Jessica Moe Receives CAEP-SREMI Grants for buprenorphine/naloxone dosing Dosing Study
Congratulations to Jessica Moe for winning a 2019/20 CAEP-SREMI Grants! This $5,000 Junior Investigator award will further her work on Buprenorphine/naloxone standard dosing and microdosing feasibility in the ED. More 2-19/20 CAEP Grant winners.
BC Emergency Medicine Network Awarded 1.17M to Improve Emergency Care for Remote Indigenous Communities
The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), through the Institute for Indigenous People’s Health (IIPH), announced funding to design an evaluation of emergency care solutions for four Nuu-chah-nulth Indigenous communities in BC. Emergency care is not adequate for many Indigenous communities in Canada. Many communities are far from hospital care. Many have only spotty nurse […]
Jim Christenson Receives Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) Funding
Congratulations to Dr. Jim Christenson, who recently received funding through the 2019 UBC Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) competition. Dr. Christenson leads the Resuscitating More Patients from Sudden Unexpected Death: Transformative Research cluster. The cluster will receive $197,000 in GCRC funds and $30,000 in Trainee Stipend funds for two years. Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters […]
Drs. Stenstrom, Sweet, and Tallon Receive $1,140,000 for Sepsis Research
Congratulations to Drs. John Tallon, Rob Stenstrom, and David Sweet, part of a team receiving $1,140,000 in CIHR funding for the Canadian Sepsis Research Network project “Improving Care Before, During and After Sepsis”. The project is led by PI Dr. Dr Alison Fox-Robichaud of McMaster University. The overall goal is to reduce sepsis-associated illness and […]
Drs. Jessica Moe & Corinne Hohl’s project featured on CIHR
Drs. Corinne Hohl and Jessica Moe’s project: Naloxone Dosing in the Era of Ultra-Potent Opioid Overdoses has been featured on CIHR. Drs. Corinne Hohl and Jessica Moe and their team at the University of British Columbia wanted to better understand the effectiveness of the opioid antidote naloxone on reversing overdoses due to increasingly common ultra-potent […]
Jessica Moe Awarded Blue Sky Grant from BCCDC
Dr. Jessica Moe was awarded a Blue Sky Grant from the BCCDC Foundation for Population and Public Health for her feasibility study examining standard dosing and microdosing take-home Suboxone regimens from the emergency department. The Blue Sky Program provides seed funding for new and imaginative ideas that demonstrate scientific merit and the potential to make […]
David Barbic interviewed by Global News
Global interviewed David Barbic, a clinical professor in UBC’s department of emergency medicine, about his new research which showed most people don’t recognize the signs of a heart attack or opioid overdose. Click here to see the interview.
DEM Faculty Retreat 2019
The department of Emergency Medicine had a successful Faculty Retreat on November 22, 2019 at the SFU JWOSK Centre with over 60 members from the across the province participating.
Distinguished Volunteer Award for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Congratulations to Jim Christenson who received the Distinguished Volunteer Award for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Here being honoured by the Dr. Andrew Piper, the Chairman of the H&S Board at the annual board and leadership meeting in Toronto, November 30, 2019.
DEM Faculty Retreat – Nov 22, 2019
Department Faculty Members are invited to the upcoming Faculty Retreat! Date: Friday, November 22, 2019 Time: 8:00am – 4:30pm (Followed by Networking Reception) Location: Simon Fraser University, WOSK Conference Centre 580 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC (enter via breezeway off Seymour St) Map: http://goo.gl/maps/lbXvS Please RSVP to the following link by November 15th, 2019. In-person […]