Each year, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) promotes excellence in health research through the annual VCHRI Investigator Awards. These awards recognize outstanding health investigators and support their research efforts through peer-reviewed salary support awards. The awards provide an opportunity for investigators to reduce their clinical practice commitments and build their research capacity to expand the possibilities of improving health research. They are supported by VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation.
The 2018 VCHRI Investigator Awards recipients are:
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) has won a national Silver Leaf Award of Excellence for Internal Communication. The International Association of Business Communicators Canada (IABC) award is in recognition of our health research awareness campaign and forms part of Canada’s premiere professional awards program celebrating excellence in business communication.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) supports health improvements and innovation through its Knowledge Translation Challenge. This competition challenges health practitioners to translate research discoveries and evidence into everyday practice to improve patient care. The challenge brings together practitioners who do not have knowledge translation experience with researchers who provide knowledge translation mentorship and resources. The Knowledge Translation Challenge facilitates innovative research projects with direct application to advances in patient care.
Supportive and collaborative research brings benefits to the entire health care system. Through the Team Grant, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to support research mentorships that enable knowledge exchange and relationships to be built between VCH staff and clinicians and experienced researchers. These grants support applied research projects that help VCH health care providers improve their practice through collaboration with researchers who mentor them through the entire process.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to support tomorrow’s research leaders with the Top Graduating Doctoral Student Awards and the Rising Star Awards. These awards recognize outstanding contributions by VCHRI research trainees to research excellence, service as role models, and other contributions to the VCH research community.
The 2017 top Graduating Student Doctoral Award recipients are:
Visionary evolution and continuous improvement are needed to tackle current and future health care challenges. For this reason, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to support advances in patient care with the annual Innovation and Translational Research Awards. The recipients of these awards are helping to catalyze research discoveries into implementation.
The 2017 Innovation and Translational Research Award winners are:
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute strives to support and promote excellence in health research. The annual VCHRI Investigator Awards are an opportunity to recognize the efforts of health investigators through peer-reviewed salary support awards. The awards enable investigators to reduce their clinical practice commitments and build their research capacity to expand the possibilities of improving health research. They are supported by VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation and TD Grants in Medical Excellence.
The 2017 VCHRI Investigator Awards recipients are:
One of the many ways in which Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) fulfills its mandate to support and promote excellence in health research is through its annual Investigator Awards competition, The peer-reviewed salary support awards allow investigators at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), UBC Hospital, and G.F.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is proud to reveal the recipients of the 2016 Top Graduating Doctoral Student Award and the Rising Star Awards. The awards recognize outstanding VCHRI research trainees who serve as role models by demonstrating research excellence, foster research understanding through communication, and contribute to the VCHRI research environment in a meaningful way.
The 2016 Top Graduating Doctoral Student Award recipient is Peggy Assinck.
