Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences
The Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) is a group of experienced health outcomes researchers based at St. Paul’s Hospital. Our investigators evaluate the effectiveness of health interventions in populations to understand how to improve health and transform health systems for the future.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Anis, Aslam | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | cost effectiveness of AIDS treatments; drug assessments – pharmacoeconomics; health care economics; health regulations, Health economics, rhematoid arthritis, biologic therapies |
| Ayas, Najib | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public health and afety consequences of sleep apnea and sleep deprivation |
| Bansback, Nick | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | inform policies and practices in health through the application of |
| Conklin, Annalijn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Chronic Diseases in Elderly, Gender Epidemiology, Health Policies, Professional Practices, Obesity, Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders, Community Health / Public Health, healthy ageing, social nutritional epidemiology, obesity & CVD risk factors, food and nutrition policy, Indigenous health, gender and health equity, healthcare quality improvement, disease management evaluation |
| Cundiff, Geoffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, urogynaecology, pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, sexual dysfunction, obstetrical injury, quality assurance, Epidemiology of pelvic floor disorders, to anatomy, to education, to the prevention of maternal obstetrical trauma |
| Gadermann, Anne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social determinants of health; Housing and homelessness; Quality of |
| Geller, Josie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Eating Disorders |
| Geoffrion, Roxana | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | patient education, surgical outcomes after various pelvic reconstructive surgeries and surgical skill development through simulation and standardized training; pelvic floor reconstruction procedures such as vaginal prolapse or urinary incontinence surgery |
| Gill, Jagbir | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Kidney transplantation; Organ donation; Clinical epidemiology |
| Gill, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical outcomes in kidney transplant patients; Access to kidney transplantation; Living donor transplantation; Cardiovascular risk in transplant patients |
| Harrison, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | measurement and valuation of health, health technology and policy assessment, and preferences for healthcare interventions; evaluation/re-evaluation of the type of health care that is provided, the point in the treatment pathway, and the way in which it is delivered |
| Khan, Nadia Ahmed | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ethnic and gender differences in chronic disease incidence and outcomes; Chronic disease prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascular disease; Hypertension outcomes research |
| Koehoorn, Mieke | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Occupational health, injury, compensation policies, Worksafe BC, Gender Work and Health |
| Levin, Adeera | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Hypertension/Renal Transplantation; Medical Education; Outcome/Evaluation Method Applied to Renal Patients |
| Li, Linda | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Arthritis / Osteo-Arthritis, Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Care and Services, Health Care Technologies, Patient help-seeking experiences, Shared decision-making, Patient self-management, E-health, Rehabilitation and lifestyle interventions in arthritis management, Health services research, Patient Engagement, Knowledge translation, Implementation Science, digital media |
| Lynd, Larry | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | health economics, orphan drugs, pharmaceutical policy, respiratory medicine, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, rare diseases |
| McCracken, Rita | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Audit and feedback to improve primary care prescribing, Health human resources, Polypharmacy and deprescribing, Frailty, aging, Patient-oriented research outcomes, Primary care research, Health services evaluation |
| Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | public health and substance use, with a focus on testing alternative approaches to expand and diversify the treatments offered; treatment needs of patients |
| Palepu, Anita | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Homelessness and Homeless People, homeless, Addiction, housing, Epidemiology, health care utilization, safe medication prescribing |
| Schechter, Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | HIV/AIDS |
| Schuetz, Christian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social and Cultural Psychiatry, Psychology - Biological Aspects, Addiction, Cognitive Control, Treatment |
| Singer, Joel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical trial methodology and clinical trials in HIV/AIDS |
| Spittal, Patricia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Indigenous/Aboriginal Health, HIV work in Uganda, |
| Sutherland, Jason | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health care funding, patient outcomes, Development of methods for monitoring and evaluating health system performance, Measuring burden of illness, Exploring causes and consequences of variations in health system utilization and funding |
| Wong, Hubert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Statistics and Probabilities, Biostatistical methods |