Q: What do you do as a library technician at the VCH Vancouver Community Library?
A: One thing I really like about my job is that as a member of the Library Services team, I get to help uncover the information that supports evidence-based practice and clinical decision-making at VCH. To do this I perform literature searches, track down journal articles and arrange interlibrary loans for books that aren’t in our collection.
Q: What is your research area and why does it interest you?
A: My current research area is knowledge translation, under the mentorship of Dr. Linda Li. Presently, I am building a program of research around patient engagement in research. This is an emerging field in Canada, where patients’ involvement as partners in research has had positive contributions to the health research process and its outcomes.
Q: What is your research area and why does it interest you?
A: I study cancer treatments and I’m very interested in drug resistance and drug delivery systems. There is now a wide panel of drugs that can kill cancer cells, but the problem is getting those drugs to the right place and preventing cancer cells from escaping. As part of Dr. Daugaard’s team at the Vancouver Prostate Centre, I’m now working on a novel strategy of using a malaria protein that can bind to cancer cells to shuttle cancer-fighting drugs directly to cancer cells.
Q: What is your research area and why does it interest you?
A: I study neuroscience and exercise physiology. More specifically, I’m interested in the therapeutic mechanisms of exercise in Parkinson’s disease. I think the future of health care is an integrative, interdisciplinary approach that incorporates multiple styles of therapy including exercise. The general benefits of exercise are commonly known, but showing the neurological benefits of exercise for Parkinson’s disease will help solidify the use of exercise as an adjunct therapy.
Q: What is your research area and why does it interest you?
A: I’m interested in the mobility of older adults who live in community dwellings. I try to understand the facilitators to and barriers of the mobility process from an interdisciplinary and holistic perspective. As the population ages, an increasing numbers of older adults are losing their ability to maintain their physiological, psychological, and social wellbeing. I’m trying to learn why this is happening and how we can change it.
Q: What do you do at Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI)?
A: I have two roles at VCHRI. First, I work part time as a study coordinator in the Clinical Research Unit (CRU). I help researchers with various administrative aspects of their clinical trials and by collecting and processing samples from study participants. Second, I’m a liaison for the VCHRI clinical trials department, which entails travelling to various VCH research locations and meeting with research coordinators to find new ways to support them in their work.
Q: What is your research area and why does it interest you?
A: My research area focuses on identifying appropriate measurement tools to evaluate how power mobility devices, such as wheelchairs, ride-on toy cars, scooters, and standers, make a difference in the lives of children who have difficulty walking. I hope that through research, I’ll be able to support children and their families in doing what they want to do.
Q: What is your research area and why does it interest you?
A: My main research field is clinical biophotonics. I’m interested is developing novel light-based technologies for noninvasive diagnosis and monitoring of wide range of medical conditions.
