Matthias Görges
PhD, MSc
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital, Co-Lead, Digital Health and Data Analytics Super Hub, BC Children's Hospital
Current Diabetes Reports
Titilola I. Yakubu and Samantha Pawer and Nicholas C. West and Tricia S. Tang and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-024-01560-412 / 2025
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthsie
Janny Xue Chen Ke and Mindy A. Smith and Kathryn Sparrow and Nicholas West and May-Sann Yee and Kang Mu Yoo and Louise Y. Sun and W. Scott Beattie and Matthias Grges and for the Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials (PACT) Group
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-025-02951-105 / 2025
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Alvhild Skjelvik and Nicholas West and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.2196/6438803 / 2025
JMIR Diabetes
Titilola I Yakubu and Poonamdeep Jhajj and Samantha Pawer and Nicholas C West and Shazhan Amed and Tricia S Tang and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.2196/6426701 / 2025
PLOS ONE
Janny X. C. Ke and Tim T. H. Jen and Sihaoyu Gao and Long Ngo and Lang Wu and Alana M. Flexman and Stephan K. W. Schwarz and Carl J. Brown and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.031452612 / 2024
Anaesthesia
Samantha Pang and Nicholas West and Haoyu Zhao and Jessica Luo and Neil K. Chadha and Lynnie R. Correll and Heng Gan and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.1111/anae.7018002 / 2026
Pediatric Anesthesia
Lindy Moxham and Aanisah Golam and Nicholas C. West and Matthias Grges and Simon D. Whyte
DOI: 10.1111/pan.7003112 / 2025
PLOS Digital Health
Shazhan Amed and Haleh Ayatollahi and Susan Pinkney and Fatema S. Abdulhussein and Anila Virani and Carlie Zachariuk and Sukhpreet K. Tamana and Shruti Muralidharan and Matthias Grges and Bonnie Barrett and Tibor van Rooij and Elizabeth M. Borycki and Andre Kushniruk and Holly Longstaff and Alice Virani and Wyeth W. Wasserman
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.000086110 / 2025
Interactive Journal of Medical Research
Rosalyn Leigh Carr and Vita Chan and Nicholas C West and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.2196/6560608 / 2025
Pediatric Anesthesia
McKenna Postles and Nicholas West and Lindy Moxham and Jenna Ramji and Jade Palm and Christa Morrison and Matthias Grges and James Chen
DOI: 10.1111/pan.1513808 / 2025
Pediatric Anesthesia
Jessica Luo and Nicholas West and Samantha Pang and Aanisah Golam and Erin Adams and Matthias Grges and Roxane R. Carr and Firoz Miyanji and Gillian R. Lauder
DOI: 10.1111/pan.1512407 / 2025
Pediatric Anesthesia
Victor C. L. Lee and Randa Ridgway and Nicholas C. West and Matthias Grges and Simon D. Whyte
DOI: 10.1111/pan.1510906 / 2025
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthsie
Janny X. C. Ke and Kathryn Sparrow and Mindy A. Smith and Kang Mu Yoo and May-Sann Yee and Louise Y. Sun and W. Scott Beattie and Edlyn Lim and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-025-02943-105 / 2025
Diabetic Medicine
Tricia S. Tang and Gerri Klein and Matthias Grges and Annie Yip and Lawrence Fisher and William H. Polonsky and Danielle Hessler and Deanne Taylor
DOI: 10.1111/dme.1545103 / 2025
Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
Ramji, J. and Pawliuk, C. and Rowe, J. and Baird, R. and Ridgway, R. and G{\"o}rges, M. and Correll, L.R.
DOI: 10.1177/27683605251366993Journal of ECT
Pozdnikoff, C. and Johnston, J. and Najafi, F. and Gregory, E. and Hamidizadeh, R. and Hrazdil, C. and G{\"o}rges, M. and Vila-Rodriguez, F.
DOI: 10.1097/YCT.0000000000001178Pediatric Emergency Care
Rose, J. and Chong, A. and Mckinley, K. and Meckler, G. and Van Rooij, T. and G{\"o}rges, M. and Principi, T. and Gravel, J. and Singh, D. and Hurley, K. and Wright, B. and Turner, T. and Mater, A. and Burstein, B. and Doan, Q.
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000003353JMIR Perioperative Medicine
Jessica Luo and Nicholas C West and Samantha Pang and Julie M. Robillard and Patricia Page and Neil K. Chadha and Heng Gan and Lynnie Correll and Randa Ridgway and Natasha Broemling and Matthias Grges and Pediatric Pain Prediction Collaboration
DOI: 10.2196/6519812 / 2024
Pediatric Anesthesia
Victor C. L. Lee and Randa Ridgway and Nicholas C. West and Matthias Grges and Simon D. Whyte
DOI: 10.1111/pan.1498712 / 2024
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Eric Chow and Alice Virani and Susan Pinkney and Fatema S Abdulhussein and Tibor van Rooij and Matthias Grges and Wyeth Wasserman and Jeffrey Bone and Holly Longstaff and Shazhan Amed
DOI: 10.2196/5365710 / 2024
Jmir Perioperative Medicine
G{\"o}rges, M. and Sujan, J. and West, N.C. and Sreepada, R.S. and Wood, M.D. and Payne, B.A. and Shetty, S. and Gelinas, J.P. and Sutherland, A.M.
DOI: 10.2196/54926JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
Yau, K.W. and Tang, T.S. and Grges, M. and Pinkney, S. and Amed, S.
DOI: 10.2196/44792JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
Abdulhussein, F.S. and Pinkney, S. and Grges, M. and van Rooij, T. and Amed, S.
DOI: 10.2196/46432BMJ Open Quality
Wood, M.D. and Smith, J.L. and Healey, H. and Grges, M. and Lokker, C.
DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002366Journal of Clinical Medicine
Toledo-Marn, J.Q. and Ali, T. and van Rooij, T. and Grges, M. and Wasserman, W.W.
DOI: 10.3390/jcm12041695Jmir Pediatrics and Parenting
Wood, M. and Gandhi, K. and Chapman, A. and Skippen, P. and Krahn, G. and G{\"o}rges, M. and Stewart, S.E.
DOI: 10.2196/53120JMIR Perioperative Medicine
Sreepada, R.S. and Chang, A.C. and West, N.C. and Sujan, J. and Lai, B. and Poznikoff, A.K. and Munk, R. and Froese, N.R. and Chen, J.C. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.2196/47398JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
Wood, M.D. and West, N.C. and Fokkens, C. and Chen, Y. and Loftsgard, K.C. and Cardinal, K. and Whyte, S.D. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.2196/46785JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
Yau, K.W. and Tang, T.S. and Gorges, M. and Pinkney, S. and Kim, A.D. and Kalia, A. and Amed, S.
DOI: 10.2196/34967Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Steif, J. and Brant, R. and Sreepada, R.S. and West, N. and Murthy, S. and G{\"o}rges, M.
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000002835JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
Wood, M.D. and Correa, K. and Ding, P. and Sreepada, R. and Loftsgard, K.C. and Jordan, I. and West, N.C. and Whyte, S.D. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.2196/37353Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Hillgruber, R.J. and Lutskov, P. and West, N.C. and Whyte, S. and G{\"o}rges, M.
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-022-00811-7Health Services Insights
Burton, L. and Rush, K.L. and Smith, M.A. and Grges, M. and Currie, L.M. and Davis, S. and Mattei, M. and Ellis, J.
DOI: 10.1177/11786329221096033JMIR Formative Research
Burton, L. and Rush, K.L. and Smith, M.A. and Davis, S. and Echeverria, P.R. and Hidalgo, L.S. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.2196/32528Pediatric Anesthesia
Nicholas West and Matthias Grges and Andrew Poznikoff and Simon Whyte and Stephan Malherbe
DOI: 10.1111/pan.1425711 / 2021
JMIR Medical Informatics
Niema Ghanad Poor and Nicholas C West and Rama Syamala Sreepada and Srinivas Murthy and Matthias Grges
DOI: 10.2196/2407908 / 2021
The Spine Journal
Richard Lin and Kai Zhu and Andrew K. Poznikoff and Matthias Grges and Zo E. Brown
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2021.03.02407 / 2021
Telemedicine Reports
Kathy L. Rush and Lindsay Burton and Mindy A. Smith and Sarah Singh and Kira Schaab and Matthias Grges and Robert Janke and Leanne M. Currie
DOI: 10.1089/tmr.2020.003303 / 2021
Anesthesia & Analgesia
Gabby Napoleone and Klaske van Heusden and Erin Cooke and Nicholas West and Matthias Grges and Guy A. Dumont and J. Mark Ansermino and Richard N. Merchant
DOI: 10.1213/ane.000000000000537202 / 2021
JCI Insight
Majdoubi, A. and Michalski, C. and O?Connell, S.E. and Dada, S. and Narpala, S. and Gelinas, J. and Mehta, D. and Cheung, C. and Winkler, D.F.H. and Basappa, M. and Liu, A.C. and Grges, M. and Barakauskas, V.E. and Irvine, M. and Mehalko, J. and Esposito, D. and Sekirov, I. and Jassem, A.N. and Goldfarb, D.M. and Pelech, S. and Douek, D.C. and McDermott, A.B. and Lavoie, P.M.
DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.146316Paediatric Anaesthesia
Lo, C. and Yu, J. and Grges, M. and Matava, C.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.14051Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Schler, S.S. and Petersen, C.L. and West, N.C. and Ansermino, J.M. and Merchant, R.N. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-020-00565-0Wellcome Open Research
Mawji, A. and Ansermino, M.J. and Akech, S. and Mwaniki, P. and Dunsmuir, D. and Bone, J. and Wiens, M.O. and Grges, M. and Kimutai, D. and Kissoon, N. and English, M.
DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15387.3Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Johnson, K.T. and Grges, M. and Murthy, S.
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000002667Anesthesia and Analgesia
Clunies-Ross, N. and Roston, T.M. and Taylor, J. and Whyte, S. and Albert, A. and Grges, M. and Chau, A.
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004712Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
van Heusden, K. and Cooke, E. and Brodie, S. and West, N. and Grges, M. and Dumont, G.A. and Ansermino, J.M. and Merchant, R.N.
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-020-00511-0Applied Clinical Informatics
Grges, M. and Rush, K.L. and Burton, L. and Mattei, M. and Davis, S. and Scott, H. and Smith, M.A. and Currie, L.M.
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1721397Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Currie, L.M. and Rush, K. and Burton, L. and Mattei, M. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI210724Abdelilah Majdoubi and Sarah E. OConnell and Christina Michalski and Sarah Dada and Sandeep Narpala and Jean Gelinas and Disha Mehta and Claire Cheung and Manjula Basappa and Matthias Grges and Vilte E Barakauskas and David M. Goldfarb and Daniel C. Douek and Adrian B. McDermott and Pascal M. Lavoie
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.05.2020666410 / 2020
JMIR Perioperative Medicine
Christian L Petersen and Matthias Grges and Evgenia Todorova and Nicholas C West and Theresa Newlove and J Mark Ansermino
DOI: 10.2196/1663909 / 2020
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Grges, M. and Kissoon, N.
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000002212JMIR Formative Research
Gagalova, K.K. and Angelica Leon Elizalde, M. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.2196/17687Paediatric Anaesthesia
Hgel, C. and Chen, J. and Poznikoff, A.K. and West, N.C. and Reimer, E. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.13936PLoS ONE
Lee, V. and Dunsmuir, D. and Businge, S. and Tumusiime, R. and Karugaba, J. and Wiens, M.O. and Grges, M. and Kissoon, N. and Orach, S. and Kasyaba, R. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240092Paediatric Anaesthesia
West, N. and Christopher, N. and Stratton, K. and Grges, M. and Brown, Z.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.13802Canadian Journal of Anesthesia
Grges, M. and West, N.C. and Cooke, E.M. and Pi, S. and Brant, R.F. and Dumont, G.A. and Ansermino, J.M. and Merchant, R.N.
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-019-01522-5Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
West, N. and Cooke, E. and Morse, D. and Merchant, R.N. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-019-00411-yCurrent Opinion in Anaesthesiology
Grges, M. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000000845Advances in Computers and Software Engineering: Reviews
Liu, Pu and Fels, Sidney and West, Nicholas and G{\"{o}}rges, Matthias
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.0354112 / 2019
JMIR Perioperative Medicine
Matthias Grges and Nicholas C West and Christian L Petersen and J Mark Ansermino
DOI: 10.2196/1355908 / 2019
JMIR Perioperative Medicine
Dustin Dunsmuir and Helen Wu and Terri Sun and Nicholas C West and Gillian R Lauder and Matthias Grges and J Mark Ansermino
DOI: 10.2196/1230507 / 2019
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Van Heusden, K. and Soltesz, K. and Cooke, E. and Brodie, S. and West, N. and Gorges, M. and Ansermino, J.M. and Dumont, G.A.
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2019.2898194Computing in Cardiology
Pawar, R. and Bone, J. and Ansermino, J.M. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.23919/CinC49843.2019.9005699Anesthesia and analgesia
Grges, M. and Sherwin, E.D. and Poznikoff, A.K. and West, N.C. and Brodie, S.M. and Whyte, S.D.
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004135Paediatric Anaesthesia
Grges, M. and Afshar, K. and West, N. and Pi, S. and Bedford, J. and Whyte, S.D.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.13531Computing in Cardiology
Seidel, G. and Murthy, S. and Peters, C. and Rostalski, P. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.23919/CinC49843.2019.9005547Anesthesia and Analgesia
Grges, M. and Poznikoff, A.K. and West, N.C. and Brodie, S.M. and Brant, R.F. and Whyte, S.D.
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004154Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Grges, M. and Kissoon, N.
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000002004IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Flohr, L. and Beaudry, S. and Johnson, K.T. and West, N. and Burns, C.M. and Ansermino, J.M. and Dumont, G.A. and Wensley, D. and Skippen, P. and Gorges, M.
DOI: 10.1109/JTEHM.2018.2812162Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Grges, M. and Peters, C. and Murthy, S. and Pi, S. and Kissoon, N.
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001729Journal of Medical Internet Research
Ho, H.K.K. and Grges, M. and Portales-Casamar, E.
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.8724Anesthesia and Analgesia
West, N. and Van Heusden, K. and Grges, M. and Brodie, S. and Rollinson, A. and Petersen, C.L. and Dumont, G.A. and Mark Ansermino, J. and Merchant, R.N.
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002663Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
Peters, C. and Murthy, S. and Brant, R. and Kissoon, N. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001598Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
West, N. and McBeth, P.B. and Brodie, S.M. and van Heusden, K. and Sunderland, S. and Dumont, G.A. and Griesdale, D.E.G. and Ansermino, J.M. and Grges, M.
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-018-0115-6Canadian Journal of Anesthesia
Lau, A. and Lowlaavar, N. and Cooke, E.M. and West, N. and German, A. and Morse, D.J. and Grges, M. and Merchant, R.N.
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-018-1161-8Paediatric Anaesthesia
Sun, T. and Dunsmuir, D. and Miao, I. and Devoy, G.M. and West, N.C. and Grges, M. and Lauder, G.R. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.13471A & A Case Reports
Sonia M. Brodie and Matthias Grges and J. Mark Ansermino and Guy A. Dumont and Richard N. Merchant
DOI: 10.1213/xaa.000000000000057607 / 2017
Paediatric Anaesthesia
Grges, M. and Zhou, G. and Brant, R. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.13088Canadian Journal of Anesthesia
Grges, M. and West, N.C. and Whyte, S.D.
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-016-0762-3Anesthesia and Analgesia
Petersen, C.L. and Grges, M. and Massey, R. and Dumont, G.A. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001957Anesthesia and Analgesia
Grges, M. and West, N.C. and Christopher, N.A. and Koch, J.L. and Brodie, S.M. and Lowlaavar, N. and Lauder, G.R. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001127Paediatric Anaesthesia
Grges, M. and West, N.C. and Karlsdttir, E. and Ansermino, J.M. and Cassidy, M. and Lauder, G.R.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.12994Anesthesia and Analgesia
Petersen, C.L. and Grges, M. and Massey, R. and Dumont, G.A. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001506Paediatric Anaesthesia
Grges, M. and West, N.C. and Cheung, W. and Zhou, G. and Miyanji, F. and Whyte, S.D.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.12939Pediatric Blood and Cancer
Grges, M. and West, N. and Deyell, R. and Winton, P. and Cheung, W. and Lauder, G.
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25197Paediatric Anaesthesia
Grges, M. and Whyte, S.D. and Sanatani, S. and Dawes, J. and Montgomery, C.J. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.1278009 / 2014
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Petersen, C.L. and Grges, M. and Ansermino, J.M. and Dumont, G.A.
DOI: 10.1145/2635648.2635651IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Dunsmuir, D.T. and Payne, B.A. and Cloete, G. and Petersen, C.L. and Grges, M. and Lim, J. and Von Dadelszen, P. and Dumont, G.A. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2014.23011562014 International Conference on the Internet of Things, IOT 2014
Grges, M. and Dumont, G.A. and Petersen, C.L. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1109/IOT.2014.7030114Paediatric Anaesthesia
Dawes, J. and Myers, D. and Grges, M. and Zhou, G. and Ansermino, J.M. and Montgomery, C.J.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.12468Paediatric Anaesthesia
Grges, M. and Ansermino, J.M. and Whyte, S.D.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.12204International Journal of Medical Informatics
Koch, S.H. and Weir, C. and Westenskow, D. and Gondan, M. and Agutter, J. and Haar, M. and Liu, D. and Grges, M. and Staggers, N.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.10.002Anesthesia and Analgesia
Grges, M. and Winton, P. and Koval, V. and Lim, J. and Stinson, J. and Choi, P.T. and Schwarz, S.K.W. and Dumont, G.A. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182975b63Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2013
Grges, M. and Burns, C.M. and Morita, P.P. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2013.642Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, ICFP
Petersen, C.L. and Grges, M. and Dunsmuir, D. and Ansermino, J.M. and Dumont, G.A.
DOI: 10.1145/2500365.2500615Anaesthesia
Brown, Z.E. and Grges, M. and Cooke, E. and Malherbe, S. and Dumont, G.A. and Ansermino, J.M.
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12310Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Grges, M. and Westenskow, D.R. and Markewitz, B.A.
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-012-9370-0Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Koch, S.H. and Weir, C. and Haar, M. and Staggers, N. and Agutter, J. and Grges, M. and Westenskow, D.
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000678Anesthesia and Analgesia
Liu, D. and Grges, M. and Jenkins, S.A.
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318241f7c0Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Koch, S.H. and Westenskow, D. and Weir, C. and Agutter, J. and Haar, M. and Gorges, M. and Liu, D. and Staggers, N.
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-101-4-383Biomedizinische Technik
Borowski, M. and Grges, M. and Fried, R. and Such, O. and Wrede, C. and Imhoff, M.
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2011.005Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing
Grges, M. and Kck, K. and Koch, S.H. and Agutter, J. and Westenskow, D.R.
DOI: 10.1097/DCC.0b013e31821b7f0808 / 2010
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Koch, S.H. and Grges, M. and Weir, C.
DOI: 10.1518/107118110X12829370089083Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Grges, M. and Westenskow, D.R. and Kck, K. and Orr, J.A.
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-010-9238-0Anesthesia and Analgesia
Grges, M. and Markewitz, B.A. and Westenskow, D.R.
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31819bdfbbJournal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Grges, M. and Staggers, N.
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-007-9106-8Our goal is to use smartphones and artificial intelligence to enhance pain management for children undergoing surgery. We will combine digital health and data analytics with local patient-reported outcome measures (e.g., pain, functional recovery, and satisfaction) and patient-centred research methods to improve personalized care by developing perioperative pain trajectory prediction models and tools to communicate these to families. We hope that utilizing these tools will enhance the child’s individual care, as identifying children at high risk of pain will enable us to intervene before their surgery. This work has four phases: 1) select tools and outcomes, 2) collect baseline data and develop models, 3) develop and usability-evaluate a risk communication tool, 4) implement a digital-health-enabled pediatric prehabilitation app and pilot evaluate its effectiveness.
The proliferation of smartphones and home hub devices has generated vast amounts of largely untapped data and offers tremendous opportunities for the general public to contribute to scientific research and discovery. By using human-centred design processes, we will create a platform that allows researchers to share personalized research findings with the participants of research projects. Additionally, we are developing an app that will enable users to visualize data from their smartphones and other smart home or wearable devices and guide them in selecting the data they wish to donate for use by researchers in a safe and informed manner.
Digital health combines technology, such as smartphones and artificial intelligence, with data from personal devices and hospital systems, and involves people, including doctors, nurses, patients, and families, to enhance the health and well-being of the population. Digital health improves access to care and quality by providing the right information at the right time. Our team’s digital health research focuses on enhancing care for women, children, and their families in BC. We aim to develop a shared research strategy and plan for a new Digital Health Research Centre encompassing BC Children’s and Women’s Hospitals. In this project, we will identify gaps and opportunities, define priorities, and co-develop research strategies that tackle current challenges to enhance our health system with digital technology.
Cancelling planned surgeries can negatively affect the patient and their family. At BC Children’s Hospital, surgeries may be postponed if there aren’t enough beds available for patients after their procedures. We wonder whether patients who live farther from BC Children's experience more case postponements than those who live closer to BC Children’s Hospital. The hospital may adopt this approach to spare non-local families unnecessary travel if their surgery is likely to be postponed, which may create a health inequity. Our team aims to study whether case cancellations are related to patients’ geographical locations and to explore the impact of these cancellations on the families.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a virtual care platform that provides adolescents (ages 15-18) with type 1 diabetes with an accessible peer support intervention (app) to improve mental health. For three months, 40 participants will use the app and have access to 1-on-1 and group support provided by trained Peer Mentors. We will conduct surveys before and after the intervention to assess changes in mental health and well-being. After the intervention, we will conduct usability and satisfaction surveys to assess the acceptability of the intervention.
2025-09, Formation of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Unit at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Digital Health and Data Analytics Super Hub, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institut
2025-06, Pilot Deployment of Language Models at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Digital Health and Data Analytics Super Hub, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
2025-03, Evidence to Innovation Seed Grant, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
2024-10, Convening & Collaborating Program, Michael Smith Health Research BC
2021-07, C&W Digital Health Research Accelerator Grant, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
2021-04, Discovery Grant, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2020-07, Scholar Program, Michael Smith Health Research BC
2025-07, Recommendation for Outstanding Academic Performance (OAP) for the 2024 calendar year, University of British Columbia
2025-05, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics - Paper of the Year, University of British Columbia
2024-09, Peer-Mentorship Excellence by an Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Every day, our researchers work towards breakthroughs to transform the lives of kids in BC and around the world. Learn about our latest innovations and advancements in child health.
Every child is different in terms of their risks for experiencing post-surgical pain. Researchers at BC Children’s Hospital are developing a tool to help accurately predict and communicate an individual child’s risk of experiencing a higher level of post-surgical pain. This tool will help make healing after surgery more comfortable for kids.
Congratulations to the following BCCHR investigators who were awarded NSERC funding.
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many research teams around the world focused on creating antibody tests to diagnose individuals who had SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Surprisingly, some researchers detected low levels of antibodies in many individuals who had never been exposed to the virus.
At BC Children’s, we are making discoveries that save lives and transform health care for children in our province and around the world. Our research portfolio includes basic, clinical, population, and public health research.
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