Dr. Philippe Archambault has been named the recipient of 平特五不中鈥檚 Rosemary Wedderburn Brown Faculty Prize, in recognition for his outstanding contributions to rehabilitation science and in acknowledgment of his academic potential in this early phase of his career.
Dr. Matthew Hunt has been awarded the Jonathan Campbell Meakins and Family Memorial Fellowship. This Fellowship is designed to reward and promote excellence in medical education at 平特五不中 and beyond.
Dr. Raphael Lencucha has been invited to become an Associate Member of 平特五不中鈥檚 IHSP! Raphael will help the Institute realize its potential as a meeting place for researchers throughout 平特五不中 explore health and social policy.
Dr. Aliki Thomas has been awarded a Research Grant Award from the Association of Medical Education of Europe for her study, 鈥淯se of evidence in health professions鈥 education; attitudes, practices, barriers and facilitators.鈥 Aliki鈥檚 grant proposal was ranked 1st among 44 applicants! Bravo!
Dr. Laurence Roy has received great news from the CIHR: her project on housing and risk of homelessness among new mental health service users has been approved for funding in the last round of Operating Grants from CIHR. It's a big multi-site project, and we are all looking forward to this initiative!
Dr. Marie-H茅l猫ne Boudrias has been awarded a Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT) - Team Research Grant. Her project is to develop methodologies to assess functional links from neuro-imaging data and applications to human motor control.
Dr. Isabelle Gagnon is featured in a Canal Savoir episode. In her episode, Isabelle discusses the advantages that the REPAR network provides to researchers in rehabilitation in Qu茅bec. Follow this for the episode.
Two members of Dr. Melissa Park鈥檚 research team (Orly Estein and Sarah Sandham) did an interview on Radio Moon about their CIHR-funded projects. Radio Moon is a program on 平特五不中鈥檚 CKUT campus radio station and is a project of , dedicated to people living with mental health issues.
Prof. Marie-脠ve Bolduc won Best Poster at the 8th Annual Canadian Society of Hand Therapists鈥 conference, for the submission, 鈥淔low diagram to guide the assessment and identification of ROM restriction determinants.鈥 Collaborating with Marie-脠ve were Prof. Nancy Forget and Dr. Bernadette Nedelec.
Dr. Isabelle G茅linas has been awarded the 2016 Muriel Driver Memorial Lectureship Award from the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (). This award was established by the CAOT to honor one who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession through education, research and professional practice. Isabelle will be giving her Lecture at the 2016 CAOT Conference, scheduled for Spring 2016 in Banff.
Dr. Nancy Mayo鈥檚 鈥淧eople Behind the Science鈥 podcast,聽 Episode #285, Serving Those with Disability Through Health Services and Outcomes Research (July 17 2015) has been published! Hear it on聽or on the People Behind the Science .
Researchers from 平特五不中 and its hospital-affiliated research institutes have been awarded $91.5 million in grants in the latest round of funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Insulin has long been known as the hormone which controls the body鈥檚 sugar levels: humans who lack or are insensitive to insulin develop diabetes. Although insulin is also made and released in the brain, its effects there have remained unclear.
Screening for genes whose risk association with breast cancer has yet to be proven is not justified and potentially harmful, argue an international team of leading geneticists and oncologists in a paper published this week in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.