Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

calvarez@cw.bc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice, UBC

maureen.ashe@exchange.ubc.ca

Dr. Maureen Ashe is an Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Family Practice and a physiotherapist. She is a CIHR New Investigator and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. Her research focuses on characterizing the mobility-disability continuum for vulnerable older adults and developing and testing interventions to encourage older adults' participation through physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviour.  Recently she has extended this to include the role of the built environment on older adults’ community participation and health outcomes. 

Assistant Professor, Department of Rheumatology, UBC

azubieta@arthritisresearch.ca

Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, UBC

catherine.backman@ubc.ca

Research Operations Staff

Director, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Professor, School of Population & Public Health, UBC
Adjunct Associate, Stanford Health Policy

stirling.bryan@ubc.ca

Dr. Stirling Bryan is a trained economist with a career-long specialization in the economics of health care.  His PhD (Economics) was obtained from Brunel University (UK), following a Masters (Health Economics) from the University of York (UK).  For over 20 years he has been a university-based practicing health economist with extensive engagement to the policy and decision making world.  The vast majority of his career has been spent in the UK, initially in London (appointments at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School and then Brunel University) and subsequently in Birmingham (senior lecturer and then full professor at the University of Birmingham).  He has taught health economics to undergraduate economists and medical trainees, to postgraduate health economics students and to health sector professionals.  His research track record reveals a longstanding goal of informing policy and practice.  This is demonstrated, in part, through an extensive involvement with the UK National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE). For many years he led the University of Birmingham team that conducted economic analyses for NICE, and subsequently served for 3 years as a member of the NICE technology appraisals committee, advising on coverage policy.  In 2005 he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowship and spent one year in the US, based at Stanford University, researching technology coverage decision making in a US health care organizations.  His published papers reveal an ongoing research interest in coverage decision making processes.  Since his relocation to Canada in 2008, he has continued a focus on policy-relevant research.  His current position, sponsored by Vancouver Coastal Health, sees him working alongside policy colleagues in one of BC’s largest regional health authorities.

Executive Coordinator

PhD student, Experimental Medicine, University of British Columbia

anna.chudyk@hiphealth.ca

Anna Chudyk came to the CHHM in September 2009 after graduating from the University of Western Ontario with a Masters in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.  She worked as a research assistant at the CHHM the following year, before beginning her Doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia in January 2011, under the supervision of Dr. Heather McKay. Her research interests include the built environment, older adults,  physical activity and chronic diseases. For her Doctoral research, Anna has taken a leadership role in conducting a cross-sectional study aimed at investigating the association between the built environment, mobility and health of 400 financially-vulnerable older adults living in neighborhoods across Metro Vancouver. This study is a part of the CIHR-funded Walk the Talk project.

Assistant Professor, Department of Rheumatology, UBC

jcibere@arthritisresearch.ca

Clinical Instructor, Department of Geriatric Medicine, UBC

wcook@providencehealth.bc.ca

Doctoral Student, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program

catherine.craven@hiphealth.ca

Catherine began her doctoral studies at the CHHM in September 2011, as a trainee on the Walk the Talk research team. Catherine also continues her work as the Project Coordinator for the Nexus Home Care Project in the UBC Sociology Department. Her doctoral research focuses on the health of older adult immigrants in Canada, knowledge translation, and community-based research. She has a B.A. from the University of Victoria in Hispanic Studies and completed her Masters Degree in Latin American Studies at Simon Fraser University. Catherine has conducted research, worked and volunteered throughout Latin America and Canada.

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC

cripton@mech.ubc.ca

Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

clive.duncan@vch.ca

Professor, Department of Respiratory, YBC

vduronio@interchange.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Calgary

caemery@ucalgary.ca

Professor, Department of Rheumatology, UBC

jesdaile@arthritisresearch.ca

Manager, Seniors Fall and Injury Prevention, Fraser Health

ffeldman@sfu.ca

Professor, Department of Radiology, UBC

bruce.forster@vch.ca

Managing Director, CIHR Walk-the-Talk Team

sarah.furst@hiphealth.ca

Sarah Lusina-Furst, MSc came to CHHM in 2009, taking on the position of Knowledge Broker for the CIHR funded Vancouver Integrated Study on Aging team (PI: Dr. Karim Khan).  She transitioned into her current position after supporting the development of the Walk the Talk grant (PI: Dr. Heather McKay), which ignited her enthusiasm for the promotion of physical activity and urban health as well as her interest in research-community partnerships.  Sarah is in charge of the day-to-day operational aspects of the team’s work, including budget supervision, team communications and stakeholder engagement.  Sarah has extensive history in the research industry.  Before coming to CHHM, Sarah held positions with the Harvard Medical School (Research Associate, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine), the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (Liaison, BC Network on Aging Research) and Simon Fraser University (Research Coordinator, Environmental Physiology Laboratory). She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario and a Master’s of Science Degree from the University of Western Ontario.  Sarah looks forward to extending her skills and experience in research management, health promotion and community partnerships development.

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

garbuz@shaw.ca

Head, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC

jayne.garland@ubc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

gilbartmk@yahoo.ca

Administrative Manager

lidi.giroux@hiphealth.ca

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU

charles_goldsmith@sfu.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

ngreidanus@shaw.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

pierre.guy@ubc.ca

Dr. Pierre Guy is Associate Professor and clinician-scientist, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC. His medical training and residency were completed at McGill University, followed by orthopaedic trauma fellowships in Hannover and Berlin, Germany and UBC. Dr. Guy also holds a Master’s degree (MBA) from the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. Dr. Guy’s research is focused on hip fracture prevention, treatment and long term function. He is renowned for evaluating the mechanism of hip fractures and imaging of the proximal femur using novel techniques for his work in clinical trials and with administrative databases. His interdisciplinary team includes graduate students, clinical-residents, mechanical and materials engineers, epidemiologists, and biostatisticians.

Research Technician

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

hartd@ucalgary.ca

Professor David Hart, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, was formerly Head of Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He received his doctorate in Biochemistry from Michigan State University and went on to complete his postdoctoral training in immunology at the University of Illinois Medical Centre. He then joined the faculty at the University of Texas HSC at Dallas as an Assistant Professor. After promotion to Associate Professor, he became the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Immunology Program from its inception until 1983. In 1983, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary as Chairman of the Immunology Research Group. He was subsequently a founding member of the Joint Injury and Arthritis Research Group, and served as Chair of this group for three years. Professor Hart was actively involved in raising funds from the private sector that resulted in the establishment of the multidisciplinary McCaig Centre for Joint Injury and Arthritis Research at the University of Calgary, and is currently the Interim Director of what is now the McCaig Institute for Bone & Joint Health.

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC

ahodgson@mech.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UBC

choppmann@psych.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC

michael.hunt@ubc.ca

Dr. Michael A. Hunt is a clinical biomechanist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia. As a physiotherapist trained in fundamental biomechanics, the focus of Dr. Hunt’s work is to understand the biomechanical risk factors and consequences of injury and disease. The goal of his work is to develop targeted treatment approaches based on the unique characteristics of a given injury, resulting in improved physical function and quality of life.

Arthritis Research Centre of Canada - Research Staff

Executive Director, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada

Research Facilities and Operations Manager

ian.kerr@hiphealth.ca

Professor, Department of Family Practice, UBC

karim.khan@ubc.ca

Dr. Karim Khan is Professor and clinician-scientist, Department of Family Practice, UBC. Dr. Khan has achieved international recognition for studies promoting greater mobility among vulnerable seniors. In a medical community that often focuses on pharmaceutical therapies, Dr. Khan has consistently reported the large benefit of physical activity for public health. He has published extensively, including those in high impact journals such as the British Medical Journal, where he also serves on the international editorial board. Dr. Khan is also the Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, a leading international journal that focuses on the role of physical activity for health. Reflecting his contribution to knowledge translation, he is coauthor of the leading medical monograph for general practitioners and physiotherapists, Clinical Sports Medicine (3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill).

Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC

jacek.kopec@ubc.ca

Dr. Jacek Kopec is Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC, and a research scientist at the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada. Dr. Kopec was recognized as a National Health Research Scholar and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Senior Scholar. Dr. Kopec’s major research area is the epidemiology of musculoskeletal diseases, especially osteoarthritis and chronic pain. He is also an international authority on health outcomes research and quality of life (QoL) measurement; an interactive QoL instrument called CAT-5D-QOL was recently developed by his team. Dr. Kopec has led international teams in health outcomes, osteoarthritis, and health modeling research.

Associate Professor, Department of Rheumatology, UBC

dlacaille@arthritisresearch.ca

Resident, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

kelly.lefaivre@vch.ca

Assistant Finance Manager

eva.leung@hiphealth.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC

lli@arthritisresearch.ca

Dr. Linda Li is Assistant Professor and Harold Robinson Arthritis Society Chair in Arthritic Diseases, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC. Dr. Li is also a research scientist at the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada and an affiliated investigator at the Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit (ACREU) in Ontario. In addition to being a trained physiotherapist, Dr. Li received a PhD in clinical epidemiology at the University of Toronto, followed by a fellowship in clinical epidemiology/knowledge translation at the Ottawa Health Research Institute. Her research interests include models of care in the management of arthritis, the help-seeking process in people with early rheumatoid arthritis, and developing a web-based aid to promote shared decision-making in arthritis care.

Research Engineer and Laboratory Coordinator

danmei.liu@hiphealth.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy

Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose
teresa.ambrose@ubc.ca

Research Director, Falls Prevention Clinic
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC

Dr. Liu-Ambrose’s research laboratory, The Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Function Lab, focuses on defining the role of exercise to promote healthy aging and prevent cognitive and functional decline among seniors.

Currently, she is conducting two randomized controlled trials among seniors at risk for dementia to determine the effect of exercise on cognitive performance, brain function as measured by functional MRI, and physical function.

Dr. Liu-Ambrose works collaboratively with faculty in Psychology, Family Practice, Geriatric Medicine, and Health Care and Epidemiology.

Dr. Liu-Ambrose is an investigator with the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility and the Brain Research Centre. Her areas of methodological expertise include randomized controlled trials, exercise prescription for seniors, falls prevention, and neuropsychological assessments.

For more information on The Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Function Lab, please visit their website at http://cogmob.rehab.med.ubc.ca.

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

heather.macdonald@ubc.ca

Professor, Department of Radiology, UBC

mackay@physics.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, SFU

dmackey@sfu.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC

carlo.marra@ubc.ca

Professor, Institute of Aging, UBC

amm@interchange.ubc.ca

Professor & Head, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

bas.masri@vch.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

mccormac@interchange.ubc.ca

Director

heather.mckay@hiphealth.ca

Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Family Practice, UBC

heather.mckay@ubc.ca

Professor Heather McKay, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, is in the Departments of Orthopaedics and Family Practice. She is an internationally-recognized leader in childhood and older adult bone health research. Her national recognition includes awards from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (Senior Scholar) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Knowledge Translation). She has published extensively in scientific journals related to the positive role of exercise and other lifestyle factors on child and older adult health. Her talent for “moving research into action” – performing research that has impact – is illustrated by her lead role in the development and implementation of Action Schools! BC. This whole school of physical activity and healthy eating model engages almost half a million children in BC. The outcomes of her school-based research influenced the development of new policy related to daily physical activity in schools.  Professor McKay plays a critical leadership role in both the overall operations of CHHM and its research programs.

Professor & Head, Department of Geriatric Medicine and Medicine, UBC

graydon.meneilly@vch.ca

sarah.moore@hiphealth.ca

Sarah Moore is a PhD Candidate, supervised by Professor Heather McKay. Sarah joined CHHM in 2007 after completing her MSc in Applied Health Sciences in Ontario. Her research program will examine the growth and development of bone and muscle tissue across puberty using novel technologies such as high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT). Sarah is a researcher with the Healthy Bones Study and is evaluating the sex-, maturity- and ethnicity-related differences in bone strength and muscle accrual. In particular, Sarah is interested in the role of physical activity, fat mass, and nutrition on the developmental trajectory of these tissues.

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

kmulpuri@cw.bc.ca

lindsay.nettlefold@hiphealth.ca

Lindsay Nettlefold is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CHHM. Lindsay completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Heather McKay and Dr. Darren Warburton.  Her thesis explored the relationship between objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time (measured via accelerometry) and cardiovascular health in children. As part of her thesis she also evaluated the effectiveness of Action Schools! BC (a school-based physical activity model) on cardiovascular fitness in children. Lindsay’s current research remains focused on physical activity and sedentary time as they relate to health outcomes. In particular she is interested in improving measurement and reporting of physical activity and sedentary time, as well as targeting these behaviours to improve health in individuals across the lifespan.  

Resident, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

peter.obrien@vch.ca

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedics, UBC

toxland@interchange.ubc.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

wregan@interchange.ubc.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

creilly@cw.bc.ca

Professor, Department of Physical Education, University of Victoria

rhodes@uvic.ca

Dr. Rhodes' primary research and teaching area is focused on the psychology of physical activity and sedentary behaviour.  He is the director of the Behavioural Medicine (BMED) lab within the School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education at the University of Victoria, Canada. For more information about Dr. Rhodes and the complete profile of his research, visit http://bmed.uvic.ca/

Professor, School of Kinesiology, SFU

stever@sfu.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, UBC

fabio@brc.ubc.ca

Research Technician

morgan.schinkel@hiphealth.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC

alex.scott@ubc.ca

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC
Senior Advisor on Fall and Injury Prevention, BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit and the Ministry of Health
Director, Centre of Excellence on Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury in Aging

vicky.scott@gov.bc.ca

Dr. Vicky Scott is the Senior Advisor on Fall and Injury Prevention for the province of British Columbia with the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit and the Ministry of Health.  Her academic appointment is with the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine as a Clinical Associate Professor with the School of Population and Public Health.  She is Director of the Centre of Excellence on Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury in Aging (CEMFIA) at the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility; Chair of the BC Fall and Injury Prevention Coalition; Principal Investigator for the Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum; and co-lead on a new project on healthy aging and fall prevention among older Aboriginal people.

joanie.sims-gould@hiphealth.ca

Arthritis Research Centre of Canada - Research Staff

Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC

sobolev@interchange.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

kstothers@vbjc.ca

Administrative and Communications Manager

vivian.sum@hiphealth.ca

vina.tan@hiphealth.ca

Vina Tan has a background in sports science, nutrition and community health and was a full-time faculty member in a Malaysian public university for the past 5 years before joining us in 2010 as a PhD candidate under Professor Heather McKay. Her interest in exercise and health has led her to focus in the field of physical activity and bone health in adolescents. She is part of the Health Promoting Secondary Schools (HPSS) study that is a joint-collaboration between University of British Columbia and University of Victoria and leads the HPSS Bone Health Study (HPSS-BHS) measurement team in collecting data from schools across the province using the Mobile Research Lab.  The outcomes of her study are the effects of a whole-school based intervention program on bone strength and structure among adolescents in a randomized-controlled trial study design.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

stredwell@cw.bc.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, UBC

t.michael.underhill@ubc.ca

christine.voss@hiphealth.ca

Christine Voss is a Government of Canada funded Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Drs. Heather Macdonald and Heather McKay. Before joining the CHHM in 2011, Christine completed her PhD at the University of Essex, UK, where she was an integral member of the East of England Healthy Hearts Study. Driven by a passion for child health and the early prevention of lifestyle-related chronic diseases, her research interests include children’s physical activity, fitness and health, particularly in relation to active transportation to school. Currently, Christine is a researcher with the Health Promoting Secondary Schools study, which implements and assesses a ‘whole school’ –based intervention to promote physical activity and healthy eating in secondary schools.

Managing Director

anne.wallis@hiphealth.ca

Dr. Anne Wallis has a background in science (Molecular Biology PhD) and management that is key to her role in integrating the research and operational components of the CHHM. Dr. Wallis previously co-founded a biopharmaceutical company (Celator Technologies Inc.), where she served as Chief Operating Officer, advancing the company from its early stage as a university spin-off to an established venture capital-funded organization. She has substantial experience in strategic leadership and management, including successful fundraising within major programs supported by the Leading Edge Endowment Fund, the High Tech/New Emerging Technologies Fund, and the Provincial Health Services Authority.

Research Operations Assistant

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, UBC

rzwang@interchange.ubc.ca

Dr. Rizhi Wang is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Biomaterials, Department of Materials Engineering, UBC, and Associate, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC. Dr. Wang’s experience spans academic positions at Tsinghua University, the Weizmann Institute of Science, University of Minnesota, and Princeton. Dr. Wang is well known for his research on material-related issues around hip replacement, his expertise in implant processing and fracture mechanics. Dr. Wang’s research interests include orthopaedic implants, drug delivery biomaterials, anti-infection solutions, bone/implant fixation, and bone structure and mechanics. Dr. Wang currently serves on the Board for the Canadian Biomaterials Society.

Centre Assistant

chhmassistant@hiphealth.ca

Arthritis Research Centre of Canada - Research Staff

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

dawilson@interchange.ubc.ca

Dr. David Wilson is Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC. He received his D. Phil. in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford for work on the 3-dimensional kinematics of the knee, followed by a fellowship in orthopaedic biomechanics. His research interests include sports medicine, joint reconstruction/ replacement, and medical imaging. Dr. Wilson is renowned for his research on the links between joint mechanics, clinical symptoms, and the success of orthopaedic procedures. His team has expertise in non-invasive assessments of cartilage health, including the use of emerging MRI techniques, such as delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC), to detect changes in osteoarthritic joints much earlier than conventionally possible.  Dr. Wilson was awarded a Canadian Arthritis Network New Investigator award.

meghan.winters@hiphealth.ca