DoM researcher calibrates blood pressure targets to prevent recurrent stroke.
UBC neurologist calibrates blood pressure targets for preventing recurrent stroke Stroke patients who lowered their systolic blood pressure below a certain threshold were significantly less likely to have a recurrent stroke caused by a brain bleed compared with those who didn’t lower their pressure that far, according to a study by UBC neurologist Dr. Oscar […]
Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Researchers Win MSFHR Scholar Awards
Two young researchers in the Department of Medicine have been awarded 2012 Career Investigator awards from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Dr. Viviane Dias Lima Assistant Professor Project title: Operations research applied to assess different strategies to reduce the public health and economic burdens of HIV/AIDS in British Columbia Dr. David Moore Clinical Assistant […]
Dr. Kate Shannon Named Canada’s Premier Young Researcher
Dr. Kate Shannon, a researcher in the Division of AIDS and a member of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, has been awarded the prestigious Peter Lougheed/CIHR New Investigator Canada’s Premier Young Researcher Award in the September 2011 CIHR competition. Her project, titled “The social and structural contexts of HIV/STIs among women and youth […]