November 28th, 2024
Presenter: Terri McKellar, UNBC Knowledge Synthesis Librarian
Title: Knowledge Synthesis Overview: Scoping, Systematic, and Rapid Reviews
November 21st, 2024
Presenter: Visiting Scholar, Dr. Brian Christie
Title: Understanding the effects of repeated mild traumatic brain injury: How preclinical and clinical findings are reshaping our perspective
November 20th, 2024 (Co-Hosted with The Northern Center for Clinical Research)
Presenter: Visiting Scholar, Dr. Jaquelyne Hughes
Title: Transforming Kidney Health in Indigenous Peoples: Experience from ANZ
November 7th, 2024 (Co-Hosted with Northern Health)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING DAY
Keynote Speaker: André Picard
Title: Tipping Point: Are we finally ready to undertake some serious healthcare reform? A veteran journalist reflects on the state of Canada’s health care system and how it can be modernized and reinvigorated
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Virginia Braun
Title: Does qualitative story completion have potential for health research?
November 6, 2024
Presenter: Dr. Virginia (Ginny) Braun
Title: Quality Measures for Qualitative Research: What really matters and why?
October 17, 2024 (Co-Hosted with Northern Health)
Presenter: Genome BC
Title: Health Metadata Commons: Unifying Biobank and Omics Metadata
September 26, 2024 (Co-Hosted with Northern Health)
Presenter: Visiting Scholar, Dr. Bonnie Teague
Title: Linking strategic health research development to informing evidence-based practice: Experiences of a rural healthcare organization in the United Kingdom
September 19, 2024
Presenter: Julie Morrison | First Nations Health Authority, Vice President, Regional Operations, Northern Region
April 4, 2024
Presenters: Honours Students
Emily Pinko | Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide (PACAP) Regulation of Sympathetic Innervation in Brown Adipose Tissue
Thomas Kreitz | Examining the Effects of Anxiety on Athletic Injury and Kinesiophobia: A Systematic Review
Alexia Bankowski | Investigating Intron Function in C. merolae Using Deletion
Bruce Danesh | Staff Resiliency in Long-Term Care During COVID-19 Pandemic in Northern BC
March 21, 2024
Presenter: Dr. Linda O'Neil
Title: The Continuing Importance of Trauma-Informed Health Care in the North: A Long Journey
February 15, 2024
Presenter: Dr. Kalindi Morgan
Title: Natural Products: From nature’s defense to parmaceuticals of strength
January 18, 2024
Presenter: Dr. Sara Farhan
Title: The Jewish Medical Professionals of Modern Iraq
December 7, 2023
Presenter: Dr. Jacqueline Pettersen
Title: Vitamin D, Cognition, and Dementia
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November 16, 2023
Presenter: Dr. Viviane Josewski
Title: A Time of Truth and Reconciliation: Advancing Meaningful Reconciliation in Health Through Indigenous-led Community-Driven Health Research Partnerships
November 7th - 9th, 2023 (Co-Hosted with Northern Health)
RESEARCH AND QUALITY CONFERENCE
- Celebrating the Collaboration for Health Research in Northern BC Seed Grant Presentation and Panel Discussion
- Keynote Address | Decolonizing Health: Dismantling Oppression, Dr. Sheila Blackstock
- Plenary Address | Cultural Safety and Anti-Indigenous Bias: Review and Discuss Current Recommendations and Standards, Dr. Terri Aldred
- Conference Highlight Slideshow
October 19, 2023
Presenter: Interdisciplinary Panel
Title: Working in Partnership Towards Health in the North
September 21, 2023
Presenters: Dr. Shannon Freeman and Aderonke Agboji
Title: Promoting Quality of Life for Older Adults in Northern and Rural Communities
April 13, 2023
Presenters: UNBC Honours Students
- Title: Assessing The Health Impacts Of Particulate Bound Metals In Downtown Prince George: A Health Indexing Study On Differential Effects Of High And Low Dust Days | Ahmad Jalil
- Title: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on phychoactive substance use from a Canadian rural and remote perspective | Amy Crandall
- Title: Targeted Delivery of Rosiglitazone to Apidose Tissue for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes | Jake Osteberg
March 16, 2023
Presenters: Dr. Sheona Mitchell, Lennette Desjarlais, & Katina Pollard
Title: In My Hands: Learnings from HPV-Based Cervical Self Screening Approaches in Northern Indigenous Communities
February 16, 2023
Presenters: Dr. Theresa Healy | Assistant Professor, School of Planning and Sustainability and John Grogran | Community Partner
Title: You Talk ... We Listen | Health Economic Research and Photovoice in Northern BC
January 17, 2023
Presenters: Janene Erickson (Nak'azdli Whut'en), First Nations Health Authority and Rhianna Millman (Métis Nation BC), BC College of Nurses and Midwives
Title: A BC First Nations Case Study Reflection, Remembering Keegan, and the important call to action towards eliminating anti-Indigenous racism in the health system.
- Presentation Link (not yet available)
December 1, 2022
Presenters:
- Dr. Shannon Freeman | Associate Professor, Nursing
- Mark Groulx | Associate Professor, School of Planning and Sustainability
- Dawn Hemingway | Adjunct Professor, Gender Studies & Social Work
- Keone Gourlay | Research Assistant, UNBC
- Emma Rossnagel | Research Manger, UNBC
Title: The Dementia-inclusive Streets and Community Access, Participation, and Engagement (DemSCAPE) Project: An interdisciplinary approach to enhancing accessibility to the neighbourhood built environment for persons with dementia
November 17, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Anurag Singh
Title: Building NCCR: One brick at a time!
October 27, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Gigi Lim | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Auckland
Title: Antimicrobial Steardship and Antimicrobial Resistance: leadership roles for RNs
September 15, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Jessie King | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities, First Nations Studies
Title: Indigenous peoples do not owe us anything: Indigeneity, Positionality and Ethical Spaces in Academia
April 21, 2022
Presenters & Titles
- Lindsay Carpenter | Asexual patients generating recommendations for future healthcare research
- Aiden Winkel | A review of health literacy recommendations in support of the creation of an automated aid for health communication professionals
- Hayley Hirvi | Methods of pain management in rural Canada: A scoping review
- Gemma Marchant | Recreational cannabis legalization in Canada and the effects on monthly opioid-related deaths
- Jonathan Doyon | Bridging knowledge systems: A comprehensive review of health indicators in Indigenous community context
March 17, 2022
Presenters: Dr. Julia Bickford, Regional Director, Research Evaluation and Analytics, Northern Health | Dr. Marcelo Bravo, Lead, Patient Orientated Research and KT Capacity Building,Co-Lead, BC Support Unit Northern Centre | Dr. Esther Alonso-Prieto, PhD, Chair Research Review Committee, Lead, Clinical Research Ethics.
Title: So you want to do research with Northern Health? Understanding the role of research administration, and knowledge translation at Northern Health
February 17, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Taru Manyanga | Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Sciences
Title: Movement Behaviors & Health Outcomes in Children and Youth: Which Interventions Work and for Whom?
February 3, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Margo Greenwood | PhD (UBC), MA (UVic), BEd (Alberta) Professor Education and First Nations Studies
Title: Dreaming it into Being: the Realization of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health
January 20, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Karen Davison | B.A.Sc (Guelph) Dietetic Internship (UBC), M.Sc. (UNBC), Ph.D. (Calgary)
Title: Navigating Nutrition-Related Factors and their Relationships with Mental and Cognitive Health
December 16, 2021
Presenter: Dr. Margot Parkes | Professor, Health Sciences and Northern Medical Program
Title: Healthy Confluences and River Conversations: Lessons from Eco-social Approaches to Public Health from Oceana to Canada
November 18, 2021
Presenter: Dr. Martha MacLeod | Professor, Nursing and Health Sciences, NH-UNBC Knowledge Mobilization Research Chair, Steinunn Jonatansdottir, PhD (c) and Research Trainee, Peter Zimmer, Patient Researcher and Leana Garraway, Co-Lead BC Support Unit Northern Centre & Manager, HRI
Title: Patient Orientated Research: Discussion and Reflections
October 21, 2021
Presenter: Dr. Malgorzata Kaminska | Assistant Professor, Northern Medical Program
Title: Should I sit or should I go? Exploring the role of our legs in cognitive performance enhancement
September 23, 2021
Presenters: Members of the HRI Leadership Council and other UNBC health researchers
Title: UNBC's diverse Health Research Careers - A panel discussion
April 15, 2021
Presenters: Kayla Korlek | Alanna Koopmans | Katherine Bailey | Zack Vaughan
Titles: Honour Student Presentations
1. Understanding the Lived Experiences of Social and Community Inclusion and Facilitators of Physical Activity for People with Physical Disabilities in Northern and Rural British Columbia
2 Experiences of Physical Activity in People with Multiple Sclerosis in BC during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
3. Vitamin D and Cognition in Young Adolescents in Northern British Columbia.
4. Investigating the Relationship Between Environmental Xenoestrogen Mixtures and Reproductive Hormones in Canada.
February 18, 2021
Presenters: Dawn Heminway | Leadership Council, Northern Feminist Institute for Research and Evaluation (Northern Fire), Associate Professor, Social Work
Lela Zimmer | Leadership Council, Northern Feminist Institute for Research and Evaluation, Adjunct Professor, Nursing
Title: An Examination of Health Needs of Older Women Experiencing Precarious Employment in Northern British Columbi
January 21, 2021
Presenter: Dr. Kendra Furber | Assistant Professor, NMP
Title: Myelination in the Central Nervous System: The Multifaceted Role of Sirtuin 2
December 10, 2020
Presenter: Tammy Klassen-Ross, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Title: Predicting who will become a rural physician. Is it possible?
November 19, 2020
Presenter: Dr. Annie Duchesne, Department of Psycology CIHR-IGH UNBC Senior Mentor and Anita Shaw, Department of Psycology CIHR-IGH UNBC Training Lead
Title: Introducing the CIHR-IGH trainee network and its UNBC node"
October 22, 2020
Presenter: Dr. Dave Snadden, Professor, NMP
Title: The Rural Coordination Centre of BC Site Visits Project- an exercise in advocacy for rural health systems change through rural community engagement and the gathering and analysis of massive amounts of qualitative data"
September 17, 2020
Presenters: Dr. Shannon Freeman, Associate Professor, Nursing and Dr. Richard McAloney, Adjunct Professor, School of Business
Topic: Leveraging Technology to Better Support Older Adults in Northern British Columbia
March 2020
Presenter: Sarah de Leeuw, School of Health Sciences, NMP
Topic: "Health, Arts, and the Humanities: Crossroads Worth Critical and Creative Conversations"
February 2020
Presenter: Andrea Gingerich, Northern Medical Program
Topic: “Failure-to-Fail in medical education: What are we thinking?”
January 2020
Presenter: Henry Harder, School of Health Science
Topic: Indigenous Research and the Importance of Epistemological Humility
October 2019
Presenter: Travis Holyk, First Nation Studies
Topic: Sux Ganah (my words): A story of engaging in Indigenous Health Research
September 2019
Presenter: Robin Roots, Physical Therapy
Topic: "Filling two needs with a single deed: the Prince George Cardiac Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program improves patient outcomes and student learning"
April 2019
Presenters: UNBC Honor Students
Topic: Honor Student Presentation
March 2019
Presenter: Dr. Sean Maurice, SLI, NMP
Topic: Developing the Healthcare Travelling Roadshow
February 2019
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Gray, Associate Professor, NMP
Topic: Biological Determinants of Obesity and Diabetes: a biomedical perspective to disease prevention and management
January 2019
Presenter: Dr. Luke Harris, Associate Professor, Health Sciences
Topic: I Think We Need Some Meat on Those Bones: Recent Outcomes of Brain, Muscle, and Bone Research
December 2018
Presenter: School of Health Sciences PhD Alumni
Topic: School of Health Sciences PhD Alumni Presentations
November 2018
Presenters: Dr. Davina Banner, Associate Professor, Nursing & Dr. Darby Cassidy
Topic: Chronic testicular pain: The experiences of patients undergoing micosurgical spermatic cord denervation
October 2018
Presenter: Dr. Kafui Monu, Assistant Professor, Commerce
Topic: Gamification and Exergames: Designing for Health
September 2018
Presenter: Dr. Edōsdi (Judy Thompson), Assistant Professor, First Nation Studies
Topic: Indigenous Language Revitalization and Reclamation: Intergenerational Trauma, Healing, and Resiliency
Panel: The presentation was followed by a panel discussion with research and education partners (including past and present students) involved in language learning using immersive settings to raise language proficiency
April 2018
Presenter: Dr. Sheona Mitchell-Foster
Topic: Bridging the Cancer Divide: Iterative Research Addressing Burdens of Cervical Cancer at Home and Abroad
March 2018
Topic: Pecha Kucha Presentations
February 2018
Presenters: Kevin Adams, Georgia Betkus, Tim Wood, Frank Flood, and Dr. Shannon Freeman
Topic: Examining the Quality of Telehealth Services in Northern British Columbia: Collaborative Research Conducted in Partnership between Northern Health and UNBC
January 2018
Presenter: Dr. Chris Buse, CIRC Project Lead
Topic: New Horizons in Health Impact Assessment Research Practice
December 2017
Presenter: Annie Duchesne, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Topic: The Crucial Role of Context in Understanding the Interplay between Ovarian Hormones and Psychological Health in Women
November 2017
Presenter: Dr. Chow Lee, Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Topic: Exploring British Columbia Wil Mushrooms for Novel Medicinal Compounds
October 2017
Presenter: Rob Olson, Associate Professor, Northern Medical Program, Division Head, Radiation Oncology, UBC
Topic: Leading Health Services Research from Northern BC
September 2017
Presenters: Sarah de Leeuw, Associate Professor, Northern Medical Program, Research Director, Health Arts Research Centre, & Henry Harder. Dr. R. Rix Leadership Chair, Aboriginal Environmental Health; Professor, School of Health Science
Topic: Indigenous Health