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Feature Article

Sheny Khera (l) and Marjan Abbasi (r) accepting the Innovation of the Year Award from the Canadian Frailty Network.

Program Helps Seniors Stay Active and Healthy in Their Communities

Family medicine physicians and primary care network teams collaborate to help seniors avoid health crises as they age.

As a family physician with additional training in geriatric medicine, Dr. Marjan Abbasi is experienced dealing with patient crisis. Situations such as an elderly parent not coping well in their own home, the need for an enduring power of attorney to be enacted right away, a request for an immediate personal directive or a request to have a parent’s driver’s license revoked are common in her line of work. Abbasi, a faculty member with the Department of Family Medicine’s Division of Care of the Elderly, often found herself wishing she could have had the opportunity to be more proactive.

Announcements

Faculty Contribute to Nationally-Nominated Articles

Canadian Family Physician has been nominated for a 2019 National Magazine Award for the article series ‘Prevention in Practice’. Congratulations to CFP as well as Dr. Neil Bell and Olga Szafran from DoFM for their contributions to these articles.

https://nmab2b.com/2019/04/30/announcing-the-nominees-of-the-2019-national-magazine-awards-b2b/

Research Services Office News

Online Signatures

Coming mid-June 2019, U of A research-related required signatures will be collected online. Principal investigators will no longer need to print the following forms and collect physical signatures:

1. New Research Application/Proposal/Project Request
2. Project Amendment Request
3. Over Expenditure Authorization Request
4. Sub-grant Request
5. Agreement Acknowledgement Report

Moving to an online system will save time, ensure consistency and make approvals easy to track.

For more information visit: https://www.ualberta.ca/research/services/training/research-administration-workflow-raw-project

RSO will update this page with more details leading up to mid-June. Please contact your research facilitator with any questions about this change.

Research Administration Day

Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Time: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Location: Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA), Various Rooms TBA

Research Services Office (RSO) will host Research Administration Day on June 5, 2019. This year’s theme is “Winds of Change in Research Administration.” Whether you are new to research administration or just want to learn more, RAD is for you. This year’s topics include introduction to research administration and understanding moral rights under Canadian copyright law in an academic context plus much more.

Register by May 31: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUJlVK3zlo9-E-W9CuXfA5z6WBCYJFQO_4CjIgIgGl25nu_Q/viewform

View sessions and schedule: https://www.ualberta.ca/research/services/training/research-administration-day

Calls for Abstracts

Family Medicine Research Day Call for Abstracts

The Department of Family Medicine Research Day will be held Friday, June 7, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. in the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA) room L1 490, University of Alberta.

You are invited to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation on research or practice quality improvement projects of relevance to family medicine or primary care.

Abstract submissions from resident, students and researchers are welcome, and can be downloaded here.

Please email the completed abstract form to olga.szafran@ualberta.ca

The deadline for abstract submissions is May 17, 2019.

Upcoming Research Workshops and Presentations

For more information or to register, visit the Upcoming Lectures page of the Life Long Learning website.

For more information or to register, visit the Upcoming Workshops page of the Life Long Learning website.

April 2019 Publications

Abbasi M, Khera S, Dabravolskaj J, Vandermeer B, Theou O, Rolfson D, Clegg A. A cross-sectional study examining convergent validity of a frailty index based on electronic medical records in a Canadian primary care program. BMC Geriatrics 2019; 19:109.

Bello AK, Ronksley PE, Tangri N, Kurzawa J, Osman MA, Singer A, Grill A, Nitsch D, Queenan JA, Wick J, Lindeman C, Soos B, Tuot DS, Shojai S, Brimble S, Mangin D, Drummond N. Prevalence and demographics of CKD in Canadian primary care practices: A cross-sectional study. Kidney International Reports 2019; 4(4): 561-570.

Brooks HL, O'Brien DC, Salvalaggio G, Dong K, Hyshka E. Uptake into a bedside needle and syringe program for acute care inpatients who inject drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review 2019; 38(4): 423-427.

Deschamps J, Gilbertson J, Straube S, Dong K, MacMaster FP, Korownyk C, Montgomery L, Mahaffey R, Downar J, Clarke H, Muscedere J, Rittenbach K, Featherstone R, Sebastianski M, Vandermeer B, Lynam D, Magnussen R, Bagshaw SM, Rewa OG. Association between harm reduction strategies and healthcare utilization in patients on long-term prescribed opioid therapy presenting to acute healthcare settings: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. Systematic Reviews 2019; 8(1):88.

Faruquee CF, Khera AS, Guirguis LM. Family physicians’ perceptions of pharmacists prescribing in Alberta. Journal of Interprofessional Care 2019; May 02. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2019.1609432. [Epub ahead of print]

Lethebe C, Williamson T, Garies S, McBrien K, Leduc C, Butalia S, Soos B, Shaw M, Drummond N. Developing a case definition for type 1 diabetes mellitus in a primary care electronic medical record database: An exploratory study. CMAJ Open 2019; 7(2): E246-E251.

Perry D, Moe S, Korownyk C, Lindblad AJ, Kolber MR, Thomas B, Ton J, Garrison S, Allan GM. Top studies relevant to primary care from 2018: From PEER. Canadian Family Physician 2019; 65(4): 260-263.

Zhang PZ, Hamza DM, Ross S, Oandasan I. Exploring Change After Implementation of Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Reform. Family Medicine 2019; 51(4): 331-337.

Zhou Y, Chen X, Xu P, Zhu Y, Wang K, Xiang D, Wang F, Banh HL. Clinical experience with tigecycline in the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia caused by multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. BMC Pharmacology & Toxicology 2019; 20(1):19.

Funding Opportunities

Funding opportunities with Centre for Aging & Brain Health Innovation (CABHI)

Friday, May 17, 2019
9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Room 4-036, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA)
TEC Edmonton is hosting this information session.

CABHI will direct funding at innovation addressing the following challenge sets:
- Aging in place
- Care support
- Care coordination and navigation
- Cognitive health
- Aging Indigenous & Rural Populations

For more information, please visit the registration website.

Light refreshments will be served.

NACTRC Grant Development Support Fund

Financial support is available from the Northern Alberta Clinical Trials and Research Centre (NACTRC) for developing applications to highly competitive grant competitions in pillars 2 to 4. Approval of support is adjudicated by the Office of Research, FoMD. More details available here. The terms of reference, are available upon request.

Research Services Office Find Funding Opportunities Webpage

Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry’s Funding Opportunities Webpage

Link to the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry’s Resources for Clinical Researchers Funding Opportunities webpage.

Conference Calendar 2019 - 2020

For a complete list of popular conferences, please visit the Conferences webpage for the Family Medicine website.

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