Faculty of medicine students, faculty and staff are among the recipients of Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Award from UBC Health.
HIFI Awards enable interdisciplinary groups of health researchers to undertake innovative activities that have the potential to create change. HIFI catalyzes cross-faculty and cross-campus collaborations at the UBC Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
Faculty of medicine recipients and their projects:
General Stream
Advancing data-driven rural unattached patient personas development: A person-centred design to inform preventative solutions
- Jason Sutherland, School of Population and Public Health
An environmental scan to promote effective communication for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing and live in BC long-term care facilities
- Julie Beadle, Diana Cochrane, Lorienne Jenstad, Grace Shyng, Jeff Small, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
- Shannon Freeman, Northern Medical Program
Catalyzing multimodal magnetoencephalography (MEG) research on children’s brain health and development
- Deborah Giaschi, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Anthony Herdman, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
- Akosua Kesewah Asare, Neuroscience Program
- Tamara Vanderwal, Department of Psychiatry
Developing quantitative ultrasound imaging for organ inflammation and fibrosis
- Mei-Lin Bissonnette, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Yasmin Lau, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Kelly McNagny, Department of Medical Genetics
- Christopher Nguan, Department of Urologic Sciences
- Maziar Riazy, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Tim Salcudean, Michael Hughes, Kristin Li, School of Biomedical Engineering,
- Rohit Singla, School of Biomedical Engineering
Promoting active school travel in the BC Interior
- Mariana Brussoni, Department of Pediatrics and School of Population and Public Health
- Trent Smith, Southern Medical Program and Department of Pediatrics
- Brianna Tsui, Experimental Medicine Program, Department of Medicine
- Christine Voss, Department of Pediatrics
Young people with old muscles: Mapping the decline of muscle health in musculoskeletal conditions
- Michael Koehle, Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Family Practice
- Justin Losciale, Rehabilitation Sciences Program
- Fabio Rossi, School of Biomedical Engineering
- Marine Theret, School of Biomedical Engineering
- Jackie Whittaker, Department of Physical Therapy
Team-Based Care Stream
Automated detection of Alzheimer’s Disease from retinal fundus images using deep learning
- Ipek Oruc, and Sonia Yeung, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Robin Hsiung, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Building capacity for team-based social prescribing in British Columbia
- Maureen Ashe, Sanya Grover, Christie Newton, Gurkirat Singh Nijjar, Robert Petrella, Department of Family Practice
- Bill Miller, Ben Mortensen, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
- Joseph Puyat, School of Population and Public Health
- Brodie Sakakibara, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Southern Medical Program,
Development of a serious game educational resource on chronic pelvic pain in gynecology for Canadian health care providers-in-training
- Natasha Orr, Paul Yong, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Karim Qayumi, Department of Surgery
HIFI Award: $25,000
Optimizing team-integrated primary care for older adults
- Edwin Betinol, Department of Physical Therapy
- Vanessa Kitchin, Southern Medical Program
- Diane Villanyi, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine
Soft robotics, nanotech and the next technological leap of treating erectile dysfunction
- Ryan Flannigan, Department of Urologic Sciences