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
New UBCO research challenges traditional teen suicide prevention models
Community care, not individual coping skills, at the core of youth suicide prevention
Mindfulness may help people disconnect from their smartphones
UBCO researcher says awareness can shift daily phone habits
UBC health experts take on the stroke recovery research gap
Upcoming MEDTalks examines why women face worse outcomes after stroke
Dr. Heather Gainforth named UBC Okanagan’s newest Canada Research Chair
Position enables more dedicated time to community-engaged research
UBCO engineers test rubble from destroyed buildings to help “rebuild Ukraine”
Students test war debris as a reliable and sustainable road-building material
UBCO celebrates BC’s first nursing students to complete their master’s with an Indigenous focus
Unique program combats racism and inequalities in health care
The White Cart Memorial tells stories of love, loss and resilience
Made in Kelowna documentary tells the story of a mobile tribute and those it honours
UBCO study finds sex ed fails 2SLGBTQIA+ students
Yet they show higher sexual health literacy than other students
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