2024 Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) award recipients
The Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) Program is designed to develop BC’s research talent and help decrease the gap between health research and its implementation. The awards support health professionals who are actively involved in patient care to conduct and apply research relevant to health and/or the health system.
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University of British Columbia
Partner(s)
Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation
Project title
Longitudinal non-invasive optical biopsy of skin cancers to monitor efficacy and response to treatment
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Interior Health Authority
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Seeking Rural Equity by Increasing Rural Engagement in Clinical Trials: An East Kootenay Clinical Research Program
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University of British Columbia
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The Better Outcomes for the Sickest & Tiniest (BOOST) Program – Rigorous clinical trials in babies born extremely preterm to improve patient and family important clinical outcomes
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University of British Columbia
Host institution
University of British Columbia
Project title
EQUITY-PIC-BC: Epidemiology and Quality of Pediatric Intensive Care in British Columbia: a health equity perspective
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BC Cancer
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Toward an immunohistochemical model for molecular subtyping and predicting of treatment response in bladder cancer
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University of British Columbia
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Precision Nutrition for Digestive Diseases: Bridging the Gap through Translational Nutrition Research (PRECISE Study)
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University of British Columbia
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Using an equity-informed approach to enhance care for children and youth with a neurological condition in British Columbia
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BC Cancer
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BC Familial Pancreatic Cancer Program-Improving access to germline testing at time of diagnosis
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BC Cancer
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Understanding and Overcoming Disparity in Care of Breast Cancer Patients in Rural British Columbia
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BC Cancer
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Developing equity-centered language with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples to reduce anti-Indigenous discrimination in healthcare
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University of British Columbia
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Administrative-based case-finding algorithms to evaluate health inequities: a methodological framework and an application in progressive pulmonary fibrosis
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Fraser Health Authority
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Preventing the Next Fracture: Expanding Access to Fracture Liaison Services across British Columbia
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Provincial Health Services Authority
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Co-designing the implementation of an injury prevention program in girls community soccer
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