Data Management Day

Dr. Emily Schaeffer, PhD Research Director, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, British Columbia Children’s Hospital

Dr. Schaeffer is the Research Director for the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at BC Children’s Hospital, and a Research Associate in the Department of Orthopaedics at UBC. Together with Dr. Kishore Mulpuri, she has developed and expanded their pediatric hip research program – the Hippy Lab. Much of her work has focused on the creation and expansion of the Hippy Global Registry Program, especially the Global Hip Dysplasia Registry (GHDR), the SCFE Longitudinal International Prospective (SLIP) Registry. All of the Hippy Lab’s work is grounded on the principle of Local to Global to Local, promoting equitable, diverse and inclusive research, education and clinical care in a globally-relevant population.

Dr. Aline Talhouk, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Dr. Talhouk is an assistant professor in the department of Obstetrics & principal investigator at  OVCARE, BC’s ovarian and gynecological cancer research program. Her research seeks to develop approaches for disease prevention, early detection, and personalized healthcare through patient-centered care and collaborative research. Leveraging self-tracking, self-monitoring, and digital health, Dr. Talhouk work strives to develop accurate and fair prediction models and design clinical studies to improve health outcomes through precision medicine, all while ensuring patient privacy, autonomy, and the ability for self-determination.

Shan Wang, MSc, Data Coordinator and Analyst, OVCARE, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Shan is a Data Coordinator and Analyst on the Informatics Team at OVCARE. He is dedicated to constructing integrated pipelines that span initial data acquisition to comprehensive data management, within a unified data platforms. He is deeply involved in the critical projects of data quality assurance, data curation, and the strategic migration of datasets, to maximize data coherence and research analysis value.

Rachel Woima, MSc student, Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences program 

Rachel is a MSc student supervised by Dr. Aline Talhouk. Rachel’s thesis work is focused on screening for early detection and prevention of endometrial cancer. Her work in the Talhouk Uterine Health Research Lab involves coordination of participants through a multi-phased clinical trial assessing the feasibility of a proposed screening protocol for endometrial cancer. 

Dr. Christine Voss, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Voss is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Pediatrics, based at the UBC Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in Kelowna. She partners with the Interior Health Authority on projects relating to pediatric health in the BC Interior. She is also an investigator with the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, where she collaborates closely with the Pediatric Cardiology team. Her research examines how physical activity behaviours relate to current and long-term health outcomes in children, and identifies strategies to improve physical activity participation in children. Her research frequently utilizes state-of-the-art technologies to understand complex physical activity behaviours, particularly in at-risk pediatric populations in whom such insight might inform clinical care.

Adam Velenosi, Program Manager, International Spinal Cord Injury Biobank, UBC ICORD

Adam Velenosi is a biobanker with over nine years’ experience in the field of biobanking at UBC. He is the Program Manager of the International Spinal Cord Injury Biobank (ISCIB; www.sci-biobank.org) located at UBC’s International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) and established by surgeon-scientist Dr. Brian Kwon. ISCIB is a repository for human spinal cord injury specimens, imaging and associated data that are made available to the global spinal cord injury (SCI) research community with the mission of accelerating therapeutic development in SCI.

Liana Leung, Program Manager, UBC Cloud Innovation Centre 

Liana Leung is Senior Project Manager in the Office of the CIO and Program Manager of the Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) at UBC. As Program Manager, Liana is responsible for managing CIC challenge projects, providing leadership to the CIC program, and hiring and mentoring the student staff that learn and work with the core team.

Rohit Murali, PhD Student at the Department of Computer Science, UBC CIC Student Researcher

Rohit Murali is a PhD Student at the Department of Computer Science at University of British Columbia. Rohit has been a student researcher at the UBC CIC for over 2 years with an expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning projects. Rohit has led the development of various projects that make use of AWS’ cloud services to tackle real-world problems to make a positive impact and improve health and wellbeing in our community.