CENTRE for CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION and MANAGEMENT
Kathleen Martin Ginis
RESEARCH LEAD
Professor with UBC Faculty of Medicine Department of Medicine and the UBC Okanagan Faculty of Health and Social Development
The Faculty of Medicine’s Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management (CCDPM) serves as a provincial leader for research excellence, knowledge translation and exchange in the urgent research field of chronic diseases.
ABSTRACT
The Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management (CCDPM) will advance the prevention and self-management of chronic conditions by aligning with the Faculty of Medicine’s strategic plan for research in core areas such as heart and lung health, brain and mental health, and chronic diseases and to accelerate knowledge translation. The CCDPM aims to build and maintain collaborations that harness collective research strengths from across the Faculty of Medicine’s distributed education and research sites.
Visit the CCDPM website here
2019 - 2020 Faculty of Medicine Annual Report
Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
AFFILIATED INVESTIGATORS
Dr. Jennifer Davis, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management
Dr. Charlotte Jones, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology
Dr. Mary Jung, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences
Dr. Jonathan Little, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences
Dr. Lesley Lutes, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Deanne Taylor, Director of Research, Interior Health
Dr. Neil Eves, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences
Dr. Devin Harris, Executive Medical Director for Quality and Patient Safety, Interior Health
Dr. Tricia Tang, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology
Dr. Daryl Wile, Clinical Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology
NEWS AND EVENTS
Using cannabis can ease cravings for street-level drugs, UBC research suggests
Cannabis could play a role in addressing the ongoing opioid overdose crisis
More than $2 million announced for multi-year, UBC Okanagan-led health research
Grants to fund research on youth mental health, MAID and global health equity
UBCO researchers study how prolonged sitting can impact children’s brains
Taking an exercise break maintains healthy blood flow in the brains of sedentary kids
UBCO research gives stroke survivors control
Dr. Sarah Kraeutner shifts stroke research to recovery as Canadians survive longer
UBC Okanagan researchers receive MSHRBC funding for meaningful collaboration
Funding to support aging in place and intimate partner violence survivors with brain injuries
The doctor is in
Dr. Lesley Lutes’ vision is for a healthier future where everyone gets the psychological care they need, when they need it
Navigating the middle years and beyond
UBCO experts provide tips on helping students entering middle or high school for the first time
Can your imagination improve your movement control?
UBC researchers invite right-handed individuals aged 65 to 90 years old living in the Central Okanagan to participate in an in-person study evaluating the effects of imagination on movement control. This research will help identify if the effects of mental rehearsal...
Contact
Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
CCDPM website here
Reichwald Health Sciences Centre
1088 Discovery Avenue
Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
Tel: 250-807-9187
Email ccdpm.med.@ubc.ca