Interventions | Traffic-related Air Pollution, Oxidative Stress, Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells, Antioxidants |
| Shivani Mysuria | Dr. Carol Dingee | A review of oncoplastic breast reduction surgery for breast cancer patients at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital | Breast cancer; oncoplastic reduction; surgical oncology; review; breast surgery |
| Amar Sekhon | Dr. Sonia Yeung | Effect of Dry Eye Disease (DED) and other Ocular Inflammatory Disorders on Corneal Endothelial Cell Counts | Cornea; Endothelial Cells; Dry Eye Disease; inflammation; specular microscopy |
| Vanessa Wong | Dr. Cynthia Verchere | Sup-ER Protocol: A review of the clinical pathways and functional outcomes of children with Erb's Palsy | Erb's palsy, splinting, surgery, indication, outcome |
| Christian Farrell | Dr. Tonia Nicholls | Exploring staff supported community outings in a forensic psychiatric sample | Forensic psychiatry, community, risk assessment, rehabilitation, community reintegration |
| Michael Mitchell | Dr. Angela Lin | Investigating computed tomography radiomic-based features for predicting radiation pneumonitis development | Radiomics, Prediction Models, Radiation Pneumonitis, Radiation Dose Management |
| Teagan MacDougall | Dr. Sanjay Rao | Developing a multidisciplinary care pathway for Interior British Columbia patients with unresectable stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer | Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC); Stage Three Cancer; Multidisciplinary Care Pathway; Quality Improvement; Wait Times |
| Claire Cheung | Dr. Pascal Lavoie | Assessing the role of mitochondria in shaping innate immune responses in newborns | Immunology, Preterm Birth, Innate Immunity, mTOR, Immunometabolism |
| Emily Yang | Dr. Roxana Geoffrion | Recreational cannabis use pre- and post-legalization in women with pelvic pain | Cannabis use, Chronic pelvic pain, Endometriosis, Marijuana legalization |
| James Taylor | Dr. Matthias Görges | Wellbeing and mentorship for anesthesia residents experiencing near miss intraoperative events | Anesthesia; Literature review; Crisis; Critical events; Mentorship |
| Raiya Suleman | Dr. Laura Sauvé | The impacts of a global health curriculum during residency on paediatricians' clinical practices and career choices | Global Health, Medical Education, Residency, Competencies, Public Health |
| Jean Oh | Dr. Lynn Raymond | Neuroprotective effect of Activin A on synaptic function in Huntington's disease | Huntington's, NMDA, Activin A, Microscopy |
| Elisabeth Gross | Dr. Tal Jarus | Engaging Indigenous communities in health professions educational programs at UBC | Indigenous; health; education; decolonizing; indigenizing |
| Bradley Hofmann | Dr. Gillian Lauder | The effect of Intravenous Lidocaine Infusion on Intra-Operative Neurophysiological Monitoring in Adolescents During Posterior Spinal Instrumentation and Fusion for Idiopathic Scoliosis Correction; A Case-Matched Retrospective Study | Lidocaine, Intra-Operative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IONPM), Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis, Anesthesia |
| Shadan Ashrafi | Dr. Tricia Tang | Delivering a virtual care platform for adults with type 1 diabetes in rural and remote regions of Interior British Columbia | diabetes, peer support, rural health, digital interventions |
| Parnian Hosseini | Dr. Mark Ansermino | Improving emergency triage: validating an automated patient tracking system for children with sepsis | Electronic Patient Tracking, Triage, Pediatrics, Global Health, Sepsis |
| Terry Chen | Dr. Decheng Yang | Identification of intercalated disc proteins regulated by NFAT5 in CVB3-induced myocarditis | myocarditis, coxsackievirus, pathogenesis, NFAT5, antiviral |
| Vito Zou | Dr. Kathryn Isaac | Accuracy of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in breast cancer outcomes research - a pilot study for software validation | Breast cancer, Natural language processing (NLP), diagnostic test, digital technology, machine learning |
| Cara Johnston | Dr. Brenda Farnquist | Validation of volumetric breast density as a risk factor for breast cancer | Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Risk, Breast Density, Early Detection, Breast Cancer Screening |
| Rory McKerchar | Dr. Kathryn Selby | Retrospective analysis of neuromuscular diagnosis facilitated by early genetic testing in children under the age of 18 years presenting with suspected neuromuscular disorders at BC Childrens hospital between May 2017 to May 2020 | Pediatric, neuromuscular, genetics, diagnostics, phenotype |
| Norbert Banyi | Dr. Kasmintan Schrader | Efficacy of oncologist-initiated germ-line testing in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma | pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, germ-line testing, uptake rates, hereditary, familial pancreatic cancer. |
| Mahadev Bhalla | Dr. Kulbir Gill | Investigation of the peripapillary microvasculature in normal tension glaucoma, primary open angle glaucoma, and normal eyes | Glaucoma, Normal tension, optical coherence tomography, microvasculature, choriocapillaris |
| Luke Enns | Dr. Bruce Verchere | The role of type 2 diabetes risk gene peptidylglycine ?-amidating monooxygenase in pancreatic insulin-secreting ?-cells in the development of diabetes | Diabetes. Glucose homeostasis. Insulin secretion. PAM. Peptide amidation |
| Arshia Beigi | Dr. Jenny Ko | Survival outcomes associated with different palliative systemic therapies in patients with metastatic bladder cancer | Metastatic bladder cancer, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Real-world data, Overall survival |
| Kimia Ziafat | Dr. Timothy Kieffer | Investigating the function of leptin expression in pancreatic islets | leptin; islet physiology; genome editing; RNAseq |
| Sophia Gardezy | Dr. Nicolas Murray | Pulmonary embolism dual energy CT protocol optimization on Somatom Force | CT pulmonary angiography energy setting optimization |
| Jason Liu | Dr. Sarah Hamilton | Treatment and outcomes in squamous cell carcinoma of nasal cavity | Nasal cavity, squamous cell carcinoma, head and neck surgery, oncology |
| Mark Grasdal | Dr. Catherine Paramonoff | The Microbiological and Physical Properties of Intermittent Catheters: Impact of re-use and various cleaning methods: A Systematic Review | Pain, Spinal Cord Injury, Cannabis, Spasticity |
| Josh Hashimoto-Stone | Dr. Fabio Rossi | Unveiling signalling pathways involved in FAP fibrogenic differentiation | muscle, fibrosis, fibro/adipogenic progenitor, Duchene Muscular dystrophy, |
| Bianca Vizcaino | Dr. Michael Humer | Characterizing the lung cancer surgical time to care in the Interior Health Thoracic Group for quality improvement | Lung Cancer, Thoracic Surgery, Health Equity, Surgical Wait Times, Access to Care |
| Cody Lo | Dr. Barend Zack | Outcomes of glaucoma surgery in patients previously receiving intravitreal anti-VEGF injections | Ophthalmology, glaucoma, surgical outcomes, drug safety, retina |
| Daniah Zumrawi | Dr. Ivan Torres | Subjective Cognitive Functioning and Social Functioning in Treatment-Resistant Psychosis | metacognition neuropsychology functioning treatment-resistant psychosis |
| Faaria Samnani | Dr. Andrea Krusi | A mixed-methods study on the stigma trajectory of African, Caribbean, and Black im/migrant women living with HIV in Canada and the impact on HIV disclosure | HIV/AIDS, im/migrant, reproductive health, gender equity, barriers to care |
| Johnson Liu | Dr. Janice Eng | Does accelerometer measurement of upper extremity use capture changes following stroke? A systematic review. | Stroke; Upper Extremity; Wrist Sensor; Rehabilitation; Motor Function |
| Parm Khakh | Dr. Jasmine Grewal | Pregnancy in women with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: echocardiographic changes and pregnancy outcomes | Obstetrical Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease, Echocardiography, Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes |
| Shailee Siddhpuria | Dr. Lori Brotto | Survey and development of a universally accessible online resource for the treatment of postpartum depression: the SUPPORT study | Women's Health, Mental Health, Digital Health, Patient-Oriented Research, Intervention Development |
| Darren Guenther | Dr. Delia Sauciuc | Resectable adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction at BC Cancer: wait time from diagnosis to neoadjuvant treatment and potential impact on OS | Esophageal cancer, wait time, overall survival, BC Cancer |
| Brendan Reiter | Dr. Christian Kastrup | A gene therapy to combat FXIII-mediated clotting disorders | Nanoparticles, platelets, hemostasis, hemorrhage |
| Raisa Shabbir | Dr. Pearce Wilcox | Evaluating peripheral blood eosinophilia and health outcomes in hospitalized cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with acute pulmonary exacerbations | cystic fibrosis, Th2 inflammation, biomarkers, health outcomes, antibiotics |
| Chris Lanz | Dr. Matthew Carwana | A living systematic review on the diagnosis and management of urinary tract infections in newborns and young infants. | living systematic review, infants, urinary tract infections, guidelines, management |
| Kat Xie | Dr. Lee Michael | Barriers and facilitators to inclusive aquatics programming for children with developmental and/or mental health challenges | aquatics, children, community programs, disabilities, inclusion |
| Annie Bae | Dr. Don Sin | Lung fibrosis assessment after radiofrequency therapy in an emphysema mouse model | COPD, novel therapy, radiofrequency, lung function |
| Rohit Malyala | Dr. Christopher Nguan | Artificial-intelligence assisted targeting of urinary calculi in extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) | urology, shockwave lithotripsy, machine learning, image recognition, computer-guided interventions |
| Ellie Siden | Dr. Doris Barwich | Prioritizing advance care planning barriers and facilitators according to non-profit organizations in British Columbia, Canada | Advance Care Planning, Patient-Oriented Research, Palliative Care, Stakeholder Engagement |
| Sina Safabakhsh | Dr. Desmond Nunez | The role of hypoxia-associated miRNAs in acquired sensorineural hearing loss | microRNAs, hypoxia, ischemia, cochlea, sensorineural hearing loss |
| Shannon Stelzer | Dr. Kathleen Martin Ginis | Changes in barriers to exercise adherence among adults with spinal cord injury participating in a randomized controlled trial | Exercise; Spinal Cord Injury; Behaviour Change Techniques; Adherence |
| Taylor Minato | Dr. Bruce McManus and Paul Hanson | Adaptive anatomical and pathological features of the elephant heart and cardiac blood vessels: learnings from a case series | Elephant, cardiovascular, mammalian, pathology, histology |
| Sydney Neumeier | Dr. Sarah Lucas | The impact of coronary artery calcium on radiation induced cardiac toxicity in breast cancer survivors: a pilot study | Radiotherapy, Cardiac Toxicity, Breast Cancer, Coronary Calcification, Coronary Artery Disease |
| Judy Ban | Dr. Mark Felton | Safety and efficacy of three-dimensional endoscopy for otolaryngology surgeries: a systematic review | surgery, medical education, simulation, 3D endoscopy |
| Chantell Cleversey | Dr. Arman Abdalkhani | Addressing needlestick injuries in the medical undergraduate population | needlestick injury, suturing, safety, curriculum, medical education |
| Dara Rykiss | Dr. Sally Hynes | An Assessment of Quality of Life Following Tissue Expansion in Pediatric Patients | Tissue expansion, Quality-of-Life, Children |
| Matteo Damascelli | Dr. Todd Woodward | Investigating the functional networks for control of thermal pain with fMRI | pain; functional networks; cognition; control; functional magnetic resonance imaging; |
| Tamila Kalimullina | Dr. Andrei Krassioukov | Noninvasive neuromodulation of cardiovascular control following spinal cord injury | spinal cord injury, autonomic dysreflexia, transcutaneous stimulation, noninvasive, cardiovascular |
| Nicole Ketter | Dr. Brodie Sakakibara | Various research activities relating to COVID-19, cardiometabolic multimorbidity and cardiocascular risk factors | health promotion, disease prevention, telehealth, |
| Charles Choi | Dr. Erin Michalak | Bipolar bridges | Technology, Bipolar disorder, Apps, Psychiatry, Mental illness |
| Laura Saleh Jaibat | Dr. M-J Milloy | Negative health care interactions: A predictor for sub-optimal ART adherence and non-suppressed viral loads in people who use injection drugs? | HIV, marginalized, ART, experiences, health |
| Amrit Maniani | Dr. Robert Shaw | Illicit opioid overdose burden and underlying risk factors in Delta, BC | opioid overdose qualitative delta interview |
| Irena Zivkovic | Dr. Emilie Joos | Evaluation of a surgical task-sharing program in South Sudan: long term impacts of a UBC-MSF training partnership in a low-resource setting | surgery, capacity, global, education, task-sharing |
| Sarah Wissmann | Dr. Lydia Bajno | Access to diagnostic ultrasound in infants with developmental dysplasia of the hip: A road too far? | Developmental dysplasia of the hip, diagnostic ultrasound, infant screening program, health care resources |
| Sarah Margaret Bowers | Dr. Kelly Brown and Dr. Kirk Schultz | Adenosine deaminase 2 (ADA2) activity as a risk factor in the development of chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) in children | adenosine deaminase 2, enzyme activity, inflammation, chronic graft-versus-host disease |
| Sophia Shen | Dr. Bradley Quon | Biologic therapies targeting eosinophilic inflammation for asthma and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in adults with cystic fibrosis | cystic fibrosis, asthma, Th2 inflammation, biologic therapies, effectiveness, safety |
| Dionne Hsu | Dr. Luck Louis | CT/Chest radiography of COVID-19: An open-source AI Prognostication Predictive Model | COVID-19, pandemic, machine learning, artificial intelligence |
| Aysha Allard Brown | Dr. Brian Kwon | Hemorrhage within the spinal cord after acute traumatic injury in a porcine model: the relationship to hemodynamic management and thromboembolic prophylaxis | Anticoagulation, Spinal cord injury, Porcine model, Mean arterial pressure, Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis |
| Jillian Rodger | Dr. S. Evelyn Stewart | Patterns of OCD Diagnosis, Accommodation and Impairment in Families of Children with OCD | Pediatric, OCD, Accommodation, Family Function |
| Hyoun Joon (Ashley) Jang | Dr. Angela Devlin | Developmental programming of pancreatic islets by maternal exercise | maternal exercise, maternal obesity, pancreatic islets, developmental programming, rodent model |
| Nilou Noursadeghi Mousavi | Dr. James Johnson | Ins2 gene bursting activity defines a mature beta-cell state | insulin production; cellular heterogeneity; single-cell RNA sequencing; beta-cell fragility; immunofluorescence staining |
| Iris Lee | Dr. Jean-Paul Collet | Knowledge translation project: increasing physical activity in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities in indigenous communities | Neurodevelopment, Indigenous community, physical activity, knowledge translation, mixed method |
| Nazde Edeer | Dr. Jerry Chen | Factors associated with delayed revascularization for patients with acute limb ischemia | acute limb ischemia, vascular surgery, revascularization, surgical delays |
| Ko Ta Chen | Dr. Amy Bazzarelli | Reducing positive Margins in breast conserving surgery for the treatment of breast cancer | Breast cancer; breast conserving surgery; surgical margins; surgical oncology; specimen mammography |
| Brooks Perkins-Jechow | Dr. Filip Van Petegem | Structural investigation of arrhythmia-associated mutations | heart function, X-ray crystallography, protein purification, calcium signaling, mutagenesis |
| Mehima Kang | Dr. Liam Brunham | Ethnicity-related differences in risk factors and presentation of premature Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in UK Biobank & SAVE BC | Epidemiology, Ethnicity, Premature Coronary Artery Disease, Preventive Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease |
| Sabrina Hou | Dr. Deborah Giaschi | Modernizing the definition and treatment of amblyopia | amblyopia, visuomotor coordination, motion perception, stereopsis, reading |
| Mark Hwang | Dr. Michael Berger | Validation of muscle ultrasound as a reliable measure of upper limb strength | Muscle ultrasound, dynamometer, functional testing |
| Michelle Lisonek | Dr. Michael Anglesio | Prevalence of KRAS and other somatic mutations in endometriosis subtypes | KRAS mutation, endometriosis, deep dyspareunia |
| Melissa Kong | Dr. Kathryn Armstrong | Clinical outcomes and quality of life following pediatric heart transplantation in British Columbia | orthotopic heart transplantation; pediatrics, clinical outcomes |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords | Project City/Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sana Aghakeshmiri | Dr. Decheng Yang | Effects of PRISPR/Cas9 generated mutant NFAT5 on coxsackieviral pathogenesis | Myocarditis, coxsackievirus, pathogenesis, CRISPR/Cas9, NFAT5, antiviral | Vancouver |
| Kirsten Allen | Dr. Sara Taylor | Implementing a web-based patient follow-up platform into BC Cancer | Quality of Life, Cancer, Online Platform, Health Informatics, Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) | Kelowna |
| Olivia Anglin | Dr. Nicole Fairbrother | New mother's thoughts of harm: prevalence and relation to OCD and child harm | Postpartum harm thoughts, obsessive compulsive disorder, perinatal epidemiology, cognitive predictors | Victoria |
| Seyedeh-Shadan Ashrafi | Dr. Timothy Kieffer | Improving insulin processing and secretion in K-cells using modified insulin gene variants | organoids, diabetes, insulin, K-cells | Vancouver |
| Sarah Margaret Bowers | Dr. Kelly Brown | Adenosine deaminase 2 (ADA2) mediated effects on vascular endothelial cell integrity | adenosine deaminase 2, inflammation, stroke, vessel wall integrity, adenosine | Vancouver |
| Loic Caloren | Dr. Hélène Côté | Mitochondrial effects of intermittent HIV antiretroviral drug exposure in a cultured cell model with and without telomerase | HIV, drug toxicity, mitochondria, telomerase, cell culture | Vancouver |
| Brooke Cheng | Dr. David Moore | Factors associated with cessation or reduction of methamphetamine use among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men who reported frequent use in Vancouver, Canada | Crystal methamphetamine; HIV/AIDS; Men who have sex with men (MSM) population; Anxiety; Depression | Vancouver |
| Selina Demetrick | Dr. Laura Sly | Targeting intestinal fibrosis in SHIP deficient mice | fibrosis, SHIP, intestine, inflammation, Crohn's disease | Vancouver |
| Celine Edwards | Dr. Michael Humer | A comprehensive analysis of the timeliness of oncology care for lung cancer patients in BCs Interior and the North | Lung Cancer, Systemic Therapy, Health Equity, Surgical Wait Times, Access to Care | Kelowna |
| Avarna Fernandes | Dr. Jennifer Coelho | More than picky eating: understanding clinical symptoms of youth with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder | Eating disorders, ARFID, somatic symptom disorder, paediatrics | Vancouver |
| Alex Ka Chun Fung | Dr. Brenden Hursh | Feasibility of a coaching intervention for parents of children with type 1 diabetes | Coaching, type 1 diabetes, feasibility, self-management, clinical | Vancouver |
| Karanvir Gill | Dr. Todd Woodward | Brain networks associated with hallucinations: an international datasharing initiative | Schizophrenia; fMRI; Hallucinations; functional connectivity; cognitive neuroscience | Vancouver |
| Kaviraj (Kavi) Grewal | Dr. Bruce Verchere | Pancreatic hormone processing during the development of type 1 diabetes | Type 1 diabetes, prohormone processing, pancreatic islet, post-translational modification | Vancouver |
| Ju Feng (Tony) Guo | Dr. Janice Leung | Increased HIV receptor and co-receptor expression in COPD: Keys to COPD Susceptibility in HIV | Airway epithelium, COPD, Smoking, HIV | Vancouver |
| Thomas Hoang | Dr. Brett Finlay | Synergistic bacterial metabolism as a contributor to environmental enteric dysfunction | 1) Environmental Enteric Dysfunction 2) Metabolic Synergism 3) Bacterial Crossfeeding 4) Microbiome 5) Malnutrition | Vancouver |
| Tamila Kalimullina | Dr. Anibal Bohorquez | Nerve bridge-mediated restoration of supraspinal control to promote cardiovascular recovery after spinal cord injury | spinal cord injury, autonomic dysreflexia, peripheral nerve graft, regeneration, exercise | Vancouver |
| Yu Hang (Amy) Kang | Dr. William Lockwood | Target validation of a novel small molecule inhibitor that selectively kills lung cancer cells through induction of reactive oxygen species | Lung cancer, target discovery, reactive oxygen species, selective lethality, drug development | Vancouver |
| Aydan Kesici | Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez | The effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis | Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Cognition, Hippocampus, Neurogenesis | Vancouver |
| Chadni Khondoker | Dr. Melanie Murray | Evaluating hormonal replacement therapy use in women living with HIV in the children and women's antiretroviral and markers of aging (CARMA) cohort | Hormonal Replacement Therapy, HIV, Women, Antiretrovirals, Smoking | Vancouver |
| Fatemeh Khounsarian | Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff | Examining the effects of Tempol, an antioxidant, on axonal damage induced by demyelination | Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic demyelination, Remyelination , Tempol antioxidant, Axonal degeneration | Vancouver |
| Yun Ki Kim | Dr. Sylvia Cheng | Outcomes of children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG): an institutional experience in British Columbia | DIPG; temozolomide; overall survival; glioma; radiation | Vancouver |
| Melissa Kong | Dr. John Mawson | Improving access to MRI services for children with inflammatory bowel disease | MRI, pediatrics, wait times, medical services, resource allocation | Vancouver |
| Jasmine Kwan | Dr. Kristin Campbell | Changes in daily psychological functioning in response to an aerobic exercise intervention in women with breast cancer | Exercise, Chemotherapy, Cognitive Functioning, Improve Symptoms, Breast Cancer | Vancouver |
| Abiel Kwok | Dr. Steven Pelech | Tracking how increasing protein-tyrosine phosphorylation causes selective decreased protein-serine/threonine phosphorylation in cancer cells | Protein phosphates, Protein kinases, Protein phosphorylation, Antibodies | Vancouver |
| Samantha Lee | Dr. Stephen Yip | Investigating the role of neomorphic IDH mutations in modulating the stress response of gliomas | low grade glioma, oncometabolite, stress granules, oxidative stress, IDH mutation | Vancouver |
| Yung Huei (Esther) Lin | Dr. Elodie Portales-Casamar | Natural language processing of psychiatric clinical notes | Text Mining, Machine Learning, Suicidal Crisis, Adolescent Mental Health, Prediction. | Vancouver |
| Michelle Lisonek | Dr. Michael Anglesio | Prevalence of KRAS and other somatic mutations in endometriosis subtypes | KRAS mutation, endometriosis, deep infiltrating endometriosis, endometrioma, superficial peritoneal | Vancouver |
| Kathleen (Kate) MacDonald | Dr. Jim Johnson | Light-activated insulin expression in pancreatic beta cells | CRISPR-Cas9, hESCs, optogenetics, cell culture, diabetes, beta cells | Vancouver |
| Alishah Mawji | Dr. Mark Ansermino | Saving young lives: triage and management of sepsis in children using the point-of-care Paediatric Rapid Sepsis Trigger (PRST) tool. Phase Ia: model development and internal validation | Pediatrics, Triage, Prediction Model, Algorithm, Low Resource Setting, Global Health | Vancouver |
| Kheya McGill | Dr. Ash Singhal | Assessing the need for peer support among siblings of neurosurgical patients | Peer Support, Siblings, Neurosurgery, Complex Chronic Condition, Emotional support | Vancouver |
| Ashleigh Nazareth | Dr. Stephanus van Eeden | The use of wearable electronic devices to improve outcomes in COPD | COPD, exacerbations, wearable devices, vital signs | Vancouver |
| Hirad Nourbakhsh | Dr. Stacey Skoretz | Determining measurement methodology for upper aerodigestive tract of Phoca vitulina | upper aerodigestive tract; deglutition; seal; human; knowledge translation | Vancouver |
| Aidan O'Callahan | Dr. Charlotte Jones | Evaluating community needs: Indigenizing intervention pathways for diabetes and obesity | Indigenous, Diabetes, Obesity, Evaluation, Intervention | Kelowna |
| Nishtha Parag | Dr. Christian Schuetz | The brain networks associated with response inhibition in healthy controls | Cognitive control, response inhibition, brain network activation, fMRI Constrained Principal Component Analysis, right inferior frontal gyrus | Vancouver |
| Samantha Pawer | Dr. Shelina Babul | The economic burden of poisoning in British Columbia | Public health, injury prevention, poisoning, epidemiology, health economics | Vancouver |
| Thishani (Thish) Rajapakshe | Dr. Adrian Bak | A randomized controlled trial evaluating improved practices for sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy for cancer screening | Colon Cancer; Screening; Sedation; Sigmoidoscopy; Water Exchange | Kelowna |
| Lucas Wei Jian Rempel | Dr. Fabio Rossi | Characterization of cardiac perivascular mesenchymal progenitors | Myocardial infarction, cardiac fibro/adipogenic progenitors, mesenchymal progenitors, pericytes | Vancouver |
| Ananya Sandhu | Dr. Trisha Chakrabarty | Using emotional processing measures to aid in differential diagnosis and prediction of treatment response in major depressive and bipolar II disorders | Emotional Processing, Treatment Response, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar II Disorder | Vancouver |
| Sorayya Seddigh | Dr. Tricia Tang | Often overlooked, sometimes undervalued, but never forgotten: The role of social support in diabetes health and mental health outcomes | T2D, social support, diabetes distress | Vancouver |
| Sadaf Sediqi | Dr. Paul Yong | Neurogenesis in endometriosis | Neurogenesis, Endometriosis, Pathogenesis, Chronic pelvic pain, Nerve-bundle density | Vancouver |
| Srijan Subedi | Dr. Delbert Dorscheid | Differentiating various asthma subtypes and potential therapeutics using analysis of a severe asthma registry | Asthma, phenotypes, treatments, cluster analysis, endotypes | Vancouver |
| Cheryl Tan | Dr. Dan Goldowitz | The expression of epigenetic differences as possible mediators of resistance or sensitivity to ethanol-induced cell death in the developing mouse neural tube | Neurodevelopment, epigenetics, ethanol, susceptibility, mouse | Vancouver |
| Edward Wang | Dr. Eitan Prisman | Evaluation of a custom in-house surgical pre-planning workflow for mandibular reconstructions | Virtual, Surgery, Pre-planning, Cancer, Reconstruction | Vancouver |
| Mitchell (Mitch) Wiebe | Dr. Islam Mohamed | The use of radiomics in tomo-histology for lung cancer | Radiomics, Lung Cancer, Tomo-Histology, Micro-CT, Early Detection | Kelowna |
| Yi Han (Yihan) Xia | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout | Identifying genes that determine the sex difference in fat storage | fat storage, genetics, sex differences, Drosophila | Vancouver |
| William (Will) Yip | Dr. Kelly McNagny | Podocalyxin haploinsufficiency sensitizes C57BL/6J mice to chemically-induced nephrosis | Podocalyxin, Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, Nephrotic syndrome, Kidney disease, renal insufficiency | Vancouver |
| Jia Yu (Jennifer) Zhang | Dr. Maureen C. Ashe | Acceptability and usability of an online resource for informal caregivers of frail older adults after hospital discharge | older adults, frailty, online training, informal caregivers | Vancouver |
| Dylan Zhao | Dr. Quynh Doan | Mental health presentations at a tertiary center: who comes, what are their needs, and can we meet their needs? | mental health, pediatric emergency, child and adolescent psychiatry, mental health resources | Vancouver |
| YuWen (Jade) Zhong | Dr. Matthew Brendan Munn | What is the impact of drug checking services on medical services at a multi-day electronic music festival? | Music Festivals; Mass Gatherings; Substance Use; Harm Reduction / Harm Minimization; Drug Checking | Salmo, BC |
| Arif Arif | Dr. Fergal Donnellan | Clinical correlates and outcomes of young colorectal cancer (CRC) patients in British Columbia | Young Adults, Gastrointestinal neoplasms, Colorectal neoplasms, Incidence, Clinical Outcome | Vancouver |
| Alexandra Bohm | Dr. Marco Marra | Determining the efficacy of RNA sequencing in predicting cancer treatment strategies for POG tumours | metastatic cancer, clinical sequencing, transcriptome/RNA sequencing, personalized medicine, pathway dysregulation | Vancouver |
| Heidi Britton | Dr. Claire Sheldon | Proteomic analysis of patient-derived fibroblasts harboring the G11778a mutation of LHON | LHON, Genetics, Ophthalmology, mtDNA, Blindness | Vancouver |
| Mark Cahalan | Dr. Catherine Paramonoff | When are blood vessels ready to rupture? Cerebrovascular health following spinal cord injury. | spinal cord injury, autonomic dysfunction, autonomic dysreflexia, cardiovascular control, cerebrovascular health | Vancouver |
| Sophie Carr | Dr. Erik Skarsgard | Development of a multidisciplinary, evidence-based enhanced recovery pathway towards improved outcomes in pediatric colorectal surgery | quality improvement, pediatric colorectal surgery, enhanced recovery after surgery, surgical outcomes, standardization | Vancouver |
| Gabriel Chan | Dr. Ken Lim | A pilot study to determine the optimal finger for hypertension and preeclampsia assessment using pulse oximeter collection | Pulse oximetry, Preeclampsia, blood pressure monitor, non-invasive | Vancouver |
| Hua (Victoria) Chen | Dr. Bruce McManus | Personalizing myocarditis diagnostics through novel biomarkers | Cardiovascular, Pathology, Translational, Diagnosis, Biomarker | Vancouver |
| Rachel Chen | Dr. Samuel Wiseman | Postoperative early complications, morbidity, and mortality in HIV/AIDS patients in BC | HIV, AIDS, Quality assessment, Surgery, Public health | Vancouver |
| Ivan Chiu | Dr. Adam Lund | A phase IV real world study on the use of low dose methoxyflurane (PENTHROX) compared to standard care for the treatment of moderate to severe trauma pain in adults in Canadian out-of-hospital mass gathering environments | Emergency medicine, Pain management, Mass gathering medicine, Patient care, pain control | Canada - BC, AB, ON |
| Hye Ji (Sally) Choi | Dr. Joel Gagnon | Evaluation of aortic zone 2 landing accuracy during TEVAR with current imaging techniques | aorta, endovascular, TEVAR, stent, landing zone, accuracy | Vancouver |
| Jonathan Choi | Dr. Susan Lee | A pilot study of Perioperative Analgesia and INtraoperative anesthesia in hip FRacture patients using Early Epidural placement (The PAIN-FREE Pilot Study) | epidural, regional anesthesia, hip fracture, enhanced recovery, pilot | Greater Vancouver - New Westminster |
| Frank Chou | Dr. Pearce Wilcox | Characterizing patients from pediatric and adult cystic fibrosis clinics with positive sweat tests but negative CFTR genotyping | Cystic Fibrosis, Chloride, Sweat Test, Genetics, Diagnosis | Vancouver |
| Hannah Dreksler | Dr. Stephan Mostowy | A retrospective analysis of vascular graft infections requiring surgical reintervention at one centre | vascular grafts, infection, surgery | Kelowna |
| Justin Fernandes | Dr. David Barbic | Measuring the impact of systematic screening for suicidal thoughts in patients presenting to the emergency department | suicide, emergency medicine, screening | Vancouver |
| Saman Fouladirad | Dr. Patrick McDonald | Transitioning to adulthood with hydrocephalus: A patients perspective | : Hydrocephalus, Transition, Pediatric, Qualitative, Quantitative | Vancouver |
| Andrew Golin | Dr. Ryan Flannigan | Investigating the genetics of sertoli cell only syndrome in infertile men | Infertility, etiology, transcriptomics, proteomics, sertoli-cell only | Vancouver |
| Mariana Gutierrez Salazar | Dr. Lise Leveille | Complications of bilateral, staged, and unilateral hip reconstruction surgery for children with cerebral palsy | Cerebral Palsy, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Hip Reconstruction | Vancouver |
| Kaitlyn (Katie) Harding | Dr. Brodie Sakakibara | Development of a student-run chronic disease prevention clinic | Chronic disease management; Interprofessionalism; Student leadership; Patient-oriented; Intervention development | Kelowna |
| Michael Heer | Dr. Farzin Forooghian | Complement factor H is associated with chronic inflammation in the human retina | AMD, CFH, NLRP3 Inflammasome, SNP | Vancouver |
| Allyssa Hooper | Dr. Videsh Kapoor | Finding sustainable solutions in menstrual hygiene management in Spiti Valley, India | Menstrual Hygiene, Women's Health, Global Health, Sanitation, Sustainability | International - Spiti Valley, India |
| Monica Hsieh | Dr. Terence Yung | 30 day outcomes of myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) at St. Paul's Hospital | prospective study, non-cardiac surgery, myocardial infarction, strokes, death | Vancouver |
| Tianshu (Angela) Ji | Dr. Neil Wells | To bash or not to bash? the quality of online resources for ganglion cysts | patient education, online resources, websites | Vancouver |
| Jake Johnston | Dr. Richard Bedell | Clinical investigation of macronutrient and micronutrient deficiencies in a cohort of rural Indian schoolchildren | nutrition, global health, children, rural, diet, clinical | International - Rangrik, India |
| Hannah Kapur | Dr. Elaine McKevitt | Calculating quality indicators for mastectomy at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital | Breast cancer; Surgery; Mastectomy; Quality Indicators; Breast Conservation | Vancouver |
| Amar Khaira | Dr. Christopher Nguan | Using a tremor-measured smartphone app as a surrogate biomarker for immunosuppressants in renal transplant recipients | Renal Transplantation, Novel Technology, Medication-Induced Tremor, Calcineurin Inhibitor, Nephrology | Vancouver |
| Clara (Namhee) Kim | Dr. Alana Flexman | Anesthetic management and outcomes after spine tumour resection: a cohort study | anesthesiology, perioperative care, spinal tumor resection | Vancouver |
| Sharon Kipfer | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew | Glioma (a type of brain tumor) internet information: an evaluation of the usage of internet resources by patients with gliomas and the quality of information available on the internet | glioma, patient information, internet information, quality, medical education | Vancouver |
| Supun Kotteduwa Jayawarden | Dr. Rajiv Reebye | Effect of botulinum toxin A and serial casting on gait parameters in acquired brain injury patients with upper extremity spasticity | spasticity, stroke, botulinum toxin, stretch casting, acquired brain injury | Vancouver |
| Adina Landsberg | Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen | Utility of surveillance kidney biopsies in pediatric kidney transplant recipients to safely improve rejection ascertainment and graft outcomes | Surveillance biopsy, protocol biopsy, pediatric, kidney transplant, subclinical rejection, biopsy complications | Vancouver |
| Juvel Lee | Dr. Robert Baird | Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of high-pressure fistulography in classifying neonatal anorectal malformations | Anorectal malformation, neonates, surgery, medical imaging, quality improvement | Vancouver |
| Brian Li | Dr. Bradley Quon | Biomarkers to diagnose allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) in cystic fibrosis | Allergy, Biomarkers, Cystic Fibrosis, Diagnostics, Inflammation | Vancouver |
| Shu Nan (Jessica) Li | Dr. Laura Sauve | The effect of maternal demographic and health factors on vertical transmission of HIV: analysis of the canadian perinatal HIV surveillance program | HIV, maternal health, infant health, epidemiology, public health surveillance | Vancouver |
| Zhang Hao (Jim) Li | Dr. Ian Pike | Preventing serious injuries in the workplace: can a social marketing campaign speak to workers outside of 9 to 5? | injury, public health, social marketing, occupational health and safety | Vancouver |
| Jonathan Lim | Dr. Karen Goddard | Late effects assessment in adult survivors of pediatric brain tumors and rhabdomyosarcoma | Late Effects, Survivorship, Screening, Counseling, Clinical evaluation | Vancouver |
| Kathleen Lin | Dr. Roy Purssell | Apneic and unresponsive patients with witnessed opioid overdose: determining the optimal approach for resuscitation | Naloxone, opioid-overdose, resuscitation, ventilation, chest-compressions | Vancouver |
| Veena Hsu-Wei Lin | Dr. Vilte Barakauskas | Supporting participation in pediatric and pregnancy reference interval studies | pregnancy; perinatal; neonatal; laboratory medicine | Vancouver |
| Alice Liu | Dr. Amanda Hu | Voice outcomes of laryngeal electromyography guided vocal fold injections | Hoarseness, dysphonia, vocal fold injections, electromyography | Vancouver |
| Alvin Ka Nok Liu | Dr. Sarah Hamilton | Clinical features of head and neck cancer patients with brain metastases: a single institution retrospective study of 60 cases | Head and neck cancer, Brain metastasis, HPV, Cetuximab, Radiotherapy | Vancouver |
| Nelson Lu | Dr. Matthew Bennett | Optimization of rate control medications prior to cardioversion | Atrial fibrillation, cardioversion, rate control, medication adjustment, validation cohort study | Vancouver |
| Mhd Adib (Adeeb) Malas | Dr. Kevin Pistawka | An analysis of the MAZE procedure in Kelowna | atrial fibrillation, cardiovascular disease, cardiology, MAZE procedure, cardiac surgery | Kelowna |
| Gurkiran (Kiran) Mann | Dr. Merry Gong | PHISIQUE Study: Postpartum pelvic floor Health Index: Sexuality, Incontinence, and QUality of life Evaluation after obstetric anal sphincter injury | Postpartum pelvic floor health, pelvic floor trauma, obstetrical anal sphincter injury, sexual dysfunction | Vancouver |
| Curtis May | Dr. Aaron MacInnes | Effect of early multidisciplinary pain intervention on pain and functional outcomes in patients with complex regional pain syndrome | Chronic pain, complex regional pain syndrome, early intervention, practice based research, multidisciplinary | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Dorsa Mousa-Doust | Dr. Carol Dingee | Identification and outcomes of phyllodes tumours of the breast | Phyllodes tumour; fibroepithelial lesions; surgery; breast cancer; quality assurance | Vancouver |
| Christopher (Chris) Pang | Dr. Jeremy Penner | Household food security and nutritional assessment of children and families receiving food support from Pamoja community based organization in rural Kenya | Malnutrition, global health, growth monitoring, rural Kenya, food security | International - Kisumu, Kenya |
| Harpreet Pangli | Dr. Aziz Ghahary | Application of silver nanoparticles as a potent and safe antimicrobial agent for liquid skin substitute | Silver nanoparticles, burns, wound healing, infection, bioengineering | Vancouver |
| Victoria (Tory) Peterson | Dr. Manraj Heran | Paediatric interventional radiology transfers away from a tertiary paediatric centre | interventional radiology, paediatric, transfers, ablation, embolization | Vancouver |
| Jobanjit (Joban) Phulka | Dr. James Mckinney | The safety of long-distance running in Canada: A retrospective analysis of the Vancouver Marathon and Sun Run | cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, long-distance running, cardiology, sports cardiology | Vancouver |
| Roopal Rai | Dr. Liam Brunham | SAVE BC: A long-term study of families with early onset cardiovascular disease | Familial hypercholesteremia, premature atherosclerosis, monogenic disease, inherited, prevalence study | Vancouver |
| Alexander (Alex) Rebchuk | Dr. Thalia Field | Cognitive deficits in young stroke survivors as measured by the NIH toolbox - Cognition Battery and MoCA | Stroke; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Neuropsychological testing; Cerebrovascular disease; Neurology; Functional outcomes | Vancouver |
| Renee Reimer | Dr. Chelsea Elwood | Bacteremia in pregnant and postpartum women | Bacteremia, Maternal, Pregnancy, Fever, Sepsis | Vancouver |
| Ryan Sandarage | Dr. Eric Hui | Validation of the Heckmatt scale for assessing level of muscle damage in spasticity | Spasticity, Botulinum Toxin, Ultrasound, Heckmatt Scale, Muscular Dystrophy | Vancouver |
| Navneet Singh | Dr. Amin Javer | The Efficacy of topical 0.2% hydrogen peroxide solution rinse in the management of biofilm-associated chronic rhinosinusitis | Hydrogen Peroxide, Chronic Rhinosinusitis, Biofilm, Recalcitrant, Efficacy | Vancouver |
| Emmanuel Tse | Dr. Stacy Elliott | Cannabis and spinal cord injury | spinal cord injury, cannabis, pain, spasticity, cognition | Vancouver |
| Jordan Williams-Yuen | Dr. Anita Palepu | Exploring paramedics experience of overdose emergency response within Vancouvers Downtown Eastside | Qualitative Research, Pre-Hospital Care, Overdose Response | Vancouver |
| Amanda Wong | Dr. Alexander Wyatt | Detecting the emergence of resistance to PARP inhibitor therapy in prostate cancer | Prostate, cancer, PARPi, cfDNA, reversion, BRCA2 | Vancouver |
| Jung-Chien (Ricky) Wu | Dr. Rupinder Brar | Use of a micro-dosing method for buprenorphine/naloxone induction for the treatment of opioid use disorder | opioid, addiction, substance use disorder, opioid agonist therapy, overdose | Vancouver |
| Richard Xiang | Dr. Christopher West | Effect of a cardiac centered hemodynamic management strategy on spinal cord inflammation and perfusion following traumatic spinal cord injury | Spinal Cord Injury, Acute Management, Heart, Neuroprotective, Improve Outcomes | Kelowna |
| Lulu Yang | Dr. Ali Abdalvand | Delayed antibiotic doses in sepsis | sepsis, emergency medicine, antibiotics, mortality | Vancouver |
| Belinda Yee | Dr. Jacqueline Foley | Determining the characteristics of heart rate changes during autonomic dysreflexia in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury | Autonomic dysreflexia, cardiovascular changes, cardiovascular dysfunction, heart rate, spinal cord injury | Vancouver |
| Phillip Chor-Sang Yeung | Dr. Saul Isserow | IV magnesium supplementation in athletes: a cross-over study | Magnesium supplementation, arrhythmia, athlete, cardiology, sports cardiology | Vancouver |
| Shanna Yeung | Dr. Patrick Ma | Computerized visual distortion measurement for macular assessment | Ophthalmology; Retinal diseases; Quantification of disease progression; Visual distortion; Technological Tool | Vancouver |
| Po Hsiang (Shawn) Yuan | Dr. Ian Scott | Test enhanced learning: how much transfer of information occurs | Test enhanced learning, Recall enhanced learning, Transfer of learning concepts, Cognitive Psychology, Undergraduate MD | Vancouver |
| Bei Yuan (Ethan) Zhang | Dr. Roxana Geoffrion | Risk factors for post-operative urinary retention associated with pelvic reconstructive surgery: a retrospective cohort study - the "POUR Study" | urogynecology, pelvic reconstructive surgery, prolapse, urinary retention, urinary catheterization | Vancouver |
| Yanru (Jessie) Zhang | Dr. Savvas Nicolaou | Utilizing dual energy CT to investigate urate deposition in the carotid arteries | DECT, gout, urate deposition, carotid arteries, hyperuricemia | Vancouver |
| Sofia (Sofía) Zhang-Jiang | Dr. Dewi Schrader | Cerebrospinal fluid metagenomics and cytokine profiling in pediatric patients with CNS inflammation | Neurology, pediatrics, CSF, CNS, inflammation | Vancouver |
| Billy Zhao | Dr. Eric Lam | Advanced endoscopic resection of large colorectal polyps & early neoplasia: a chart review | gastroenterology, oncology, colorectal cancer, polyps removal, endoscopic resection | Vancouver |
| Maria Zhu | Dr. Raymond Lam | Enhanced measurement-based care (eMBC) for major depressive disorder | e-Mental Health, mobile technology, depression, functional outcomes, cognition | Vancouver |
| Jeremy Zuo | Dr. Cyrus Boelman | STXBP1.ca: the national registry for STXBP1-related neurodevelopmental disorders | Clinical registry; Neurogenetics; Epilepsy; Movement disorders | Vancouver |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords | Project City/Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angeles, Arkhjamil (Archie) | Dr. Kim Chi | The Germline Genetics of Prostate Cancer (GENPRO): Caring for patients with hereditary prostate cancer and their families | prostate cancer, hereditary, gene mutations, metastatic, castration resistant | Vancouver |
| Arnold, Lucas | Dr. Michael Ertel | Traumatic brain injury and post injury substance-use in Okanagan youth: A study in the midst of British Columbia’s opioid crisis | Traumatic Brain Injury, Substance Abuse, Youth | Kelowna |
| Asadi Lari, Mohammadhossein (Mohammad) | Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff | Seizures in rodent model of chronic demyelination follow parvalbumin (PV+) interneuron loss in the hippocampus | Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Demyelination, Seizures, Hippocampus, Parvalbumin | Vancouver |
| Azhar, Ayman | Dr. Tricia Tang | The girls versus boy debate: gender differences in fitness improvements associated with a bhangra dance intervention for South Asian children | South Asian, Gender, Fitness, Children | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Azizi, Hawmid | Dr. Liam Brunham | Management and outcomes of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia in Canada | Familial Hypercholesterolemia, cardiovascular disease (CVD), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) | Vancouver |
| Banga, Yasmin | Dr. Heather McKay | Mo' money, no problems? Examining the impact of parent's socio-economic status on children's physical fitness in the South Asian community | physical fitness, physical activity, socio-economic status, South Asian, children | Vancouver |
| Bhalla, Mahadev | Dr. Eduardo Navajas | Comparison of optical coherence tomography angiography and adaptive optics optical coherence tomography angiography in diabetic retinopathy | Diabetes, adaptive optics, optical coherence tomography, capillary density, micro aneurysm | Vancouver |
| Birnie, Blake | Dr. Deanna Gibson | Correlating intestinal alkaline phosphatase activity from fecal samples collected during a dietary lipid intervention in ulcerative colitis patients | Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Anti-Inflammatory Diet, Mediterranean Diet, Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase | Kelowna |
| Black, Anna | Dr. Carl Brown | Comparative study of two closure techniques and the impact on short-term outcomes in perineal wounds after abdominoperineal resection for rectal cancer | Dehiscence, complications, perineal wound, purse-string suture, abdominoperineal resection, rectal cancer | Vancouver |
| Boroditsky, Matthew | Dr. Christine Loock | Successes and challenges of transitioning from pediatric to adult care for individuals with 22q11.2ds | 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome; retrospective chart review; transition care; consensus guidelines | Vancouver |
| Boschung, Karol | Dr. E. Paul Zehr | Taking a karate kick at stroke: a pilot martial arts intervention for rehabilitation | Neurotrauma, rehabilitation, holistic, exercise | Victoria |
| Botros, Christina | Dr. Jeremy Penner | Sexual health through safe spaces: Increasing education regarding contraception, gender-based post-violence care, and pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis for young women in Kisumu, Kenya | Sexual Health, Continuous Community Education, Rural & Global Health, Contraception, Collaboration | International - Vancouver, BC and Kisumu, Kenya |
| Brar, Shanjot | Dr. L. Olivia Tseng | Guideline gaps in management of multiple chronic diseases | Multiple chronic diseases, Multimorbidity, Guidelines, Clinical practice guidelines, Knowledge gaps | Vancouver |
| Chaiton, Jessica | Dr. Liisa Galea | The effect of exercise and ovarian hormones on chemotherapy-related cognitive changes in female mice | Chemotherapy; Cognition; Neurogenesis; Exercise; Estrogens | Vancouver |
| Chang, Cindy | Dr. Christian Schuetz | CEASAR (Computerized Exercise to Alter Stimulant Approach Responses): Piloting a novel intervention to improve outcome in individuals suffering from cocaine or methamphetamine use disorder, a randomized controlled study | Concurrent Disorders; Computer-based intervention; Automatic Approach Behavior; Stimulant Use Disorder; Relapse | Vancouver |
| Cheng, Maye | Dr. Pascal Lavoie | A close-up view of hematopoietic cells during fetal development | Hematopoietic cells, single-cell RNA-sequencing, neonates, fetal development | Vancouver |
| Ching, Geoffrey | Dr. Jason Barton | Object recognition in developmental and acquired prosopagnosia | prosopagnosia; object recognition; visual system; perception; face recognition | Vancouver |
| Cho, Brian | Dr. Poul Sorensen | Childhood brain cancer: molecular mechanisms used by cells to survive nutrient starvation | Pediatric cancer, medulloblastoma, metabolism, mRNA translation | Vancouver |
| Choi, Charles | Dr. Martin McKeown | Longitudinal monitoring of Parkinson’s Disease suitable for at-home use | App, Technology, Parkinson's Disease, Prognosis | Vancouver |
| Choi, Jung-In | Dr. Robert Stenstrom | A randomized controlled trial of C-reactive protein measurement on ordering of blood cultures in emergency department patients with sepsis | Sepsis, biomarkers, C-reactive protein, blood cultures, emergency medicine | Vancouver |
| Chow, Kennedy | Dr. Hugh Kim | Profiling platelet-based markers in rheumatoid arthritis | juvenile arthritis, platelets, cell signaling, cell culture, inflammation | Vancouver |
| Cleversey, Chantell | Dr. Kurt McBurney | Suturing workshops: assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of a novel suturing module with medical students | Suturing, Module, MD curriculum, Medical Students, Recommendations | Victoria and Vancouver |
| Dikareva, Anastasia (Stacy) | Dr. Charlotte Jones | Implementation and program evaluation of the Walk and Talk for your Life program among people living with mental illness | Walk and Talk, Community, Mental Health, Program Evaluation, Health Promotion, Physical Activity | Kelowna |
| Drake, Hilary | Dr. Silvina Mema | Organ donation in the era of the opioid crisis | organ donation opioid death overdose | Kelowna |
| Duan, Xinran Nancy | Dr. Douglas Courtemanche | Long-term outcomes of patients with unresectable arteriovenous malformations: A 25-year chart review | Arteriovenous malformations; retrospective chart review; long-term outcomes; complications | Vancouver |
| Dubchak, Eden | Dr. Blair Leavitt | Exploring the effect of laquinimod on excitotoxic neurodegeneration | Huntington's Disease, Neurodegeneration, Excitotoxicity, Microglia, Astrocyte | Vancouver |
| Ducharme, Blake | Dr. Ian Mackenzie | Clinical characteristics of mixed pathology in neurodegenerative dementias | Alzheimer Disease, dementia, pathology, natural history, mortality | Vancouver |
| Edeer, Nazde | Dr. Timothy Kieffer | Reversing diabetes using an adeno-associated virus based gene therapy | diabetes, gene-therapy, adeno-associated virus | Vancouver |
| Edwards, Celine | Dr. Michael Humer | Characterizing the lung cancer surgical time to care in the Interior Health thoracic group for quality improvement | Lung Cancer, Thoracic Surgery, Health Equity, Surgical Wait Times, Access to Care | Kelowna |
| Fang, Tony | Dr. Patrick Ma | The effect of optical quality of posterior intraocular lens implants on vitrectomy | Vitrectomy Cataract Retina Categorization Lens | Vancouver |
| Farrell, Christian | Dr. Johann Brink | Psychotropic prescribing practices and prevalence of antipsychotic polypharmacy among inpatients in a forensic psychiatric hospital | Pharmacology, forensic psychiatry, polypharmacy, antipsychotics, prescribing practices | Greater Vancouver - Coquitlam |
| Feng, Tanya | Dr. Jon Stoessl | Decision-making in patients with Parkinson’s disease in the un-medicated and medicated state | Parkinson's disease, decision-making, dopamine, impulsivity | Vancouver |
| Fergusson, Nicholas | Dr. Donald Griesdale | IMPlementation of an Additional iCu Team (IMPACT): An historical cohort study | Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, ICU Care Team, Length of Stay, Historical Cohort Study | Vancouver |
| Fernandes, Avarna | Dr. Jennifer Coelho | Improvements in functional impairments in youth with eating disorders: Effectiveness of a pediatric day treatment program | child and adolescent psychiatry, eating disorders, functional impairments | Vancouver |
| Fong, Alison | Dr. Farzin Forooghian | Granzyme B and the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration | retinal degenerations, aging, immunohistochemistry, human eye, confocal microscopy | Vancouver |
| Fouladirad, Saman | Dr. Todd Woodward | The functional connectome: hallucinations | Schizophrenia; fMRI; Hallucinations; functional connectivity; cognitive neuroscience | Vancouver |
| Fung, Cecilia | Dr. Joannne Weinberg | Amygdala c-fos activation during social discrimination: effects of prenatal alcohol exposure and early-life adversity in male and female rats | prenatal alcohol exposure, early-life adversity, development, social behavior, amygdala | Vancouver |
| Gholamian, Tara | Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen | Estimating GFR and chronic kidney disease progression in children, using urinary metabolomic profiling | Metabolomics, pediatric, GFR estimation, biomarker | Vancouver |
| Guo, Ju Feng (Tony) | Dr. Delbert Dorscheid | Airway epithelial repair: cell subtypes or proliferation/differentiation dependent? | Airway epithelium, COPD, Smoking, Proliferation, Differentiation | Vancouver |
| Hamze, Hasan | Dr. Troy Grennan | Burden of HPV-associated cancers among people living with HIV in British Columbia | HIV, Human papillomavirus (HPV), Anal cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, clinical epidemiology | Vancouver |
| Hanjani, Khashayar (Khash) | Dr. Mandeep Tamber | Developing and validating a predictor tool for children undergoing hemispherectomy for medically intractable epilepsy: A multi-center, international retrospective cohort study | Epilepsy, Hemispherectomy, Seizures, Prediction Tool, Outcome | Vancouver |
| Hitchman, Nathan | Dr. Anibal Bohorquez | Time course of cardiac changes following acute spinal cord injury | SCI, echocardiography, acute, autonomic function | Vancouver |
| Jacob, Sanya | Dr. Arif Janjua | Effect of mepolizumab in severe bilateral nasal polyps | Clinical, Drug, Nasal Polyps, Otolaryngology | Vancouver |
| Jiang, Andy | Dr. Roy Purssell | One-year mortality of patients treated in emergency departments for non-fatal opioid overdoses | Opioid, Overdose, Fentanyl, Naloxone, Emergency | Vancouver |
| Jiang, Xin Rong (Jessica) | Dr. Alasdair Barr | Compared effectiveness of methadone vs suboxone in the Downtown Eastside population | Addiction, Treatment, Marginalized, Population, Psychosis | Vancouver |
| Johnston, Jake | Dr. Jacqueline Quandt | Investigating the role of aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator-2 (ARNT2) in oligodendrocyte myelination | myelination, multiple sclerosis, oligodendrocyte, differentiation, neuroprotection | Vancouver |
| Khehra, Kuljinder (Keesha) | Dr. Christopher Nguan | Clinical survey of patient activity post-operation for renal transplant donors and recipients | kidney transplantation, urology, clinical survey, prospective study | Vancouver |
| Khondoker, Chadni | Dr. Melanie Murray | Assessing contraceptive choices in HIV positive and negative women in the CARMA cohort | HIV, Women, Contraceptive, Choice, Antiretrovirals | Vancouver |
| Kiani, Ghazaleh (Ghazal) | Dr. Karen Goddard | Late effects in adult survivors of childhood lymphoma: overall burden and proportion detected at recall | Late morbidity after cancer treatment; Patient Screening; Survivorship care | Vancouver |
| Kim, Daniel | Dr. Doris Doudet | Evaluation of native alpha-synuclein in the gut of a novel rodent model of Parkinson's Disease | Parkinson disease, alpha synuclein, pathology, GI tract, animal model | Vancouver |
| Kong, Melissa | Dr. Helen Nadel | The impact of optimized post-contrast enhanced PET/CT on diagnostic accuracy, staging, and follow-up of children with cancer | pediatrics, cancer, staging, response assessment, PET/CT | Vancouver |
| Kramer, Adam | Dr. Faisal Khosa | Evaluation of the utility and diagnostic accuracy of functional cardiac CT in an emergency setting | Functional cardiac CT, Coronary artery disease | Vancouver |
| Lee, Joshua | Dr. Quynh Doan | The incidence of suicide completion among patients seeking mental health care at a pediatric emergency department: a retrospective cohort study | Suicide, pediatric emergency, child and adolescent psychiatry, mental health | Vancouver |
| Lee, Kuo Hsuan (Kevin) | Dr. James D. Johnson | Targeting the endocytosis machinery of insulin receptor to improve insulin signaling in insulin-resistant muscle cells | Insulin receptor, clathrin-mediated endocytosis, insulin resistance, Akt signaling, CRISPR knock-out | Vancouver |
| Lee, Michelle Ying Ya | Dr. Francis Lynn | Comparing the single-cell transcriptomic changes in human and mouse pancreatic endocrine cells in response to glucose stimulation and calcium signaling | scRNAseq, islets, diabetes, glucose-stimulated insulin secretion, calcium-induced insulin secretion | Vancouver |
| Leong, Jeffrey | Dr. Stephan van Eeden | The use of wearable devices to manage subjects with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and prevent exacerbations | COPD, Exacerbations of COPD, Wearable devices, Vital signs, Quality of life | Vancouver |
| Liang, Jia Ming (Calvin) | Dr. M-J Milloy | Patterns of non-injection drug use and HIV treatment patterns among marginalized people living with HIV in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside | Drug use, HIV, Epidemiology, Marginalized people, Downtown Eastside | Vancouver |
| Lim, Ah Ryung (Chloe) | Dr. Rajiv N. Reebye | When are blood vessels “ready to rupture”? Cerebrovascular health following spinal cord injury | spinal cord injury, Autonomic dysreflexia, cardiovascular control, cerebrovascular health, cognitive dysfunction | Vancouver |
| Lin, Yun-En (Rebecca) | Dr. Elodie Portales-Casamar | Using text analysis to identify suicidality in youth | Text Mining, Machine Learning, Suicidal Crisis, Adolescent Mental Health, Prediction | Vancouver |
| Ling, Michelle | Dr. Andrew Thamboo | The 3-axis theory: evaluating the connection between the sinuses, lungs, and gi tract | Sinuses, Lungs, GI Tract, Otolaryngology, Evidence-based review, Cross-sectional study | Vancouver |
| Liu, Claire | Dr. Elaine McKevitt | Risk of malignancy in atypical lobular hyperplasia, lobular carcinoma in situ and flat epithelial atypia of the breast | breast cancer, atypical lobular hyperplasia (ALH), lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), flat epithelial atypia (FEA), core needle biopsy | Vancouver |
| Lo, Cody | Dr. Bruce Carleton | Examination of the role of WFS1 in cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in pediatric cancer patients | Cancer, pediatrics, adverse drug events, genomics, ototoxicity | Vancouver |
| Maazi, Mahan | Dr. Janel Kopp | GABA administration induces duct-to-alpha-to-beta-cell transdifferentiation in mice | Diabetes, GABA, Pancreas Regeneration, Quantification | Vancouver |
| Madsen, Matthew | Dr. Miriam Spering | Developing a portable dynamic vision test for the aging population | vision, eye movements, low vision, visual rehabilitation, handheld technology | Vancouver |
| Mah, Regan | Dr. Ted Steiner | Analysis of immunologic risk factors for recurrence of C. difficile infection | Quality Care, Immunology, C. Difficile, Predictive Marker, Cost-Effective | Vancouver |
| Mangalji, Azzra | Dr. Kendall Ho | ED App: a patient oriented app to support their emergency department journey | Health App, patient centred, emergency department, continuity of care, patient journey | Vancouver |
| Martin, Emma | Dr. Cheryl Wellington | The effects of ApoE isoforms on the recruitment of monocytes towards cerebrovascular endothelial cells | Apolipoprotein E, Monocyte, Beta-Amyloid, Alzheimer's Disease, Inflammation | Vancouver |
| Marwaha, Arshdeep | Dr. Andrei Krassioukov | Neuronal plasticity of autonomic ganglia following a high-thoracic spinal cord injury | spinal cord injury, cardiovascular and urogenital dysfunction, autonomic neuronal morphology | Vancouver |
| McCarthy, Stephen | Dr. Mark Hull | Carriage rates of asymptomatic group A streptococcus in men who have sex with men in downtown Vancouver | invasive Group A Streptococcus, MSM, pre-exposure prophylaxis, chart review, bacterial carriage | Vancouver |
| McGuire, Katherine | Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose | Exercise training or complex mental and social activities to promote cognition in adults with chronic stroke | exercise, cognitive activities, cognitive function, stroke, randomized controlled trial | Vancouver |
| McKeown, Monica | Dr. Linda Huh | Telehealth in pediatric neurology: efficiency and barriers | telehealth, pediatric neurology, barriers, efficiency | Vancouver |
| Miao, Mo | Dr. Douglas Allan | Identifying gene regulatory networks controlled by BMP-signaling in Drosophila and mammalian genomes | Chondrogenesis, transcriptional regulation, development | Vancouver |
| Minielly, Nicole | Dr. Neil Cashman | Unravelling the neurotoxic soluble amyloid beta aggregates in Alzheimer’s Disease: characterization of synthetic and naturally-occurring amyloid beta oligomers using size exclusion chromatography and oligomer-specific antibodies | Alzheimer's Disease, Alpha beta Oligomers, Antibodies, Size Exclusion Chromatography | Vancouver |
| Monaghan, Alexander | Dr. Chris Baliski | Impact of breast density on reoperation rates following breast conserving surgery | Breast density, Reoperation, Patient outcomes, Quality improvement, Patient-centered care | Kelowna |
| MousaDoust, Dorsa | Dr. Edwin Moore | Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling: the dynamic dyad | heart, excitation-contraction coupling, junctophilin, electron microscopy, transgenics | Vancouver |
| Murphy, Paige | Dr. Sheona Mitchell-Foster | Decreasing barriers to engaging in colposcopy for women living in northern British Columbia through mobile technology | Cervical Cancer Screening, Technology, Anxiety, Knowledge | Prince George |
| Ng, Nicole | Dr. Paul Yong | Endometriosis and negative perception of the medical profession | Endometriosis, pelvic pain, quality-of-life, patient-centred research, physician-patient relationship | Vancouver |
| Orach, Juma | Dr. Chris Carlsten | Investigation of lung and systemic inflammation in asthma and COPD patients exposed to traffic-related air pollution | inflammation, chronic respiratory diseases, air pollution, randomized clinical study, respiratory cells | Vancouver |
| Ranchal, Sanya | Dr. Soren Gantt | Infectivity of Epstein-Barr virus shed in breast milk | Epstein-Barr Virus; Breast Milk; Human oral mucosa; Three-dimensional tissue culture system | Vancouver |
| Reid, Tobi | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother | New mothers’ thoughts of harm: Prevalence and relation to OCD and child harm | Postpartum harm thoughts, obsessive compulsive disorder, child abuse | Victoria |
| Rekhi, Gursimran | Dr. Sonia Singh | Improving the patient journey after vertebral fracture | osteoporosis, qualitative research, patient experience,disability, | Greater Vancouver - White Rock |
| Riahi, Aryan | Dr. Kirk Schultz | Characterization of donor IFNgamma producing Th1 cell suppression of chronic graft versus host disease in blood and marrow transplantation | Th1 cell subpopulations, cGvHD, Pediatrics, BMT, immune tolerance | Vancouver |
| Rodin, Isaac | Dr. Kevan Jacobson | Evaluating the efficacy of anti-TNF therapy in the pediatric IBD population | Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Health Utilization, Anti-TNF inhibitors, Pharmacoepidemiology, Drug Efficacy | Vancouver |
| Rokui, Sorush | Dr. Sally Hynes | Heads or tails: what is the best split thickness skin graft donor site? | Burns; split-thickness skin graft; autologous graft; donor site | Vancouver |
| Ruiz-Romero, Ian | Dr. Stacy Elliott | Motherhood after spinal cord injury: The impact of autonomic dysfunction on pregnancy and postpartum care | Spinal cord injury, Pregnancy, Lactation, Breastfeeding, Autonomic Dysreflexia | International - Sweden |
| Sagorin, Zach | Dr. Renelle Myers | Prospective evaluation of selection criteria for lung cancer screening with low-dose thoracic computed tomography and standardized system for nodule management – an international study | lung cancer, screening, prospective, smoking cessation | Vancouver |
| Schmidt, Zoe | Dr. Rajavel Elango | Arginine dosing for the management of pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy | pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy, inborn errors of metabolism, lysine, arginine, supplementation | Vancouver |
| Sergeev, Valentine | Dr. Bradley Quon | Cystic fibrosis and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator modulators: a real-world study | Cystic Fibrosis; modulators; ivacaftor; lumacaftor; CFTR | Vancouver |
| Shahin, Yousef | Dr. Deborah Giaschi | The effect of upper and lower visual hemifields on global motion direction discrimination: a developmental study | visual hemifield, global motion perception, discrimination, visual development | Vancouver |
| Shu, Hattie | Dr. Maureen Ashe | Exploration of hospital staff’s facilitators and barriers to patient mobility in the hospital setting | Sedentary Behaviour, Recovery, Interpretive Description, Hospital Wards, Older Adults | Vancouver |
| Sidhu, Hasrit | Dr. Maja Segedi | Determining when endoscopic ultrasound changes management for patients with pancreatic cystic neoplasms | pancreas cysts endoscopic ultrasound cancer | Vancouver |
| Song, Han Cong (Wendy) | Dr. Fabio Rossi | Role of TGFb Activated Kinase 1 (TAK1) in fibro/adipocyte progenitor fate in case of muscular dystrophy | muscular dystrophy, stromal progenitors, regeneration, inflammation | Vancouver |
| Stubbs, Jacob | Dr. William Panenka | Longitudinal evaluation of neuroimaging and cognitive outcomes of marginally housed individuals who experience traumatic brain injury | traumatic brain injury, substance abuse, neuroimaging, marginal housing, cognition | Vancouver |
| Tang, Ka Kit Jacky | Dr. Simon Rabkin | Development and validation of a new approach to assessment of cardiac repolarization in patients with electronic cardiac pacemakers or bundle branch block | Cardiac Repolarization, QT Interval, Arrhythmia, Bundle Branch Block, Pacemaker | Vancouver |
| Uryumtsev, Yaroslav (Slava) | Dr. Denise Daley | Development of a computational pipeline for data processing and statistical analysis of targeted DNA methylation bisulfite sequencing protocol | DNA Methylation; Bisulfite Sequencing; Computational Pipeline; Data Processing; Statistical Power | Vancouver |
| Vafaei, Rod | Dr. Ging-Yuek Hsiung | Interleukin-6 and the potential role of atopy in Alzheimer's Disease | Alzheimer Disease, interleukin-6, biomarkers, atopy, risk factors | Vancouver |
| Vankayala, Lasya | Dr. Claire Sheldon | Mitochondrial physiology: focus on ocular cells | mitochondria, eye, respiration | Vancouver |
| Venalainen, Erik | Dr. Savvas Nicolaou | DECT bone removal application in detecting spinal trauma-associated epidural hematoma | Dual energy CT, DECT, bone removal, spinal injury, epidural hematoma | Vancouver |
| Waine, Michael | Dr. Shannon Kolind | Advancing MRI beyond anatomical assessment | MRI, myelin, advanced, techniques | Vancouver |
| Walia, Shikha | Dr. Ian Scott | Test enhanced learning: how much transfer occurs | Test enhanced learning, Recall enhanced learning, Transfer of learning concepts, Cognitive psychology, Undergraduate MD | Vancouver |
| Wang, Joy | Dr. Yuzhuo Wang | Development of MCT4-targeting small molecule inhibitors for management of advanced prostate cancer | castration resistant prostate cancer, lactic acid, MCT4, Small molecule inhibitor | Vancouver |
| Wei, Li (Jimmy) | Dr. Lucy Marzban | A pharmacological strategy to enhancing islet survival and yield for transplantation in diabetic patients | Diabetes, pancreas, islets, apoptosis, beta cells | Vancouver |
| Wohlleben, Mikayla | Dr. Osman Ipsiroglu | Self-injurious behaviours and sensitivity to psychotropic medications in children and adolescents: Chart review and qualitative interviews | Self-injurious behaviours; psychotropic medications; adverse drug reactions; iron deficiency; sleep problems | Vancouver |
| Xu, Yan Zhu (Gary) | Dr. Jane Lea | Comparison of hearing preservation between the CI512 and CI532 Cochlear Implants: A retrospective cohort study | sensorineural hearing loss , cochlear implants, otolaryngology | Vancouver |
| Yan, Ryan | Dr. Chantal Mayer | Evaluating maternal and fetal markers of adverse placental outcomes – a review of specialized clinical management and outcomes | Pre-eclampsia, IUGR, pregnancy risk, placental disease, clinical practice evaluation | Vancouver |
| Ye, Si Cong (Jeffery) | Dr. Christopher Fordyce | Association of routine blood chemistry values with in-hospital outcomes among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest | Cardiac Arrest, Prognostics, Blood Chemistry | Vancouver |
| Yefet, Leeor (Leo) | Dr. Cynthia Verchere | Evaluation of internal rotation and elbow function following the sup-ER protocol in children with birth related brachial plexus injuries | Birth related brachial plexus injuries, Splinting, Sup-ER protocol, Children, Elbow function | Vancouver |
| Yeo, Soo Ning Sarah | Dr. Paris-ann Ingledew | Testicular cancer internet information: an evaluation of the usage of internet resources by patients with testicular cancer and the quality of information available on the internet | testicular cancer, internet information, website, patient information, medical education | Vancouver |
| Yu, Chu Ming (Alec) | Dr. Erik Skarsgard | The medical device reprocessing department at BC Children's Hospital: a collaborative, evidence-based assessment of quality improvement opportunities | Reducing surgical equipment defects through optimizing reprocessing | Vancouver |
| Zakaria, Aya Zeid | Dr. Hélène Côté | Mitochondrial toxicity of combination antiretroviral therapy in primary human blood cells | HIV combination antiretroviral therapy, mitochondrial toxicity, mitochondrial health, mitochondrial DNA, apoptosis | Vancouver |
| Zhao, Jingxuan (Xuan) | Dr. Michael Brauer | Climate change and health impact: assessing the vulnerability of greater vancouver to extreme climate events | health impact, vulnerability, climate change, population, BC | Vancouver |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords | Project City/Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adamson, Simon | Dr. Stephanus F van Eeden, Department of Medicine | Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Impact of airway wall thickness | COPD, bronchiectasis, airways walls, inflammation, exacerbation | Vancouver |
| Alexander, Cara | Dr. Sarah Lucas, Department of Surgery | Potential relationship between coronary artery calcium and radiation induced cardiac toxicity in breast cancer survivors - a pilot study | Radiation Induced Cardiac Toxicity Coronary Artery Calcium | Kelowna |
| Amenyogbe, Andrew | Dr. Frederick Kozak, Department of Surgery | Measuring noise exposure of individual operating room personnel | occupational noise, noise-induced hearing loss, noise pollution, operating room, audiometry | Vancouver |
| Balce, Kristina | Dr. Daniel Goldowitz, Department of Medical Genetics | Maternal genotype and choline intervention in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder | FASD, alcohol, pregnancy, brain development, cell death, choline | Vancouver |
| Bao, Jing Ye (Carol) | Dr. Paul Yong, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | The impact of provoked vestibulodynia on severity of dyspareunia, sexual quality-of-life, functional quality-of-life, and other measures of pelvic pain in women with endometriosis | Endometriosis, dyspareunia, sexual quality of life, pelvic pain, provoked vestibulodynia | Vancouver |
| Bedi, Harjot (Harj) | Dr. Jugpal Arneja, Department of Surgery | Long-term outcomes of patients with unresectable arteriovenous malformations: a 25-year chart review | Arteriovenous malformations; retrospective chart review; long-term outcomes; complications | Vancouver |
| Berg, Marisa | Dr. Michael Humer, Department of Surgery | Characterizing the lung cancer surgical time to care in the Interior Health Thoracic Group for Quality Improvement | Lung Cancer, Thoracic Surgery, Health Equity, Surgical Wait Times | Kelowna |
| Braithwaite, Vivian | Dr. Patrick McDonald, Department of Surgery | Virtual reality as a pre-operative neurosurgical tool | Virtual Reality, Epilepsy, Tumor, Imaging, Neurosurgery | Vancouver |
| Brar, Paramveer | Dr. Mike Ertel, Department of Emergency Medicine | Canadian CT scan head rules >65 years old | CT-scan, Canadian CT head rules, age>65, Minor head injury, | Kelowna |
| Cameron, Brianna | Dr. Roxana Geoffrion, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Risk factors for pelvic floor muscle spasm after urogynecologic procedures | Chronic pelvic pain, pelvic floor physiotherapy, urogynecology | Vancouver |
| Chan, Forson | Dr. Eduardo Navajas, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Adaptive Optics Optical Coherence Tomography of photoreceptors as a prognostic biomarker for Diabetic Retinopathy | diabetes, diabetic macular edema, adaptive optics, cone mosaic, visual acuity, anti-VEGF | Vancouver |
| Chao, Chien | Dr. Connie Eaves, Department of Medical Genetics | Functional analysis of new transcriptional regulators of normal human breast cell properties | Normal human breast cells, Stem cells, Transcription factors, Regulation of gene expression, Progenitor assays | Vancouver |
| Cheema, Harleen | Dr. Cheryl Wellington, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Alterations to the anti-inflammatory function of high-density lipoprotein in Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes, and with exercise | Alzheimer's, Diabetes, High-density lipoprotein, Clinical, Amyloid beta treatment | Vancouver |
| Chehroudi, Camron | Dr. Bruce Verchere , Department of Surgery | Post-translational modification of pancreatic beta cell hormones in diabetes | Diabetes, proinsulin, islet amyloid polypeptide, prohormone processing, pancreatic islet, post-translational modification | Vancouver |
| Cheng, Tsz Man Phoebe | Dr. Philippa Hawley, Department of Medicine | A qualitative study comparing cut matrix fentanyl patches with intact patches for pain relief in cancer patients | pain and symptom management; palliative medicine; cancer pain; chronic pain; qualitative research | Vancouver |
| Ching, Geoffrey | Dr. Doris Doudet, Department of Medicine | Inflammation and alpha-synuclein in the gut of a novel rodent model of Parkinson’s disease | Inflammation, Synuclein, Parkinsonian, Animal Model | Vancouver |
| Chiu, Melissa | Dr. Joanne Weinberg, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Effectiveness of an anti-inflammatory intervention in dampening the neuroinflammation associated with prenatal alcohol exposure | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), development, inflammation, brain, hippocampus, | Vancouver |
| Cho, Raymond | Dr. Liam Brunham, Department of Medicine | Identification of genetic risk factors, LDL-C and Lipoprotein (a), for extremely premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease | premature atherosclerosis cardiovascular genetic risk factor | Vancouver |
| Choi, Hye Ji (Sally) | Dr. Neeraj Mehra, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | A randomized control trial of non-dominant hand training exercises to enhance laparoscopic skill | Non-dominant hand, laparoscopy, medical education | Vancouver |
| Chornenka, Karina | Dr. Catherine Paramonoff, Department of Physical Therapy | Investigating autonomic dysfunction and cerebrovascular changes that occur as a result of spinal cord injury | Spinal cord injury, cardiovascular system, cerbrovasculature, autonomic dysreflexia, exercise | Vancouver |
| Christison, Kathleen | Dr. Viet Vu, Department of Medicine | Systematic review and meta-analysis according to the PRISMA criteria to compare one type of catheter design versus another, one type of catheter material versus another, aseptic catheterization technique versus clean technique, single-use (sterile) catheters versus multiple-use (clean) catheters, self-catheterization versus catheterization by others and any other strategies designed to reduce UTI and cost effectiveness in adults and children using intermittent catheterization for bladder emptying | Incidence; UTI; Long-term; Intermittent-catheterization; Technique | Vancouver |
| Dahiya, Monica | Dr. Farzin Forooghian, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Role of the ARMS2 genetic risk allele in drusen formation in early AMD | ophthalmology, retina, genetics, risk alleles, expression | Vancouver |
| Dorling, Marisa | Dr. Amina Zoubeidi, Department of Urologic Sciences | The maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase (MELK) as a therapeutic target in castration-resistant prostate cancer | prostate cancer, cancer stem cells, androgen receptor, enzalutamide, therapeutic resistance | Vancouver |
| Dvorak, Jennifer | Dr. Robert Stenstrom, Department of Emergency Medicine | A randomized control trial of C-reactive protein measurement on ordering of blood cultures in emergency department patients with sepsis | sepsis, CRP, blood cultures, emergency department patients | Vancouver |
| Edeer, Nazde | Dr. Timothy Kieffer, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Reversing diabetes using an adeno-associated virus based gene therapy | diabetes, gene-therapy, adeno-associated virus | Vancouver |
| Fouladirad, Saman | Dr. Todd Woodward, Department of Psychiatry | The functional connectome: hallucinations | Schizophrenia; fMRI; Hallucinations; functional connectivity; cognitive neuroscience\n | Vancouver |
| Freeman, Kyla | Dr. Jeremy Penner, Department of Family Practice | A train-the-trainer approach to mental health community education: Assessing community mental health knowledge resulting from information disseminated by trained community health workers in Kisumu, Kenya | Mental Health, Continuous Community Education, Rural & Global Health, Integrative Care, Collaboration | Kisumu, Kenya |
| Gao, Tina | Dr. Videsh Kapoor, Department of Family Practice | Diva Cup vs. Afripad: Finding sustainable solutions in menstrual hygiene management in Spiti Valley, India | Menstrual Hygiene, Women's Health, Global, Sustainability, Qualitative | International - India |
| Geddes, Alexa | Dr. Quynh Doan, Department of Pediatrics | Evaluation of MyHEARTSMAP, a self-reporting youth mental health assessment and management tool | Mental health, Screening tool, Measure evaluation, Pediatrics, Emergency medicine | Vancouver |
| Ghadiry-Tavi, Rouzbeh | Dr. Kevin Harris, Department of Pediatrics | Association between objectively measured physical activity and heart function in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) | congenital heart disease, physical activity, pediatrics, heart function, echocardiography | Vancouver |
| Ghaseminejad Tafreshi , Amirfarhad (Farhad) | Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez , Department of Psychiatry | Structural changes in the human hippocampus in patients with major depressive disorder treated with transcranial magnetic stimulation | Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Hippocampus, Structural Analysis | Vancouver |
| Greening, Kendall | Dr. Wilfred Jefferies, Department of Medical Genetics | Optimizing growth of ILC2 cells in vitro | Type 2 innate lymphocyte; growth medium; primary cell; tissue culture; flow cytometry | Vancouver |
| Guo, Michael | Dr. Mahyar Etminan, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Risk of intraocular hemmorhage with new oral anticoagulants: A case-control study | New oral anticoagulants, intraocular hemorrhage, epidemiologic study. | Vancouver |
| Gupta, Akash | Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff, Department of Surgery | Determining if a novel model of demyelination-induced axon damage can be used to identify mechanisms of axon degeneration in multiple sclerosis | Multiple sclerosis, axon degeneration, cerebellar slice culture, myelin, Cre-loxP | Vancouver |
| Gusti, Vionarica | Dr. Chantal Leger, Department of Medicine | Hematologic malignancies and the travel burden of treatment | Hematologic malignancies. Outpatient treatment. Travel distance. Travel burden of treatment. Sustainable high-quality health care delivery. | Vancouver |
| Hamidizadeh, Ramin | Dr. York Hsiang, Department of Surgery | Perioperative evaluation of peripheral vascular flow using bedside toe pressure waveform | Ankle-brachial index (ABI), Vascular surgery, Toe pressure, Patency, Angioplasty | Vancouver |
| Hosseini, Sayed Farshad | Dr. Shannon Jackson, Department of Medicine | A review of surgical complications, factor utilization and functional outcomes among patients with hemophilia in BC and the Yukon who have undergone orthopedic surgery | Hemophilia, Surgical, factor, outcome, orthopedic | Vancouver |
| Hu, Xun Yang (Leo) | Dr. Bradley Quon, Department of Medicine | Blood biomarkers and clinical predictors of accelerated bone loss in adults with cystic fibrosis | Cystic Fibrosis, Bone Mineral Density, Pulmonary Exacerbations, Biomarkers | Vancouver |
| Huang, Wei (Vivian) | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | The role of lipid accumulation in sex differences in lifespan | Lipids, Drosophila, Lifespan, Metabolism, Sex-differences | Vancouver |
| Kalra, Gunisha | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother, Department of Psychiatry | Childbirth Fear Study: the validity of the Childbirth Fear Questionnaire as a screening tool for specific phobia of childbirth | Childbrith fear, Measure development, Mental health diagnosis, Birth, Maternal Anxiety | Vancouver |
| Kim, Jowon (Laura) | Dr. Martin McKeown , Department of Medicine | Medication compliance in Parkinson's disease patients using sensor-embedded smart pillboxes | Parkinson’s disease, medication compliance, L-dopa, disease education | Vancouver |
| Kluftinger, Emily | Dr. Sara Taylor, Department of Medicine | Feasibility of implementing a web-based patient follow-up platform into the BC Cancer Agency for improving quality of life care and research | Quality of Life, Cancer, Online Platform, Health Informatics, Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) | Kelowna |
| Kore, Stephanie | Dr. Lorienne Jenstad, Department of Audiology & Speech Sciences | Scoping review of the physician’s role in adults’ access to hearing health services | Audiology, physicians, hearing health, scoping review, adult | Vancouver |
| Kugathasan, Laveniya | Dr. Deborah Giaschi, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Validation of the quick contrast sensitivity test in children and adults with amblyopia | amblyopia; visual development; visual assessment; contrast sensitivity | Vancouver |
| Lam, Sze Tung (Joyce) | Dr. Ian Scott, Department of Family Practice | Optimizing the pedagogical benefits of testing in medicine | Test-enhanced learning, undergraduate MD, tranfer of concepts, teaching and learning | Vancouver |
| Leduc-Robert, Genevieve | Dr. Regina Renner, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Mifepristone implementation research in Canada | health policy research, medical abortion, mifepristone, facilitators, barriers | Vancouver |
| Lee, Carolyn | Dr. Jacqueline Saw, Department of Medicine | Identifying the significance of the three major types of spontaneous coronary artery dissection | SCAD, cardiology, dissection, longitudinal, clinical | Vancouver |
| Lee, David | Dr. Derry Dance, Department of Medicine | Evaluation of a post-concussion stratification model toward improved patient recovery | Post- concussion syndrome, concussion, risk factors, clinical prediction tool, quality improvement | Vancouver |
| Lee, Woo Seok | Dr. Denise Daley , Department of Medicine | Genome wide association study between copy number variations and peanut allergy | peanut allergy, food allergy, genome-wide association study, genetics, copy number variations | Vancouver |
| Leong, Sarah | Dr. Stacy Elliott, Department of Psychiatry | Motherhood after spinal cord injury: lactation, breastfeeding, and autonomic dysreflexia | Autonomic dysreflexia, breastfeeding, spinal cord injury, quality of life, motherhood | Vancouver |
| Leung, Wayne | Dr. Osman Ipsiroglu, Department of Pediatrics | Iron deficiency and sensitivity to psychotropic medications in children and adolescents: literature review and qualitative interviews | Psychotropic medications, iron-deficiency, adverse drug reactions, mental health | Vancouver |
| Li, Cheng (Kim) | Dr. Titus Wong, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Using scent detection dogs to identify environmental reservoirs of Clostridium difficile in acute care facilities | Clostridium difficile, Canine, Olfactory sensitivity, | Vancouver |
| Lin, Xi (Nancy) | Dr. Eric Jan, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Characterization of RNA modifying enzymes during ER stress in pancreatic beta-cells?? | ER stress, diabetes, RNA, translation, pancreas | Vancouver |
| Lo, Joanna | Dr. Aziz Ghahary, Department of Surgery | Combining liquid skin substitute with autologous mesh grafts accelerates wound healing andrehabilitation of large burn injuries | Hydrogel, MeshFill, Meshed Grafts, Wound healing, Burn injuries, Full-thickness wounds | Vancouver |
| Mann, Gurkiran Kaur (Kiran) | Dr. Miriam Spering, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Visual and ocular motor dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease | vision, eye movements, cerebral small vessel disease, stroke, neuroimaging | Vancouver |
| Marleau, Samuel | Dr. Jacqueline Trudeau, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | A prospective audit of 2-unit red blood cell transfusions at Vancouver General Hospital | Blood transfusions, Choosing Wisely Canada, audit, quality improvement, patient safety | Vancouver |
| McKenzie, Jordan | Dr. Angela Lin, Department of Surgery | Investigating computed tomography radiomic-based features for predicting radiation pneumonitis development | Radiomics, Lung Cancer, Pneumonitis, Radiation, Computed Tomography (CT) | Kelowna |
| Miller, Cameron | Dr. Delbert Dorscheid, Department of Medicine | Investigating a novel asthma phenotype of antigen independent IgE-mediated inflammation in the airway epithelium | Asthma, IgE, Fc receptors, inflammation, airway epithelium | Vancouver |
| Moor-Smith, Maxwell | Dr. Marion Tipple, Department of Pediatrics | Creatively addressing health education in Spiti Valley, India | Health Education\nChildren\nSustainable\nGlobal Health\nQualitative\n | International - India |
| Narayan, Shawna | Dr. Nitasha Puri, Department of Family Practice | Understanding alcohol use disorder among South Asians in Surrey, BC: A preliminary qualitative study | alcohol use disorder, south asian, qualitative, surrey | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Ng, Benjamin | Dr. Roy Purssell, Department of Emergency Medicine | Prevalence of adverse outcomes of opioid overdoses in emergency departments | Opioid, Fentanyl, Overdose, Adverse Effects, Emergency | Vancouver |
| Ng, Bryan | Dr. Helen Tremlett, Department of Medicine | Antidepressant use during the multiple sclerosis prodrome | Multiple Sclerosis, antidepressants, cohort, population-based data, prodromal | Vancouver |
| Nguyen, Kevin | Dr. Matthew Bennett, Department of Medicine | ICD lead location and all-cause mortality | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator lead, heart, location, mortality | Vancouver |
| Niu, Bonnie | Dr. Dirk Lange, Department of Urologic Sciences | Studying the role of urine composition on infection stone formation | Urine composition, infection stone formation | Vancouver |
| Norman, Stephanie | Dr. Daniel Rapoport, Department of Urologic Sciences | Botox treatment for the prevention of bladder-related autonomic dysreflexia following spinal cord injury | Spinal cord injury, urinary bladder, autonomic dysreflexia, Botox intradetrusor injections, urodynamics | Vancouver |
| Nouraei, Hirmand | Dr. Nathaniel Hawkins, Department of Medicine | Assessment of optimal heart rate correction for QT interval from cardiac electrophysiology studies | QT hysteresis, QT/RR relationship, QT interval correction, electrophysiology, heart rate | Vancouver |
| Oliveira, Caio | Dr. Adrian Bak, Department of Medicine | Investigation of cecal intubation rates and pain levels between water exchange and air insufflation flexible sigmoidoscopy: A randomised controlled trial | Water exchange unsedated extended flexible sigmoidoscopy | Kelowna |
| Pan, Xiayi (Kathy) | Dr. May Sanaee, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Surgical-site infection in vaginal surgery: A retrospective cohort study | Infection prevention, vaginal surgery, povidone-iodine | Vancouver |
| Rebchuk, Alexander | Dr. Thalia Field, Department of Medicine | Validation of a self-administered computer based test for evaluating cognitive impairment in young stroke patients | Stroke, Young, Validation, Cognition, Automation | Vancouver |
| Roda, Caleb | Dr. Clare Beasley, Department of Psychiatry | Antipsychotics and the immune system | schizophrenia, antipsychotic, immune, inflammation | Vancouver |
| Sable, Carly | Dr. Rachel Murphy, Department of Population & Public Health | Assessment of dietary intake in relation to longevity and healthy aging | nutrition, healthy aging, public health, older adults, diet assessment | Vancouver |
| Sandhu, Harvir | Dr. Tricia Tang, Department of Medicine | Project Bhangra: Drawing on cultural traditions to build lifelong exercise habits among South Asian children ages 8-12 at risk for developing type 2 diabetes | intervention, physical activity, South Asian, Children, Diabetes | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Schuck, Nathan | Dr. Lydia Chen, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | An investigation of retinal nerve fiber layer loss following surgery involving a retinal membrane peel | macular hole, optical coherence tomography angiography, vitreoretinal surgery, epiretinal membrane, ischemia | Vancouver |
| Shamatutu, Chris | Dr. Ross Davidson, Department of Medicine | Effects of exercise interventions on cardiovascular health of individuals with chronic spinal cord injury | Cardiovascular Health Outcomes Improvements Education | Vancouver |
| Shao, Michael | Dr. Jonathon Leipsic, Department of Radiology | Comprehensive exploration of plaque progression and its impact on clinical outcomes: Multi-center serial coronary computed tomography angiography study | Atherosclerosis; Coronary Artery Disease; Computed Tomographic Angiography; Natural History; Risk Stratification | Vancouver |
| Shih, James | Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Exploring patient-perceived barriers to participating in mental health research involving biological specimens | mental illness, Biobank, barriers, focus group | Vancouver |
| Sidhu, Ravinder | Dr. Elaine McKevitt, Department of Surgery | Risk of malignancy with papillary neoplasms of the breast | breast cancer, papillary neoplasm, core needle biopsy, high risk breast lesion, diagnosis | Vancouver |
| Sidhu, Rawel | Dr. Ehud Ur, Department of Medicine | Impact of peer support on cardiovascular disease risk factors in South Asian Canadians: A cluster controlled trial | type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, South Asians | Vancouver |
| Singh, Harpreet | Dr. Roy Jackson, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | The impact of surgical wait times on medical management of uterine fibroids | Uterus, Fibroids, Surgical Intervention, Medical Management, Gynaecology | Greater Vancouver - White Rock |
| Singh, Tanjot | Dr. Christine Loock, Department of Pediatrics | Surgery and society | pediatric surgery, socio-economic status, vulnerable populations, improvement of care, childhood poverty | Vancouver |
| Spouge, Rebecca | Dr. Bruce Forster, Department of Radiology | Determining the educational value of a radiological anatomy visualization table in the medical student anatomy curriculum | anatomy, dissection, radiology, education | Vancouver |
| Spoyalo, Karina | Dr. Erika Henkelman, Department of Surgery | A needs assessment of online video cleft lip and palate educational resources for families | Parent education, cleft lip, cleft palate, YouTube, social media | Vancouver |
| Stewart, Craig | Dr. Catherine Pallen, Department of Pediatrics | The role of PTP in central nervous system remyelination | Multiple Sclerosis, pediatric leukodystrophies, remyelination, oligodendrocyte, differentiation | Vancouver |
| Stewart, Jordan | Dr. Sophia Wong, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Accelerated diagnostic protocol for rapid rule-out of acute myocardial infarction in the emergency department | Acute myocardial infarction, accelerated diagnostic protocol, sensitive troponin assay, TIMI risk score | Vancouver |
| Thejoe, Maichael | Dr. Kishore Mulpuri, Department of Orthopaedics | Assessing the need for orthopaedic follow-up in the management of pediatric fractures: A retrospective review | pediatrics, orthopaedics, trauma, radiology, evidence-based-medicine | Vancouver |
| Thurston, Alyssa | Dr. Rosemin Kassam, Department of Population & Public Health | Factors influencing households' treatment-seeking practices related to childhood malaria: a qualitative study in rural Uganda | Global Health, child health, Africa, qualitative research, Malaria | Vancouver |
| Tikhonova, Julia | Dr. Tal Jarus, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy | A call to action: what do medical learners with disabilities need to optimize their learning? | Medical Learners, Disability, Accessibility, Accommodations, Equity | Vancouver |
| Tong, Jeffery | Dr. Jane Lea, Department of Surgery | Cross-sectional survey of hearing loss and ear disease in a Canadian First Nations community | hearing, ear, First Nations, access | Vancouver |
| Tsang, Vivian Wai-Lum | Dr. Kevin Eva, Department of Medicine | Optimizing the pedagogical benefits of testing in medicine | Test enhanced learning, undergraduate MD, tranfer of concepts, teaching and learning | Vancouver |
| Van Esch, Kristen | Dr. Stirling Bryan, Department of Population & Public Health | Better contraceptive choices for marginalized women: Immediate vs. interval insertion of intrauterine contraception after second trimester abortion | Clinical research, randomized controlled trial, second trimester abortion, intrauterine contraception, unintended pregnancy | Vancouver |
| van Pel, Derek Michael | Dr. Christian Naus, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Development of novel systems to model and prevent glioma invasion in 3D | 3D bioprinting; stem cells; brain cancer; human glioma; tissue culture; drug discovery; gap junctions | Vancouver |
| Wang, Lisa | Dr. Raymond Lam, Department of Psychiatry | Neurocognitive and clinical predictors of treatment response in major depressive disorder | depression, neurocognition, functional outcomes, biomarkers | Vancouver |
| Wang, Mannan | Dr. Jean-Paul Collet, Department of Pediatrics | Children with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD): Improving the operation of community-based physical activity programs to enhance child development and families resilience | Children with Neurodevelopmental disability, Activity Theory, Physical Activity, child development, family social networks | Greater Vancouver |
| Ward, Valerie | Dr. Shannon Freeman, Department of School of Nursing, University of Northern British Columbia | Exploring the role, place, feelings and experiences of hospice care workers in relation to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) | Hospice care, medical assistance in dying, physician-assisted suicide, experiences, end-of-life care | Prince George |
| Weng, Jian | Dr. Simon Pimstone, Department of Medicine | Study to Avoid Cardiovascular Events in British Columbia (SAVE BC) | Genomewide Linkage Premature Cardiovascular Disease | Vancouver |
| Williams, Alastair | Dr. Edward Conway, Department of Medicine | Evaluating the anti-inflammatory properties of the natural anticoagulant, thrombomodulin | inflammation, coagulation, endothelial, recombinant expression system, cell culture, thrombomodulin | Vancouver |
| Wong, Alexander | Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen, Department of Pediatrics | Pharmacometabolomics of tacrolimus in pediatric kidney transplantation | Adverse effect, transplant, immunosuppression, acute kidney injury | Vancouver |
| Wong, Cole | Dr. Brian Grunau, Department of Emergency Medicine | Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to opioid overdose: what is the benefit of intra-arrest naloxone? | cardiac arrest; opioid overdose; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; naloxone; resuscitation | Vancouver |
| Wong, Julie | Dr. Erik Skarsgard, Department of Surgery | Quality improvement in pediatric appendectomies | surgery, pediatric surgery, quality improvement, appendectomy, pediatric | Vancouver |
| Xiong, Anqi (Angie) | Dr. Karen Goddard, Department of Surgery | Recall of adult childhood cancer survivors: assessment of health quality related quality of life and distress | Childhood cancer, Late effects, Survivorship, Quality of life, Distress | Vancouver |
| Xu, Qinyuan (Alis) | Dr. Joanne Matsubara, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Using gene editing to understand Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) | Age-Related Macular Degeneration; CRISPR/Cas9 site directed mutagenesis; Inflammation; Complement factor H; Retinal pigment epithelial cells | Vancouver |
| Yang, Bohan Hans (Bo) | Dr. Brian Toyota, Department of Surgery | Low grade Gliomas, natural history and response to treatment | Gliomas, natural history, mutations, imaging, outcomes | Vancouver |
| Yang, Fan | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew, Department of Surgery | Glioblastoma multiforme (a high grade brain tumor) Internet information: an evaluation of the usage of internet resources by patients with glioblastoma multiforme and the quality of information available on the internet | Glioblastoma multiforme, brain tumor, patient information, internet resources, evaluation tool | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Yang, Lulu | Dr. Stephanie Fisher, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Evaluation of revised protocol for risk assessment, follow-up, and management of pregnancies of unknown location | Early pregnancy assessment. Pregnancy of unknown location. Evaluation. Reduced follow-up. | Vancouver |
| Ye, Vincent | Dr. Ryojo Akagami, Department of Surgery | Predicting shrinkage in sporadic Vestibular Schwannoma | Neurosurgery, Vestibular Schwannoma, Shrinkage, Natural history, conservative management | Vancouver |
| Yip, Ashley | Dr. Allen Hayashi, Department of Surgery | Does treatment with contralateral prophylactic mastectomy decrease rates of anxiety among breast cancer survivors? – a prospective cohort study | breast cancer, surgical oncology, contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, anxiety, fear of recurrence | Victoria |
| Young, Kendra | Dr. Andrew M.W. Penn, Department of Island Health | Translational research for the management of acute cerebrovascular syndrome (ACVS) in the Emergency Department: development of a biomarker and clinical decision support tool for rapid detection of mild stroke | acute cerebrovascular syndrome, TIA, clinical decision rule, vascular imaging, patient outcomes | Victoria |
| Young, Sympascho | Dr. Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, Department of Medicine | Association between genetic risk factors in small vessel ischemia and Alzheimer Disease | Alzheimer Disease; genetic risk factors; cohort study; cerebrovascular disease; dementia | Vancouver |
| Yuen, Yue (Kero) | Dr. Cyrus Boelman, Department of Pediatrics | Epilepsy genetics: from bench to bedside | pediatric, neurology, epilepsy, genetics, whole exome sequencing | Vancouver |
| Zhong, Ellia | Dr. Kasmintan (Intan) Schrader, Department of Medical Genetics | Characterization of clinical features associated with germline mutations identified through precision oncology | Hereditary Cancer; germline; cancer susceptibility; genotype-phenotype | Vancouver |
| Ziada, Adam | Dr. Hélène Côté, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Mitochondrial DNA somatic point mutations in adult-onset progressive external ophtalmoplegia | mtDNA mutations PEO muscle adult-onset | Vancouver |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords | Project City/Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander, Cara | Dr. Sarah Lucas, Department of Surgery | The impact of coronary artery calcium on radiation induced cardiac toxicity in breast cancer survivors - a pilot study | Radiotherapy, Cardiac Toxicity, Breast Cancer, Coronary Calcification, Coronary Artery Disease | Kelowna |
| Angeles, Arkhjamil (Archie) | Dr. Winson Cheung, Department of Medicine | The utility of regorafenib therapy in a population-based cohort study of patients with unresectable or metastatic gastric cancer | gastric cancer, metastasis, regorafenib, multi-kinase inhibitor, chemotherapy | Vancouver |
| Arshad, Omair | Dr. Helene Cote, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Characterizing the relative contribution of platelet-derived mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) on whole blood mtDNA content | platelets, mitochondrial DNA, whole blood, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, qPCR | Vancouver |
| Balce, Kristina | Dr. Candice Murray, Department of Psychiatry | Effects of low-dose versus normal-dose psychostimulants on attention and working memory in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | ADHD, psychostimulants, executive functions, dopamine, prefrontal cortex | Vancouver |
| Bauer, Lee | Dr. Paul Zehr, Department of Medicine | Efficacy of spasticity management | Spasticity, Stroke, Rehabilitation, Botulotoxin, passive movement, active movement | Victoria |
| Bolouri, Kiarash | Dr. Scott Alexander, Department of Physical Therapy | Tendon adaptation in response to exercise - is there a role of ANGPTL4? | exercise physiology, injury prevention, musculoskeletal, ANGPTL4, TGF-beta | Vancouver |
| Byrne, Glynis | Dr. Brian Bressler, Department of Medicine | Prevalence of anxiety and depression in patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease | Anxiety, depression, inflammatory bowel disease | Vancouver |
| Chan, Rayleigh | Dr. Cynthia Verchere, Department of Surgery | Outpatient sedated burn dressings at BC Children’s Hospital: a 10-year audit | Sedation, Burn, Dressing, Outpatient, Safety | Vancouver |
| Chaudhry, Ahsen | Dr. Orson Moritz, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Optimization of CRISPR/Cas9-based gene knockout procedures for Xenopus laevis | Genome manipulation, CRISPR/cas9, knockout, disease modeling, gene drive, retina | Vancouver |
| Cheng, ZiJin (jasmine) | Dr. Christopher Ryerson, Department of Medicine | Prevalence, severity, predictors, and impact of cough in scleroderma-associated interstitial lung disease | Interstitial lung disease, cough, scleroderma, quality of life | Vancouver |
| Ching, Ka Yee Joyce | Dr. Paul Yong, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Predictors of quality-of-life in women with endometriosis | endometriosis, pain, quality-of-life, pain catastrophizing, women's health | Vancouver |
| Choi, Jung-In | Dr. Robert Stenstrom, Department of Emergency Medicine | A randomized controlled trial of C-reactive protein measurement on ordering of blood cultures in emergency department patients with sepsis | Sepsis, biomarkers, C-reactive protein, blood cultures | Vancouver |
| Chong, Louise | Dr. Bradley Quon, Department of Medicine | The progression of hypoglycaemia to cystic fibrosis-related diabetes | Cystic fibrosis, diabetes, hypoglycaemia, co-morbidity, lung disease | Vancouver |
| Cox, Megan | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother, Department of Psychiatry | Screening for the specific phobia, fear of childbirth, using the Childbirth Fear Questionnaire | Childbirth fear / Measure development / Mental health diagnosis / Birth / Maternal anxiety | Victoria |
| Das, Samarpita (Shyma) | Dr. Basil Nasir, Department of Surgery | Practice patterns of post-operative chest tube management among canadian thoracic surgeons | Chest tube, lung cancer, population research, epidemiology, thoracic surgery, respiratory medicine | Vancouver |
| Dhir, Arün | Dr. William Honer, Department of Psychiatry | The hotel project in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: co-occurring psychosis, addiction and viral infection | Addiction, Psychiatry, Neurology, Homelessness, Infection | Vancouver |
| Dietz, Connor | Dr. Jason Barton, Department of Medicine | Demystifying aphantasia: understanding a world without visual imagery | Imagery, blindness, neuroimaging, visual perception | Vancouver |
| Dou, Rui Qi (Carol) | Dr. John Esdaile, Department of Medicine | Improving physical activity using an online monitoring tool: a new model of care for knee osteoarthritis | osteoarthritis; physical activity; FitBit; lifestyle intervention; theory of planned behavior | Greater Vancouver - Richmond |
| Drewbrook, Connie | Dr. John Yee, Department of Surgery | Predictors of air leak after pulmonary surgery: external validation of a pre-operative risk assessment tool | Air leak, population research, epidemiology, thoracic surgery, respiratory medicine | Vancouver |
| Edeer, Nazde | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Regulation of sex differences in lipid metabolism by ATGL lipase brummer | Sex differences, lipid metabolism, starvation survival, ATGL lipase, Drosophila | Vancouver |
| Emmott, Anthony | Dr. Ben Chew, Department of Urologic Sciences | Bacterial analysis of kidney stones removed by percutaneous nephrolithotomy | kidney stone formation, bacteria, percutaneous nephrolithotomy | Vancouver |
| Gill, Jasleen | Dr. Sonia Singh, Department of Family Practice | Assessing bone health in Canadians of South Asian ethnicity | South Asians, osteoporosis, bone health, fracture, bone mineral density | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Gohari, Amir | Dr. Louis Lefebvre, Department of Medical Genetics | Analysis of imprinted regulation at the mouse Cpa4 gene | Silver-Russell Syndrome, growth disorder, genomic imprinting, CPA4 gene, mouse model | Vancouver |
| Golby, Riley | Dr. Adam Lund, Department of Emergency Medicine | Bridging the silos: teaching emergency management planning at mass gathering events through interactive tabletop exercises | Mass Gathering Medicine; Mass Gathering Health; Sports Medicine; Medical Education; Emergency Management | Greater Vancouver |
| Gong, Bo | Dr. Savvas Nicolaou, Department of Radiology | Dual Energy Computed Tomography (DECT) in gout, an international collaborative study | Dual energy computed tomography (DECT), Gout, Diagnosis, Consensus, Diagnostic Radiology | Vancouver |
| Gunawan, Evelyn | Dr. Christopher Carlsten, Department of Medicine | Asthma and environmental pollutants: assessing the impact of dibutyl phthalate on the structure and function of human airway | environmental pollutants, phthalates, asthma, lung, immunology | Vancouver |
| Guy, Andrew | Dr. Hussein Kanji, Department of Medicine | Development and implementation of a pre-hospital ultrasound curriculum for BC ambulance service critical care paramedics | ultrasound, education, emergency medical services, prehospital, free open access medical education | Vancouver |
| Hammond, Keely | Dr. Kennard Tan , Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | The Impact of CPOE and Electronic Documentation – a Time and Motion (ICED-TM) Study | Health informatics, efficiency, electronic health record, time-motion study, workflow analysis | Victoria |
| Heron, Matthew | Dr. Maryse Larouche, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | DEpression and Anxiety RElated to Surgical Treatment (DEAREST) | Mental health, depression, anxiety, surgical outcomes | Vancouver |
| Hoffer, Alexander (Alex) | Dr. Darius Viskontas, Department of Orthopaedics | Effect of patients' expectations on treatment outcomes in a surgical randomized controlled trial with a placebo arm | Treatment expectations, Surgery, RCT, Placebo, Pain, Function | International - UK |
| Hosseini, Mahshid | Dr. Liu-Ambrose Teresa , Department of Physical Therapy | Sleep and cognition in older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment | Sleep, Cognitive Function, Older Adults, Actigraphy | Vancouver |
| Hu, Vivien | Dr. Donald Griesdale , Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Cerebral Oximetry to assess CErebral autoregulation in Hypoxemic Ischemic Brain Injury (COnCEpT – HIBI) | Cardiac Arrest, Cerebral Autoregulation, Cerebral Oximetry, Hypoxemic Ischemic Brain Injury, Neurocritical Care | Vancouver |
| Jackson, Emma | Dr. Matthew Brendan Munn, Department of Emergency Medicine | Do non-medical personnel at outdoor music events feel they are adequately prepared to identify and manage those in need of medical care? | Mass Gathering, First Aid, Triage, Harm Reduction, Medical Care | Interior BC - Salmo |
| Jew, Michael | Dr. Vinay Dhingra, Department of Medicine | Assessing adequacy of once daily dalteparin for vte prophylaxis in critically ill adult patients | VTE prophylaxis, ICU, dalteparin, anti-Xa, critically ill | Vancouver |
| Jiang, Andy | Dr. Ian Pike, Department of Pediatrics | The social and economic burden of poisonings in British Columbia | Poisonings, Epidemiology, Drug Overdoses, Injury Prevention, Health Economics, Population Health | Vancouver |
| Johar, Jasper | Dr. Sam Wiseman, Department of Surgery | Influence of age on clinicopathological prognosticators in differentiated thyroid cancer | thyroid cancer, age, prognosis, papillary thyroid carcinoma, papillary thyroid microcarcinoma | Vancouver |
| Kamal, Sepehr | Dr. James D. Johnson, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Novel pathways in fatty acid-induced pancreatic beta-cell death | beta-cell death; diabetes; high-throughput screening; lipotoxicity; paracrine signalling | Vancouver |
| Kassam, Farah | Dr. Ash Singhal, Department of Surgery | Adult trauma team leader study | Trauma team; Multidisciplinary; Leadership; Communication; Adult Care | Vancouver |
| Kim, Clara (Namhee) | Dr. Alasdair Barr, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Understanding persistent antipsychotic polypharmacy (AP): a prevalent practice without evidence | Antipsychotic, Schizophrenia, Psychiatry | Vancouver |
| Kim, Laura | Dr. Eric Webber, Department of Surgery | Evaluating the financial burden of clinical investigations on patients in Uganda | Clinical Investigations, Sub-Saharan Africa, out-of-pocket | Vancouver |
| Kwan, Winnie | Dr. Christopher Ong, Department of Surgery | Semaphorin 3C's role in prostate cancer disease and progression | SEMA3C; TGFB2; prostate cancer | Vancouver |
| Lau, Hoi Yan (Dorothy) | Dr. Don Sin, Department of Medicine | Using multi-omics to discover novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | multi-omics, genomics, microbiome, COPD, experimental | Vancouver |
| Lee, Jenny | Dr. Kurt Haas, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Effects of Autism-associated gene mutations on neural encoding | Autism, brain development, imaging, neural encoding, computational neuroscience | Vancouver |
| Leslie, Kelly | Dr. Jeremy Penner, Department of Family Practice | A sustainable, WHO-inspired, workshop-based approach to educating community health workers about mental health issues and care in Kisumu, Kenya | Mental Health, Community Education, Rural & Global Health, Integrative Care, Collaboration | International - Kenya |
| Lo, Cody | Dr. Liam Brunham, Department of Medicine | Determining the functional impact of specific gene variants associated with doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity (DIC) | Pharmacogenomics, Drug Response, Cardiotoxicity, Genomics, Pharmacology | Vancouver |
| Magrill, Jamie | Dr. Jessica McAlpine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Proactive molecular-based classification tools to improve endometrial cancer management | Endometrial cancer; molecular classifier; next-generation sequencing; prognostic models; improved diagnostic tools. | Vancouver |
| Mak, William | Dr. Amin Javer, Department of Surgery | Intranasal retinoic acid treatment for patients with olfactory loss: a randomized controlled trial | olfactory loss, intranasal Vitamin A, RCT, otolaryngology | Vancouver |
| Maleki, Mona | Dr. Roxana Geoffrion, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Mindful DESIRE (Determination of Experience of Sexual Improvement Related to trEatment) | mindfulness; sex therapy; urinary incontinence | Vancouver |
| Manhas, Domnick | Dr. Sheona Mitchell-Foster , Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Exploring barrier to care for women with problematic substance use in pregnancy | Aboriginal, Rural, Pregnancy, Barriers, Addictions | Northern BC - Prince George Region |
| McGowan, Kayla | Dr. Mary Connolly, Department of Pediatrics | Quality of life and psychiatric comorbidity in pediatric Dravet population | Dravet, epilepsy, pediatrics, QoL, ADHD | Vancouver |
| Memar, Pouya | Dr. Alan Bates, Department of Psychiatry | Comforting, educating, and empowering family members of delirious patients | delirium, consult-liaison psychiatry, communication, family caregivers, education | Vancouver |
| Merali, Khalil | Dr. Bedell Richard, Department of Family Practice | A comparative study of a family planning program delivered through a clinic and community health workers in Uganda | Family Planning; Global Health; Mixed Methods; Uganda; Sustainability | International - Uganda |
| Mezei, Alexander (Alex) | Dr. Kathy Jones, Department of Family Practice | Assessment and management of anemia among children at Munsel-Ling Boarding School in the Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India | Anemia, Micronutrient, Altitude, Spiti Valley, Greenhouse | International - India |
| Miao, Yuyang (Ian) | Dr. Gillian Lauder, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | A usability evaluation of Panda, a smartphone application designed to support post-operative pain management at home | adolescent; child; pain measurement/methods; mobile heath; usability testing; | Vancouver |
| Miller, Rebecca | Dr. Bonita Sawatzky, Department of Orthopaedics | Upper extremity function in individuals with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) | arthrogryposis, surgery, upper extremity, quality of life | Vancouver |
| Miller, Sally | Dr. Anson Cheung, Department of Surgery | Potential impact of implementing the DCD organ donation strategy for BC's cardiac transplant program | Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Cardiac Transplantation, DCD Organ Donation, Heart Failure | Vancouver |
| Mitchell, Emma | Dr. William MacEwan, Department of Psychiatry | The hotel study in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: social support in co-occurring mental illness, addiction, and chronic disease | addiction, psychiatry, social support, housing, infection | Vancouver |
| Mittermaier, Katherine (Kate) | Dr. Julianne van Schalkwyk, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Evaluation of a modified Sepsis in Obstetrics Score (SOS) in the setting of fever in labour (FIL) to determine risk of adverse maternal and fetal outcomes | Maternal Sepsis, Intra-Amniotic Infection, Fever in Labour , Targeted antibiotic therapy , Sepsis in Obstetrics Score, Neonatal Complications | Vancouver |
| Mlikotic, Rebecca | Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe, Department of Surgery | Modeling growth rates and distributions of breast cancer using computer aided detection on temporal sets of screening mammograms | computer-aided detection software; tumour growth; breast cancer; natural history model; micro-simulation modeling | Kelowna |
| Olsen, Janine | Dr. Michael Humer, Department of Surgery | Characterizing the lung cancer surgical time to care in the Interior Health thoracic group for quality improvement | Lung Cancer, Thoracic Surgery, Health Equity, Surgical Wait Times | Kelowna |
| Omid-Fard, Nima | Dr. Jonathon Leipsic, Department of Radiology | PREDICT: Predicting Rupture PronE Plaques in DIseased Coronary Arteries using Coronary CT | myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, adverse plaque characteristics, computed tomography, predictive model | Vancouver |
| Panghali, Bhavanjit (Bhavan) | Dr. Sara Taylor, Department of Medicine | Feasibility of implementing a web-based patient follow-up platform into the BC Cancer Agency for improving quality of life care and research | Quality of Life, Cancer, Online Platform, Health Informatics, Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) | Kelowna |
| Peel, John | Dr. Jacqueline Trudeau, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Optimization of transfusion-reducing treatments in the perioperative patient: a retrospective cohort study | Perioperative Blood Management (PBM); Transfusion; Anaesthesia; Perioperative medicine | Vancouver |
| Pourghadiri, Amir | Dr. Aziz Ghahary, Department of Surgery | Prevention of catheter-induced scarring by the use of kynurenine | Fibroblasts, Kynurenine, Scarring nodules, Catheters, Silicone | Vancouver |
| Pryma, Collin | Dr. Gordon Francis, Department of Medicine | Mechanism of impaired cholesterol removal from smooth muscle foam cells in atherosclerosis | atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, smooth muscle cells, macrophages, cholesterol | Vancouver |
| Renne, Bryan | Dr. Paul Steinbok, Department of Surgery | Mutism after posterior fossa tumor resection in children: a multicentered international retrospective study | Cerebellar, Mutism, Posterior-fossa, Tumor, Hydrocephalus | Vancouver |
| Renschler, Colby | Dr. Jeff Brubacher, Department of Emergency Medicine | Reporting unfit drivers: knowledge, attitudes, and practices of physicians in British Columbia | “Fitness to drive”; “Mandatory reporting”; “Survey of Physicians”; “Knowledge and training”, “Legislation” | Vancouver |
| Rizzuto, Michael | Dr. Brian Kwon, Department of Orthopaedics | Effect of injury severity on serum and cerebrospinal fluid miRNA expression profile after traumatic spinal cord injury in pigs | SCI; miRNA; Porcine; Severity; CSF; Serum | Vancouver |
| Ruiz-Romero, Ian | Dr. Andrei Krassioukov, Department of Medicine | Minocycline and autonomic function in SCI | Minocycline, Spinal Cord Injury, Neuroprotection, Cardiovascular, Autonomic | Vancouver |
| Samadyan, Negar | Dr. Martin McKeown, Department of Medicine | Sub-threshold noisy Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (nGVS) as a potential treatment for postural instability and falling in Parkinson's Disease (PD) subjects | Parkinson's Disease, Movement disorder, Falls, Gait, Electrical stimulation, | Vancouver |
| Sarafis, Zoe | Dr. Anibal Bohorquez, Department of Medicine | Immunohistochemical assessment of protein markers associated with cerebrovascular fibrosis in spinal cord injury | immunohistochemistry, spinal cord injury, cerebrovascular disease, profibrosis, neuroinflammation | Vancouver |
| Sedgwick, Colin | Dr. Andrew Penn, Department of Island Health | Translational research for the management of acute cerebrovascular syndrome (ACVS) in the Emergency Department: Development of a Biomarker and Clinical Decision Support Tool for rapid detection of mild stroke | Management of TIA/mild stroke in the ED setting, Development and testing of clinical decision support rule(s) for TIA/mild stroke, Evidence-based medicine, Reducing stroke burden: Patient outcomes at 90-day and 1 year follow-up, Learning the process, procedure and quality assurance framework for how research and clinical integration supports clinical documentation for algorithm/clinical decision rule development. | Victoria |
| Shalansky, Rebecca | Dr. Sue Pollock, Department of Population & Public Health | Ecosystem health: the development of an ethical framework | One Health, Ecosystem Health, Public Health, Ethics, Health Policy | Kelowna and Nanaimo |
| Shariati, Helia | Dr. David Moore, Department of Medicine | Rates and determinants of smoking cessation among men who have sex with men in Vancouver | Smoking, MSM, HIV, Cessation, Mental Health | Vancouver |
| Stewart, Craig | Dr. Catherine Pallen, Department of Pediatrics | Role of PTPa-Fyn signaling in oligodendrocyte differentiation | oligodendrocyte, differentiation, protein tyrosine phosphatase, signaling, myelination | Vancouver |
| Suen, Yat Him Vincent | Dr. Donna Lang, Department of Radiology | Investigation of the prevalence of maternal obstetric complications in early psychosis | Psychosis, Adolescent, Obstetric complications, Chart review | Vancouver |
| Teng, Yu-Ching (Minnie) | Dr. Sonia Yeung, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Cell culture and identification of ocular surface limbal stem cells for the treatment of age related macular degeneration | stem cells; cell culture; ocular; markers; PCR | Vancouver |
| Tsai, Hsing Keng (Catherine) | Dr. Terry Phang, Department of Surgery | Comparison of MR and endorectal ultrasound (ERUS) for imaging of rectal cancer | Endorectal ultrasound, rectal cancer imaging, magnetic resonance imaging | Vancouver |
| Ukalovic, Kresimir | Dr. Joanne Matsubara, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Novel retinal biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) | Alzheimer's disease, screening, retina, amyloid-beta | Vancouver |
| Wee, Tracee Mae Kriselda | Dr. Heather Bray, Department of Radiology | Selective screening ultrasound of infants with risk factors for developmental dysplasia of the hip - analysis of screening program at BC Children's Hospital | developmental dysplasia of the hip; infants; screening; ultrasound; | Vancouver |
| Wilson, Alexander | Dr. Catherine Paramonoff, Department of Medicine | Falls in the hospital: Who? When? Why? | Rehabilitaiton, falls, inpatient, outpatient, autonomic dysfunction | Vancouver |
| Wu, Yu (Yuhao) | Dr. Patrick McLaughlin, Department of Radiology | Predicting intra-abdominal fat volume: use of noninvasive measures to determine whether enteric contrast agents should be used for abdominal CT | Intra-abdominal Fat, Non-invasive Parameters, Computed Tomography, Enteric Contrast, Bioelectric Impedance Analysis | Vancouver |
| Xia, Anne | Dr. Tricia Tang, Department of Medicine | Relationship among diabetes self-management, diabetes distress and depression in Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes | Diabetes management, Depression, Chinese-Canadians, Cultural facilitation | Greater Vancouver - Richmond |
| Xie, Rongda (Ronald) | Dr. Decheng Yang, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Functional roles of micrornas in coxsackievirus b3-induced myocarditis | Viral myocarditis, microRNA, enterovirus, pathogenesis, signal transduction | Vancouver |
| Xu, Yan Zhu (Gary) | Dr. Shannon Jackson, Department of Medicine | Clinical application of population pharmacokinetics models for individualized prophylactic treatment in patients with hemophilia | Hemophilia, clinic research, pharmacokinetics, quality improvement | Vancouver |
| Yan, Ryan | Dr. Catherine Pang, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Cardiovascular changes in diabetes and the role of nitric oxide | Diabetes, Nitric oxide, Rat, Glucose, Insulin | Vancouver |
| Yan, Yi Xuan (Roxana) | Dr. Delbert Dorscheid, Department of Medicine | Characterization of IgE receptors (FcԑRI & FcԑRII) in the asthmatic airway epithelium | airway epithelium, asthma, allergic inflammation, immunglobulin E, Fcԑ receptors | Vancouver |
| Yang, Linda | Dr. Robert Olson, Department of Surgery | Evaluation of BC Cancer Agency’s prospective outcomes and support initiative | patient-centered care, oncology, program evaluation, health initiative | Vancouver and Prince George |
| Yao, Ren Jie (Robert) | Dr. Margot Davis, Department of Medicine | Early predictor risk factors for developing left ventricular dysfunction post adjuvant trastuzumab therapy in HER2+ breast cancer patients | Trastuzumab, breast cancer, heart function | Vancouver |
| Yau, Brandon | Dr. Steve Morgan, Department of Population & Public Health | Analysis of regulatory costs as a potential barrier to pharmaceutical markets worldwide | Essential Medicines, Pharmaceutical policy, Regulatory barriers, Medicines, Liscencing | Vancouver |
| Yen, Paul | Dr. Cameron Verchere, Department of Surgery | Preservation of pancreatic beta-cells via inhibition of islet amyloid formation | Diabetes, Amyloid, Islet, Inhibitor, Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP) | Vancouver |
| Yi, Grace | Dr. Frederick Kozak, Department of Surgery | Pediatric patients with cochlear implants: obstacles to full time utilization | Cochlear Implant; Barriers to Care; Quality Assurance | Vancouver |
| Yim, Jeffrey | Dr. Simon Rabkin, Department of Medicine | Evaluation of the impact of left ventricular mass on diastolic blood pressure targets in patients with coronary artery disease | Clinical cardiovascular research; coronary blood flow, left ventricular mass; myocardial perfusion blood pressure | Vancouver |
| Yiu, Jeffrey | Dr. Todd Woodward, Department of Psychiatry | The functional connectome: hallucinations | schizophrenia, hallucinations, functional neuroimaging, cognition, statistical methodology | Vancouver |
| Zerr, Kelly | Dr. Adeera Levin, Department of Medicine | A literature review to examine the affect of vitamin D supplementation on the cardiovascular health of Chronic Kidney Disease patients | Chronic kidney disease, Vitamin D, supplementation, vascular health | Vancouver |
| Zhang , Xin-Yue (Diana) | Dr. Michael Cox, Department of Urologic Sciences | Role of Ezh2 in development and metastais of prostate cancer in a TRAMP (transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse prostate) mice model | Epigenetics, Ezh2, prostate cancer (PCa), metastasis, TRAMP, neuroendocrine | Vancouver |
| Zhang, Christina | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew, Department of Surgery | Lymphoma cancer internet patient information: a systematic evaluation of the quality of online resources for lymphoma patients and characterization of internet usage patterns | Lymphoma, internet resources, patient education, patient information, evaluation tool | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Zhang, Jingfei | Dr. Kendall Ho, Department of Emergency Medicine | Understanding the perspectives of patients, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners and medical doctors for their need of an electronic communication tool for documentation and surveillance of concomitant TCM-prescription medication usage | Traditional Chinese Medicine, adverse drug interactions, health app, medication surveillance | Vancouver |
| Zhang, Linda | Dr. Anita Palepu, Department of Medical Genetics | Psychotropic medication use and residential stability among homeless and vulnerably housed adults in three Canadian cities | Mental health, Vulnerable populations, Medication adherence, Health services accessibility, Housing stability | Vancouver |
| Zhang, Tianmin (Tommy) | Dr. Eric Accili, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Inhibition of sleep homeostasis by audiovisual input requires the HCN channel | Sleep homeostasis, circadian rhythm, light, sound, fruit fly, HCN channel | Vancouver |
| Zhang, Yu Han (Joyce) | Dr. Pamela Hoodless, Department of Medical Genetics | Mouse models of FOXO1 mutations identified in human lymphoma | Lymphoma\nGenetic mouse models\nGenome sequencing\nMutations\nCancer | Vancouver |
| Zhao, Kevin | Dr. Desmond Nunez, Department of Surgery | The impact of physician influence on hearing aid user satisfaction and retention | hearing loss, hearing aid, physician influence, hearing aid satisfaction, hearing aid retention | Vancouver |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords | Project City/Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adamson, Simon | Dr. Stephan F van Eeden, Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology | Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (AECOPD): circulating biomarkers to predict hospital length of stay (LOS) and readmission rates | COPD, biomarkers, acute exacerbation, lung inflammation | Vancouver |
| Agha, Arun | Dr. Alan Bates, Department of Psychiatry | Team-based therapy: can participation in team sport enhance the effectiveness of group therapy for mood and addictions? | Street soccer, group-therapy, mental health, depression, physical health | Vancouver |
| Amanian, Mohammad Ameen | Dr. Amin Javer, Department of Surgery | The safety of topical intranasal budesonide for chronic rhinosinusitis: a cross-sectional study | Pharmacodynamics, Budesonide, Chronic Rhinosinusitis, Quality of Life, Safety | Vancouver |
| Askari, Ayda | Dr. Sonia Yeung, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Limbal stem cell culture for treatment of age related macular degeneration | Limbal stem cells, culture, differentiation | Vancouver |
| Azari-pour, Ali | Dr. Decheng Yang, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Functional role of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) in coxsackievirus-induced myocarditis | Viral myocarditis, heat shock protein, enterovirus, pathogenesis, signal transduction | Vancouver |
| Bakker, Dannika | Dr. E. Paul Zehr, Island Medical Program, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria | Improving strength and functional ability in the more affected arm by training the less affected arm after stroke | Neural plasticity, stroke, reflex, strength, crossed effect | Victoria |
| Bedi, Harjot | Dr. Pascal Lavoie, Department of Pediatrics | Comparison of the fungal ecosystem – the ‘mycobiome’ – in preterm and term infants by analyzing Candidiasis infection as an outcome | Neonates, fungal infection, Candidiasis, mycobiome, deep pyrosequencing | Vancouver |
| Bhatla, Christopher | Dr. Videsh Kapoor, Department of Family Practice | Determining an optimal sanitation technology for a remote, high altitude Himalayan school | Diarrheal disease, sanitation, safe water, health behaviour, waste recycling | International - India |
| Botros, Sandra | Dr. Randy Gascoyne, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Immunohistochemical correlates of a new molecular outcome predictor in follicular lymphoma | Lymphoma, pathology, mutations, clinical correlates | Vancouver |
| Braithwaite, Vivian | Dr. Christopher Honey, Department of Surgery | Deep brain stimlation for spasmodic dysphonia secondary to essential tremor | brain, stimulation, spasmodic, dysphonia, tremor | Vancouver |
| Buttar, Justin | Dr. Gordon Francis, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism | Smooth muscle cell cholesterol metabolism in atherosclerosis | Atherosclerosis, cholesterol, smooth muscle cell, foam cell, gene expression | Vancouver |
| Cadenhead, Heather | Dr. Joanne Matsubara, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | The role of the retinal pigment epithelial cell (RPE) in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) | Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), Retinal Pigment Epithelial cell (RPE) | Vancouver |
| Cheng, Tsz Man Phoebe | Dr. Angela Towle, Department of Medicine | Development of patients as teachers | patients as teachers, transformative learning, qualitative research, chronic illness, educational research | Vancouver |
| Chiang, Tina | Dr. Aaron MacInnes, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | The effectiveness of pain neurophysiology education (PNE) on catastrophizing thoughts, fear of movement, pain perception and stages of change | chronic pain, pain neurophysiology education, disability scores | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Cua, Georgine Irisha Ngo | Dr. Mohamed Bedaiwy, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Prediction of pregnancy outcome in couples with a history of recurrent pregnancy loss | unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss, non-visualized pregnancy, chemical pregnancy, embryonic pregnancy, first trimester | Vancouver |
| DeGroot, Lauren | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew, Department of Surgery | Pancreatic cancer internet information: An evaluation of the usage of internet resources by patients with pancreatic cancer and the quality of information available on the internet. | pancreatic cancer, patient information, internet resources, evaluation tool | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Duyvewaardt, Hannah | Dr. Mike Ertel, Department of Emergency Medicine | Does knowledge of the Canadian CT head rules affect the frequency of head CT's done in concussion patients presenting to the ED? | Cat Scan, Concussion, Canadian CT Head Rules | Kelowna |
| Emmott, Anthony | Dr. Gillian Lauder, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Post-discharge audit of pain in children undergoing tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy | Pain management, pediatric, tonsillectomy, post-discharge, audit | Vancouver |
| Epp, Joyce | Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe, Department of Surgery | Populating an epidemiological model for breast cancer with systemic treatment costs in British Columbia | breast cancer, microsimulation, systemic therapy, costing, model | Kelowna |
| Frame, Jean Caitlin | Dr. Michelle Butler, Department of Family Practice | The current state of midwifery research in Canada | Midwifery, pregnancy, normal birth, Canada, literature review | Vancouver |
| Frew, Jonathan (Jon) | Dr. Michael Cox, Department of Urologic Sciences | Exploring the role of Ezh2 for prostate cancer cell plasticity required for metastasis and hormone therapy resistance | epigenetics, neuroendocrine, prostate, cancer, metastasis | Vancouver |
| Frohlich, Joshua | Dr. David Sweet, Department of Emergency Medicine | The timing of antibiotic therapy and its effect on blood culture results in patients affected by severe sepsis and septic shock in the emergency department | Sepsis, Septic, Shock, Blood Cultures, Antibiotics, Microbiology | Vancouver |
| Fung, Vincent Gar Cheung | Dr. Richard Bedell, Department of Family Practice | Evaluating factors influencing hand hygiene in health care providers before and after implementation of online (computer based) modules | hand hygiene, education, global health, health, nutrition | International - Uganda |
| Ghadiry-Tavi, Rouzbeh | Dr. Manoj Raval, Department of Surgery | Long term followup of intra-anal submucosal Solesta injection for fecal incontinence | MeSH terms, fecal incontinence, hydrogels, NASHA-Dx copolymer | Vancouver |
| Gibson, Jordan | Dr. Margot Davis, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology | Impact of continuing vs. withholding trastuzumab therapy in breast cancer patients with treatment-emergent mild-to-moderate left ventricular dysfunction on cardiovascular and cancer outcomes | Cardio-oncology, trastuzumab, breast cancer, cardiomyopathy, retrospective cohort study | Vancouver |
| Gill, Talveen | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother, Department of Psychiatry | New mothers' thoughts of harm: prevalence and relation to OCD and child harm | Postpartum harm thoughts, obsessive compulsive disorder, child abuse | Victoria |
| Gitter, Taryn | Dr. Winson Cheung, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology | Treatment-related toxicities in metastatic melanoma | metastatic melanoma, toxicity, treatment, immunotherapy, targetted therapy | Vancouver |
| Gu, Bobby | Dr. Sean Barbour, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology | Anti-GBM antibody IgG subtypes in atypical pulmonary-limited relapsing anti-GBM antibody disease. | Anti-GBM IgG subtypes relapsing disease | Vancouver |
| Guy, Andrew | Dr. Hussein Kanji, Department of Medicine, Division of Critical Care | Clinical research ethics board approval, institutional approval, and design of an online database for patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) | extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ecmo, database, critical care, life support | Greater Vancouver - New Westminster |
| Harrison, Sophia | Dr. Sarah de Leeuw, School of Population & Public Health | Experiencing indigenous well-being: researching and assessing the impacts on medical students of cultural learnings gained by being immersed in northern First Nations communities | Community-based, First Nations health, self-reflection, northern care, Indigenous partnership | Prince George |
| Hawkins, Connor | Dr. Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology | Role of TREM2 in predicting risk of progression in cognitively impaired subjects to Alzheimer's Disease and vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) | Alzheimer's, Cerebrovascular, White matter disease, Genetics, TREM2 | Vancouver |
| Ho, Germain (Chun-man) | Dr. Desmond Nunez, Department of Surgery | Development and application of an in-vitro porcine inner ear cell model | ear, mitochondria, cell, RNA | Vancouver |
| Ho, Jessica | Dr. Tim Kieffer, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Investigating the contribution of glucagon suppression to the metabolic actions of leptin | Type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, glucose metabolism, leptin, glucagon receptor | Vancouver |
| Hong, Andy Wing Keung | Dr. Honglin Luo, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Role of Tar-DNA binding protein-43 in viral-Induced cardiomyopathy: similarity with neurodegenerative diseases | Virology, Cardiomyopathy, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Proteinopathies, Aggregation | Vancouver |
| Hossain, Nazia | Dr. Doris Doudet, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology | Autophagy inhibition in Parkinson's Disease | Aging, Parkinson, animal model, autophagy, pathology | Vancouver |
| Hsu, Janine | Dr. Samaad Malik, Department of Surgery | Does use of tristaple technology impact outcome for patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy? | Clinical Outcomes, Complications, Quality Assurance, Retrospective | Victoria |
| Huang, Shih-Chieh (Jack) | Dr. Ralph Buttyan, Department of Urologic Sciences | A new model of prostate cancer stem cell: validation of new markers and potential targets | Prostate Cancer, Cancer Stem Cells, Markers, Potential Targets | Vancouver |
| Jeffers, Mary | Dr. Cyrus Boelman, Department of Pediatrics | Eye-closure induced paroxysms on first EEG as diagnostic for eyelid myoclonia with absences and pharmacoresistant epilepsy | Eye-closure induced paroxysms, eylid myoclonia with absence, childhood absence epilepsy, EEG, | Vancouver |
| Jermilova , Una | Dr. Pascal Bernatchez, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | A game-changing observation: high cholesterol is responsible for the loss of muscle function in muscular dystrophy | Dysferlin, muscular dystrophy, cholesterol, mouse | Vancouver |
| Jin, Chi (Lisa) | Dr. Frederick K. Kozak, Department of Surgery | Vaccination status of pediatric patients with cochlear implant pre- and post-surgery: have we improved? | Cochlear Implant, Vaccination, Meningitis, Risk Reduction, Quality Assurance | Vancouver |
| Jutras, Marc | Dr. Islam Mohamed, Department of Surgery | Development of ultra-high resolution CT for differential diagnosis of lung nodules found using low dose CT | lung cancer, micro-computed tomography, CT screening, differential diagnosis, early detection | Kelowna |
| Kennedy, Christine | Dr. Nadine Caron, Department of Surgery | The role of family physicians with enhanced surgical skills in northern British Columbia | Northern, Rural, Surgery, Health Services | Northern BC - Prince George region |
| Lai, Chun Man (Simon) | Dr. Corinne Hohl, Department of Emergency Medicine | Incidence of clinically relevant medication discrepancies after implementation of an electronic medication reconciliation process | medication reconciliation, adverse drug events, best possible medication history | Vancouver |
| Lee, David | Dr. Heather Robertson, Department of Psychiatry | Review of ECT service and treatment delivery at two major academic hospitals in Vancouver | electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), chart reviews, health services, depression, bipolar disorder, outcome | Vancouver |
| Lee, Jong Wook (John) | Dr. Jeffery Ludemann, Department of Surgery | Cytokine profiling in pediatric laryngeal diseases (Pilot Study) | Otolaryngology, Pediatric surgery, Laryngomalacia, Cytokine profiling, Inflammation | Vancouver |
| Li, Hang (Kelly) | Dr. Daniel Renouf, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology | Exploring the rates of long-term cardiotoxicity associated with targeted or biologic cancer therapy | Targeted cancer therapy, cardiotoxicity, long-term outcome, small molecule inhibitors, biologics | Vancouver |
| Li, Lingge | Dr. Roxana Geoffrion, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Setting a pass-fail score for 3 vaginal surgery teaching models | Medical education, surgery, model validation, vaginal procedures, low fidelity simulation | Vancouver |
| Lim, Anita | Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff, Department of Surgery | The role of the critical myelination gene, Myrf, on the anatomical repair in a rodent model of multiple sclerosis | Multiple Sclerosis, Myelin, Oligodendrocyte, Confocal Microscopy, Transgenic Mice | Vancouver |
| Lin, Su | Dr. Carl Birmingham , Department of Psychiatry | Pilot study on the neural activities in male patients with anorexia nervosa using LORETA scans | anorexia nervosa, LORETA scan, males, neural activities, gender comparison | Vancouver |
| Lobo, Akshay | Dr. Pearce Wilcox, Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology | An evaluation of the impact of home IV referral process time to seamless discharge for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients admitted to St. Paul's Hospital. | quality improvement, health services, home IV, hospital discharge | Vancouver |
| Louie, Michael | Dr. Mark Hull, Department of Medicine, Division of AIDS | Assessment of the feasibility of using rapid oral Fluid testing for the diagnosis of Hepatitis C (HCV) among inner-city residents in Vancouver's downtown eastside | Hepatitis C, point of care test, Oral Fluid Test, people who inject drugs | Vancouver |
| Lu, Eric | Dr. Chun Seow, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Elucidation of smoothelin function in airway smooth muscle | Smoothelin, siRNA knockdown,smooth muscle, cytoskeleton, asthma | Vancouver |
| Lucey, Megan | Dr. Raymond Lam, Department of Psychiatry | Neurocognitive function and work productivity in clinical depression | depression, cognition, occupational functioning, outcomes, psychopharmacology | Vancouver |
| Maccan, Angela | Dr. Robin Evans, Department of Surgery | The epidemiology of burns in Uganda: a community-based survey | Burn-incidence, Epidemiology, Survey, Community-Based, Uganda | International - Uganda |
| Mahal, Daljeet | Dr. Richard Lester, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases | A qualitative investigation of participant experiences with mobile phone text-messaging to improve completion of latent tuberculosis infection treatment | Latent Tuberculosis Mobile Phones Text-Messaging | Vancouver |
| Marguerie, Monique | Dr. D Douglas Cochrane, Department of Surgery | Ventricular shunting for hydrocephalus: a review of shunt failures within 30 days | Hydrocephalus, VP Shunt, ventriculomegaly, shunt valve, pediatric, | Vancouver |
| Masoudi, Matthew | Dr. Sam Wiseman, Department of Surgery | Primary hyperparathyroidism survey study | Parathyroid, Hyperparathyroidism, Primary Hyperparathyroidism, Endocrine | Vancouver |
| Milosevic, Elizabeth | Dr. Kristin Campbell, Department of Physical Therapy | The impact of acute aerobic exercise on cognitive function in breast cancer survivors with chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment | Breast cancer, chemotherapy, cognition, acute aerobic exercise | Vancouver |
| Monga , Purujeet | Dr. Janel Kopp, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Role of GNAS mutations during the initiation of Pancreatic Cancer | Pancreatic Cancer, Pancreas, Initiating Mutations | Vancouver |
| Murad, Yousif | Dr. Michael Humer, Department of Surgery | Characterizing the lung cancer surgical time to care in the interior health thoracic group for quality improvement | lung cancer, wait times, surgery, quality improvement, pathway | Kelowna |
| Nouraei, Hirmand | Dr. Bonita Sawatzky, Department of Orthopaedics | Energy expenditure of innovative propulsion technique using rowheels | Wheelchair propulsion, biomechanics, energy expenditure | Vancouver |
| Osiowy, Montana | Dr. Russell Callaghan, Department of Psychiatry | Comparative trajectories of acute myocardial infarction among individuals with methamphetamine- or cocaine-use disorders: a population-based study | methamphetamine, cocaine, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) | Prince George |
| Pakdel Sefidgar, Amir Reza (Amirreza) | Dr. Eitan Prisman, Department of Surgery | A computational approach for patient-specific reconstruction of osseous defects in oro-facial cancers | oral cancers, computational pre-operative planning, facial reconstruction, bony grafts, bony resections | Vancouver |
| Parker, Ryan (Quinn) | Dr. Brian Toyota, Department of Surgery | Predictive markers for malignant brain tumors | glioblastoma, neuropathology, neuro-oncology, markers, histology | Vancouver |
| Parvand, Mahraz | Dr. Tara Sedlak, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology | Yield of cardiac MRI in patients with acute coronary syndrome but no obstructive coronary artery disease on angiogram | Cardiac MRI, Obstructive coronary artery disease, Acute coronary syndrome, Troponin rise, Etiology | Vancouver |
| Peel, John | Dr. Adrienne Melck, Department of Surgery | Same-day discharge after minimally invasive parathyroidectomy is safe | Surgery, safety, guideline, parathyroidectomy, discharging | Vancouver |
| Phillips, James (Jamie) | Dr. Tim Lee, Department of Dermatology & Skin Science | Optical determinants between neoplastic lesions and normal skin – A study towards monitoring the outcome of skin cancer therapy | skin cancer, treatment progress monitoring, non-invasive methods, bio-optics, statistical modeling | Vancouver |
| Rabu, Gabrielle | Dr. Connie Eaves, Department of Medical Genetics | Single cell analysis of epigenetic regulators in primitive normal and leukemic blood cell precursors | Blood stem cells, epigenetic regulators, flow cytometry, differentiatio,/ leukemia | Vancouver |
| Rajapakshe, Shan | Dr. Chris Baliski, Department of Surgery | Development of a British Columbia surgical oncology outcomes database | Surgical Oncology, Outcomes Research, Health Informatics, Database, Data linkage | Kelowna |
| Rasool, Alysha | Dr. Amin Javer, Department of Surgery | Evaluating the Safety of Intranasal Budesonide: A Systematic Review | Budesonide, Systematic Review, Safety, Quality of Life, Pharmacology | Vancouver |
| Ribeiro, Amanda | Dr. Mark Hill, Department of Surgery | Usability testing of the burn survival kit with healthcare providers in Uganda | Burns, Pediatrics, Global Health, Uganda, Burn Kit | International - Uganda |
| Roberts, James | Dr. Bradley Quon, Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology | Characterizing the evolution of respiratory symptoms, lung function, and serum C-reactive protein levels during the treatment of CF pulmonary exacerbations | cystic fibrosis, biomarkers, inflammation | Vancouver |
| Roller, Janine | Dr. Douglas Courtemanche, Department of Surgery | Ideal tools for patient reported outcome measurements (PROMs). Systematic review. | Systematic Review, Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), Physician-reported outcomes | Vancouver |
| Roughead, Taren | Dr. Alana Flexman, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Subjective risk perception of perioperative stroke in non-neurological and non-cardiac surgical patients | Perioperative stroke, risk perception, anesthesiology | Vancouver |
| Rummell, Sonja | Dr. Winson Cheung, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology | Trends in discussions and enrollment of elderly individuals in oncology clinical trials | Elderly, health services accessibility, clinical trials, patient selection, age factors | Vancouver |
| Saran, Mandeep | Dr. Bradley Quon, Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology | A single-centre evaluation of the effectiveness of nebulized aztreonam (Cayston) on pulmonary exacerbation rates and health care utilization in adults with cystic fibrosis | cystic fibrosis, pulmonary exacerbations, health care utilization, inhaled antibiotics | Vancouver |
| Schmitt, Toby | Dr. Clare Beasley, Department of Psychiatry | Is schizophrenia associated with changes in SNARE protein levels? | Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Brain, Antipsychotics, Proteins | Vancouver |
| Siu, Jacqueline | Dr. Neil Cashman, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology | Creating a universal fluorescent reporter of SOD-1 misfolding | propagated protein misfolding, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) | Vancouver |
| Smith, Brenden | Dr. Kathy Jones, Department of Family Practice | Reducing the morbidity of diarrheal disease in a remote Himalayan school through the development of a targeted health curriculum. | Diarrheal disease, hand washing, sanitation, safe water, rural community, GPS, behaviour, | International - Indai |
| Smyth, Matthew | Dr. Kevan Jacobson, Department of Pediatrics | A qualitative and quantitative review of the new self assessment tool used to assess disease activity and psychosocial burden of disease in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease at BC Children's Hospital | Gastroenterology, IBD, Quality of Life, | Vancouver |
| Stanar, Paloma | Dr. Orson Moritz, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Development of an X. laevis model of autosomal recessive cone-rod dystrophy due to mutations in the prcad-21 gene | Retina, membranes, gene knockout, CRISPR, cas9, cadherin. | Vancouver |
| Stedford, Adrienne | Dr. Robert Olson, Department of Surgery | Impact of knowledge translation regarding radiotherapy prescribing practices on actual prescribing practices | clinical audit, evidence based medicine, radiotherapy, breast cancer | Prince George |
| Steels, Erika | Dr. William Honer, Department of Psychiatry | The hotel project in Vancouver's downtown eastside: co-occurring psychosis, addiction and viral infection | Addiction, Psychosis, MRI, Cognition, Infection | Vancouver |
| Tabeshi, Rayumand (Raymond) | Dr. Quynh Doan, Department of Pediatrics | Using the PRAM score, how soon after treatment for asthma can a child be safely discharged home? | Emergency, asthma, PRAM, pediatrics | Vancouver |
| Thakore, Suhani | Dr. Stirling Bryan, School of Population & Public Health | Contraception access research team - contraception cost-effectiveness modelling | population-based survey, cost-effectiveness modelling, sexual health, contraception, universal subsidy | Vancouver |
| Toh, Nathan | Dr. Stefan Grzybowski, Department of Family Practice | Sustaining rural health services: an analysis of clinical telehealth initiatives and the sustainability of rural maternity, emergency, and surgical services | Rural health, gap analysis, clinical telehealth, maternity services, emergency services | Vancouver |
| Tong, Jeffery | Dr. Simon Rabkin, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology | Determinants of expansion of thoracic aortic aneurysms | Cardiovascular disease, Thoracic aortic aneurysm, Hypertension, Biomarkers | Vancouver |
| Tsai, Veronica (Ronnie) | Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Department of Physical Therapy | Vitality study | Stroke, Dementia, Cognitive Function, Exercise, Social Interaction | Vancouver |
| Tsang, Vivian | Dr. Richard Wassersug, Department of Urologic Sciences | How does androgen deprivation affect where men look and how their pupils respond when they view images of women? | eye tracking, androgen deprivation, prostate cancer, vision, testosterone, libido | Vancouver |
| Tse, Lurdes | Dr. Carole Richford, Department of Psychiatry | The delirium diary: an intervention involving family members in the care of patients with delirium | Delirium, family, patient-centered care, pilot project | Vancouver |
| Van Ommen, Clara | Dr. Ali Eslami, Department of Psychiatry | Trends in Psychiatric Seasonal Emergency Admission (TIPSEA) | Child, Psychiatry, Emergency, Internalizing, Disorder | Vancouver |
| Vandenberg, Chelsea | Dr. Samaad Malik, Department of Surgery | Incidence of symptomatic bowel obstructions/incisional hernias post laparoscopic co lo rectal surgery: does laparoscopic surgery decrease the incidence of postoperative adhesions and its sequelae? | Laparoscopic surgery, clinical outcomes, quality assurance, complications, retrospective | Victoria |
| Wafler, John (Michael) | Dr. Gary O'Connor, Department of Orthopaedics | Review of analgesia after join replacement surgery at Kelowna General Hospital | recovery arthroplasty spinal anesthetic morphine | Kelowna |
| Wang, Xuan (Linda) | Dr. P Terry Phang, Department of Surgery | Evaluating quality of life after rectal cancer treatment | colorectal cancer, quality of life, surgery, radiation, treatment | Vancouver |
| Webster, Devon | Dr. Jeremy Penner, Department of Family Practice | A rural community focus group-based approach to understanding mental health issues and care in Kit Mikayi, Kenya. | Mental Health, Community Voice, Rural Health, Integrative Care, Collaboration | International - Kenya |
| White, Melissa (Sydney) | Dr. Matthew Brendan Munn, Department of Family Practice | Does the presence of on-site medical services at electronic dance music events enable high risk behaviour? | mass gathering, electronic dance music event, harm reduction, emergency response, prehospital | Kelowna |
| Wierks, Nicole | Dr. Jugpal Arneja, Department of Surgery | Reconstructing journal club: designing and evaluating the journal club checklist | Journal Club, checklist, critical appraisal. | Vancouver |
| Wong, Alexander | Dr. Alan So, Department of Urologic Sciences | Reelin and Netrin-1 as key players in the development of sunitinib resistance in renal cell carcinoma | malignancy, metastasis, angiogenesis, resistance, chemotherapy | Vancouver |
| Wong, Alexander | Dr. Eric Accili, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Control of wildtype and mutant pacemaker channel opening by analogs of cyclic AMP | Vancouver | |
| Wong, Carmen | Dr. Wendy Norman, Department of Family Practice | Evidence-informed family planning policy and practice to improve health and health equity | Healthy inequity, family planning, knowledge translation | Vancouver |
| Wong, Eric Che Wai | Dr. Laura Nimmon, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy | Negotiating power on the healthcare team: perspectives from COPD patients | qualitative research, patient-centered care, interprofessional coordination and communication | Vancouver |
| Wong, Johnny Tze Chun | Dr. Janet Mah, Department of Psychiatry | ALERT Program for self-regulation for kids with ADHD and sensory processing difficulties | ADHD, Sensory Processing, Self-Regulation, Intervention, Randomized Control Trial | Vancouver |
| Xiong, Anqi | Dr. Konia Trouton, Department of Family Practice | Better contraceptive choices for marginalized women: immediate vs. interval insertion of intrauterine contraception after second trimester abortion | Clinical research, randomized controlled trial, contraception, women's health, interprofessional team | Vancouver |
| Yang, Cathevine | Dr. York Hsiang, Department of Surgery | Comparison of clinical outcome and hemodynamic stability between DRIL and RUDI in the treatment of dialysis-associated steal syndrome. | kidney failure, renal replacement therapy, hemodialysis, arteriovenous fistula, arterial steal syndrome | Vancouver |
| Yang, Fan | Dr. Howard Lim, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology | Predictors of attrition in the treatment of lung cancer | Lung cancer, Treatment attrition, Chemotherapy, Toxicities, Patient Preferences | Vancouver |
| Yang, Shun Wei (Julia) | Dr. Don Sin, Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Division | The bacterial microbiome of gut, lung, and blood after H1N1 Influenza virus infection in mice with and without house dust mite exposure | Bacterial Microbiome, H1N1, house dust mite | Vancouver |
| Yao, Jennifer | Dr. Lori Brotto, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | The impact of treatment confidence on the efficacy of multidisciplinary treatment for provoked vestibulodynia | provoked vestibulodynia, treatment confidence, expectations, vulvodynia, multidisciplinary care | Vancouver |
| Ye, Vincent | Dr. Ryojo Akagami, Department of Surgery | Perioperative quality of life in patients with Cushing's disease | Neurosurgery, Quality of life, Cushing's Disease, Pituitary adenoma, SF-36 | Vancouver |
| Zareyan, Shahab | Dr. Adele Diamond, Department of Psychiatry | Effects of low-dose versus normal-dose methylphenidate on executive functions in children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | prefrontal cortex, dopamine, executive functions (EFs), ADHD, treatment study, clinical research | Vancouver |
| Zhang, Angela | Dr. Deborah Giaschi, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Interventions for dyslexia: effectiveness and neurological correlates | children, reading, dyslexia, intervention, neuroimaging | Vancouver |
| Zheng, Boyuan | Dr. Andrew Campbell, Department of Surgery | Long and short term outcome following renal transplantation: the predictive value of perioperative variables in a pediatric population | kidney, renal graft, transplant, hemodynamic factors, chronic kidney disease, pediatric, surgery | Vancouver |
| Zhou, Jin Sheng (Jason) | Dr. Yossef Av-Gay, Department of Medicine, Division of Immunity and Infection Research Centre | Detection of the pathogenicity factor PtpA in Mycobacterium bovis BCG | Pathogenicity, Tuberculosis, PtpA, attenuation, drug development | Vancouver |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords | Project City/Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akyurekli, Celine | Dr. Charlotte Jones, Department of Medicine | Seniors’ Move it! & Mingle and Walking Incentive Board: Improving physical activity and overcoming loneliness/social isolation in seniors | Loneliness, isolation, physical activity, seniors, socialization | Kelowna |
| Baldwin, Sarah | Dr. Sheila Au, Department of Dermatology & Skin Science | Retrospective review of skin cancer post transplant screening clinic (SCREEN Clinic) | skin cancer, post-transplant patients, screening, prevention, immunosuppression | Vancouver |
| Baumann, Brett | Dr. Caroline Quartly, Department of Island Medical Program | Botox treatment in adult patients with post-stroke lower limb spasticity (an international multi-center trial, phase 3 study with part I: double blind randomized parallel placebo control; and part II open-label) | comprehensive exposure; hands-on participation; clinical research; barriers and opportunities: GCP certification | Victoria |
| Bhatla, Jennifer (Jenn) | Dr. Videsh Kapoor, Department of Family Practice | Using GPS mapping in combination with direct observation to assess health behaviours in a remote Himalayan school after introducing a new safe water system | Diarrheal disease, hand washing, sanitation, safe water, rural community, GPS, behaviour | International - India |
| Bowie, Drew | Dr. Sarah Gray, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | The role of PACAP in adaptive thermogenesis | obesity, energy balance, thermoregulation, neuropeptide, metabolism | Prince George |
| Brown Bentley, Tlell | Dr. Marion Tipple, Department of Pediatrics | Assessment of diarrheal rates and sanitation practices in a population of children in the Indian Himalayas: a student-led initiative | program evaluation, diarrheal incidence, safe water, hand-washing | International - India |
| Carr, Michael | Dr. Cheryl Wellington, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Does prior prolonged anabolic steroid exposure affect traumatic brain injury outcome? | traumatic brain injury, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, anabolic steroids, concussion, football | Vancouver |
| Chahal, Barinder | Dr. Deborah Giaschi, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Using depth perception to treat visual disorders | vision, strabismus, 3D perception, surgical outcomes, development | Vancouver |
| Chan, Benjamin (Ben) | Dr. Aziz Ghahary, Department of Surgery | Evaluating the quality assurance measures for a bio-hybrid scaffold system, optimizing its fabrication, and preparing it for submission to regulatory bodies and future clinical use | skin-scaffold, nanofibres, wound healing, burn care, quality assurance, commercialization | Vancouver |
| Chan, Yui Ling Elaine | Dr. S. Evelyn Stewart, Department of Psychiatry | Neural correlates in childhood-onset obsessive compulsive disorder (CO-OCD) | obsessive-compulsive disorder, neurocognition, genetics, endophenotype, pediatric | Vancouver |
| Chatha, Sandeep | Dr. Wendy Norman, Department of Family Practice | Better contraceptive choices for marginalized women: immediate vs. interval insertion of intrauterine contraception after second trimester abortion | Clinical research, randomized controlled trial, contraception, women's health, interdisciplinary team | Vancouver |
| Chehroudi, Ali Cyrus | Dr. Bruce Verchere, Department of Surgery | Role of interleukin-1ß in islet amyloid polypeptide processing and amyloid formation | Diabetes, amyloid, inflammation, interleukin-1ß | Vancouver |
| Chen, Henry Chieh-Heng | Dr. N. Kevin Wade, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Glaucoma, a chronic disease: implementing national strategy guidelines | Glaucoma, technology, management, guidelines, prospective study | Vancouver |
| Cheng, Angela | Dr. Blake Gilks, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | A clinical and immunohistochemical comparison between HPV-positive and HPV-negative vulvar carcinomas | Vulvar carcinoma, VIN, HPV, p16, prognosis | Vancouver |
| Cheng, Xinbo (Justin) | Dr. Simon Rabkin, Department of Medicine | Understanding of inflammation in the pathophysiology of vascular disease | Cardiology, hypertension, psoriasis, inflammation, and cytokines | Vancouver |
| Cho, Hyokeun (Michael) | Dr. Carl Brown, Department of Surgery | Identifying both modifiable and non-modifiable predictors for anastomotic leak in patients having surgery for colon cancer | Surgical Oncology Patient Data Review | Vancouver |
| Cole, Alexandra (Ali) | Dr. Jennifer Yao, Department of Medicine | Effectiveness of intensive interdisciplinary outpatient rehabilitation as a model of rehabilitation service delivery | Outpatient, rehabilitation, service delivery, functional outcome | Vancouver |
| Collins, Annie | Dr. Juanita Crook, Department of Surgery | Comparison of rigid and deformable registration between prostate MRI and US for localization of the cancer within the prostate for the purposes of dose escalation using high dose rate brachytherapy | prostate cancer, focal therapy, deformable image registration, High dose rate brachytherapy | Kelowna |
| Cory, Julia | Dr. Jordan Guenette, Department of Physical Therapy | Sex differences in the qualitative dimensions of exertional dyspnea in healthy humans | physiology, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, dyspnea, sex differences, expiratory flow limitation | Vancouver |
| Cox, Adrian | Dr. Andrew Penn, Department of Island Medical Program | Reducing stroke burden with hospital-ready biomarker test for rapid TIA triage | Stroke, Proteonomics, Biomarkers, TIA. | Victoria |
| Dekker, Melissa | Dr. Jennifer Grace, Department of Island Medical Program | Audit of all strokes and transient ischemic attacks presenting to the emergency department at Campbell River Hospital | Stroke, TIA, quality control, ordersets, best practice | Vancouver Island - Campbell River |
| Fayowski, Cassandra (Cassie) | Dr. Jeffery Brubacher, Department of Emergency Medicine | Emergency department visits of older drivers for minor motor vehicle collisions | Older drivers, emergency cares, injury profile | Vancouver |
| Gao, Golden | Dr. Peter Lennox, Department of Surgery | Post-mastectomy irradiation in two-stage tissue expander/implant immediate breast reconstruction with acellular dermal matrix (ADM) | mammaplasty, mastectomy, alloderm, patient outcome, retrospective studies | Vancouver |
| Garber, Kathleen | Dr. Jacqueline Pettersen, Department of Medicine | Characterization of mixed alzheimer and vascular dementia | Alzheimer's--vascular dementia--cognition--neuroimaging--biomarkers | Prince George |
| Golbaz, Khashayar | Dr. Clare Beasley, Department of Psychiatry | Role of DISC-1 in axonal transport of mitochondria in individuals with bipolar disorder | bipolar disorder, neuron, post-mortem, axon, mitochondria | Vancouver |
| Guenther, Jeremy | Dr. Kennard Tan, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Evaluation of sepsis diagnosis and outcomes at Island Health - a health informatics approach | Sepsis, Informatics, Procalcitonin, Bacteremia, Epidemiology | Victoria |
| Guo, Michael | Dr. Bernard MacLeod, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics | Time course of the novel analgesic isovaline | Analgesia, pharmacokinetics, drug discovery, isovaline | Vancouver |
| Han, Tony | Dr. Cornelia Laule, Department of Radiology | Effects of exercise on symptom severity in chronic schizophrenia | MRI, Exercise, Mental Illness, Brain | Vancouver |
| Hao, Elaine | Dr. Kevin Harris, Department of Pediatrics | Optical coherence tomography identifies coronary artery changes in pediatric transplant recipients | Children, Intravascular Imaging, Cardiac Transplantation, Coronary Disease | Vancouver |
| Harris Mccallum, Jessica (Jess) | Dr. Hussein Kanji, Department of Emergency Medicine | Evaluation of a 64-slice computed tomography protocol to clear cervical spinal injuries. | Blunt trauma, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, critical care, emergency medicine | Greater Vancouver - New Westminster |
| Haslock, Christine | Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe, Department of Surgery | Development of a lung cancer surgical outcomes database | Lung Cancer, Thoracic Surgery, Surgical Outcomes, Health Service Disparities between Rural and Urban patients | Kelowna |
| Heron, Ryan | Dr. Brian Christie, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Effect of omega-3 fatty acids on neurite growth of cultured Neuro 2a stem cells using live-cell imaging | neural stem cells, cell culture, omega-3 fatty acids, live-cell imaging, immunocytochemistry | Victoria |
| Hoffer, Alexander (Alex) | Dr. Steven Reynolds, Department of Medicine | Serial ultrasonographic evaluation of diaphragm thickness during mechanical ventilation in ICU patients | ICU, Critical Care, Ultrasound, Diaphragm, Ventilation | Greater Vancouver - New Westminster |
| Hu, Angela | Dr. Christopher Loewen, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Genome-wide identification of regulators of lipid kinases and lipid phosphatases using yeast | Lipid signaling, genetic interactions, systems biology, phosphatidic acid | Vancouver |
| Huang, Benjamin (Ben) | Dr. David Sweet, Department of Emergency Medicine | The effect of antibiotic administration on blood culture positivity in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock presenting to the emergency department: a prospective multicenter observational trial | Sepsis, Septic Shock, Severe Sepsis, Blood Cultures, Antibiotics | Vancouver |
| Hughes, Lauren | Dr. Chris Baliski, Department of Surgery | Influence of surgeon related factors on the provision of breast conserving surgery in British Columbia | Quality care, Surgeon volume, Surgeon gender, Hospital volume, Breast conserving surgery | Kelowna |
| Javer, Jamil | Dr. Nadia Khan, Department of Medicine | Ethnic differences in ACS management and health behaviors | Acute Coronary Syndrome; Cohort Study; Cross-Cultural Competency; Patient Knowledge; Quantitative Research | Vancouver |
| Jew, Michael | Dr. Martin Hosking, Department of Pediatrics | Mitochondrial dysfunction in a mouse model of Barth syndrome | cardiomyopathy, cardiolipin, mitochondrial disease, Barth Syndrome, tafazzin | International - USA |
| Jia, Lingsa | Dr. Adele Diamond, Department of Psychiatry | Comparison of low-dose versus normal-dose methylphenidate on executive function in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder | Pediatric psychiatry, ADHD, developmental neuroscience, clinical research, methylphenidate | Vancouver |
| Johnson, Fraser | Dr. Kurt Haas, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Testing the effect of the autism-associated mutation of the cell adhesion molecule Neuroligin-3 on experience-driven brain circuit formation | Autism, development, brain, imaging, pathophysiology | Vancouver |
| Kandola, Kirandeep | Dr. Tricia Tang, Department of Medicine | Prevention matters: reducing the diabetes burden in Vancouver's South Asian community | diabetes prevention, lifestyle modification, South Asian community, high risk communities | Greater Vancouver |
| Kassam, Farah | Dr. Silke Cresswell, Department of Medicine | Coping styles and their influence on outcomes in Parkinson's disease | Parkinson's disease, coping styles, cognition, depression, health behaviors, exercise | Vancouver |
| Khare, Nikisha | Dr. Douglas Allan, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Genetic screening to identify genes that maintain nerve cell fate and function in the aging nervous system | genetic screening, nervous system, aging, neurodegeneration, | Vancouver |
| Kim, Diana | Dr. Martin McKeown, Department of Medicine | Effects of noisy subsensory galvanic vestibular stimulation on cortical and subcortical connections | Parkinson's disease, galvanic vestibular stimulation | Vancouver |
| Lam, Katherine (Kat) | Dr. E. Paul Zehr, Department of Island Medical Program | Improving strength and functional ability in the more affected arm by training the less affected arm after stroke | Neural plasticity; stroke; reflex; strength; crossed effect | Victoria |
| Lam, Sin Man (Charmaine) | Dr. Rita McCracken, Department of Family Practice | An observational cross-sectional survey of polypharmacy for frail elders living in residential care facilities in British Columbia: WiseMed baseline | Polypharmacy, Aging, De-prescribing, Nursing Homes, Pharmacology | Greater Vancouver - Richmond |
| Lee, Jong Min (John) | Dr. David Tu, Department of Family Practice | Retrospective cohort review of hepatitis C care cascade, from diagnosis to clearance, at an inner-city medical clinic in Vancouver | Injection Drug Use (IDU), Chronic hepatitis C, Barriers and facilitators, Treatment, Addiction | Vancouver |
| Lester, Robynn | Dr. Lori Brotto, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | What happens to genital pain symptoms in women two years following treatment in a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary vulvodynia program? | vulvodynia; genital pain; multidisciplinary treatment; gynecology; sexual medicine | Vancouver |
| Leung, Nicole | Dr. Rusung Tan, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Analysis of IL-17 and IFN-gamma dual secreting cytotoxic T lymphocytes in response to insulin stimulation in new-onset type I diabetes patients | type 1 diabetes; insulin response; cytotoxic T lymphocytes; autoimmune diseases; cytokine secretion | Vancouver |
| Levin, Gabrielle | Dr. John Falconer, Department of Medicine | Blinded comparison of Telehealth to in-person and telephonic patient consultation | Telehealth, Consultation, Telephonic, in-person, Diagnosis | Kelowna |
| Li, Xi Yuan (Angela) | Dr. Helene Cote, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Longitudinal changes in cell mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) quantity and quality following exposure to Efavirenz-based combination HIV antiretroviral therapy | mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), HIV combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), mutation, cell culture, pregnancy | Vancouver |
| Liu, Rachel | Dr. Brian Kwon, Department of Orthopaedics | Characterization of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory macrophage responses to acute spinal cord injury | SCI; Porcine model; M1/M2 Macrophage | Vancouver |
| Lobo, Anjali | Dr. Lee Ann Martin, Department of Medicine | Management of febrile neutropenia within a large geographical health authority: a participatory action research project | Febrile Neutropenia; Pre-Printed Orders; Regional Health Authority; Retrospective Chart Review; Quality Improvement | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Lohre, Ryan | Dr. Samaad Malik, Department of Surgery | The incidence of symptomatic bowel obstructions/incisional hernias post laparoscopic colorectal surgery: does laparoscopic surgery decrease the incidence of postoperative adhesions and its sequela? | Quality Assurance, Complications, Clinical Outcomes | Victoria |
| Lovatt, Catherine Anne (Kate) | Dr. Geoffrey Cundiff, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Determination of Experience of Sexual Improvement Related to trEatment: The DESIRE pilot study |
Pelvic floor dysfunction, Sexual function | Vancouver |
| Lui, Jordon | Dr. Patricia Mills, Department of Medicine | Efficacy of botulinum toxin for the treatment of spasticity in spinal cord injury: a systematic review | spasticity, management, spinal cord injury, botulinum toxin, systematic review | Vancouver |
| May, Curtis | Dr. Christopher Shaw, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | A comparison of the neurotoxicity of aluminum chloride and aluminum fluoride on NSC-34 motor neuron/neuroblastoma hybrids. | Aluminum fluoride, NSC-34 cells, Neurotoxicity, In vitro | Vancouver |
| McGinnis, Eric | Dr. Brad Nelson, Department of Medical Genetics | Role of CD4+ killer T cells in the immune response to ovarian cancer | ovarian cancer, T cells, prognosis, immunotherapy | Victoria |
| McLeod, Jane | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew, Department of Surgery | Liver cancer internet information: an evaluation of the usage of internet resources by patients with liver cancer and the quality of information available on the internet | Liver cancer, patient information, internet resources, evaluation tool | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Mejia-French, Adriana | Dr. Stirling Bryan, Department of School of Population & Public Health | Contraception access research team - contraception cost-effectiveness modelling | population-based survey; cost-effectiveness modelling; sexual health; contraception; universal subsidy | Vancouver |
| Minaker, Samuel | Dr. Allen Hayashi, Department of Surgery | Surgeon operated transabdominal ultrasound for the evaluation of intraabdominal adhesions by “visceral slide” | General Surgery, Safety, Ultrasound, Intraabdominal Adhesions, Visceral Slide | Victoria |
| Moghaddam, Nima | Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani, Department of Pediatrics | Using the SOLAR SVT registry to determine the efficacy of second-line therapeutic agents for refractory supraventricular tachycardia in infants | supraventricular tachycardia, antiarrhythmic medications, clinical registry, infants, outcomes | Vancouver |
| Nugent, Sean | Dr. Kristin Campbell, Department of Physical Therapy | The effects of exercise before doxorubicin chemotherapy on cardiac function | Exercise, Cardioprotection, Chemotherapy, Breast Cancer, Cardiotoxicity | Vancouver |
| Pogorzelec, Kathleen | Dr. Philip E. Lee, Department of Medicine | Ethnicity and dementia - a characterization of white matter disease and cognitive impairment | Dementia, White Matter Disease, Co-morbid risk factors, Ethnicity | Vancouver |
| Qiu, Lily Yu Long | Dr. Raymond W. Lam, Department of Psychiatry | Systematic assessment of occupational functioning in clients with depression in an EAP setting | depression, work functioning, productivity, Employee Assistance Program, outcomes | Vancouver |
| Rasool, Alysha | Dr. Amin Javer, Department of Surgery | The long-term safety of budesonide via mucosal atomization device for treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis | Pharmacodynamics, Budesonide, Chronic Rhinosinusitis, Safety, Quality of Life | Vancouver |
| Rhine, Brett | Dr. David Rhine, Department of Emergency Medicine | Establishing normative baseline data for age and gender for the King-Devick (K-D) test used as a sideline tool for assessment of sports-related concussion (SRC) | sports-related-concussion, hockey, testing, child, preventative health | Kelowna |
| Roberts, James | Dr. Bradley Quon, Department of Medicine | An evaluation of the impact of travel time to the St. Paul's Hospital adult cystic fibrosis (CF) clinic on access to care, medication use, and health outcomes | Quality improvement, Health Services, Cystic Fibrosis, Disparities, Rural health | Vancouver |
| Roden, Kelsey | Dr. Robert Olson, Department of Surgery | Impact of a multi-pronged intervention to improve the use of evidence based single fraction radiotherapy (SFRT) for bone metastases across six centres | single fraction radiotherapy, bone metastases, palliative care, health services delivery, multiple dose radiotherapy | Prince George |
| Sam, Davis | Dr. Winson Cheung, Department of Medicine | Efficacy and clinical use of vemurafenib and ipilimumab in a population-based cohort of metastatic melanoma patients | Vemurafenib, ipilimumab, melanoma, toxicity, eligibility | Vancouver |
| Sappong-Kumankumah, Antonia | Dr. Jeremy Penner, Department of Family Practice | Assessing early childhood nutrition practices and perspectives in rural Kenya | international health, early childhood nutrition, education workshops, knowledge translation | International - Kenya |
| Sarai, Karnjit | Dr. James Johnson, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | 14-3-3 proteins as novel regulators of beta-cell replication | cell cycle progression, subcellular localization, 14-3-3 proteins, microscopy, beta cells | Vancouver |
| Sawatzky, Lauren | Dr. Donna Lang, Department of Radiology | Manual segmentation of hippocampal volumes in chronic schizophrenia pre and post exercise | schizophrenia, hippocampus, neuroimaging, exercise | Vancouver |
| Sayson, Elizabeth | Dr. D. Douglas Cochrane, Department of Surgery | Intraoperative ultrasound concordance with immediate post-operative imaging - retrospective review | Intraoperative Ultrasound, Brain Tumor, Pediatric, Neurosurgery, Neuroimaging | Vancouver |
| Schmitt, Toby | Dr. William Honer, Department of Psychiatry | The impact of drug use on psychosis and viral infection in Vancouver's Downtown East Side | Psychosis, Cognition, Addiction, Infection, MRI | Vancouver |
| Schwartzentruber, Bennet (Ben) | Dr. Richard Bedell, Department of Family Practice | Evaluating community health worker’s nutritional knowledge and current practices for educating community members | global health, education, sustainability, nutrition | International - Uganda |
| Sepehri, Aresh | Dr. Demetrios Sirounis, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics | Evaluation of brachial flow mediated dilation assessment to predict postoperative delirium in patients undergoing cardiac surgery | Cardiac Surgery, Frailty, Endothelial Dysfunction, Flow Mediated Dilation, Outcome | Winnipeg |
| Sharma, Ashutosh (Ash) | Dr. Pearce Wilcox, Department of Medicine | Characterizing the evolution of changes in serum C-reactive protein and peripheral blood neutrophil count during the course of pulmonary exacerbation treatment |
Cystic Fibrosis, C-reactive Protein, Biomarker, Exacerbation, Neutrophil count | Vancouver |
| Shen, Li (Lucy) | Dr. John Oliver, Department of Orthopaedics | Review of clinical pathways of patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasties at Kelowna General Hospital | Orthopedics, Hip and Knee Arthroplasty, Clinical Research, Patient Care, Quality Improvement | Kelowna |
| Shevchuk, Olena (Helen) | Dr. Mohamed Bedaiwy, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Characterization of unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss: epidemiological and clinical features | unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss, assisted reproduction, chemical pregnancy, embryonic pregnancy, first trimester | Vancouver |
| Sidhu, Harmandeep (Harman) | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother, Department of Psychiatry | The prevalence and incidence of perinatal anxiety, related disorders and new mothers' thoughts of infant harm | Maternal mental health, Anxiety disorders, Perinatal mental health, Epidemiology, Prevalence, Incidence | Vancouver |
| Sidhu, Navdeep (Nav) | Dr. Dr. David Twist, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics | The effect of pain neurophysiology education and exercise on pain and disability scores in patients undergoing radiofrequency lesioning of medial branch nerves for lumbar facet joint pain | Chronic Pain, Neurophysiology Education, Exercise, Disability Scores, Lumbar Facet | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Skocylas, Rachel | Dr. Douglas Courtemanche, Department of Surgery | Perioperative fluid management in craniosynostosis surgery | craniosynostosis, surgery, fluid management, blood transfusion. | Vancouver |
| Steel, Michael (Mike) | Dr. Patrick Nahirney, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Ultrastructural analysis of post-synaptic densities in synapses of a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome | Fragile X-syndrome, Hippocampus, Synapse, Post-synaptic density, Electron microscopy | Victoria |
| Tabeshi, Raymond | Dr. Ash Singhal, Department of Surgery | Caregiver experiences in the surgical waiting room | Anxiety, Epilepsy, Oncology, Neurosurgery, Psychology | Vancouver |
| Tod, Sarah | Dr. Vincent Arockiasamy, Department of Pediatrics | The experience with bronchiolitis in the setting of a rural northern regional centre | Bronchiolitis, Respiratory syncytial virus, clinical profile, northern BC | Prince George |
| Tsui, Clara | Dr. Timothy J. Kieffer, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Engineering gut cells to produce insulin as diabetes therapy | Diabetes, insulin, GIP, K-cells, transgene | Vancouver |
| Tuet, Gigi | Dr. Ric Procyshyn, Department of Psychiatry | Understanding persistent antipsychotic polypharmacy (AP): a prevalent practice without evidence | Antipsychotic, Schizophrenia, Psychiatry | Vancouver |
| Vandenberg, Chelsea | Dr. Christine Wilson, Department of Radiology | Populating an epidemiological model for breast cancer using breast cancer screening data from British Columbia | Breast Cancer, Epidemiology, Health Policy, Cancer outcomes, Cancer Modeling | Kelowna |
| Villamayor, Anica | Dr. Lara Boyd, Department of Physical Therapy | Influence of learning intervention programs, specifically the Arrowsmith Program, on neuroplastic changes in children with learning disabilities | neuroplasticity, rehabilitation, learning, disability, imaging | Vancouver |
| Wang, Shirley | Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Department of Physical Therapy | Benefits of aerobic-based exercise training on functional neuroplasticity in vascular cognitive impairment | aging, exercise, brain activation, neuroimaging | Vancouver |
| Wong, Jordan | Dr. Sam Wiseman, Department of Surgery | Management of PET detected thyroid incidentalomas in British Columbia | Thyroid Cancer, PET, Incidentaloma, Ultrasound, Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy | Vancouver |
| Wong, Kristie | Dr. Ronald G Barr, Department of Pediatrics | Crying doll babysitting study: female and male adolescents | Crying, Soothing, Frustration, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Randomized Controlled Trial | Vancouver |
| Wong, Stephanie | Dr. Bonita Sawatzky, Department of Orthopaedics | The biomechanics, safety and confidence of using a SmartDrive for wheelchair propulsion | Wheelchair propulsion, power assist, biomechanics, Smartwheel, safety | Vancouver |
| Xu, Jie (Janet) | Dr. Delbert Dorscheid, Department of Medicine | Expression and role of FcERI and FcERII in airways of asthmatics during allergic response | Asthma, airway epithelium, allergy, inflamation | Vancouver |
| Yin, Zhongheng (John) | Dr. Todd Woodward, Department of Psychiatry | The functional connectome: hallucinations | Hallucinations, fMRI, functional neuroimaging, schizophrenia | Vancouver |
| Yoon, Cassandra | Dr. Kathryn Selby, Department of Pediatrics | Bi-level positive airway pressure assisted breath stacking in neuromuscular disease (BABS-NMD) | muscular dystrophy, Breath Stacking, Glossopharyngeal Breathing, Respiratory Infection, Assisted Cough | Vancouver |
| Yu, Adam | Dr. Jacqueline Quandt, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Immunocytochemical and immunohistochemical staining of tissues isolated from models of multiple sclerosis | neuropathology, neuroimmunology, immunohistochemistry, multiple sclerosis, neuroprotection | Vancouver |
| Zarbafian, Misha Adam | Dr. Jan Dutz, Department of Dermatology & Skin Science | Ultraviolet light mediated induction of systemic lupus erythematosus | Interferon alpha, follicular T cells, cell death, autoantibodies, lupus | Vancouver |
| Zhang, Christina | Dr. Ipek Oruc, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Effects of high-level visual adaptation on human observers’ ability to interpret body language | visual perception; adaptation aftereffects, body language; posture recognition | Vancouver |
| Zhang, Kevin | Dr. Jian Ye, Department of Surgery | Change pattern of serum creatinine following transapical aortic valve implantation and its clinical impact on early and late patient outcomes | transapical approach; transcatheter aortic valve implantation; creatinine; aortic stenosis; renal insufficiency | Vancouver |
| Zhong, Ellia Ziying | Dr. Kirk R. Schultz, Department of Pediatrics | IL-7 down-stream signaling pathway in normal T-cells and acute lymphoblastic leukemia | T-cells, YB-1, IL-7R, signaling, leukemia | Vancouver |
| Zhu, Maria | Dr. Jason Barton, Department of Medicine | Disentangling the neuronal representations of facial identity and expression within the face perception network: an ssVEP approach | Face perception, identity, expression, ssVEP, functional dynamics | Vancouver |
| Zhuang, Meiying | Dr. Eric Tony Accili, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Control of pacemaker channel opening by putative antagonists of cyclic AMP | cardiac, pacemaker, ion channel | Vancouver |
| Student Name | Supervisor Name | Project Title | Keywords | Project City/Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agha, Maurice | Dr. Stuart Smith, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Assessing the effectiveness of multimedia learning tools in patient education during the pre-cataract surgery consultation | cataracts, cataract surgery, multimedia, patient education, consent, iPad | Vancouver |
| Aminoltejari, Khatereh | Dr. Christopher Honey, Department of Surgery | Establishment of a standard measure for success of deep brain stimulation surgery in patients with treatment-resistant Parkinson's disease | Parkinson's disease, deep brain stimulation, outcome, tremor, quality of life | Vancouver |
| Baerg, Lauren | Dr. Roxana Geoffrion, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Pregnancy-associated pelvic floor health knowledge and reduction of symptoms: the prepared trial | Patient education, pelvic floor health | Vancouver |
| Bahji, Anees | Dr. Paul Clarkson, Department of Orthopaedics | Identification of independent risk factors for allogeneic blood transfusions in patients undergoing resection of a large bone of soft tissue sarcoma | Sarcoma resection; allogeneic tranfusion; risk factor; bone and soft tissue | Vancouver |
| Belle, Jessica | Dr. Maureen Ashe, Department of Family Practice | Preventing diabetes with facilitated lifestyle intervention prescriptions (FLIP) | Primary Care; Preventive Care; Behaviour Change; Randomized Controlled Trial. | Vancouver |
| Bond, Alexandra | Dr. Janine Davies, Department of Medicine | The role of specific metastatic sites and their treatment as a prognostic factor of extensive stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) | Small cell lung cancer, metastasis, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, prognosis | Kelowna |
| Boyer, Courtney | Dr. Bill Nelems, Department of Surgery | Validation of CPAC lung cancer model based on the data from the lung cancer patients in the interior health catchment area | Lung Cancer, Microsimulation, Thoracic Surgery | Kelowna |
| Braybrook, Heather | Dr. G. Michael Downing, Department of Family Practice | Case series study in the use of lidocaine infusion for management of complex acute and neuropathic pain in palliative patients | lidocaine, pain control, palliative, effectiveness | Victoria |
| Cavazzi, Elena | Dr. Agnes Lee, Department of Medicine | The impact of a standardized protocol on thromboprophylaxis, venous thromboembolism and bleeding rates in hospitalized patients with hematological malignancies | thromboprophylaxis, compliance, leukemia, bleeding, venous thromboembolism | Vancouver |
| Chahal, Daljeet | Dr. Brian Toyota, Department of Surgery | Surgical resection of metastatic brain tumors as a singular curative intervention | brain tumor, surgery, metastatic, stereotactic radiosurgery | Vancouver |
| Chan, Alex | Dr. Hamza Khan, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Astigmatism correction in eyes with multifocal vs monofocal IOL- a quality of vision and satisfaction study | astigmatism, Toric, multifocal, monofocal, IOL | |
| Chan, Fat-Chung | Dr. Paul James Mackenzie, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Evaluation of compressive sampling optical coherence tomography as a diagnostic tool for vitreoretinal disorders | Optical Coherence Tomography, Vitreoretinal Disorder, Age-related Macular Degeneration, Retina, Clinical | Vancouver |
| Chan, Ka Hong | Dr. Kevin Harris, Department of Pediatrics | Effects of coarctation stenting on blood pressure and aortic flow properties in children | coarctation of the aorta, cardiac catheterization, exercise, children | Vancouver |
| Chan, Yui Ling Elaine | Dr. S. Evelyn Stewart, Department of Psychiatry | Neuroimaging brain markers of genetic risk in childhood-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder | obsessive-compulsive disorder, neuroimaging, genetics, endophenotype, cognition, pediatric | Vancouver |
| Chang, Joyce Yuan-Chia | Dr. Chinten James Lim, Department of Pediatrics | Role of cell adhesion in development of chemotherapeutic resistance in leukemias | cell adhesion, chemoresistance, cell death and survival, integrins, leukemia. | Vancouver |
| Chehroudi, Ali Cyrus | Dr. Bruce Verchere, Department of Surgery | Role of interleukin-1ß in human islet amyloid polypeptide-induced pancreatic islet graft dysfunction | Diabetes, islet transplantation, amyloid, inflammation | Vancouver |
| Cheng, Vicky | Dr. Richard Bedell, Department of Family Practice | Assessing early childhood nutrition practices in rural Uganda | global health, early childhood nutrition, education, sustainability | International - Uganda |
| Cheng-Hsiang Lu | Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff, Department of Surgery | Promoting regeneration and recovery after spinal cord injury with gene therapy and stem cell transplantation | spinal cord injury, axon regeneration, motor recovery, cell transplantation, gene therapy | Vancouver |
| Cheung, Adrienne | Dr. Anita Palepu, Department of Medicine | Substance dependence and health care utilization among homeless persons in a housing first intervention trial | substance dependence, homelessness, Housing First, health care utilization, randomized trial | Vancouver |
| Chiu, Michelle | Dr. John Mark Ansermino, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Diagnosing pneumonia with the phone oximeter | Pneumonia, Respiratory Rate, Mobile Application, Diagnosis, Pediatric | Vancouver |
| Choi, Jung-In | Dr. Barbara Mintzes, School of Population & Public Health | Pharmaceutical sales representatives and patient safety: pilot study of primary care physicians serving immigrant populations | primary care, pharmaceutical promotion, prescribing decisions, patient safety, information quality | Vancouver |
| Chu, Lu | Dr. Pippa Hawley , Department of Medicine | Minimally invasive palliative procedures in oncology: a review of a multidisciplinary collaboration | Cancer; Pain; Interventional; Radiology; Anesthesia. | Vancouver |
| Daniel Raff | Dr. Vincent Duronio, Department of Medicine | Role of eEF2K in macrophage skewing and it's effect on atherosclerosis | Atherosclerosis, Macrophage, Kinase, Protein Translation, Gene Expression, oxLDL | Vancouver |
| Deschner, Kurt | Dr. Blair Stanley, Department of Family Practice | Interim outcomes and future directions of the rural education action plan high school strategy initiative | Recruitment strategies, analysis, rural healthcare | Victoria |
| Duncan, Donovan Curtis | Dr. Trevor Corneil, School of Population & Public Health | Impact of the DSM V criteria changes on the ASRS-assessed prevalence of Adult ADHD | Adult ADHD, DSM V, DSM IV, ASRS, Psychiatry | Kelowna |
| Elliott-Gordo, Stefanie | Dr. Ronald G Barr, Department of Pediatrics | Crying doll soothing study: mothers and fathers | Crying, Soothing, Frustration, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Randomized Controlled Trial | Vancouver |
| Fingrut, Warren | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | The role of galectins in modulating B cell receptor signaling | Galectins, receptor signaling, receptor mobility, lymphocyte activation | Vancouver |
| Forbes, Connor | Dr. Peter Black, Department of Urologic Sciences | Isolation of circulating tumor cells from patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer: microfluidics vs. cellsearch | prostate cancer; circulating tumor cells; microfluidic cell separation; epithelial-to-mesenchymal transit'n | Vancouver |
| Fung, Carlen Ka-Yin | Dr. Patricia Mills, Department of Medicine | Transcranial electrical stimulation for management of orthostatic instability in acute cervical spinal cord injury | spinal cord injury, cardiovascular, orthostatic hypotension, transcranial electrical stimulation, cognition | Vancouver |
| Gill, Gurjot | Dr. Daniel Holmes, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Immuno-MALDI detection of analogue insulins for the diagnosis of spontaneous hypoglycemia | Insulin, C-peptide, Hypoglycemia, insulinoma, factitious | Vancouver |
| Gill, Pavandeep | Dr. Aziz Ghahary, Department of Surgery | Genetically modified skin cell therapy prevents development of alopecia areata | Alopecia areata, skin cell therapy | Vancouver |
| Hamel, Emily Michaela Holmes | Dr. Peter von Dadelszen, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Collaborative integrated pregnancy high-dependency estimate of risk: cipher study. a clinical prediction model for critically ill pregnant women | maternal morbidity, critical care, pregnancy, post-partum, management of high-risk pregnant women | Greater Vancouver - New Westminster |
| Hicks, Riley | Dr. Paul Winwood, Department of Medicine | The effect of versican and ADAMTS enzyme knockdown in hepatic stellate cell activation | Proteoglycan, ADAMTS, Liver fibrosis | Prince George |
| Ho, Amanzo (Ang Chien) | Dr. Alasdair Barr, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | A longitudinal comparison of aripiprazole vs. quetiapine on adiposity using MRI | Antipsychotic, Clinical Trial, Schizophrenia, MRI Imaging, Psychiatry | Vancouver |
| Ho, Pak To | Dr. Geoffrey Blair, Department of Surgery | Photovoice: engaging youth in rural Uganda in articulating health priorities through participatory action research | rural, youth, community, engagement, qualitative | Vancouver |
| Hoffman, Leia | Dr. Carl Birmingham, Department of Psychiatry | LORETA scans in anorexia nervosa | Anorexia nervosa, LORETA, EEG, Case control | Vancouver Island |
| Hoskin, Kurt | Dr. Christopher Baliski, Department of Surgery | Outcomes analysis of breast reconstruction in the southern interior of British Columbia | Breast reconstruction, outcomes, utilization, quality assurance, oncology | Kelowna |
| Hosseini, Sandra | Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin, Department of Family Practice | Piloting and evaluating cancer screening promotion tools in preventive workshops for previously incarcerated individuals | cancer screening, community-based participatory research, preventive health, prison health and data analysis | Vancouver |
| Huang, Xinyang | Dr. Peter Tsz-Lung Choi, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | External validation of a risk index for prediction of massive transfusion in liver transplantation at Vancouver General Hospital | prediction; observational study; perioperative medicine; transfusion medicine; liver transplantation | Vancouver |
| Hughson, Luke | Dr. Robert Olson, Department of Surgery | Investigating bottlenecks and barriers to cancer diagnosis, service delivery and survivorship care in rural aboriginal communities: population-based exploration in a model island community | cancer, epidemiology, Aboriginal, retrospective, rural | Haida Gwaii and Prince George |
| Hung, Yi-Hsuan Amy | Dr. Jolanda Cibere, Department of Medicine | The effect of body mass index (BMI) on knee swelling: deciphering the role of inflammation in osteoarthritis | Osteoarthritis, BMI, Knee Swelling, Inflmmation, MRI | Greater Vancouver - Richmond |
| Jia, Lingsa | Dr. Wendy Norman, Department of Family Practice | Better contraceptive choices for marginalized women: immediate vs. interval insertion of intrauterine contraception after second trimester abortion | Clinical research, randomized controlled trial, contraception, women's health, interprofessional team | Vancouver |
| Johal, Gurinder | Dr. Jagbir Gill, Department of Medicine | The impact of mycophenolic acid (MPA) dose reductions on post-transplant outcomes in kidney transplant patients who do not receive maintenance corticosteroids | kidney transplantation, immunosuppression, steroid avoidance, acute rejection, graft loss | Vancouver |
| Kerr, (John) Mike | Dr. Ash Singhal, Department of Surgery | Multi-practitioner ocular childhood health assessment | Optic disk, fundoscopy, pediatric, clinical examination, quality improvement initiative. | Vancouver |
| Khosravi, Touraj | Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, Department of Psychiatry | Identification of genetic risk-factors for antipsychotic drug side-effects | Genomics, Antipsychotics, Schizophrenia, Side-effects, Personalized medicine | Vancouver |
| Kim, David Sanghyuck | Dr. Brad Nelson, Department of Medical Genetics | Personalized therapeutic vaccines for ovarian cancer | Personalized Vaccine, Ovarian Cancer, Tumor Specific Mutations | Vancouver |
| King, Shannon | Dr. Sarah Gray, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Identifying novel neuroendocrine factors in body weight regulation: role of PACAP in energy metabolism | Obesity, neuropeptide, energy expenditure, thermogenesis, hypothalamus | Prince George |
| Ku, Jerry Chieh-An | Dr. William D. Regan, Department of Orthopaedics | Long head biceps tendon pathology and correlation with clinical outcomes after biceps tenodesis | Biceps tendon, shoulder, tendinopathy, biceps tenodesis, classification, orthopaedics | Vancouver |
| Kwon, Michelle | Dr. Timothy J. Kieffer, Department of Medicine | Investigating the mechanism of leptin therapy in type 1 diabetes | diabetes, leptin, metabolic control, gluconeogenesis, adipose | Vancouver |
| Lamarche, Michelle | Dr. Kathy Jones, Department of Family Practice | Defining best practice models of community health worker training programs in rural india through a comprehensive literature review | maternal health, adolescent health, community health workers training, rural India, literature review | |
| Lee, Chen Yu | Dr. Kurt Haas, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | How do brain neurons encode synaptic input?: model for neurodevelopmental disorders | brain, development, imaging, Autism, neurology | Vancouver |
| Lee, Dong Ho | Dr. A. Jane Roskams, Department of Psychiatry | Discovering neural stem cells with novel phenotypes within the spinal cord central canal through gene expression analysis | neural progenitors, gene expression, bioinformatics, immunofluorescence microscopy | Vancouver |
| Lee, Kelsey | Dr. Pascal M. Lavoie, Department of Pediatrics | Genetic variability in the secretion of IL-1ß | SNPs, IL-1b, human, caspase-1 | Vancouver |
| Lee, Kevin Kang Dae | Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Exacerbation of H1N1 influenza infection with inhaled steroids in primary epithelial cells from asthma patients: clarification of primary treatment strategies during pandemic influenza seasons | Asthma, Airway Epithelium, H1N1 (Flu), Steroids, Exacerbation | Vancouver |
| Lee, Vernon | Dr. Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, Department of Medicine | Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarkers of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) | dementia, biomarkers, ELISA assays, MRI brain imaging, vascular cognitive impairment | Vancouver |
| Lee, Yuen Hang | Dr. Deborah MONEY, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | The vaginal microbiome project | Clinical genomics, vaginal microbiome, metagenomics, women's health, reproductive health | Vancouver |
| Leena Chen | Dr. Todd Woodward, Department of Psychiatry | The functional connectome: hallucinations | Hallucinations, fMRI, functional neuroimaging, schizophrenia | Vancouver |
| Leung , Alvina Pui Kiu | Dr. Jeffrey Eppler, Department of Emergency Medicine | Descriptive epidemiology of falls in older adults in the Okanagan | Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics, Falls, Epidemiology | Kelowna/Okanagan |
| Li, Alexander | Dr. Mary Connolly, Department of Pediatrics | Physiological changes in L-(+)-Beta-Hydrobutyrate levels in medically refractory epileptic patients treated with an anticonvulsant ketogenic diet | Epilepsy, beta-hydrobutyrate, ketogenic diet, neurology, seizure control, ketone. | Vancouver |
| Li, Calvin Ho Ming | Dr. Lynn Raymond, Department of Medicine | Mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in Huntington disease | striatum, medium-sized spiny neurons, western blot, cell survival signaling, glutamate receptors | Vancouver |
| Li, Xi Yuan | Dr. Kevin John McElwee, Department of Dermatology & Skin Science | The association of hair loss diseases with heart dysfunction | alopecia areata, cardiac troponin I, androgenetic alopecia, heart disease | Vancouver |
| Lin, Ann Hsu-An | Dr. Pearce Wilcox, Department of Medicine | Understanding barriers to medication adherence in adults with cystic fibrosis | Cystic Fibrosis, Medication Adherence, Barriers, Patient Knowledge, Chronic Disease Management | Vancouver |
| Liu, Victor | Dr. Steinbok Paul , Department of Surgery | Craniofacial self image and well being after non-syndromic, single suture craniosynostosis treatment in infancy: a long-term outcome study | Craniosynostosis, pediatric, adolescent, long-term follow-up, self image | Vancouver |
| Lo, Ada Teng Ian | Dr. P. Terry Phang , Department of Surgery | Evaluating quality of life after surgical rectal cancer treatment in Canada and China | Quality of Life, Rectal Cancer, cultural influence, colorectal surgery | International - China |
| Lohre, Ryan | Dr. Samaad Malik, Department of Surgery | Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and staple line leaks: does bougie size matter? | Clinical Outcomes, Complications, Quality Assurance, Prospective | Victoria |
| Lu, Meng Ying | Dr. Helene Cote, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Exploring the relationship between age, HIV infection and somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations point mutations | Mitochondrial DNA mutations, aging, deep sequencing, HIV | Vancouver |
| Martin, Georgina | Dr. Michelle Demos, Department of Pediatrics | Epilepsy gene panel in children with epilepsy | Pediatric Epilepsy, seizures, epilepsygenepanel, medical genetics, DNA | Vancouver |
| McGuinness, Brandon McGuinness | Dr. Harley Kurata, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Electrophysiological defects in snyder-robinson syndrome | Snyder-Robinson Syndrome, Potassium channel, Genetic disease, X-linked retardation | Vancouver |
| Mebel, Dmitry | Dr. Alana Flexman, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | The efficacy and safety of tranexamic acid in complex neurosurgical procedures: a retrospective cohort study | tranexamic acid, blood loss, blood transfusion, retrosigmoid tumour, complex meningioma | Vancouver |
| Ming, Wendy | Dr. Martin McKeown, Department of Medicine | Sensitivity of visual contrast to motion in Parkinson’s disease | Parkinson's disease, contrast sensitivity, visual deficits, psychophysics | Vancouver |
| Miyashiro, Jessa | Dr. Saraswathi Vedam, Department of Family Practice | MAPi: movement and pulse index | fetal monitoring, fetal movement, non-stress testing, fetal health, auscultated acceleration test | Vancouver |
| Morch, Kristin | Dr. John (Jack) Oliver, Department of Orthopaedics | Review of clinical management of patients with fractures at the hip at the Kelowna General Hospital | Orthopedics, Clinical, Statistics, Patient Care, Hip Fractures, Wait Times | Kelowna |
| Or, Chi Mong Christopher | Dr. Farzin Forooghian, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | The role of the aberrant protease activity and chronic, sub-clinical inflammation in the outer retina in an in vitro model of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) | vision, AMD, retina, inflammation, matrix metalloproteinases, drusen | Vancouver |
| Parhar, Dennis | Dr. Colin Mar, Department of Radiology | An audit on setting community standards in stereotactic core breast biopsy performance in the lower mainland | stereotactic, core, breast, biopsy, cancer | Vancouver |
| Phang, Michael | Dr. Douglas Courtemanche, Department of Surgery | K-mouse clinical ß test | K-Mouse, operating room, radiological images. | Vancouver |
| Pitcher, Ian | Dr. Carolyn Taylor, Department of Medicine | Examination of the prevalence and plaque morphology of coronary artery disease in asymptomatic South Asians versus non-South Asians | atherosclerosis, coronary CT angiography, cross-ethnic analysis | Vancouver |
| Plecash, Alyson | Dr. Blair Leavitt, Department of Medical Genetics | The feasibility and safety of aquatherapy for symptomatic mangement of Huntington's disease | Aquatherapy, bradykinesia, mood, Huntington's Disease | Vancouver |
| Purssell, Elizabeth | Dr. Jeffrey Brubacher, Department of Emergency Medicine | Post collision interviews with injured drivers | Road trauma, motor vehicle crashes, human behavior, alcohol impaired driving, drug impaired driving | Vancouver |
| Rashidi, Anita | Dr. Lyne Filiatrault, Department of Emergency Medicine | Can triage nurse initiated radiographs in accordance with the Ottawa ankle rule shorten emergency department length of stay at a tertiary care center? | Ankle, Emergency, Overcrowding, Radiographs, Nurse | Vancouver |
| Rasool Javaheri, Khodadad (Kody) | Dr. Winson Cheung, Department of Medicine | Causes of urban-rural disparities in surgical therapy, radiation therapy and adjuvant chemotherapy for lung cancer | Lung Cancer, Community Size, Adjuvant Chemotherapy, Driving Distance, Travel Time | Vancouver |
| Samuels, Joel | Dr. Carl Brown, Department of Surgery | Incisional hernias and bowel obstruction after open vs laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer | Colon Cancer, Surgical Oncology, Clinical Outcomes, Retrospective Study, Laparoscopic Surgery | Vancouver |
| Schmitt, Toby | Dr. Geoff Smith, Department of Psychiatry | Vancouver's downtown eastside: co-occurring psychosis, addiction and viral infection | Addiction, Psychosis, MRI, Cognition, Infection | Vancouver |
| Sepehri, Aresh | Dr. Demetrios Sirounis, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Evaluation of brachial flow mediated dilation assessment to predict postoperative delirium in patients undergoing cardiac surgery | Cardiac Surgery, Frailty, Endothelial Function, Flow Mediated Dilation, Outcome | Winnipeg |
| Seyedin, Sam | Dr. Yu Tian Wang, Department of Medicine | Assessment of the neuroprotective effects of the TAT-NR2Bct-CTs peptide in a Kainic acid induced model of excitotoxic neuronal death | Brain, Seizure, Excitotoxicity, Neurodegeneration, Peptides | Vancouver |
| Shen, Yiting | Dr. Dan Rurak, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Preclinical studies in pregnant sheep of the ph probeinc device for monitoring of pH and ECG in human fetuses during labour | fetal pH measurement, fetal hypoxia, labor and delivery, pregnant sheep | Vancouver |
| Sidhu, Kamal | Dr. David Kendler, Department of Medicine | Osteoporosis risk in patients attending diabetes education centres | Osteoporosis, FRAX, Diabetes Education Centres | Vancouver |
| Smith, Martha | Dr. Guy Tanentzapf, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Analyzing muscle maintenance and degeneration in a genetic model organism | Cell-ECM Adhesion, Integrins, Myopathy, Drosophila | Vancouver |
| Tadrous, Carol | Dr. Joanne Matsubara, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Variants in the complement factor H gene is associated with overexpression of pro-inflammatory mediators in the retina of the post-mortem human eye | AMD, retina, geographic atrophy, RPE, choroid, immune response, complement system. | Vancouver |
| Tourigny, Katherine | Dr. Cheryl Wellington, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy | Vascular health in Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's Disease, cerebrovasculature, apoA-I, Abeta, endothelial health | Vancouver |
| Toyota, Eric | Dr. Stephen Yip, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Profiling of the Brachyury single-nucleotide variant (rs2305089) in spine chordoma specimens from the international collaborative consortium | Oncology, spine tumour, chordoma, transcription factor, sequencing, SNP | Vancouver |
| Tucker, Emma Katherine | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother, Department of Psychiatry | New mothers' thoughts of harm: prevalence and relation to OCD and child harm | Intrusive ideation; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Postpartum; Child harm | Victoria |
| Tuet, Gigi | Dr. Ric Procyshyn, Department of Psychiatry | Understanding persistent antipsychotic polypharmacy: a prevalent practice without evidence | Antipsychotic, Schizophrenia, Psychiatry | Vancouver |
| Van Slyke, Aaron Christopher | Dr. Daniel Wong, Department of Surgery | Patient-centered outcomes following flap reconstruction of sternal wound infection defects: a systematic review | Surgical flaps; Cardiac surgical procedures; Sternal wound infection; Reconstructive surgical procedures; Review | Greater Vancouver - New Westminster |
| van Wyk, Kim | Dr. Andrea Townson, Department of Medicine | Improving nursing confidence levels to teach spinal cord injury patients about neurogenic bowel management | pinal cord injury, nursing education, patient education, neurogenic bowel, interdisciplinary team | Vancouver |
| Wang, Sarah | Dr. Jean-Pierre Chanoine, Department of Pediatrics | Autonomic dysfunction and inflammation in childhood obesity | Obesity, Autonomic Nervous System, Inflammation, Resting Energy Expenditure. | Vancouver |
| Wang, Shirley | Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose , Department of Physical Therapy | Central benefit of exercise on mobility | aging, mobility, exercise, executive functions, neuroimaging | Vancouver |
| Wang, Yun Fan | Dr. Miriam Spering, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Investigating eye movements in patients with Parkinson’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) | vision, eye movements, Parkinson’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, PSP | Vancouver |
| Watson, Stephen Faraday | Dr. Mike Ertel, Department of Emergency Medicine | Emergency room burden associated with ski and snowboard injuries: is there a better way? | Emergency Medicine, Cost Analysis, Skiing, Snowboarding | Kelowna/Okanagan |
| Wendel, Colten Lee | Dr. Glen Ratzlaff, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Rosuvastatin and atorvastatin use in the diabetic population to prevent the progression of diabetic retinopathy | diabetes, retinopathy, atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, neovascularization | Kelowna |
| Wong, Chrison | Dr. Donna Lang, Department of Radiology | Effects of exercise on symptom severity in chronic schizophrenia | MRI, Exercise, Mental Illness, Brain, Cognition | Vancouver |
| Wu, Che Hsuan David | Dr. Karen Goddard, Department of Surgery | Long-term follow up of adult survivors of childhood cancer: Canadian patterns of practice | Childhood cancer survivor, long term follow up. | Vancouver |
| Xu, Jie | Dr. Delbert R Dorscheid, Department of Medicine | Effect of viral infections on IL-33 and ST2 regulation in airway epithelial cells. | Airway Epithelium, RSV, IL-33, ST2 receptor, Inflammation | Vancouver |
| Yamada, Andrew | Dr. Peter O'Brien, Department of Orthopaedics | Quality of life and functional outcome of non-geriatric (ages 18-60) femoral neck fractures | trauma, non-geriatric, hip fracture, femoral neck fracture, quality of life, functional outcome | Vancouver |
| Yang, Shun Wei | Dr. Donald Sin, Department of Medicine | The bacterial microbiome "gut-lung" axis effect on acute lung injury and inflammation | Bacteria, Microbiome, lung inflammation, systemic inflammation, sequencing | Vancouver |
| Yee, Ruby | Dr. Allen Hayashi, Department of Surgery | Individualization of bowel preparation procedures for colonoscopy | Colonoscopy, Bowel preparation, cancer screening | Victoria |
| Yi, Tae Won | Dr. Brian E. Grunau, Department of Emergency Medicine | Necrotizing fasciitis and the sensitivity of creatine kinase | "necrotizing fasciitis", cellulitis, "creatine kinase" | Vancouver |
| Yip, Raymond Hon Leung | Dr. Lynda Foltz, Department of Medicine | Barriers to diagnosis in myeloproliferative neoplasms | primary myelofibrosis, myeloproliferative neoplasms, polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, diagnosis | Vancouver |
| Yoo, Jaeyun | Dr. Martin Dawes, Department of Family Practice | Creating optimal clinical decision support and risk assessment for patient-centered genome-informed primary care | Primary Care, Electronic Health Record, Clinical Decision Support, Personalized Medicine. | Vancouver |
| Young , Ada Ga Hei | Dr. Tim O'Connor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Stimulating axonal sprouting and new branch formation in the intact nervous system in vivo | neuron, plasticity, sprouting, axon consolidation | Vancouver |
| Yu, Irene | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew, Department of Surgery | Ovarian cancer internet information: an evaluation of the usage of internet resources by patients with ovarian cancer and the quality of information available on the internet | Ovarian cancer, patient information, internet resources, evaluation tool | Greater Vancouver - Surrey |
| Zhang, Javi | Dr. Eric Jan, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | MicroRNA-mediated regulation of +1 frameshifting in the antizyme mRNA | translation, polyamines, RNA, frameshifting, microRNA | Vancouver |
| Zhao, Zheng Yu | Dr. Laura Sly, Department of Pediatrics | Using regulatory macrophages to treat inflammatory bowel disease | Macrophages, regulatory macrophages, inflammatory bowel disease, inflammation, intestine | Vancouver |