Leadership
Dr. Rubee Dev is an Assistant Professor of Global Health and Primary Health Care Nursing at the UBC School of Nursing and Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Dr. Dev is a principal investigator of the BC-PHCRN and co-director of the BC node of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (BC-CPCSSN). Her work entails extensive research to identify the data gaps and opportunities for action in meeting the needs of global maternal and child health and improving care delivery in primary health care settings; mainly through collaboration, partnerships, and knowledge translation.
Dr. Nathaniel Hawkins is Associate Professor and cardiologist dual trained in heart failure and electrophysiology at UBC. He is Medical Lead for Quality and Research at Cardiac Services BC and Director of Research for the UBC Division of Cardiology. His research examines cardiovascular outcomes, health services, and comorbidities in patients with heart failure, arrhythmia, and pulmonary disease. He is Co-Principal Investigator for the MAPLE-CHF and international SYMPHONY heart failure screening trial and member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canadian Heart Function Alliance. His work aims to integrate systems of care and utilize data to deliver population health interventions.
Dr. Sabrina Wong is a Professor at the UBC School of Nursing and the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Dr. Wong is a principal investigator of the BC-PHCRN, co-director of the BC node of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (BC-CPCSSN), and co-principal investigator of the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN). Her research examines the organization and delivery of health care services within the context of primary health care. A recognized leader in research involving patient-reported quality of care, her work contributes to informing practice and system level interventions that seek to decrease health inequalities among Canadian residents, including people who face multiple disadvantages in accessing and using the health care system such as those who have language barriers and live in poverty. Her long-standing commitment to research has significantly contributed to further understanding and application of primary health care in helping to reduce health and health care inequalities.
Staff
Shelby Elkes facilitates overall network management and research development as the BC-PHCRN Network Manager. Her role primarily focuses on disseminating knowledge, collaborating with Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) partners, and engaging invested community members, patients, researchers, health professionals, government and health authority representatives in BC-PHCRN projects. She is the primary point of contact and liaison to support the vision, goals and initiatives of the BC-PHCRN.
Dr. Andy Gibb is the Data Manager for BC-CPCSSN. Andy has an extensive, published track record in scientific research. He is the person that works on solving all of the programming issues, implementing automation algorithms and ensures the data are secure and meets the highest privacy standards.
Dawn Mooney visualizes and communicates health data at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, including for the BC-PHCRN. Dawn is interested in methods of effective graphical communication of health data and statistics, and in using mapping to explore, communicate and address geographic disparities in health and health care.
Trainees
Veena Mudaliar is a registered nurse and a PhD candidate at the UBC School of Nursing.
Innocent Ndateba is a registered nurse and a PhD candidate at the UBC School of Nursing. His research interests include global health, epidemiology, prevention and management of chronic diseases, and organization and delivery of primary care services. He is examining how team-based primary care impacts health outcomes in people living with multimorbidity. He has conducted research in Rwanda, South Africa, and Canada. The goal of his research is to generate evidence that can be used in development and implementation of health interventions to improve chronic disease prevention and management for all.
Manpreet Thandi is a PhD candidate at the UBC School of Nursing with a background in nursing and population health promotion. Her dissertation research focuses on developing a frailty severity scale that can automatically calculate frailty scores for patients using existing electronic medical record data in BC primary care settings. With her work, Manpreet hopes to improve health outcomes for the growing older adult population through early detection and management of frailty.
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