Twelve members of the Faculty of Medicine have received Michael Smith Foundation Health Research (MSFHR) Scholar Awards.
The MSFHR Scholar Program is designed to support early career health researchers who are building leading-edge health research programs, training junior scientists and expanding their potential to make significant contributions to their field.
The 2018 recipients and their project titles are:
- Andrea Krüsi, School of Population and Public Health, “A Program of Research on Criminalization of Sexuality , HIV and Incarceration Among Marginalized Women”
- Anne Gadermann, School of Population and Public Health, “Mental Health Trajectories of Immigrant and Refugee Children: An Ecological Population-Based Approach”
- Babak Shadgan, Department of Orthopaedics, “Development of a Novel Biophotonics Method to Improve Treatment and Neurological Outcomes in Acute Spinal Cord Injury”
- Brodie Sakakibara, Chronic Disease Prevention Program, Southern Medical Program, “Innovation Uses of Technology to Prevent Secondary Events After Stroke”
- Gillian Hanley, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, “Population-Based ‘Big-Data’ Research to Improve Women’s Health”
- Ma’en Obeidat, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, “Integrative Genomics to Identify Novel Therapeutics and Biomarkers for COPD”
- Manish Sadarangani, Department of Pediatrics, “Prevention of Severe Bacterial Infections in Children by Optimizing Protection through Vaccination”
- M Eugenia Socias, Division of AIDS, “Optimizing Care for Opioid Disorder in British Columbia”
- Mohammad Karim, School of Population and Public Health, “A Casual Inference Framework for Analyzing Large Administrative Healthcare Databases with a Focus on Multiple Sclerosis”
- Rachel Murphy, School of Population and Public Health, “Studying the Role of Modifiable Risk Factors: Nutrition and Body Weight for the Prevention of Cancer”
- Shannon Kolind, Division of Neurology, “Imaging Repair: Developing and Applying Unconventional Neuroimaging Methods for Quantitative Assessment of Tissue Health”
- Skye Barbic, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, “Improving Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Outcomes Through Primary-Care Based Health Services”