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BRIC NS Primary Care Learning Series: December 2024

The BRIC NS Primary Care Learning Series is an opportunity for professors, established researchers and/or early career investigators across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress primary care research.

Title: Innovating Health Systems: A Showcase of Research from the Centre for Integrated Care

Presenter: Dr. Shelley Doucet is the Jarislowsky chair in Interprofessional Patient-Centred Care, professor in Nursing and Health Sciences, and director of the Centre for Research in Integrated Care at the University of New Brunswick. Shelley’s expertise lies in interprofessional patient-centred care, patient navigation, integrated care and qualitative research. She has a broad pan-Canadian research network through her role as the New Brunswick research lead for the Primary Care Research Network (PCRN).

When: Dec 3rd, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 pm AT

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series: November 2024

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare.

Title: Change in physician-level workload using Electronic Medical Records in Canada (2011-2021)

Presenter: Dr. François Gallant is a Mitacs Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dalhousie Family Medicine and Vitalité Health Network, where he works as a research coordinator. He is interested empirical methods and the creative use of observational data to contribute to the evidence base. Generally, François hopes to address research questions that will facilitate the empowerment of people to take charge of their health.

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series: Sept 2024

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare.

Title: Family Physicians with a Geriatric Focus: Describing their Medical Practice Patterns and Impacts

Presenter: Rebecca recently completed her PhD and began a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University in the Department of Family Medicine. She is a health services researcher with interests in primary care, aging, health human resources, and medical education. She trained at McMaster University (PhD, Health Research Methodology, 2024) and the University of Waterloo (BSc, Honours Health Studies, 2019). Her dissertation included a modified Delphi study and two population-based observational studies to investigate the impacts of added competency training and focused medical practice among family physicians on caring for older adults. During her postdoc, Rebecca will lead mixed-methods, multi-provincial studies to understand the impacts of population aging on primary care needs and capacity.

When: Sept 25, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 pm ADT

Where: This session will take place via Zoom

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series: July 2024

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare.

This seminar features two student presentations:

Presentation #1

Title: Pharmacists’ prescribing of opioids in Nova Scotia under Health Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act temporary exemption during COVID-19 pandemic

Presenter: Ronald Watema-Lord, PharmD Candidate

Presentation #2

Title: Identifying Factors that Influence How Patients or Caregivers Decide to Present to an Emergency Department: A Scoping Review Protocol

Presenter: Emily Devereaux, PhD Student

When: July 24th, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 pm ADT

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series: January 2024

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated health care. Everyone is welcome!

Date: 26th January 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 pm AST

Title: Examining Individual, Group-Based, and Integrated Formats of Cognitive Behavior Therapy – Ten (CBT-T) for Eating Disorders

Presenter:

Anastasia graduated from Acadia University in 2018 with a BSc in Psychology and Neuroscience. After graduating, she worked in Ontario as an emergency department medical scribe at Collingwood General & Marine Hospital and as a clinical rotation coordinator for the Rural Ontario Medical Program. In 2021 she returned to Nova Scotia and began working as the research coordinator for the Eating Disorders Program at QEII Health Sciences Centre. She is currently in her second year of the MSc in Psychiatry Research program at Dalhousie University. Under the supervision of Drs. Aaron Keshen and Susan Gamberg, her research focuses on improving accessibility of evidence-based eating disorder treatments in the Maritimes. She plans to complete her thesis by Fall 2024 and then continue her research in the Eating Disorders Program.

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