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Advancing Health is a group of experienced health outcomes researchers based at St. Paul's Hospital.

08/07/2025

🚑 Emergency departments are critical entry points to the health care system. A research team based at St. Paul’s Hospital is helping shape the future of emergency care in Canada.

Learn how this team, including Advancing Health scientists Drs. Jim Christenson, Eric Grafstein, Frank Scheuermeyer, and Andrew Kestler, have embedded research directly into healthcare.

https://bit.ly/4mvtgwb

07/25/2025

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects the liver and causes inflammation in this vital organ. Now a recent paper by BC researchers, including Advancing Health scientists Drs. Naveed Janjua and Ehsan Karim, finds that many benefits arise from curing HCV, extending even beyond the liver, including a lower risk of kidney, heart, stroke and neurocognitive issues.

Read more about their findings:
http://bit.ly/4nWq9Po

07/24/2025

The results of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2025 Project Grant Competition have just been announced, and Advancing Health researchers are leading six of the projects funded in this round. An additional ten projects are being supported by Advancing Health Scientists as co-investigators, with a total of over $13 million in new research funding, tackling everything from the health benefits of physical to drug interventions for .

Congratulations to all the research teams who received funding, and good luck in your investigations! 👏

Read the full article to learn more 👇:
https://bit.ly/3TYYTSJ

07/23/2025

What's the future of kidney transplantation look like? 🤔

If you're attending this year's World Transplant Congress, you can find out! Presented by Advancing Health scientist Dr. John Gill, Eledon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will be presenting updated clinical data from its ongoing open-label Phase 1b study evaluating tegoprubart for the prevention of rejection in subjects undergoing kidney transplantation.

Find out more:
https://bit.ly/4mdMOFs

07/22/2025

Tired of sensationalized pop sci headlines and click-bait memes that misinterpret facts? Here's your anecdote! It's time for The Evidence Speaks, our monthly series where we break down three recent health research papers in a way everyone can understand.

In July, we look at...

- A promising treatment for Berger's Disease
- How clubs help seniors' mental well-being
- How racism continues to further the HIV epidemic in the US

Get the full scoop:
https://bit.ly/4ma76Qa

07/18/2025

A total of 45 research excellence clusters led by researchers at University of British Columbia Vancouver are supported through the Research Excellence Clusters initiative in 2024/25!

A round of applause for all the clusters on this achievement! We particularly want to highlight RespNetBC, led by Advancing Health scientist Dr. Najib Ayas, which looks to advance common themes and methodologic approaches to synergize research and scholarship between silos of and disease focus across BC.

Read more about the research clusters here:
https://bit.ly/3TNcL2o

07/17/2025

Visionaries unite: how the west coast conference on is rewriting the future of senior care.

“We’re witnessing a pivotal moment where the conversation about aging is fundamentally shifting from managing decline to engineering vitality,” says Dr. Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director of Professional Practice/Quality Practice Environments at Providence Health Care.

https://bit.ly/3GRc455

07/16/2025

Struggling to beat the heat? ☀️

Sorry, we can't help with that! We CAN help you with with a refreshing splash of exciting health care updates!

Find out about...

🚸 How stepped care promises to help kids' mental health
🚗 How antipsychotic meds are putting the breaks on car crashes
📝 How is poised to improve healthcare
.. and so much more!

Read the full issue of our newsletter here:
https://bit.ly/3GGkIn2

07/14/2025

Stepping It Up:

Dr. Amy Salmon discusses how new mental health guidelines can improve youth care. 🧠

She explains, “Stepped Care models are one way of trying to address the problem of bottlenecks that we often see in services where there is a high demand and a resource allocation that doesn’t necessarily fit that demand."

Learn more:
https://bit.ly/40NNl8w

07/11/2025

⌚Prototypes of and rings are driving forward advances in wearable technology that instantly alert emergency personnel.

“This research shines a spotlight on a critical barrier to timely care in out of hospital cardiac arrests: the absence of a witness,” explains Dr. Brian Grunau, Advancing Health scientist and head of the Canadian Saving Cardiac Arrest Victims Everywhere (CanSAVE) research excellence cluster. “When unnoticed, the chance of surviving a cardiac arrest drops dramatically to almost zero.”

Learn more:
https://bit.ly/4kvomxR

07/09/2025

How are Canadian hospitals trying to break the cycle of readmissions for patients without homes?

After discharge, outreach counselors are working directly with patients access information, medication, supplies and personal care.

"It's not just physical poverty. In some cases, it's also deep social poverty and isolation," said Dr. Anita Palepu, an internal medicine physician at St. Paul's.

Learn more:

https://bit.ly/4lPgmsN

07/04/2025

“Each time we undertake a research project, the important question isn’t can we publish this somehow but, rather, how will this help patients, their families, caregivers and our health care workers," said Dr. Frank Scheuermeyer, director of research in the Teck Emergency Centre, who leads a team of five clinician-scientists.

Follow a patient's journey to relief through that very centre, and learn how the front-line research conducted there is being used to improve on :
https://bit.ly/3IdvL7F

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