CIHR Fall 2018 Project Grant Competition results announced

The results of CIHR’s Fall 2018 Project Grant Competition were announced on January 23. CHÉOS Scientists are leading three of the projects funded through this round of the competition and a further seven projects are supported by CHÉOS Scientists as co-investigators.

Drs. Nick Bansback and Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes are leading a network meta-analysis of opioid agonist therapies that aims to make indirect comparisons of effectiveness between different treatments by synthesizing the results of past trials. Co-investigators for the study include Drs. Aslam Anis, Martin Schechter, and Wei Zhang.

Dr. Zhang is also leading a study about developing more effective measurements of work productivity loss, supported by Dr. Mieke Koehoorn as a co-investigator. Dr. John Staples is leading a study that will look at the different driving restrictions on people with cardiac defibrillator implants and how these restrictions could impact the motor vehicle accidents.

See below for a full list of CHÉOS-related studies funded by the Fall 2018 Project Grant Competition.

• Network Meta-Analysis of Opioid Agonist Treatments for street opioid users

Principal investigators: Nick Bansback; Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes
Co-investigators: Aslam Anis; Suzanne Brissette; David Marsh; Heather Palis; Martin Schechter; Jordan Westfall; Wei Zhang

• Improving Health Economic Evaluation: Better Measures of Work Productivity Losses due to Illness in Canada

Principal investigator: Wei Zhang
Co-investigators: Gary Johns; Mieke Koehoorn; Simon Woodcock

• Motor vehicle crash risk after cardioverter-defibrillator implantation: A population-based evaluation

Principal investigator: John Staples
Co-investigators: Jeffrey Brubacher; Santabhanu Chakrabarti; Wing-Ping Chan; Shannon Erdelyi; Nathaniel Hawkins; Andrew Krahn

• Risk of Retinal Toxicity in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Rheumatoid Arthritis on Long-term Hydroxychloroquine Therapy

Principal investigators: Juan Avina-Zubieta, John Esdaile
Co-investigators: Hyon Choi; Martin Dawes; Mahyar Etminan; Diane Lacaille; Linda Li; David Maberley; Kam Shojania; Hui Xie

• Improving the identification and treatment of young adults with heart disease: the Study to Avoid cardioVascular Events in British Columbia (SAVE BC)

Principal investigators: Liam Brunham; Simon Pimstone
Co-investigators: Alison Hoens; Karin Humphries; G. B. J Mancini

• Evaluating the renoprotective effect of acetaminophen in pediatric severe falciparum malaria: A randomized controlled trial

Principal investigators: Katherine Plewes; Arjen Dondorp
Co-investigators: Caterina Fanello; Kevin Kain; Adeera Levin; Mavuto Mukaka; Marie Onyamboko

• The Canadian Surgical and Medical Abortion Provider Survey (CAPS)

Principal investigators: Regina Renner; Bonnie Henry; Marie-Soleil Wagner
Co-investigators: Sarah Munro, Wendy Norman et al.

• Antiretroviral-based HIV prevention and its impact on sexual risk behaviours and HIV/STIs among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men: Engage Cohort Study

Principal investigators: John Cox; Daniel Grace; Trevor Hart; Jody Jollimore; Nathan Lachowsky; Gilles Lambert; David Moore
Co-investigators: Troy Grennan et al.

• Development of novel risk prediction scores for emergency department patients with suspected coronary artery disease

Principal investigator: Andrew Mcrae
Co-investigators: James Andruchow; Lawrence De Koning; Grant Innes; Peter Kavsak; Eddy Lang; Tolulope Sajobi; Frank Scheuermeyer; Andrew Worster

• Integrating cognitive-behavioural therapy for social anxiety disorder with HIV risk reduction counselling for HIV-negative gay and bisexual men who are at high risk for HIV: A randomized controlled trial

Principal investigators: Trevor Hart; Martin Antony
Co-investigators: Syed Noor; Joel Singer; Darrell Tan[/fancy-ul][/vc_column][/vc_row]