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.
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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) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Chronic Diseases in Elderly; Community Health / Public Health; disease management evaluation; food and nutrition policy; Gender Epidemiology; gender and health equity; Health Policies; healthcare quality improvement; healthy ageing; Indigenous health; Obesity; obesity & CVD risk factors; Professional Practices; Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders; social nutritional epidemiology |
| 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 |
| Ho, Anita | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human right issues, cross-cultural ethics, health-care access and disparity, professional-patient relationship, minority care experience, decision-making models, and various concepts of autonomy |
| Karim, Ehsan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biostatistical methods; Survey methodology and analysis; Statistical learning; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Public and population health, n.e.c.; Causal inference; Biostatistics; Statistics; Machine Learning; data science; Survey data analysis; multiple sclerosis |
| 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) | Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Arthritis / Osteo-Arthritis; digital media; E-health; Health Care Technologies; Health services research; Implementation Science; Knowledge translation; Patient Engagement; Patient help-seeking experiences; Patient self-management; rehabilitation; Rehabilitation Care and Services; Rehabilitation and lifestyle interventions in arthritis management; Shared decision-making |
| 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 |
| Munro, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human reproduction and development sciences; Participatory research; Health Care Technologies; Community Health / Public Health; Health Promotion; Health Policies; Health Care Organization; social determinants of health; Family planning; Perinatal Period; Birth Control; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Caesarean section; Implementation Science; Knowledge translation; Reproductive and maternal health; Shared decision making |
| 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 |
| Puyat, Joseph | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Epidemiology; Biostatistics and Public Health Practice; Psychopharmacoepidemiology; mental health; Mental Health Services |
| Schechter, Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | HIV/AIDS |
| Schuetz, Christian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Addiction, Cognitive Control, Treatment; Psychology - Biological Aspects; Social and Cultural Psychiatry |
| 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 effectiveness and outcomes; Health care administration; Access to care; Healthcare costs; Health systems; Patient-Reported Outcomes; Quality; Surgery |
| Wong, Hubert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health sciences; Public and population health; Biostatistical methods; Statistics and Probabilities |
| Zhang, Wei | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public and population health; Health Policies; Pharmacoeconomics; Economic evaluation; Health economics |