News

Welcome to Emily Pye and Courtney Abbott 2 students from the The Atlantic Regional Training Centre (ARTC)

Read the messages of Emily Pye and Courtney Abbott

New Students at St. Mary's Research Centre

More detail to come

Congratulation to Dr. Susan Law and Dr. Donna Tataryn for the awarded grant from Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation

During the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation gala on May 3^rd, the results of the second edition of its province-wide 1 Million to Help Contest were revealed. We are proud to announce that Dr. Susan Law and Dr. Donna Tataryn were awarded a grant for the project: Behind every surgery, there’s a story - women sharing their experiences to help others prepare for breast surgery in the amount of 156 732$.

Complete news here

Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation announcement http://www.rubanrose.org/Concours_1_million_pour_aider-fr-289

Congratulation to Dr. Jeannie Haggerty on her appointment  as Full Professor at Mcgill University

Please join me in congratulating Dr Jeannie Haggerty on her appointment on May 2, 2016 as full professor at McGill University.

She holds the first McGill Chair in Family and Community Medicine Research, based at St. Mary’s Hospital Centre and McGill University, and she is the Scientific Director of the Réseau de connassances en soins intégrés de premier ligne du Québec.

mode detail at  :http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2016/04/ten-professors-promoted-one-recruited/.

2016 C.A.R.E. Grants awarded researchers

St. Mary's Research Centre has awarded 3 C.A.R.E. Grants in 2016 :

Dr. Rick Mah and his team for the project entitled ''Improving intubation through video reflexive ethnography: Towards a culture of collaborative learning givers'' ($ 19,800)

Dr. Sylvie Lambert and her team for the project entitled ''A mixed methods pilot study of the illness self-management skills, needs, barriers, and preferences for interventions among patients from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background and their family caregivers ''($ 20,000)

Dr. Susan Law and her team for the project entitled ''Introducing a Quiet Time on a Maternity Ward: Engaging Patients and Staff to Assess Benefits and Barriers ''($ 12,295)

The 2015-2016 CARE competition is generously funded by St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation

Publications

• Development of a delirium risk screening tool

  McCusker, Jane

• Outcomes of community-dwelling seniors vary - Academic Emergency Medicine

  McCusker, Jane

• The course of subsyndromal delirium in older long-term care residents - Geriatric Psychiatry

  Cole, Martin

Events

2016-2017 Research Centre Seminars

Next seminar 

Tuesday september 27, 2016, from 12:00 to 1:00, at the Auditorium

Bridging the research-practice gap: Knowledge translation from the classroom to clinical practice

Dr. Aliki Thomas, Ph.D., OT (c), erg.
Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Research Scientist, Center for Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University and Researcher, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation (CRIR) www.crir.ca, Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital

Next webinar Reseau-1 Québec on Friday September 30, 2016 from 12:00 to 13:00

Réseau-1 Québec is hosting its second webinar of the fall on Friday September 30, 2016 from noon to 1pm. Anne-Sophie Thommeret-Carrière, M.D. and Marc-André Lavallée, M.D., recipients of the 2016 Réseau-1 prize for graduate student research projects at RRAPPL Université de Montréal, will present their project,

« Évaluation du changement d’attitude des externes en médecine de l’Université de Montréal envers les personnes en situation d’itinérance à travers le cours MMD3556 ». 

For more information: see the invitation

To register: Please click here

Please note that Réseau-1 webinars are approved for credits by the Office for Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University. For more information on credits available, please click here