Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to name the recipients of the 2015 Top Graduating Doctoral Student Awards and the Rising Star Awards. The awards recognize outstanding VCHRI research trainee role models who demonstrate research excellence, foster research understanding through communication, and contribute to the VCHRI research environment in a meaningful way.

The 2015 Top Graduating Doctoral Student Award recipients are:

Being diagnosed with prostate cancer was shocking for Vancouver resident Daryl Clark, but it wasn’t nearly as devastating as being re-diagnosed nine months later despite his seeming success earlier with chemotherapy and hormone drug therapy.

“Suffering a recurrent diagnosis was absolutely worse than the initial diagnosis,” says Clark. “Particularly when you think you’ve got a leg up on it and going in the right direction.”

Although it may seem counter-intuitive, looking ‘below the neck’ for signs of cognitive decline before obvious symptoms appear is potentially a highly effective and accessible alternative to high-level cognitive neuroimaging or neurpsychological assessments. A new study by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientist Dr.

Caring for a child with a life-threatening condition is an experience that no parent should go through alone. Paediatric palliative care programs (PPCPs) provide a holistic approach to such care and allow for entire families to stay together with their sick child without having to worry about limited visiting hours, or costs for accommodations or meals.

A project born out of researcher-clinician collaborations through the Rehabilitation Research Program, a Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) program located at the G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, is demonstrating how an online health resource can be highly credible and effective in disseminating research information, so much so that frontline clinicians change how they treat their patients.