A comprehensive survivorship program by the Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC) is helping individuals, couples, and families endure not only the diagnosis of, and treatment for, prostate cancer, but also the unanticipated physical and psychological challenges that come with prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.
As one of Canada’s top-funded research institutions, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute continues to offer numerous opportunities for growth and advancement to our more than 1,500 personnel in our research centres, programs, and research areas. Our annual Investigator Awards are peer-reviewed salary support awards for investigators located at VGH, UBC Hospital and G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre who want to move from clinical practice to research.
A groundbreaking discovery by researchers at The Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC), a Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) centre, is giving scientists unprecedented levels of accuracy in seeing how patient-specific prostate (tumors) respond to drug therapies or develop drug resistance.
The Centre for Clinical Epidemiology (C2E2) – one of the major research centres under Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) – officially launches its revamped website in January 2014. The new site offers better communication with the larger research community and highlights C2E2’s dedication to research, training, and knowledge translation that delivers the most effective health care to British Columbians.
Although managing chronic disease can be done best by adjusting daily habits, making those adjustments without proper supports often proves challenging. A study at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) demonstrates the positive effects of providing such supports in the form of a cook book, cooking classes, and fitness instruction to patients with chronic kidney disease.
A patient interview revealing many difficult years of trial-and-error in self-managing bipolar disorder piqued Dr. Erin Michalak’s interest in the notion of lived experience as knowledge. Dr. Michalak is one of the lead investigators for a current study at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) that explores personal experiences coping with bipolar disorder. The study aims to use lived experiences to develop a catalogue of effective self-management strategies.
According to a study by the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility (CHHM), foreign-born visible minority older adults in South Vancouver are meeting their daily physical recommendations despite multiple health challenges, including arthritis, osteoporosis, and visual impairments.
While the goal of a clinical trial is ultimately to unlock the potential of new therapies and treatments that will result in improved quality of lives and lives saved, the additional economic benefits of such programs are substantial and shouldn’t be overlooked.
