Rachel McDonald named co-op student of the year
Fourth-year Health Studies student Rachel McDonald was named top co-op student in Canada earlier this year by the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education. Rachel spent her award-winning work term as a clinical research assistant at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, where she worked alongside radiation oncologists, providing patient care and developing research projects for palliative radiation oncology. Congratulations, Rachel!
Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn receives Rising Star Award
Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn’s work has been recognized by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR), which has awarded her its 2016 Rising Star Award. Joanna, a PhD candidate in the collaborative Aging, Health and Well-being program, is the lead developer of an algorithm that provides a framework for allocating personal support services in home and community care.
Jacobi Elliott awarded best conference poster prize
Jacobi Elliott, a research fellow funded through the Canadian Frailty Network, won Best Poster at the May 2016 International Conference on Integrated Care in Barcelona. Her presentation was titled Implementing and Evaluating a Model of Care Coordination in Primary Care for Older Adults Using a Co-Design Approach. Jacobi’s project was lauded for its use of input from the SHARP (Seniors Helping as Research Partners) group, as well as its focus on identifying at-risk patients in primary care.
