Garth Meckler
MD, MSHS
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Division Head, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, BC Children's Hospital
National Institutes of Health, PAR-08-261: Epidemiology of Preventable Safety Events in Pre-hospital EMS of Children. $3,491,585.00; 2010-2015, Jeanne-Marie Guise / Garth Meckler.
Friends of Doembecher Foundation: Pediatric Simulation. $30,000.00; 2009-2010; Robert Cloutier / Garth Meckler.
Robert C. Chambliss Best Paper Award, Section of Transport Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics
Academic Instructor of the Year, Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Emergency Meidicne, 2010, 2011
Joseph B Bilderback Award (Teaching), Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Pediatrics
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BC Children’s Hospital is part of a new cross-Canada network to ensure a coordinated research response to COVID-19. Supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the platform will enhance collaboration and information-sharing between research teams to fully understand the impacts of COVID-19 and improve the health and wellbeing of children and youth.
We are pleased to congratulate the BC Children’s Hospital investigators recognized in the 2020 UBC Faculty of Medicine Awards.
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