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Jeff Brubacher

Associate Professor
Director, Emergency Research Program
Academic Appointment
Associate Professor
Research Focus
Injuries Addictions and Substance Abuse
Degrees / Designations

MD, M.Sc.

Contact Info
jeff.brubacher@ubc.ca

Biography

Dr. Jeff Brubacher is director of the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) Emergency Medicine Research Program, director of the road safety and public health research lab at the University of British Columbia (UBC), scientist at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation and associate professor in the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine. He practices as an emergency physician at VGH.
 
Dr. Brubacher’s research interest focuses broadly on injury prevention with a special interest in drug impaired driving, substance abuse and injury. He received a Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in 2011 and a Health Professional Investigator award in 2017.

News and Awards

Research Excellence Staff Award 2023 Recipients

Jan 10, 2023

People in profile: Mai Hayashi

Nov 16, 2022

Cannabis legalization may have upped the number of older adults driving high

Jun 23, 2022

Ask an expert: What does it mean for road safety now that marijuana will be legalized?

May 11, 2017

Alcohol-related fatal crashes down by 54% owing to controversial law

Aug 20, 2014

Publications

  • Paediatrics & child health -

    Cannabis-impaired driving and Canadian youth.

    Brubacher JR, Chan H, Staples JA
  • Traffic injury prevention -

    Marijuana trajectories and associations with driving risk behaviors in Canadian youth.

    Sukhawathanakul P, Thompson K, Brubacher J, Leadbeater B
  • Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention -

    Prescription medication use as a risk factor for motor vehicle collisions: a responsibility study.

    Asbridge M, Macnabb K, Chan H, Erdelyi S, Wilson M, Brubacher JR
  • Addiction (Abingdon, England) -

    Cannabis use as a risk factor for causing motor vehicle crashes: a prospective study.

    Brubacher JR, Chan H, Erdelyi S, Macdonald S, Asbridge M, Mann RE, Eppler J, Lund A, MacPherson A, Martz W, Schreiber WE, Brant R, Purssell RA
  • The Lancet. Public health -

    Medications and risk of motor vehicle collision responsibility in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based case-control study.

    Brubacher JR, Chan H, Erdelyi S, Zed PJ, Staples JA, Etminan M
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