Additional Affiliations

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Research Interests

• Traffic injury
• Syncope
• Hospital readmissions

Dr. John Staples is an academic General Internist based at St Paul’s Hospital and a Clinical Assistant Professor at UBC. After graduating from medical school at the University of Alberta, he completed a residency and fellowship in General Internal Medicine (UBC), a Masters of Public Health (Harvard University), a New England Journal of Medicine Editorial Fellowship, and a Health Services Research Fellowship (Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto). His research interests include traffic safety and medical risk factors for injury.