New Year 2014 Bulletin (PDF)
Welcome
Thank you for reading our New Year edition bulletin. We hope that it will continue to encourage dialogue with colleagues along with the generation of new ideas!
If you would like to be included in our e-mail distribution of the bulletin or would like further information on the material presented, please contact Sheila Bodemer at sbodemer@uwaterloo.ca.
Contents
- What is new?
- Saying farewell
- We were very sad to say goodbye to two members of our team and wish them all the best in their new positions. You both will be missed greatly. Selena Santi, has taken a position as Coordinator, Institutional Research at the Office of Research with the University of Waterloo. Kathleen Mairs is currently at St. Joseph's Health Care in London, Ontario working as a Research Coordinator.
- Welcome new students
- Arsalan Afzal, MSc, PhD student
- Jessie Ashbourne, BA, Msc student
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Justine Giosa (Toscan), MSc, PhD student
- Successful thesis defense
- Grants and awards
- Looking back: 2013 presentations and publications
- International stage: South Korea
- SHARP Update 2013
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Throughout the InfoRehab project, patients and their caregivers told us that they wanted to be included in their health care decision making processes. This has, in part, led to the identification of meaningful engagement of participants as a priority of our research for us. We are working towards understanding and practicing innovative mechanisms and methods to achieve this.
We have developed the Seniors Helping As Research Partners (SHARP) network, where we hope to further integrate the voice and opinions of seniors into our research priorities and process. Our goal is to learn from patients and their families, to develop sustainable relationships and advance research priorities and collaborations, ultimately improving the health care system for older adults.
To date, we have started enrolling participants into our network and we have conducted focus groups with these individuals. We are continually recruiting members for the SHARP network. We have ongoing discussions with regional and provincial policy makers about our findings to help advance research priorities, and are undertaking research to advance the understanding of best practices in patient engagement of older adults
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- Recipe: slim style mashed potatoes