Congratulations to Dr. Trisha Chakrabarty (PI) and Dr. Jennifer Coelho(PI) recipients of Convening and Collaborating (C2) Awards and to Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez (PI) recipient of a Reach Award from Michael Smith Health Research BC!
Dr. Trisha Chakrabarty is an Assistant Professor with the UBC Department of Psychiatry, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research health professional investigator, and consultant psychiatrist at the Mood Disorders Centre of Excellence. Her research project with co-lead Dr. Tracy Windsor (DMCBH), XR Technology to Support Students with Mood Disorders: Co-Developing a Research Agenda, looks at how Extended reality (XR) can address some of the barriers of mood disorders (depressive and bipolar disorders) that affect many Canadian post-secondary students and can severely impact functioning.
Dr. Jennifer Coelho is a Clinical Associate Professor with the UBC Department of Psychiatry, lead for the BC Eating Disorders Research Cluster, and Psychologist at BC Children’s Hospital. Her project with co-lead Dr. Kim Williams, Early Intervention for Eating Disorders in British Columbia: Co-Development of a Research Strategy, considers the surge in eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic which contributed to a workforce crisis, and looks at how the innovative early intervention model in general mental health settings which is being developed for the Canadian context shows significant promise for early intervention.
Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez is an Associate Professor with the UBC Department of Psychiatry and Director, NINET Labs whose research focuses on translational research that bridges our understanding on the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders with the clinical applications of this knowledge. His project, Enhancing Public Understanding of Interventional Brain Medicine through Lay Abstracts and Social Media Education, aims to create extended lay abstracts for approximately 80 research papers produced by his lab that focus on Interventional Brain Medicine technologies. These abstracts will translate complex research outcomes into easily understandable summaries for non-specialists
View the full list of C2 and Research awardees and learn more about their research project, here…