Postdoctoal Award Competition Results 2006
Fourteen applications were reviewed in this sixth competition for the CHSRF/CIHR Postdoctoral Awards within the CADRE program.
Merit Review Process
For the second year, the postdoctoral applications were reviewed by the same panel that reviewed the letters of intent received to the Foundation's Research, Exchange, and Impact for System Support (REISS) competition. The membership of the merit review panel included an equal mix of researchers and decision makers that balanced regional and disciplinary distribution and perspectives. The panel was chaired by
Jack Altman; François Champagne and Charles Wright performed scientific officer duties.
The merit review panel met on January 30 and 31, 2006 in Ottawa to assess the postdoctoral applications received from across the country. Of the postdoctoral applications, eight were in health services, four in nursing, and two in knowledge transfer. Two applications were received from Quebec, nine from Ontario, one from the western provinces, and two from the Atlantic region.
Applicants Recommended for Funding
The panel recommended 11 applicants for funding. The Foundation currently has the funds to offer eight awards. Three additional candidates are on an internal reserve list should additional funds become available.
Of the eight candidates being offered funding at this time, four are in the health services field, three are in nursing, and one has a knowledge transfer focus.
Some of the candidates offered funding have yet to complete their PhDs. They must complete all of the requirements for their doctorates and take up the award by February 28, 2007.
The recommended candidates are listed in alphabetical order:
Faith Donald is completing her PhD in the school of nursing at McMaster University and is also working as an assistant professor in the school of nursing at Ryerson University. She will conduct her postdoctoral work with her supervisors Kevin Brazil and Jenny Ploeg, both from McMaster University. Ms. Donald's decision-maker partners will be Tim Burns from the Long-Term Care Homes Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and
Rosanne Jabbour of the nursing secretariat of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Her program will focus on building strategies to enhance the full integration of nurse practitioners into new models of long-term care.
Josephine Etowa is an assistant professor in the school of nursing at Dalhousie University. She will conduct her postdoctoral award with her supervisors Linda O'Brien- Pallas (University of Toronto) and Nancy Edwards (University of Ottawa). Dr. Etowa's decision-maker partner will be Sandra MacDonald-Rencz in the Office of Nursing Policy, Health Canada. Her program will focus on culturally relevant methods to understand the worklife of minority
nurses and on finding ways to ensure research findings are communicated in ways that foster appropriate changes in minority populations' health services delivery.
Daniel Hollenberg is currently completing his PhD in the department of public health sciences at the University of Toronto. He will conduct his postdoctoral work at McMaster University with his supervisors Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and David Zakus (University of Toronto). Mr. Hollenberg's decision-maker partner will be Malcolm Moffat of St. John's Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto. His program will focus on examining the introduction of
complementary/alternative medicine into St. John's Rehabilitation Hospital to determine how health services are being integrated on clinical, professional, and institutional levels.
Josée Lavoie is working as an assistant professor in the department of community health sciences at the University of Manitoba. She will conduct her postdoctoral award in the same location working with supervisor Evelyn Forget. Dr. Lavoie's decision-maker partner will be Valerie Gideon of the Health and Social Secretariat, Assembly of First Nations. Her program will focus on developing a conceptual framework for conducting telehealth
research in the First Nation environment and on designing a needs-based primary healthcare financing formula for on-reserve health services.
Yong Yue Li (award offered but declined) is currently working as an operations research consultant at the Health Quality Council. She will conduct her postdoctoral award at the University of Toronto with supervisor Michael Carter. Dr. Li's decision-maker partner will be Ben Chan from the Health Quality Council. Her program will focus on the use of operations research and management science to identify and develop best practices for bottlenecks
and thereby improve emergency department patient flow.
Phyllis Montgomery is working an associate professor in the department of nursing at Laurentian University. She will conduct her postdoctoral work with her supervisors Nancy Edwards (University of Ottawa) and Cheryl Forchuk (London Health Science Centre). Dr. Montgomery's decision-making partner will be Marion Quigley of the Sudbury Branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association. Her program will focus on women's mental health services issues,
especially related to how women's mental health policies are developed and on exploring gaps in services between policy and need.
Maria Mylopoulos is currently completing her PhD in the department of human development and applied psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She will conduct her postdoctoral work at the University Health Network's (UHN) Wilson Centre with her supervisor Glenn Regehr (University of Toronto). Ms. Mylopoulos' decision-maker partner will be Richard Reznick of the UHN. Her program will focus on
understanding barriers to innovation in practice at the UHN, to develop a theoretical model of innovation in health care practice and to develop and implement an intervention model within the UHN to address the identified barriers to innovation.
Laura O'Grady (award offered but declined) is currently completing her PhD at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She will conduct her postdoctoral work in the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Toronto General Hospital with her supervisors Alex Jadad and Nadine Wathen (University of Toronto). Ms. O'Grady's decision-maker partners will be Sheryl Mitchell at Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences
Centre and Nancy Lewis from the Ontario Women's Health Council Secretariat, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Her program will focus knowledge transfer mechanisms and their affect on healthcare consumers. She will specifically examine women's information needs and health decision-making and the role of credibility in information sources.
Marie-Josée Sirois is currently completing her PhD in the department of preventive and social medicine at Laval University. She will conduct her postdoctoral work at McGill University with her supervisor John Sampalis. Ms. Sirois' decision-maker partners will be Anne-Claire Marcotte in the Trauma Council Group of the Quebec Health Ministry and André Lavoie in the Trauma Program of the Quebec University Affiliated Hospitals. Her program
will focus on analyzing trauma survivors' impairment level, health state and rehabilitation access in the different health regions in Quebec and to determine if the health outcomes of patients located in rural areas of Quebec were different depending on whether they were transferred to a specialized metropolitan rehabilitation centre or not.