Amira Abdelrasoul

Email

amira.abdelrasoul@usask.ca

Research Expertise

  • Hemodialysis membranes

  • Kidney disease

  • Chemical engineering

  • PROMS, PREMS, and QoL measures

Selected Publications

  • Abdelrasoul A., Shoker A. (2022). Biocompatibility models development to predict inflammatory biomarkers released in kidney failure patients after hemodialysis session, Kidney International Reports, 7 (9): S497

  • Abdelrasoul A., Shoker A. (2022). Influence of hydration shell of hemodialysis clinical membranes on surrogate biomarkers activation in uremic serum of dialysis patients, Biomedical Engineering Advances, 4: 100049

  • Abdelrasoul A., Shoker A. (2022). Investigations on the impact of hemodialysis clinical practices on human plasma proteins loss and von Willebrand factor, Kidney International Reports, 7 (2): S258

  • Abdelrasoul A., Westphalen H., Saadati S. Shoker A. (2021). Hemodialysis biocompatibility mathematical models to predict the inflammatory biomarkers released in dialysis patients based on hemodialysis membrane characteristics and clinical practices, Nature Scientific Reports, 11: 23080

Sherry Arvidson

Email

Sherry.Arvidson@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • Experiences of ethical issues among undergraduate students, faculty and clinical instructors in Nursing and Social work education

Select Publications

  • Nursing students experiences of bullying in clinical practice.

  • Nursing Education: Challenges Exist Globally for the Diverse Learner.

  • Are we upholding communication standards in nursing education: Saskatchewan nurse educators’ experience facilitating and assessing nursing student’s handover skills in the clinical setting? (link)

  • Community Service Learning: Fostering First Year Nursing Students’ Understanding of Others (link)

Expertise

  • Nursing

  • Clinical Research

  • Social Justice

Krista Baerg

Email

dr.kbaerg@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Canadian Surveillance of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in Children and Youth

  • SPOR Chronic Pain Network: Chronic Pain Registry

  • Medication Literacy for Youth with Chronic Pain

  • Bridging the gap between education and health: What youth and families need educators to know about chronic pain

  • iCanCope with Pain: An integrated smartphone and web self-management program for adolescents and young adults with chronic pain

Select Publications

  • #PartneringForPain (link)

  • Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program 2018 Annual Report (link)

Expertise

  • Clinical Pediatrics

  • Pediatric Chronic Pain

  • Quality Improvement

Jill Bally

Email

jill.bally@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Supporting Indigenous Family Caregivers of Children with Life-Threatening and Life-Limiting Illness in Saskatchewan

  • Examining Parents' Online Accounts of Caring for a Child with Cancer

  • Evaluating a Theory-Based Hope Intervention to Support Parents of Children with Life Limiting and Life Threatening Illnesses

Select Publications

  • A Metasynthesis: Uncovering What Is Known About the Experiences of Families With Children Who Have Life-limiting and Life-threatening Illnesses. (link)

  • Understanding Parental Experiences Through Their Narratives of Restitution, Chaos, and Quest: Improving Care for Families Experiencing Childhood Cancer. (link)

  • Keeping hope possible: a grounded theory study of the hope experience of parental caregivers who have children in treatment for cancer. (link)

Expertise

  • Pediatric Family Nursing

  • Qualitative Methods

  • Mixed Methods

  • Grounded Theory

 

Brenna Bath

Email

brenna.bath@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • A Community-Informed Team and Technology Approach to Chronic Back Pain Management in Partnership with a Northern Saskatchewan Cree First Nation

Select Publications

  • Bridging Health Care Access Gaps in a Remote Indigenous Community (link)

  • Advancing Interprofessional Primary Health Care Services in Rural Settings for People with Chronic Low Back Disorders: Protocol of a Community-Based Randomized Controlled Trial (link)

  • Case Report: Using a Remote Presence Robot to Improve Access to Physical Therapy for People with Chronic Back Disorders in an Underserved Community (link)

  • Get 'Er Done: Experiences of Canadian Farmers Living with Chronic Low Back Disorders (link)

  • Self-reported use of family physician, chiropractor and physiotherapy services among adult Canadians with chronic back disorders: an observational study (link)

  • Back pain? A physiotherapist may offer the most effective treatment, if you can afford it (link)

  • Enhancing Access to Physical Therapy Services for People Experiencing Poverty and Homelessness: The Lighthouse Pilot Project (link)

  • Patient and referring health care provider satisfaction with a physiotherapy spinal triage assessment service (link)

Expertise

  • Health Services Research

  • Mixed Methods

  • Epidemiology

Bonita Beatty

Email

bonita.beatty@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Northern Aboriginal Elderly Caregivers

  • Social Inclusion of Indigenous Seniors

Select Publications

  • Health Care and Aboriginal Seniors in Urban Canada: Helping a Neglected Class (link)

  • Social Isolation of Seniors: A Focus on Indigenous Seniors in Canada (link)

  • Northern Voices: A Look Inside Political Attitudes and Behaviours in Northern Saskatchewan (link)

  • Indigenous Health Governance and UNDRIP (link)

Expertise

  • Indigenous Health Policy

  • Collaborative Engagement

  • Local Health Development

Catherine Boden

Email

Catherine.Boden@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • A Patient-Oriented Rapid Review of Patient Engagement in Synthesis Reviews

  • Impact of Patient-Oriented Research on the Healthcare System: A Realist Review

  • Exercise in Fibromyalgia: Cochrane Systematic Reviews

Select Publications

  • Mixed exercise training for adults with fibromyalgia (link)

  • Flexibility exercise training for adults with fibromyalgia (link)

  • Aerobic exercise training for adults with fibromyalgia (link)

  • Whole body vibration exercise training for fibromyalgia (link)

Expertise

  • Knowledge Synthesis

  • Expert Searching

  • Research Capacity Development

Lindsey Boechler

Email

lindsey.boechler@saskpolytech.ca

Research Projects

  • Revitalizing the Saskatchewan health system to ensure accessibility to care for newcomers.

  • Lived experiences of paramedics during the COVID-19 pandemic (includes participants from across Canada and England).

  • Lived experiences of Saskatchewan police officers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Meaningful relationships with Indigenous communities to promote mental health and well-being of Indigenous youth.

Select Publications

  • Saskatchewan Polytechnic Health Sciences and Nursing researchers working on COVID-19 impact studies. (link)

  • Local researcher looking to provide culturally competent healthcare. (link)

  • Healthcare research project seeking diverse voices. (link)

Expertise

  • Marginalized Populations

  • Qualitative Research

  • Health Inequities

  • Patient Empowerment

  • Patient-Oriented Research

Maureen Bourassa

Email

bourassa@edwards.usask.ca

Research Projects

  • How do Women Experience and Navigate Conversations Around Science with Healthcare Practitioners?

  • Experiences of Women who are Engaged as Stakeholders in Saskatchewan’s Nuclear Sector

  • The Role of Science Communication in Stakeholder Engagement in Saskatchewan’s Nuclear Sector

  • Factors for Success in Multi-Sector Stakeholder Engagement

Publications

  • Respect in Buyer/Seller Relationships. (link)

  • Exploring Perceptions of Credible Science Among Policy Stakeholder Groups: Results of Focus Group Discussions About Nuclear Energy. (link)

  • Support, Opposition, Emotion and Contentious Issue Risk Perception. (link)

Expertise

  • Respect

  • Science Communication

  • Stakeholder Engagement

Cheryl Camillo

Email

Cheryl.Camillo@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • Maximizing Saskatchewan Breast Cancer Screening Program Rates through Patient-Partnered Research

  • Sharing Key Lessons from the Local Public Health Response to the First Wave of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan

  • Community Responses to the Repurposing of Rural Hospitals

  • Organizing at the Substate Level to Monitor Population Health: Lessons for States from Saskatchewan

  • Nationwide Adult Medicaid CAHPS (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) Survey

  • Evaluating the Success of Maryland's Kids First Act Outreach at Identifying and Enrolling Uninsured Eligible Children in Medicaid or SHCIP

Select Publications

  • The U.S. Healthcare system: Complex and unequal (link)

Expertise

  • Mixed Methods

  • Population Health Research

  • Health and Social Systems Reforms

  • Knowledge Translation

Tracey Carr

Email

tlc143@mail.usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Sâkipakâwin - Assessing the Support Needs for Saskatchewan Indigenous Cancer Patients and their Families: a Multi-method Study

  • Shared Decision Making in Early Stage Breast Cancer: The Development of a Culturally Competent Conceptual Framework Applicable for Aboriginal Patients.

  • A Journey With You: Indigenous Peer Navigation in Saskatchewan Cancer Care

  • The Roll of Trust and Worldview on Shared Decision Making for Indigenous People with Cancer

Select Publications

Expertise

  • Indigenous Health

  • Indigenous Mental Health

  • Realist Review

  • Realist Research

Megan Clark

Email

Megan.clark@usask

Research Projects

  • Health of People who are Trans or Gender Diverse in Saskatchewan in Collaboration with the Sask Trans Health Coalition

  • Enhancing and Expanding the "Know Your Status" Initiative in on-reserve Indigenous Communities in Saskatchewan: A community-engaged intervention to increase diagnosis, linkage to care and prevention of HIV, Hepatitis C virus and sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections.

  • The Wellness Wheel: A Mobile Outreach Clinic to Address HIV and HCV in Saskatchewan First Nations.

  • Deeper learning through service: evaluation of an interprofessional community service-learning program for pharmacy and medicine students.

Select Publications

Expertise

  • Abortion Care

  • Indigenous Health

  • Trans Health

  • Gender Diverse Health

  • Reproductive and Sexual Health

Roslyn Compton

Email

roslyn.compton@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Exploring the intersections of leadership, interdisciplinary teams, and patient engagement processes in Home First: A Case Study.

  • Towards Improving the Quality of Life for Long Term Care Residents: Exploring the Current Factors Affecting Healthcare Provision and Health Outcomes.

Select Publications

  • Home First: Exploring the Impact of Community-based Home Care for Older Adults and Their Family Caregivers (link)

Expertise

  • Narrative Methods

  • Participatory Health Research

  • Integrative Models

  • Long Term Care

Scott Corley

Email

scott.corley@usask.ca

Director

  • Clinical Trial Support Unit (CTSU) (link)

Select Publication

  • Relationships between sinus rhythm, treatment, and survival in the Atrial Fibrillation Follow-Up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) Study (link)

  • A comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation (link)

  • Dosage related efficacy and tolerability of cannabidiol in children with treatment-resistant epileptic encephalopathy: preliminary results of the CARE-E study (link)

  • The protocol for the Cannabidiol in Children With Refractory Epileptic Encephalopathy (CARE-E) Study: a phase 1 dosage escalation study (link)

Expertise

  • Pragmatic Clinical Trials

  • Real World Clinical Trials

  • Clinical Trials

  • Clinical Research

  • Research Data Management

Kate Crockett

Email

katie.crockett@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Living with Chronic Back Pain: A patient-led mixed methods investigation of health care access challenges for back pain care across the rural-urban continuum in Saskatchewan

  • The Effect of Yoga on Decreasing Risk of Fall-Related Injury in Peri and Post-Menopausal women

Select Publications

Expertise

  • Musculoskeletal Health

  • Health Services Research

  • Mixed Methods

Shauna Davies

Email

Shauna.Davies@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • Online Social Support in the Saskatchewan Heart Failure Network: An Interpretive Description Approach

  • Perspectives in Nursing Education of Professional Presence on Social Media

  • An In-depth Look at the Factors Influencing the Retention Rates of Indigenous Students in the Faculties of Social Work, Nursing, and Education at University of Regina

  • Are We Upholding Communication Standards in Nursing Education

Select Publications

  • Are we upholding communication standards in nursing education: Saskatchewan Nurse Educators’ experience facilitating and assessing nursing students’ handover skills in the clinical setting? (link)

  • iNurse, iTeach Project:Success, challenges, and lessons learned (link)

  • The safe integration of iPads into healthcare practices (link)

Expertise

  • Qualitative Methods

  • Participatory Health Research

  • Participatory Action Research