Ashley Roberts

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program, BC Children's Hospital
Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Provincial Health Services Authority

Academic Affiliations

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Research Theme

Healthy Starts

Affiliate Websites

UBC Faculty of Medicine

Contact

aroberts6@cw.bc.ca

Phone

(604) 875-2345 ext. 2622

Mailing Address

4500 Oak St
Vancouver, BC
V6H 3N1

Publications: Antibiotic use in Canadian neonatal intensive care units: a national survey for developing antimicrobial stewardship targets
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
Lindsay L. Richter and Matthew Sai-pong Ho and Michael S. Dunn and Kyong-Soon Lee and Joan L. Robinson and Ashley Roberts and Nisha Thampi and Shikha Gupta-Bhatnagar and Prakesh S. Shah and Joseph Y. Ting
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2023.112
12/2023
Predictive value of repeated cerebrospinal fluid parameters in the outcomes of bacterial meningitis in infants
PLOS ONE
Joseph Y. Ting and Ashley Roberts and Sarah Khan and Ari Bitnun and Michael Hawkes and Michelle Barton and Jennifer Bowes and Jason Brophy and Lynda Ouchenir and Christian Renaud and Andrée-Anne Boisvert and Jane McDonald and Joan L. Robinson
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238056
08/2020
Research: Grants

UBC Centennial Fund Grant - Project: "Janusz Korczak Lecture, Human Rights Lecture Series." Principal Investigator. Total Funding: $2500 (2015)
UBC Special Populations Fund, Faculty of Medicine - Project: "Resident Engagement through Advocacy in Public Schools." Principal Investigator. Total Funding: $19,000 (2012-2013)
UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) Grant - Project: "Using Microbials Judiciously in an Age of Drug Resistance: Teaching Principles of Antimicrobial Stewardship to the next generation of health care providers." Principal Investigator. Total Funding: $13,000 (2015)

Honours & Awards

2012 - Women in Medicine Award and Invited Speaker, Undergraduate Class, UBC Faculty of Medicine.
2012 - Post-Graduate Education Award, UBC Department of Pediatrics. Description: Outstanding Contribution to Pediatric Residency Education.
2013 - Post-Graduate Education Award, UBC Department of Pediatrics. Description: Outstanding Contribution to Pediatric Residency Education.

Research Group Members

Carolyn Smith, Administrative Coordinator
Sabrina Ye, INSPIRE TRAINEE

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Congratulations CIHR Project Grant Recipients!

We are pleased to congratulate the BC Children's and BC Women's investigators who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Spring 2019 competition. Our research community received nine new research and bridge grants totaling more than $5.8 million.

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Pediatric Sepsis Data Challenge invites researchers to help develop a model to save lives

To help prevent more children from dying of sepsis, the Institute for Global Health is inviting researchers to help design an open-source algorithm that predicts in-hospital mortality in low- and middle-income countries.

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Congratulations CIHR Spring 2024 Project Grant recipients

Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded $5 million in funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2024 Project Grant competition.

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Collaboration was key to discovery about newborn immunity

Investigators at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute have made a finding that could eventually lead to therapeutic interventions for sepsis, lung disease, and other complications in premature newborns.

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New research tools can shed light on an understudied organ essential to our lives

The placenta is essential to a healthy start in life. Despite its importance, little is known about it, including why it might not develop properly, which can lead to long-term health issues. Dr. Alexander Beristain’s lab is investigating two state-of-the-art stem cell-based tools that model a human placenta to find answers that can positively impact children’s health.

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Government of Canada invests $20 million to improve health outcomes of children living with rare diseases

The Government of Canada is providing $20 million over five years for the creation of RareKids-CAN: Pediatric Rare Disease Clinical Trials and Treatment Network. This national network, of which BCCHR will be a part, will support national and international clinical trials to advance discoveries, enable better prevention, diagnosis, and treatments, to improve health outcomes for children and adolescents affected by rare diseases.

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