Coalition partners each have a total of $20,000 per year to offer one or more Early Researcher Awards. These awards provide salary support for Early Researchers or can be used to offset the cost of conducting research. Each Early Researcher award recipient is expected to present their research at the Coalition’s Annual Research Symposium in the spring. Early Researcher candidates must:
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2011
Sarah Clark Field-Based Knowledge Brokering: What does it look like? |
Kenneth Southall Coping with stigmas: a visual ethnography study of older adults with multiple chronic morbidities |
Natalie Ward Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Benzodiazepine Tapering in a Geriatric Day Hospital |
Sue O’Reilly Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program |
Amy Gusul Exploring the needs and experiences of health care providers working with Aboriginal seniors diagnosed with dementia who live in rural, northern communities in the Thunder Bay district |
Michael Berger Characterization of quadriceps neuromuscular dysfunction in knee osteoarthritis |
Kristin Sabourin Exercise prescription at the primary care level to reduce the risk factors of type 2 diabetes |
Melanie Stuckey Remote Monitoring Technology to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease in a Rural Population |
Alex Crizzle Naturalistic Driving Behaviour in Older Adults |
Courtney Brennan & Rachel Morrison Making Plans: It’s Not As Easy As It Looks |
Janice Liew & Arely Diaz “Is That Normal”" Executive Dysfunction and Everyday Behaviours |
Brandon P. Vasquez Reducing intraindividual variabilityin stroke patients using behaviour modifying interventions |
Matthew David Parrot The influences of empirically derived dietary patterns on cognitive function in independent older adults depend on income and education |
Suzanne L. Cook Baycrest Research about Volunteering in Older Adults (BRAVO) |
Lynne Joanne Williams Variability in Blood Oxygenation-Level Dependent Signals in Task Positive and Default Network Systems in Normally Ageing Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Late Life Depression |
2009-2010
2008-2009
Dr. Krista Bray-Jenkyn Lawson/Western Ontario |
Briana Zur Lawson/Western Ontario |
Dr. Samantha Evans EBRI/Ottawa Emerging Chronic Illness Narratives in Family Health Teams: A Patient Perspective |
Lauren Griffith Samuel McLauglin/McMaster Designing A Study To Measure Physical Functioning Following An Emergency Department Visit For An Unintentional Injury In Canadian Seniors |
Sara Kaffashian Samuel McLauglin/McMaster Post acute health care resource utilization by older adults who sustain fractures |
Amanda T. Lo Samuel McLauglin/McMaster Development of a Dementia Risk Score |
Dr. Pat Miller Samuel McLauglin/McMaster Personal and social implications of impaired mobility following stroke |
Dr. Nancy Jokinen CERAH/Lakehead University TBD |
Dr. Andrea Gruneir Baycrest/University of Toronto Emergency Department Visits by Long-Term Care Residents in Ontario |
Sheri Kravetsky Baycrest/University of Toronto TBD |
Matthew Parrott Baycrest/University of Toronto TBD |
Dr. Yashar Salek Baycrest/University of Toronto Rehabilitation of Cognitive functions in adults with white matter stroke: a pilot study |
Dr. Dallas Seitz Baycrest/University of Toronto Effects of Cholinesterase Inhibitors on Postoperative Outcomes of Older Adults with Dementia |
2007-2008
Kathryn Ellett Providence/Queens Evaluating Eldercare Access Strategy in Emergency Room (EASIER+) in South East (SE) ON |
Simone Dahrouge EBRI/Ottawa The Quality of Primary Care in the Elderly – A study of equity |
Nancy Jokinen CERAH/Lakehead University Senior Friendly Acute Care Strategy |
Sara Kaffashian Samuel McLauglin/McMaster Osteoporosis and fragility fractures in men |
Karen Van Ooteghem Lawson/Western Ontario & RIA/Waterloo Building Better Balance in Seniors: examining the adaptive capacity of the balance control system |