Jeff Brubacher

MD, MSc
Biography
Dr. Brubacher practices as an Emergency Physician at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia and as a clinical toxicologist at the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre. He is Assistant Professor in the University if British Columbia Department of Emergency Medicine, Scientist at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, and Director of the Vancouver General Hospital Emergency Medicine Research Division. Jeff’s research focuses on injury prevention with a special interest in drug impaired driving. He is principal investigator on a five year study, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, investigating the role of cannabis in causing motor vehicle crashes. In 2011, Jeff received a Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
1. Cannabis and Motor Vehicle Crashes: A multicentre culpability study. This 5-year project, funded by CIHR, will study the role of cannabis in causing motor vehicle crashes.
2. Evaluation of traffic safety interventions in BC. This CIHR funded project will evaluate the effectiveness of new traffic laws around alcohol impaired driving, speeding, and cell phone use.
3. Prescription medications and the risk of motor vehicle crashes. This project, in the planning stages, will investigate the risk of motor vehicle crashes in drivers who are taking prescription medications.
4. Injured driver interviews. This planned project will investigate driver based risk factors for crashing by interviewing injured drivers treated in hospital after a crash.
5. Alcohol, stimulants and risk of injury: a multi-method emergency department study assessing the effects of gender, drinking context, and personality. I am co-Investigator on this 4 year study (funded by CIHR) of the effects of combined use of alcohol and stimulants on injury risk.
6. Examining the Effects of Alcohol Misuse on the Neuropsychological and Neuropathological Outcome from Traumatic Brain Injury: A Longitudinal Study. I am co-Investigator on the 5 year, CIHR funded, study of the effects of chronic and acute alcohol use on outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
- Traffic injury prevention - 2012, May 21
- American journal of public health - 2012, Nov 8
- Traffic injury prevention - 2010, Feb 10
- Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.) - 2011, Aug 15
- American journal of public health - 2014, Sep 11
- Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists - 2014, Jul 18
- Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 2014, Jan 22
- Journal of neurotrauma - 2014, Jan 20
- Traffic injury prevention - 2014, Jan 29
- Traffic injury prevention - 2013, May 20
- The American journal on addictions / American Academy of Psychiatrists in Alcoholism and Addictions - 2013, Feb 18
- International journal of epidemiology - 2013, Mar 19
- The American journal on addictions / American Academy of Psychiatrists in Alcoholism and Addictions - 2013, Feb 18
- Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine - 2012, Jun 12
- Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de santé publique - 2013, Apr 26
- American journal of public health - 2012, Nov 8
- BMC public health - 2012, Nov 7
- CJEM - 2012, Sep 12
- The Cochrane database of systematic reviews - 2014, Mar 3
- International journal of epidemiology - 2014, Mar 3
- The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation - 2012, Mar 13
- The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation - 2012, May 10
- Wilderness & environmental medicine - 2012, Jun 4
- Traffic injury prevention - 2012, May 21
- Drug and alcohol review - 2012, Jun 7
- Annals of emergency medicine - 2011, Aug 29
- Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.) - 2011, Aug 15
- CJEM - 2010, Sep 30
- CJEM - 2010, Jul 23
- CJEM - 2010, Jul 23
- The Journal of trauma - 2010, May 10
- Traffic injury prevention - 2010, Feb 10
- Brain injury - 2010, Jun 15
- Annals of emergency medicine - 2010, May 24
- CJEM - 2009, Mar 10
- CJEM - 2008, Nov 21