Congratulations to the 17 ICES scientists who received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in the latest round of grant competitions. The successful applicants and their projects are as follows:
CIHR Foundation Grants
- Stephen Hwang: Interventions research in homelessness, housing, and health
- Joy MacDermid: Innovations in assessment and management of musculoskeletal injury, pain and arthritis
- Janet Smylie: Our counts, our future: Building applied and self-determined First Nations, Inuit and Métis health and well-being information systems in urban homelands
CIHR Project Grants
- Tony Antoniou and Tara Gomes: Psychotropic drug use and safety among children and youth
- Peter Austin: Statistical methods for health services research
- Ahmed Bayoumi: Study of Post-hospital care for Opioid Overdoses that are Non-fatal (SPOON)
- Julie Hallet and Natalie Coburn: Addressing variation in practice in red blood cells transfusion for patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery and Understanding and predicting long-term outcomes of older adults undergoing cancer surgery
- Murray Krahn and Jennifer Walker: The epidemiology and economic burden of hepatitis C viral infection in the First Nations population in Ontario
- Paul Kurdyak and Fiona Kouyoumdjian: Closing a revolving door: Evaluating transitions into and out of correctional centres among Ontarians with schizophrenia
- Rayzel Shulman, Gillian Booth and Irfan Dhalla: Keeping in Touch (KiT) with young adults as they transition through type 1 diabetes care
- David Urbach: Using real-world data to simulate the effects of efficient referral strategies on wait times for elective surgery in Canada
