Giving patients and health care providers a voice in pediatric biobanking
The BC Children's Hospital BioBank would like to hear your opinion on how children and their families would like to participate in medical research, specifically biobanking. Biobanks are extremely important for finding new and better treatments for all patients, and we want to make sure that biobank practices work for participants and all health-care providers and that they are effective, respectful and inclusive.
As part of our CIHR grant, we will be assessing ways to improve biobank participation, and will be holding several interactive workshops. There will be an informative presentation, followed by group discussions. We hope to give participants a greater understanding of research and how they can be involved, as well as gain a better understanding of your opinions on research participation and biobanks; What are the benefits, the drawbacks and the barriers to biobanking? How we can we make participation in the BioBank easier for those who are interested?
Upcoming Workshops
Attend one of our workshops, listed below! Pizza and $25 gift cards will be provided to thank you for your participation.
Workshop for parents and youth (ages 11-18) who have been, or are currently, hospital patients.
Monday, January 22, 5 - 7:30 p.m.
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Room 2108
Register here!
View the event poster.
Workshop for any health-care professional involved in pediatric research.
Wednesday, February 14, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Room 3113
Register here!
View the event poster.
If you have any questions, please email
biobank@cw.bc.ca or phone: 604 875 2000 ext 6423.