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John Staples

Clinical Associate Professor
VCH Clinical Title(s)
General Internal Medicine Physician
Degrees / Designations

MD, FRCPC, FACP, MPH

Contact Info
john.staples@ubc.ca

Biography

Dr. John Staples is an academic general internist based at Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital, and a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC). After graduating from medical school at the University of Alberta, he completed a residency and fellowship in General Internal Medicine at UBC, a Master of Public Health at Harvard University, a New England Journal of Medicine Editorial Fellowship and a Health Services Research Fellowship at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto. His research interests include health services research, traffic safety and medical risk factors for injury.

Learn more about Dr. Staples's research.

News and Awards

Patient-physician sex discordance linked to premature departure from hospital

Oct 3, 2024

Innovation and Translational Research Awards 2021 Recipients

May 25, 2021

Ask an expert: Reality check on drugged driving—will legalizing cannabis make our roads less safe?

Oct 5, 2018

Innovation and Translational Research Awards 2017 Recipients

May 14, 2017

Investigator Awards 2017 Recipients

Mar 5, 2017

Publications

  • JAMA internal medicine -

    Population-Based Trends in Complexity of Hospital Inpatients.

    Naik H, Murray TM, Khan M, Daly-Grafstein D, Liu G, Kassen BO, Onrot J, Sutherland JM, Staples JA
  • Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine -

    Twelve-month recovery following road trauma: Results from an inception cohort in Vancouver, Canada.

    Pei LX, Chan H, Staples JA, Taylor JA, Harris DR, Jae L, Brubacher JR
  • JAMA internal medicine -

    Syncope and the Risk of Subsequent Motor Vehicle Crash: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study.

    Staples JA, Erdelyi S, Merchant K, Yip C, Khan M, Redelmeier DA, Chan H, Brubacher JR
  • The New England journal of medicine -

    Cannabis Legalization and Detection of Tetrahydrocannabinol in Injured Drivers.

    Brubacher JR, Chan H, Erdelyi S, Staples JA, Asbridge M, Mann RE
  • Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America -

    Outpatient Versus Inpatient Intravenous Antimicrobial Therapy: A Population-Based Observational Cohort Study of Adverse Events and Costs.

    Staples JA, Ho M, Ferris D, Hayek J, Liu G, Tran KC, Sutherland JM
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