Data Management Day

Introduction

Dr. Brittany Dennis, MBBS, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Social Medicine

Dr. Dennis will be presenting on the current research on the development of technology-based solutions aimed to enable surveillance of substance use trends, promote consistency in healthcare measures, and engender sustainable opportunities for continuous quality improvement and research evaluation across BC 

Dr. Jeff Yoo, MD, FRCPC, ABEM – Providence Health Care Emergency Physician, UBC Clinical Instructor

Dr. Yoo will be presenting on how the BC Airway Registry uses mandatory data recording by respiratory therapists after every out-of-OR intubation. We will review how a data pipeline was built to automatically transfer data from Cerner to UBC’s REDCap database, with the goal of building a comprehensive standardized provincial intubation database

Dr. Tim Oberlander, MD, FRCPC – Developmental Pediatrician, Complex Pain Service, BC Children’s Hospital and BC Woman’s Hospital & Health Centre; Professor, Division of Developmental Pediatrics, FoM, UBC

Dr. Katelynn Boerner, PhD – Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute; Assistant Professor, Division of Developmental Pediatrics, FoM, UBC

Dr. Oberlander and Dr. Boerner will be presenting on the application of the Living Lab at Home data collection platform in a perinatal substance use population, as part of the Perinatal Opioid Exposures Trajectories Insights and Concentrations (POETIC) Network pilot study at the FIR Unit, at BC Women’s Hospital

Dr. David Sanford, MD, FRCPC – Custodian of the Hematology Cell Bank, Clinical Associate Professor, Hematology, UBC FoM

Asha-Anne Toner, Project Manager, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Institute

Dr. Sanford and Asha Toner will be discussing their approach to migrating an established biobank to a modern platform, along with the challenges, benefits and future plans for this platform 

Break

Dr. Emily Schaeffer, PhD – Research Director, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, British Columbia Children’s Hospital Research Associate, Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia Scientific Lead, Hippy Global Registry Program

Dr. Schaeffer will be presenting on the Integration of AI and Machine Learning Techniques to facilitate Global Research Initiatives in Pediatric Orthopaedics

DM Team

What’s next for the DM team and FoM

Dr. Brittany Dennis, MBBS, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Social Medicine 

Dr. Dennis is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a clinician scientist at the British Columbia Center on Substance Use. She also works as an attending physician in Providence Health Care’s (PHC) Division of Addiction at St. Paul’s Hospital.  To establish capacity in large-data base analytics Dr. Dennis completed a PhD at McMaster University in Health Research Methods, and went on to complete post-doctoral training at Stanford University, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). As one of Canada’s first addiction focused research methodologists, her work has advanced the prioritization of patient important outcomes and directly informed methods to improve evidence synthesis, enhance measurement selection, increase generalizability, and enrich guideline development practices for studies evaluating therapies for patients who use substances. 

Dr. Jeff Yoo, MD, FRCPC, ABEM – Providence Health Care Emergency Physician, UBC Clinical Instructor

Dr. Jeff Yoo is a full-time emergency physician and trauma team leader based out of St. Paul’s Hospital. He is the project lead and data steward for the BC Airway Registry, a quality improvement project that evaluates and improves upon out-of-OR intubation performance.

Dr. Yoo will be presenting on how the BC Airway Registry uses mandatory data recording by respiratory therapists after every out-of-OR intubation. We will review how a data pipeline was built to automatically transfer data from Cerner to UBC’s REDCap database, with the goal of building a comprehensive standardized provincial intubation database.

Dr. Tim Oberlander, MD FRCPC – Developmental Pediatrician, Complex Pain Service, BC Children’s Hospital and BC Woman’s Hospital & Health Centre; Professor, Division of Developmental Pediatrics, FoM, UBC

Tim Oberlander is a physician-scientist and developmental pediatrician whose work bridges developmental neurosciences and community child health. For the past 30 yrs his research and clinical investigates how maternal mental health and psychotropic medication (ie serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SRI) antidepressants) exposure shapes to the early origins of emotion and stress regulation across childhood. His work emerged from his early work treating newborns of persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) during pregnancy. Building on an awareness that outcomes across childhood reflect interactions between depression, environment, and genetic factors his work continues to be driven by a curiosity to find out why, even in the face of adversity, some children develop very well. Since 2020 he has co-led with Dr. Katelynn Boerner the development of the Living Lab at Home (LLAH) at BCCH as a platform for real world in home data collection.

Dr. Katelynn Boerner, PhD – Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute; Assistant Professor, Division of Developmental Pediatrics, FoM, UBC

Dr. Katelynn Boerner is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia, an Investigator at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, and provides care as a registered psychologist with the Complex Pain Service at BC Children’s Hospital. Katelynn’s research focuses on making pain research and care more accessible and equitable for families, with a particular interest in supporting gender-diverse and neuro-diverse young people. In addition to her work, she is an amateur pianist, a fair-weather runner, the proud mum of a kindergartener, and is always on the hunt for an amazing coffee.

Dr. Oberlander and Dr. Boerner will be presenting on the application of the Living Lab at Home data collection platform in a perinatal substance use population, as part of the Perinatal Opioid Exposures Trajectories Insights and Concentrations (POETIC) Network pilot study at the FIR Unit, at BC Women’s Hospital.

Dr. David Sanford, MD, FRCPC – Custodian of the Hematology Cell Bank, Clinical Associate Professor, Hematology, UBC FoM

Dr. David Sanford joined the Leukemia/BMT Program of BC in September 2015. He previously completed training in Hematology at the University of Western Ontario. Following this, he undertook a Leukemia Fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He has interests in clinical research in acute myeloid leukemia, including the development of molecularly targeted therapies as well as the role of minimal residual disease in guiding treatment.

Asha-Anne Toner – Project Manager, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Institute

Asha Toner is a project manager with over 10 years of experience in research, administration and management in an academic environment. She joined the Terry Fox Laboratory at BC Cancer in 2019 as the project manager for Dr. Connie Eaves and oversees the Cord Blood Cell Bank, Legacy Cell Bank of BC, the Mammary Cell Bank of BC and in 2021 she joined the Hematology Cell Bank.

Migrating an Established Biobank to a Modern Platform – Sharing our experience switching the Hematology Cell Bank to REDCap and OpenSpecimen. Dr. Sanford and Asha Toner will be discussing their approach to this change, along with the challenges, benefits and future plans for this platform.

Dr. Emily Schaeffer, PhD – Research Director, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, British Columbia Children’s Hospital Research Associate, Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia Scientific Lead, Hippy Global Registry Program 

Emily first joined the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at British Columbia Children’s Hospital and Department of Orthopaedics at UBC in September 2014. She has an extensive background in basic science and translational research, holding a PhD in Experimental and Molecular Medicine from Dartmouth College. Over the last 10 years, Emily has worked closely with Dr. Kishore Mulpuri to develop and expand their pediatric hip research program – the Hippy Lab. Much of her work has focused on the creation and expansion Hippy Global Registry Program, especially the Global Hip Dysplasia Registry (GHDR), the SCFE Longitudinal International Prospective (SLIP) Registry. Additionally, she co-founded the Hip Health Outcomes in Pediatrics (Hip Hope) Network – a growing global network dedicated to improving hip health worldwide. 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.  

As Research Director for the Orthopaedic Surgery Department of BC Children’s Hospital, Emily also supports the department’s growing research program by offering high level scientific advice and expertise on study ideas and methodology, and provides feedback on grant applications, manuscripts and protocols. 

Dr. Schaeffer will be presenting on the Integration of AI and Machine Learning Techniques to facilitate Global Research Initiatives in Pediatric Orthopaedics.