Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to support research through Team Grant projects, which enable VCH staff and clinicians to collaborate with experienced investigators to share knowledge and build connections. By supporting practice-based research projects, these grants contribute to the improvement of health care delivery addressing the pressing challenges in health care.
Advance care planning is the important process of thinking about what matters most to you when it comes to future health and personal care decisions. This involves sharing your values, beliefs and wishes with your care partners and loved ones and recording them so that if you cannot speak on your behalf, a representative is able to share your wishes with health care team members.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring 2025 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the VCHRI researchers who were awarded project and priority announcement grants.
Manny Chiquita will never forget the first time he experienced the symptoms of kidney stones. It happened in the early 1990s while Chiquita was enjoying a round of golf in Tsawwassen, B.C. “I peed blood and ignored it,” he recalls. “I told myself that, if it happened again, I would see a doctor.”
Two months later, the symptom recurred. The father of two then young children visited his family doctor for a checkup, fearing the worst.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to support future research leaders with the Top Graduating Doctoral Student Awards and the Rising Star Awards. These awards recognize the outstanding efforts of VCHRI trainees whose pursuit of research has made them exceptional role models and significant contributors to the Vancouver Coastal Health and University of British Columbia research community.
The 2025 Top Graduating Doctoral Student Award recipients are:
A pioneering study led by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) researcher Dr. Calvin Kuo and Dr. Mahsa Khalili has demonstrated that consumer wearable technology may hold the key to transforming how out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) are detected, potentially saving countless lives.
Learning Health Systems is an increasing priority at Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) that champions continuous learning through knowledge, practice and data collection to improve patient outcomes and experiences. Driven by the VCH value “we are always learning,” the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation (C2E2) at VCHRI is working to expand the reach and adoption of Learning Health Systems at VCH.
