Funding: Clinical researchers awarded $2.7 million to fund innovative projects
Clinical researchers at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry have received more than $2.7 million in funding from the Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario (AMOSO) to support the development of new and innovative approaches to health care delivery.
The funding, which totals $2,700,946 across 24 projects at the School is from the Academic Health Science Centre Alternative Funding Plan (AHSC AFP).
The funds provide one- or two-year seed funding to support innovative projects, enabling academic physicians to develop programs and evaluate novel strategies to transform health care delivery in Ontario.
Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2021-2022 AHSC AFP Innovation Fund:
QORVATS study. A randomized controlled, triple blinded study to compare the quality of recovery (QoR 40) between intercostal block and a combination of intercostal nerve block with serratus plane catheter for patients undergoing VATS procedures
Dr. Abhijit Biswas, Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine and Dr. Richard Malthaner, Surgery
Integrated Perioperative Pain Pathway (IP3): Improving perioperative management of pain to prevent persistent and chronic pain in children after major orthopedic, thoracic and abdominal surgeries.
Dr. Niveditha Karuppiah and Dr. Ushma Shah, Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
Quality of Recovery Scores in Parturients with Obesity: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study
Dr. Ilana Sebbag, Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
CONCERT STUDY: A Comprehensive ONline program for Cognitive Enhancement, Reassurance and Training
Dr. M. Reza Azarpazhooh, Clinical Neurological Sciences and Dr. Naghmeh Mokhber, Psychiatry
Mathematical outcome at school-age of children with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus: an interventional, behavioral and imaging study
Dr. Sandrine de Ribaupierre, Clinical Neurological Sciences
Anxiolysis for Laceration Repair in Children: A Multicentre Bayesian Adaptive Randomized Controlled Trial (ALICE)
Dr. Naveen Poonai, Emergency Medicine
High-throughput computing to improve prescription-drug safety in older adults
Dr. Amit Garg, Medicine
Personalized proton pump inhibitor (PPI) dosing for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
Dr. Richard Kim, Medicine
Medication Determinants of Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Structural Risk
Dr. Geoff Pickering, Medicine and Dr. Michael Chu, Surgery
Identifying and closing information gaps in best practice therapeutics for pregnant women
Dr. Janine Hutson, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Dr. Facundo Garcia-Bournissen, Paediatrics
Assessment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis outcomes and place of residence in Canada: identifying disparities in care
Dr. Roberta Berard, Paediatrics
Impact of a Shared Decision Making intervention in paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease therapeutic decision-making
Dr. Eileen Crowley, Paediatrics
Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation: Evaluation of IM Epinephrine (The PRIME Trial)
Dr. Janice Tijssen, Paediatrics
Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for persons with stroke: A pilot randomized controlled trial
Dr. Robert Teasell, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Speech markers as a tool to predict relapse in psychosis
Dr. Rohit Lodhi and Dr. Lena Palaniyappan, Psychiatry
Supporting Physicians: A Multi-Systems Investigation to Understand Burnout, Resilience, Moral Injury, and Institutional Trust
Dr. J. Don Richardson, Psychiatry
Prevention of postpartum depression: A pilot placebo-controlled trial of trazodone
Dr. Verinder Sharma, Psychiatry
Ablative Radiotherapy to Restrain Every Metastasis Safely Treatable (ARREST) 2: A Randomized Phase 2 Trial
Dr. Tim Nguyen, Radiation Oncology
Molecular profiling of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: in utero and postnatal transcriptomic and metabolomic patterns to aid in prognosis and treatment
Dr. Andreana Bütter, Surgery
Using DNA Methylation Profiling to Differentiate Good from Poor Prognosis Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Patients
Dr. Jonathan Izawa, Surgery
Year 2 of 2 Funding: Reduction Or Elimination Of Radiation During Implantation of Cardiac Devices Using Ultrasound (RADICAI Use)
Dr. Habib Khan, Medicine
Year 2 of 2 Funding: Diagnostic Working Group for Epilepsy: Investigation of the Utility of Pediatric Autoimmune and Genetic Testing in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - The PAGE study
Dr. Maryam Nabavi Nouri and Dr. Tugce Bulakbasi Balci, Paediatrics
Year 2 of 2 Funding: Novel PET/MRI Approach to Seizure Characterization in Pediatric Medically Refractory Epilepsy
Dr. Michael Jurkiewicz, Radiology and Dr. Andrea Andrade, Paediatrics
