The faculty of the UBC Division of General Internal Medicine celebrated past and present research achievements on April 9, 2019 during the inaugural GIM Research Night. The private event took place at Minami in Yaletown.
Dr. Nadia Khan opened the evening by highlighting work that has had a profound effect on medicine, including the work of Drs. Rose Hatala and Kevin Eva and their contributions to assessment in medical education; Dr. Anita Palepu’s research on homelessness, and social determinants of health; and former Division Member, Dr. Laura Magee for work in treating hypertension among pregnant women.
While attendees dined on a delicious meal prepared by Minami chefs, eight presenters shared a research project that they were most proud of. Order of presentations:
- Dr. Biri Mangat: Hypertension and knowledge translation, and the development and evaluation of resources for creating blood pressure screening modules for low-resourced countries
- Dr. Trudy Naismith: Quality improvement project to improve the outcomes of patients who leave against medical advice
- Dr. Nadia Khan: Analysis of the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) to the Canadian Population Trial, named a late-breaking abstract at the 2017 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress and Top 5 GIM paper in 2018 LINK
- Dr. Kevin Eva: The Pedagogical Value of Testing: How far does it Extend? LINK
- Dr. Wee-Shian Chan: Pregnancy Reference Intervals for Safe Medicine (PRISM) LINK
- Dr. Tony Wan: Residual pulmonary embolism as a predictor for recurrence after a first unprovoked episode: Results from the REVERSE cohort study LINK
- Dr. Liam Brunham: The role of genetic determinants of high-density lipoproteins and outcomes of patients with sepsis LINK
- Dr. John Staples: Fatal car crashes on 4/20 (cannabis) LINK
“As a group, general internists are amazing problem solvers,” commented Dr. John Staples.
“There is so much about pregnancy that we know nothing about. As general internists, we are best positioned to answer some of those questions,” said Dr. Wee-Shian Chan.
So far in 2019, the Division has had 55 research publications.
