21 results match your criteria: "Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta[Affiliation]"
Developing Data Governance Agreements with Indigenous Communities in Canada: Toward Equitable Tuberculosis Programming, Research, and Reconciliation.
Health Hum Rights
June 2022
Director of the TB PE & RU and a professor in the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Indigenous rights to self-determination and data sovereignty support Indigenous-led data governance, which, when adequately resourced, can act as a catalyst for Indigenous-led strategic planning and decision-making in public health research and programming. Respecting Indigenous data sovereignty and governance requires time, resources, education, and planning. Here we share our experiences and lessons learned when developing and implementing data governance agreements with select First Nations and Métis partnering communities in Canada in the context of tuberculosis prevention and care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTake urgent action diagnosing, treating, and controlling hypertension in older women.
Can Fam Physician
October 2020
"Keep it short and sweet": Improving risk communication to family physicians during public health crises.
Can Fam Physician
March 2020
Objective: To identify recommendations from family physicians in Canada on how public health agencies and professional organizations might improve future crisis and emergency risk communications.
Design: Qualitative content analysis.
Setting: Canada.
From resident to family doctor: Time management tips to help keep you sane.
Can Fam Physician
February 2020
Practising physician at Misericordia Community Hospital in Edmonton, Alta, and Clinical Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta.
Two Row Wampum, Human Rights, and the Elimination of Tuberculosis from High-Incidence Indigenous Communities.
Health Hum Rights
June 2019
Health director in a First Nations community in the Province of Alberta, Canada.
The Two Row Wampum belt is a symbolic record of the first agreement between Europeans and American Indians on Turtle Island (North America). The agreement outlined a commitment to friendship and peace between people living perpetually in parallel, with each party recognizing the other as an equal partner. Subsequent treaty relationships between the Indigenous peoples of the Canadian prairies and settler society, along with the colonially imposed structures they spawned, are widely regarded as having broken the Covenant Chain, the foundation of which is Two Row Wampum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedical Information Commons to Support Learning Healthcare Systems: Examples From Canada.
J Law Med Ethics
March 2019
Tania Bubela, Ph.D., J.D., F.C.A.H.S., is an expert in health and intellectual property law and policy, combining her training in genetics (Ph.D. Biology, University of Sydney) and law (Gold medalist, University of Alberta). She is the Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, British Columbia), developing sector-leading policies, processes, practices, and infrastructure to support excellence in interdisciplinary education, research, and engagement that will improve health, health equity, and well-being. Shelagh K. Genuis, Ph.D., is the project manager for the Genome Canada's Precision Medicine Policy Network, based in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Alberta. Naveed Z. Janjua, M.D., Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist at the BC Centre for Disease Control and Clinical Associate Professor at School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia. Mel Krajden, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., is the Director of BC's Public Health Laboratory and the Medical Head, Hepatitis at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. He is also a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He has extensive clinical trials expertise and is a Co-investigator/Mentor on the CIHR funded National Research Training Program (CanHepC). Nicole Mittmann, Ph.D., is the Chief Research Officer at CCO. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and an Associate Scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Katerina Podolak is the Group Manager for Data Acquisition and Disclosure at Cancer Care Ontario, working with data partners to bring data into CCO, and health system partners who want access to CCO data. Katerina has extensive experience with information management in the hospital setting, as well as Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long-term Care. Larry Svenson, Ph.D., F.R.S.P.H., is the Provincial Health Analytics Officer and Executive Director for Analytics and Performance Reporting at Alberta Health. He is also an Associate Professor with the Division of Preventive Medicine at the University of Alberta and an Adjunct Professor with the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta and the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.
We explore how principles predicting the success of a medical information commons (MIC) advantaged or disadvantaged three MIC initiatives in three Canadian provinces. Our MIC case examples demonstrate that practices and policies to promote access to and use of health information can help improve individual healthcare and inform a learning health system. MICs were constrained by heterogenous health information protection laws across jurisdictions and risk-averse institutional cultures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCondom use to aid cervical visualization during speculum examination.
Can Fam Physician
April 2018
Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and is both a practising family physician and a public health physician in Edmonton.
Objective: To examine the consistency of the ranking of Canadian and US medical graduates who applied to Canadian family medicine (FM) residency programs between 2007 and 2013.
Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study.
Setting: Family medicine residency programs in Canada.
Simplified guideline for prescribing medical cannabinoids in primary care.
Can Fam Physician
February 2018
Objective: To develop a clinical practice guideline for a simplified approach to medical cannabinoid use in primary care; the focus was on primary care application, with a strong emphasis on best available evidence and a promotion of shared, informed decision making.
Methods: The Evidence Review Group performed a detailed systematic review of 4 clinical areas with the best evidence around cannabinoids: pain, nausea and vomiting, spasticity, and adverse events. Nine health professionals (2 generalist family physicians, 2 pain management-focused family physicians, 1 inner-city family physician, 1 neurologist, 1 oncologist, 1 nurse practitioner, and 1 pharmacist) and a patient representative comprised the Prescribing Guideline Committee (PGC), along with 2 nonvoting members (pharmacist project managers).
Objective: To examine FPs' training needs for conducting decision-making capacity assessments (DMCAs) and to determine how training materials, based on a DMCA model, can be adapted for use by FPs.
Design: A scoping review of the literature and qualitative research methodology (focus groups and structured interviews).
Setting: Edmonton, Alta.
Management of gonococcal infection among adults and youth: New key recommendations.
Can Fam Physician
October 2015
Past Director of the Professional Guidelines and Public Health Practice Division, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control at the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Objective: To provide recommendations on the management of gonococcal infection among adults and youth.
Quality Of Evidence: Treatment recommendations in the Canadian guidelines on sexually transmitted infections are based on review of the literature, as well as the grades of recommendations and the levels of evidence quality determined by a minimum of 2 reviewers. The recommendations are peer-reviewed and require approval by the expert working group.
Objective: To explore the underlying causation of unexplained multimorbidity with sensitivities and to discuss the management of patients who present with this perplexing condition.
Sources Of Information: Medical and scientific literature was used from MEDLINE (PubMed), several books, toxicology and allergy journals, conference proceedings, government publications, and environmental health periodicals.
Main Message: Multimorbidity with sensitivities has become an increasingly common and confusing primary care dilemma.