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Dalya Kablawi

Email: dalya.kablawi@sickkids.ca

Areas of Interest:

  • Pediatric health

  • Mental health

  • Community based research

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Colleen Hamilton

Email: chamilton@shaw.ca

Research Summary:

I have sat on SPOR for a few years and still review grants

Area of Interest:

Anything that involved with patient care, disability issues, aging diabetes and anything that should involve indigenous people. Each research opportunity should have a First Nations and Métis people as issues may be different, plus a lot of First Nations people do not know about urban Metis health issues

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Chris Johnson

Email: chrisj00189@gmail.com

Areas of Interest:

  • Virtual care

  • Digital health

  • Health data literacy,

  • AI

  • Standards development

  • Autoimmune

  • Neurological

  • Renal

  • Hereditary

  • Infection associated chronic conditions.

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Shela Hirani

Email

shela.hirani@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • Breastfeeding Practices of Immigrant Mothers in Canada: A Critical Review

  • Project entitled “Facilitators and Barriers to Breastfeeding Practices of Internally Displaced Mothers Residing in Disaster Relief Camps in Pakistan: A Critical Ethnography

  • Facilitators and Barriers to Breastfeeding Practices of Internally Displaced Mothers Residing in Disaster Relief Camps in Pakistan: A Critical Ethnography

Select Publications

  • Maternal and Child Health During Forced Displacement (link)

  • Breastfeeding in Disaster Relief Camps: An Integrative Review of Literature (link)

  • Concept Analysis of Maternal Autonomy in the Context of Breastfeeding (link)

  • Perceived Breastfeeding Support Assessment Tool(PBSAT): Development and testing of Psychometric Properties with Pakistani Urban Working Mothers (link)

Expertise

  • Qualitative Methods

  • Quantitative Methods

  • Concept Analysis

  • Instrument Development

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Karen Ho

Email

karen.b.ho@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Understanding Patient-Oriented Outcomes in Cardiovascular Research

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Expertise

  • Clinical Research

  • Quality of Life

  • Cardiovascular Health

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Michelle Johnson-Jennings

Email

mjohnsonjennings@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • The “Food Wisdom” Repository: Information Resources for Native Nutritional Health (SEEDS Repository Prototype)

  • Yappalli: Choctaw Road to health

  • Global Indigenous Health: Creating Relationships for Indigenous Land-based Healing

  • Tangata Whenua Tangata Ora: Investigating health gain through whenua initiatives

Select Publications

  • Developing a Tribal Health Sovereignty Framework for Obesity Prevention (link)

  • Growing from Our Roots: Strategies for Developing Culturally Grounded Prevention Programs in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Communities (link)

  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Action: The Food Wisdom Repository (forthcoming)

Expertise

  • Indigenous Health Psychology

  • Land Based Health Psychology

  • Community Based Research

  • Indigenous Health

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Sandy Kassir

Email:

Sandy.Kassir@saskhealthauthority.ca

Research Projects

Select Publications

  • Exploring Mitochondrial System Properties of Neurodegenerative Diseases through Interactome Mapping (link)

  • An Efficient Lentiviral-based Proteomics Approach Identifies Mitochondrial Complexes with Neurodegenerative Function (link)

  • A Map of Human Mitochondrial Protein Interactions Linked to Neurodegeneration Reveals New Mechanisms of Redox Homeostasis and NF-κB Signaling (link)

Expertise

  • Internal Medicine

  • Clinical Research

  • Biostatistical Methods

  • Quantitative Methods

  • Epidemiology

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Tarun Katapally

Email

tarun.katapally@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • SMART Youth: A Digital Platform for Population Health Interventions (link)

  • SMART Indigenous Youth (link)

  • SMART Adults (link)

Select Publication

  • The SMART Study, a Mobile Health and Citizen Science Methodological Platform for Active Living Surveillance, Integrated Knowledge Translation, and Policy Interventions: Longitudinal Study (link)

  • Methodology to Derive Objective Screen-State from Smartphones: A SMART Platform Study (link)

  • Catalyzing Action on First Nations Respiratory Health Using Community-based Participatory Research: Integrated Knowledge Translation through Strategic Symposia (link)

  • A community-based participatory research methodology to address, redress, and reassess disparities in respiratory health among First Nations (link)

Expertise

  • Digital Epidemiology

  • Population Health Policy

  • Mobile Health

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Alexandra King

Email

alexandra.king@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • The Butterfly Project: Exploring Patient-Centered Knowledge Mobilization

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Expertise

  • Indigenous Wellness

  • HIV and AIDS

  • Community Based Research

  • Arts Based Research

  • Land Based Research

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Malcolm King

Email

malcolm.king@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Development of the Patient-Oriented Research Level of Engagement Tool (PORLET)

  • Indigenous Knowledge Development Centres with a Focus on Wellness - Miyo-Pimâtisiwin

Select Publications

  • Water Journey: methods for exploring the research priorities for Indigenous peoples in Canada and hepatitis C

  • In the eyes of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Exposing the underlying colonial etiology of Hepatitis C & the imperative for trauma-informed care (link)

  • A Synthesis: Indigenous Wellness Indicators Day. IAPH-FNHA-IGIHM Conference Report, 2018

Expertise

  • Determinants of Indigenous Health

  • Social Determinants of Health

  • Wellness

  • Indigenous Health

  • Interdisciplinary

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Margaret Kisikaw Piyesis

Email

kisikawpiyesis@allnationshope.ca

Research Projects

  • Aboriginal HIV & AIDS Community-Based Research Collaborative Centre (link)

  • Development of the Aboriginal Women’s Research Initiative (AWRI)

  • Family Matters: Informing a family-based model of care with Aboriginal families affected by HIV

  • Stable Homes, Strong Families: Housing and Health for Aboriginal Peoples Living with HIV and AIDS

  • The Impacts of the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure on Indigenous People Living with HIV/AIDS: An Urban Case Study of Regina

  • Mâcîpiciw: Restoration of Indigenous men's roles and responsibilities

  • Kiskinowâpamew (s/he imitates her/him in order to learn): An Indigenous-led organization’s research journey

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Expertise

  • HIV and AIDS

  • Indigenous Wellness

  • Indigenous Health

  • Women and Gender

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Bridget Klest

Email

bridget.klest@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • Exploring Institutional Betrayal in the Canadian Medical System

Select Publication

  • Assessing opinions on trauma-informed care in primary care (Poster Presentation)

  • Patients’ opinions on family physician training of trauma-informed care (Poster Presentation)

  • Patient dissatisfaction and institutional betrayal in the Canadian medical system: A qualitative study (link)

  • Betrayal Trauma, Healthcare Relationships, and Health in Patients with a Chronic Neurovascular Condition (link)

  • Institutional betrayal in the Canadian medical system: Reliability and validity of a self-report questionnaire (link)

  • A model exploring the relationship between betrayal trauma and health: The roles of mental health, attachment, trust in healthcare systems, and nonadherence to treatment (link)

Expertise

  • Clinical Psychology

  • Traumatic Stress

  • Institutional Betrayal

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Katherine Knox

Email

kak531@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Individualized behavior change strategies for physical activity in multiple sclerosis

  • Maintaining neuro-'connectivity': a virtual approach

  • Saskatchewan Multiple Sclerosis Drugs Research Program

Select Publications

  • Impact of comorbidity on hospitalizations in individuals newly diagnoses with multiple sclerosis: a longitudinal population-basedstudy. (link)

  • Adherence to physiotherapy-guided webbased exercise for persons living with moderate to severe multiple sclerosis: a randomized-controlled pilot study. International Journal of Multiple Sclerosis Care. (link)

  • Association between disease-modifying therapies formultiple sclerosis and healthcare utilisation on a population level: aretrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. (link)

Expertise

  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

  • Physical Activity

  • Rehabilitation

  • Quality of Life

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Saija Kontulainen

Email

saija.kontulainen@usask.ca

Research Project

  • Bone Strength Development Study: Assessing details of bone growth and related factors to optimize bone strength development in children with type 1 diabetes (link)

  • Nordic Walking Study: assessing safety and efficacy of Nordic walking intervention on posture, functional mobility and quality of life in individuals at risk of fracture (link)

Select Publication

  • Patient-driven COVID-19 accommodations in the Nordic walking intervention (link)

  • Nordic Walking study accommodations to COVID-19 pandemic (link)

Expertise

  • Musculoskeletal Health

  • Bone Health

  • Physical Activity

  • Diabetes

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Karen Lawson

Email

karen.lawson@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Gender Based Violence (GBV) Prevention Initiative

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Expertise

  • Program Evaluation

  • Health Services Research

  • Reproductive and Sexual Health

  • Survey Design

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Stacey Lovo

Email

stacey.lovo@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

  • Patient experiences of health care access challenges for back pain care across the rural-urban continuum

  • Development and Evaluation of VR Teaching Tools in the School of Rehab Science

Select Publications

  • Experience of Patients and Practitioners with a Team and Technology Approach to Chronic Back Disorder Management (link)

  • Building Partnerships in Indigenous Wellness (link)

  • Use of real-time videoconferencing to deliver physical therapy services: a scoping review of published and emerging evidence (link)

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

  • Use of videoconferencing technologies for physical therapy in people with musculoskeletal conditions (link)

Expertise

  • Telerehabilitation

  • Indigenous Wellness

  • Community Engagement

  • Musculoskeletal Health

  • Professional practice

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Juxin Lui

Email

liu@math.usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Improving Health Outcomes of Kidney Recipients: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Pre-transplant Education Intervention

Select Publications

  • Randomised controlled trial of a video intervention and behaviour contract to improve medication adherence after renal transplantation: the VECTOR study protocol (link)

Expertise

  • Complex Data

  • Computational Methods

  • Bayesian Inference

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Christopher Phenix

Email

chris.phenix@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Evaluation of PET Radiotracers for Imaging Glucocerebrosidase in Parkinson’s Disease

  • PET imaging GBA1 activity, a potential marker of early Parkinson's disease.

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Expertise

  • PET Imaging

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