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 safety 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) | Public health nutrition policy; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders; social nutritional epidemiology; women's health; Health Equity; Chronic Diseases in Elderly; Obesity; CVD risk factors; healthy ageing; food and nutrition policy; Indigenous health; Community Health / Public Health; disease management evaluation; healthcare quality improvement |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Grunau, Brian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; Resuscitation; Extracorporeal-CPR |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) | Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Substance Use; person-centered care in addiction; injectable opioid agonist treatment; Harm reduction |
| Palepu, Anita | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health services and systems; homeless; Addiction; housing; Epidemiology; health care utilization; safe medication prescribing |
| Puyat, Joseph | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Epidemiology; Biostatistics and Public Health Practice; Psychopharmacoepidemiology; mental health; Mental Health Services |
| Schechter, Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | HIV/AIDS |
| Slaunwhite, Amanda | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Public and population health; illicit drug poisoning (overdose); Substance Use; mental health; prison health; health inequities; health geography |
| 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; Clinical trial design |
| Zhang, Wei | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public and population health; Health Policies; Pharmacoeconomics; Economic evaluation; Health economics |