Research Report November 2007

Special Events / Notable Opportunities and Happenings

• Congratulations to the Integrating family Medicine and Pharmacy to Advance primary Care Therapeutics (IMPACT) Project Team (Lisa Dolovich, Principal Investigator) for receiving a certificate of excellence from Blood Pressure Canada.

• Congratulations to the Vascular Intervention Program (Lisa Dolovich Co‐Principal Investigator), a project led by the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste Marie for receiving an Ontario Hospital Association Leading Practices Award at the OHA HealthAchieve 2007 conference.
• Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program: The CHAP team held an afternoon session at the Stroke Strategy meeting for Southwestern Ontario ‐ held in London on November 7; this was a timely opportunity to bring together key partners from our 20 program communities across Ontario to discuss plans for the next phase of CHAP, funded by the Ministry of Health Promotion ($500,000). The ‘CHAP + Action Plan’ project will focus on sustainability of CHAP in the communities, enhanced components to provide the ‘next steps’ after the pharmacy‐based sessions, and working with
  FHTs to integrate CHAP with their chronic disease prevention activities and create a model for wider implementation.
  

Publications:
Co‐Author Book Chapter
Crooks VA, Agarwal G. (in press) “Chronically ill patients’ and family caregivers’ perspectives on the use of computer technologies in family practice: implications for the development of informational continuity of care.” In F. Columbus (ed.) Social Sciences in Health Care and Medicine, accepted October 2007. New York:Nova Sciences Publishers. 24 page manuscript.

Funding Awarded:
Principal Investigator(s): Schabort I.
Project: Faculty Development Grant for Teachers of IMGs
Agency: Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC)
Amount: $7,500.00

Principal Investigator(s): Donald FC, Martin‐Misner R..
Co-Investigator(s): Akhtar-Danesh N, Brazil K, Bryant-Lukosius DE, Carter NM, Dicenso A, Dobbins
MJ, Kaasalainen SJ, McAiney CA, Ploeg J, Schindel Martin U, Stolee P, Taniguchi A.
Project: Understanding the individual, organizational, and system factors influencing the integration of
the nurse practitioner role in long term care settings in Canada
Agency: CIHR
Amount: $325,000 (with partnership funding)

Submitted Funding:
Principal Investigator(s): Kaczorowski J, Chambers L, Dolovich L.
Co-Investigator(s): Karwalajtys T, Farrell B, McDonough B, Sebaldt R, Uevitt C, Hogg W, Uiddy
C,Thabane U, Tu K, Goeree R, Paterson M, Gierman T, Carter M.
Project: From Awareness to Action: The Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program + Management
CHAP+AP)
Agency: Canadian Stroke Network
Amount: $ 599,000 (across 3 sites)

Principal Investigator(s): J Kaczorowski & T Karwalajtys (co‐PIs),
Co-Investigator(s): UW Chambers, R Agarwal, L Dolovich, JM Paterson, B McDonough, SW lobe,
U, Thabane, E Pullenayegum, Peter Gozdyra
Project: Social determinants of cardiovascular disease and stroke risk in older adults: Populationbased
analysis
Agency: Canadian Stroke Network (CSN)
Amount: ($320,000 across 2 sites)

Principal Investigator(s): Sidhu K.
Co‐Investigator(s): Dolovich L, Darren Lin
Project: Use of objective measurements of airflow limitation to guide therapy and disposition for patients with asthma in two urban downtown emergency departments
REB approved: R.P. # 07‐2922