Brittany Dennis

Dr. Brittany Dennis is an assistant professor in the Division of Social Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Clinician Scientist with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, and staff physician in the Division of Addiction within Providence Health Care. Prior to clinical training, she completed a PhD in health research methodology at McMaster University. To establish capacity in large-data base analytics she received post-doctoral training at Stanford University, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), and through the National Institute on Drug Abuse funded Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars Program. She has been an important contributor to over 90 peer-reviewed publications, 20 national and international presentations, and an expert panel for Canada’s 2023 national guidance on opioids for chronic non-cancer pain.

As one of Canada’s first addiction focused research methodologists, her work has advanced the prioritization of patient important outcomes and directly informed methods to improve evidence synthesis, enhance measurement selection, and promote guideline development for studies evaluating therapies for patients with addiction.