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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.

News and Awards

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

  • The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation -

    The Application of the CRASH-CT Prognostic Model for Older Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Population-Based Observational Cohort Study.

    Staples JA, Wang J, Mills B, Temkin N, Zaros MC, Jurkovich GJ, Rivara FP
  • Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention -

    Helmet regulation in Vietnam: impact on health, equity and medical impoverishment.

    Olson Z, Staples JA, Mock C, Nguyen NP, Bachani AM, Nugent R, Verguet S
  • Brain injury -

    The application of IMPACT prognostic models to elderly adults with traumatic brain injury: A population-based observational cohort study.

    Staples JA, Wang J, Zaros MC, Jurkovich GJ, Rivara FP
  • CMAJ open -

    Site of hospital readmission and mortality: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

    Staples JA, Thiruchelvam D, Redelmeier DA
  • The American journal of medicine -

    Fatality risks on the road and in space.

    Staples JA, Redelmeier DA
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