Our own Jenny Tran was awarded the CST 2020 Top Abstract award for her abstract ‘Precision Medicine in kidney transplantation: Comparing Actual and Predicted epitope mismatches in deceased donor kidney transplantation.’ You can find her oral abstract presentation here.
Professor; Director, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation
Research Interests
Dr Stirling Bryan is a co-project leader and will be assessing and translating the economic implications and healthcare impacts of Precision Medicine tools that will be developed during the course of the project.
Dr. Bryan is a health economist who has extensive engagement with the policy and decision-making world. For over 20 years he has been a university-based practicing health economist with extensive engagement to the policy and decision-making world. His research track record reveals a longstanding goal of informing policy and practice. This is demonstrated, in part, through an extensive involvement with the UK National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE). Previously, Dr. Bryan led a University of Birmingham-based team that conducted economic analyses for UK National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE), and subsequently served for 3 years as a member of the NICE technology appraisals committee, advising on coverage policy. In 2005 he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowship and spent one year at Stanford University, researching technology coverage decision making in US healthcare organizations. His published papers reveal an ongoing research interest in coverage decision-making processes. Since his relocation to Canada in 2008, Dr. Bryan continued his focus on policy-relevant research. His current position, sponsored by Vancouver Coastal Health, sees him working alongside policy colleagues in one of BC’s largest regional health authorities. Dr. Bryan completed his PhD in economics at Brunel University, following a Masters in health economics from the University of York.
Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health; and Research Director, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta
Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy; Trudeau Fellow;
Dr. Timothy Caulfield is a co-project leader and will examine the legal, ethical and societal considerations regarding transplantation. Dr. Caulfield will conduct analyses to determine how popular culture (including social media and the news media) represents transplantation policy and organ donation. This information will be used to develop communication strategies to guide communication of the Precision Medicine tools in transplantation policy.
Dr. Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. His interdisciplinary research on topics like stem cells, genetics, research ethics, the public representations of science and health policy issues have allowed him to publish over 350 academic articles. He has won numerous academic and writing awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Trudeau Foundation and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Dr. Caulfield contributes frequently to the popular press and is the author of two national bestsellers: The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness (Penguin 2012) and Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash (Penguin 2015). Dr. Caulfield also has a strong social media presence and is the host and co-producer of the documentary TV show, A User’s Guide to Cheating Death. Dr. Caulfield obtained his Bachelor of Science and law degree at the University of Alberta, He completed a Masters in Law at Dalhousie University.
