Senior Scientist/Economist, BC Cancer/ Assoc Prof, Univ British Columbia. Assoc Editor @isporjournals. RT not endorsement. PI #RegulatoryScienceLab
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Drs. Cheryl Wellington and Michael Hayden from the @UBC Faculty of Medicine have been awarded @BrainCanada 2025 Platform Support Grants to support powerful new brain research platforms!
🧠 Congratulations to both researchers. Learn more about their projects: bit.ly/49s1Inr
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AI dangers: Epic used #AI in computerized medical record to predict #sepsis, touted it highly, widely used. First investigation, sensitivity 33% (missed 2/3 of cases, specificity 83%, 88% alerts false positives, alert burden: 6,971 of 38,455 hospitalizations (18%). Withdrawn after 4 years of damage.
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That's how we do it in Buffalo. ❤️🤍
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After a microphone issue in Buffalo, the entire crowd helps with the singing of O Canada ahead of Game 5 👏
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After a microphone issue in Buffalo, the entire crowd helps with the singing of O Canada ahead of Game 5 👏
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The @adMare_Bio M4 Innovation Centre is officially open!
New laboratory facilities opened to support BC’s life sciences sector, offering move-in-ready spaces for early-stage companies that are tackling challenges in medicine and more: bit.ly/3OLCtVQ
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Apr 17
New CLEO publication on the diagnostic odyssey and forced resilience. @DeanRegier @moehman @DeirdreWeymann @samTpollard
Colonialism, systemic discrimination, and racism have introduced barriers for #Indigenous families in healthcare. These challenges require resilience, often hindering access to #genomic #sequencing and extending journey toward a diagnosis. bit.ly/42alnEg #HealthEquity
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Colonialism, systemic discrimination, and racism have introduced barriers for #Indigenous families in healthcare. These challenges require resilience, often hindering access to #genomic #sequencing and extending journey toward a diagnosis. bit.ly/42alnEg #HealthEquity
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Apr 12
Achieving the vision of genomics to improve health for all requires a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. 2025 editorial in the Journal of Community Genetics and the Public Health Genomics Journal. link.springer.com/article/10…
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Drs. Sabrina Leslie & Xin Tang have been awarded funding through the @UBC 2026/27 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters competition to launch a new research cluster that brings together advanced imaging and AI technologies.
Congratulations! bit.ly/4c0TUL2
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I was so pleased to be part of a great team writing a commentary on the draft FDA guidelines on Bayesian clinical trial designs. Should have been done 30 years ago, but better late than never
Mar 23
💬 Perspective: Bayesian methodology supports efficient, flexible clinical trial designs; FDA guidance encourages prespecification and sensitivity analysis of priors.
@f2harrell @d_spiegel
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NEW PUBLICATIONS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS AND GENOMICS 25/02/26
Four publications since the last update.
Link to blog: healtheconomicsandgenomics.c…
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🚨 Funding alert! 🚨
The Wall Fellowships & Research Awards are open to faculty members and graduate students at @UBC.
Deadline info and details at the link below 👇
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A team led by @BCCHresearch's Dr. @Matthew_Wiens has been awarded €5 million in Horizon Europe funding to improve care for children after hospital discharge in Uganda & Kenya.
The goal of reducing deaths from severe infections like #sepsis: bit.ly/4r1T31L
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Congratulations to all Vancouver researchers who received funding through the Fall 2025 CIHR Project Grant competition!
🎉 Check out the @ubclifesciences awardees: bit.ly/4rzQVhs
🎊 See which @VCHResearch researchers won grants: bit.ly/45U9u7T
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Feb 2
The time of day for cancer immunotherapy is associated with major outcomes. Early is better. Results from a randomized trial of lung cancer, backs up the importance of our circadian rhythm and immune system
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NEW PUBLICATIONS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS AND GENOMICS 07/01/26
Happy new year! Five publications since the last update.
Link to blog: healtheconomicsandgenomics.c…
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16 Dec 2025
NEW PUBLICATIONS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS AND GENOMICS 16/12/25
Two publications since the last update.
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Dean Regier retweeted
1 Dec 2025
Confirmed:
* NICE will apply new thresholds of £25k-£35k/QALY asap
* NICE will introduce the new value set for use alongside EQ-5D-5L following peer review and publication
* NICE-hosted webinar on 3 Dec with more details
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2 Dec 2025
Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @CellCellPress
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Dean Regier retweeted
19 Nov 2025
The more exercise in mid- and late-life, the less Alzheimer's and all-cause dementia, adjusted for all known risk factors
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