canada research chair

(University of Alberta - Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation) Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Cancer, Kerry Courneya of the University of Alberta, will lead several large, longitudinal, interdisciplinary physical activity and cancer studies in Canada and Australia.

(Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) For Margot Parkes, Canada Research Chair in Health, Ecosystems and Society at the University of Northern British Columbia, watersheds are living systems that are essential for healthy communities.

(Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) A research team led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, evaluated the use of technology in Canadian clinical trials, and found that a significant proportion (41 percent) have moved away from collecting and managing trial data using only paper records.

(Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected.

This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. In a recent study, Dr.

(Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) A recent study led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the information in hospital prescription records can quite easily re-identify patients.

In his study, titled "Evaluating the Risk of Re-identification of Patients from Hospital Prescription Records, he demonstrates the importance of ensuring the proper de-identification of patient records.

(Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) A study to be published today in the leading international journal Cell Metabolism describes how a research group led by Dr.

Robert Screaton, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Apoptotic Signaling at the University of Ottawa, used sophisticated genetic engineering to remove or "knock out" the Lkb1 gene from beta cells of laboratory mice.

The result was an increase in both the size and number of beta cells, as well as greater amounts of insulin stored and released by the cells.