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Congratulations to UBC RCPS-EM Resident Dr. Daniel Ting, who was selected as a top 3 finalist for the CAEP 2018 Top Education Innovation Abstract Award! His abstract is titled “Implementation of an editorial internship at the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine to foster education and participation in academic emergency medicine”, and was co-authored by Drs. Riyad Abu-Laban, Laurie Morrison, James Ducharme and Eddy Lang.

The Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (CJEM) Editorial Internship was established to: (1) introduce and develop the responsibilities and skills of a good editor; (2) enhance a career in academic EM; and, (3) galvanize future participation as a reviewer or editor in scientific publications. The top 3 Education Innovation Abstracts will be presented in an education track at CAEP 2018 on Sunday, May 27th and the winner will be announced at the CAEP Research Awards Ceremony on May 30th.

Daniel will also be presenting this work at UBC EM Research Day on April 11, 2018. Yet another great reason to register and attend EM Research Day!

Congratulations to Dr. Corinne Hohl, who was recently awarded a UBC Killam Research Fellowship. This prestigious award will be formally celebrated during a ceremony on April 17th at the Chan Centre and allows faculty members to pursue full-time research while on study leave.

Check out more details on the Faculty of Medicine website.

Well done Corinne!

Congratulations to Dr. Corinne Hohl and her research team for being selected to represent BC at the recent Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s SPOR Rewarding Success “Ideathon” (15-minute pitches to a national review panel) in Ottawa. She presented her project “Implementing and Evaluating ActionADE to Transform Medical Safety”.

The SPOR Rewarding Success Initiative was designed to produce interventions that will result in cost savings and/or improved efficiencies in Canada’s health care system. Successful research teams will receive a total of $4.8 million over four years for their research studies. More information on this initiative can be found on the BC SUPPORT Unit website.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jessica Moe as she recently received a $5,000 grant through the CAEP Research Committee to support her research project “Identifying Subgroups And Risk Among Frequent Emergency Department Users: Whose needs can safely be met elsewhere?”.

Congratulations to Dr. Roy Purssell! Dr. Purssell is a key member of a team of researchers who were awarded $520,200 from CIHR for their study “Opioid Prescribing Evaluation and Research Activities (OPERA)”.

This important study will assess patterns of opioid prescription in BC in relation to serious outcomes and will evaluate the effects of policy and interventions designed to reduce deaths from opioid overdose. This project will compliment Roy’s existing research into opioid poisoning which is critically important in the setting of the current fentanyl crisis.

The NERD (Novel Education in Research and Design) grads are pictured here with Course Director Dr. Riyad Abu-Laban on the far right. This year’s NERD participants included 12 Royal College EM Residents, two Pediatric EM Fellows, and one DEM Faculty Member.

And special thanks to the 29 NERD Block Faculty Members, Workshop Group Facilitators Drs. Frank Scheuermeyer, Jeff Brubacher, Ran Goldman and Quynh Doan, and Ms. Carolyn MacKinnon for her administrative oversight. It is the hard work and commitment to excellence of all these individuals that make this joint DEM/PEM initiative possible, and such a great success every year.