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Brain Trust: How B.C.’s sports organizations are facing the concussion epidemicMar 05, 2020Dr. Shelina Babul was featured on CBC discussing her Concussion Awareness Training Tool. See: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/brain-trust-grassroots-1.5485443 Dr. Babul is the Associate Director, Sports Injury Specialist, BC Injury Research & Prevention Unit, BC Children’s Hospital, Director, Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting & Prevention Program (CHIRPP), BC Children’s Hospital Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital and Investigator, Djavad Mowafaghian Center for […] Read More >
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Congratulations CIHR Project Grant Recipients!Feb 12, 2020Congratulations to the BC Children’s and BC Women’s investigators who were awarded funding through the highly competitive Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Fall 2019 competition. Our research community received more than $8 million in new research and bridge grants. Many of the investigators who were successful in this competition benefited from the […] Read More >
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Farewell to Dr. Soren Gantt ** A message on behalf of Dr. Wyeth Wasserman, Vice-President Research, BC Children’s Hospital ** Dear research community, With mixed emotions, I would like to announce that Dr. Soren Gantt is leaving Vancouver in July 2020 for a new position with CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre at the Université de Montréal. In his many roles […] Read More >
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Congratulations Dr. Aven Poynter!Feb 04, 2020Dr. Aven Poynter is the winner of the 2019 Dr. Judith Hall Award. Each year the BC Pediatric Society presents the Dr. Judith Hall Award, which recognizes excellence in research, policy development, community involvement and improving the status of or empowering pediatricians. Here’s what Dr. Poynter’s nominator said about her: Aven has done so much to empower […] Read More >