Department Spotlight: Renmart Buhay

RENMART BUHAY
LEAD RESEARCH ASSISTANT


Site:
New Westminster – Royal Columbian Hospital Surrey Memorial Hospital

Renmart Buhay, Lead Research Assistant with UBC’s Department of Emergency Medicine.

How long have you worked in the Department/UBC?

I have been working with the Department of Emergency Medicine since December 2021.

Can you summarize what you do in the Department?

I am currently a lead research research assistant at Fraser Health hospital sites (Surrey Memorial Hospital and Royal Columbian Hospital) for the ATICO study led by Dr. Jeff Brubacher. The study identifies risk factors for the long-term health outcomes of injured active transportation (pedestrians, cyclists and micro-mobility device) users. This includes examining the road infrastructure details and participants injury circumstances.

My role involves screening and interviewing participants at EDs across multiple hospital sites and documenting accident locations using Google Maps. These accident location screenshots will then be shared with city planners and traffic safety engineers. I initially started as a research assistant for the National Drug Driving Study but transitioned fully onto the ATICO  study after working on the pilot study at Vancouver General Hospital.

I have also been involved in various systematic and media reviews for our research team, and I manage a Twitter account for our road safety and public health research team where I post content about our lab’s research projects and the current research/news in the field of road safety.

What is your favourite thing about your work?

My favourite part of my work is the wonderful teammates, co-workers and mentors working on many different and interesting areas in road safety. I also enjoy being able to engage patients in public health research and promote knowledge translation of road safety and injury prevention research through social media. 

What is one interesting fact about you that people may not know?

I have a lot of different artistic hobbies but have recently been into creating and designing my own digital illustrations and cartoons. I will hopefully be able to publish my own comics one day!

What kinds of hobbies and interests do you have outside of work?

I like to be involved in community engagement projects. I co-founded a health promotion colouring book project for newcomers and refugees in partnership with the City of Surrey. Currently, I am working on a digital zine showcasing artwork and resources around the topic of youth eco-anxiety. I also have many artistic hobbies like drawing, graphic design and poetry, and enjoy outdoor activities like longboarding, surfing and hiking!

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RENMART BUHAY
LEAD RESEARCH ASSISTANT


Site:
City – Location

Renmart Buhay, Lead Research Assistant with UBC’s Department of Emergency Medicine.

How long have you worked in the Department/UBC?

I have been working with the Department of Emergency Medicine since December 2021.

Can you summarize what you do in the Department?

I am currently a lead research research assistant at Fraser Health hospital sites (Surrey Memorial Hospital and Royal Columbian Hospital) for the ATICO study led by Dr. Jeff Brubacher. The study identifies risk factors in the long term health outcomes of injured active transportation (pedestrians, cyclists and micro-mobility device) users. This includes examining the road infrastructure details and participants injury circumstances. My role involves screening and interviewing participants at ED across multiple hospital sites and documenting accident locations using google map. These accident location screenshots will then be shared with city planners and traffic safety engineers. I initially started as a research assistant for the National Drug Driving Study but transitioned fully onto the ATICO  study after working on the pilot study at Vancouver General Hospital. I have also been involved in various systematic and media reviews for our research team, and I manage a Twitter account for our Road Safety and Public health research team where I post content about our lab’s research projects and the current research/news in the field of road safety.

What is your favourite thing about your work?

My favourite part of my work is the wonderful teammates, co-workers and mentors working on many different and interesting areas in road safety. I also enjoy being able to engage patients in public health research and promoting knowledge translation of road safety and injury prevention research through social media. 

What is one interesting fact about you that people may not know?

I have a lot of different artistic hobbies but have been recently into creating and designing my own digital illustrations and cartoons and hopefully will be able to publish my own comics one day!

What kinds of hobbies and interests do you have outside of work?

I like to be involved in community engagement projects. I co-founded a health promotion coloring book project for newcomers and refugees in partnership with the City of Surrey. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/refugee-colouring-book-by-sfu-students-1.5369087) Currently, I am working on a digital zine showcasing artworks and resources around the topic of youth eco-anxiety. I also have many artistic hobbies like drawing, graphic design and poetry, and enjoy doing outdoor activities like longboarding, surfing and hiking!

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