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Sara Jassemi
MD, FRCPC

Investigator and Adolescent Medicine Specialist, BC Children's Hospital
Clinical Competency Committee Chair for the Adolescent Medicine Subspecialty Residency Program, BC Children's Hospital

My primary area of research is in medical education and physician wellness, investigating systemic changes and interventions that may affect resident and staff physician wellness and resilience. My research helps support my work as a clinical educator in the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine. I also conduct clinical research within vulnerable and marginalized populations, including refugee and migrant youth and youth who identify as LGBTQ.

Academic Affiliations

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Brain, Behaviour & Development
  • Research Group(s): Mental Health and Behaviour

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950 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Z4H4

sara.jassemi@cw.bc.ca

Youth, Caregiver, and Provider Perception of the Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care for Youth with Chronic Diseases

Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics

Vivian W. L. Tsang and Sarah Fletcher and Sara Jassemi and Sharon Smith

DOI: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000001024

05 / 2022

A Case Report: Rapid Micro-Induction of Buprenorphine/Naloxone to Administer Buprenorphine Extended-Release in an Adolescent With Severe Opioid Use Disorder

The American Journal on Addictions

Pouya Azar and James S.H. Wong and Sara Jassemi and Eva Moore and Dzung X. Vo and Mohammadali Nikoo and Samantha Young

DOI: 10.1111/ajad.13050

11 / 2020

Medical Education and Physician Wellness

I am currently looking at the effect of Balint groups on resident physician sense of self-efficacy and self-regulation, which is a component of the CanMEDS Professional role. This project is currently being expanded to staff physicians as well. I am also supervising a resident quality improvement project looking at increasing the completion of work-based assessments for pediatric resident physicians on CTU.

Vulnerable Populations

I am am concluding a qualitative case study investigating the perspectives of homeless refugee youth and staff at a shelter in Toronto on what they feel are contributing factors to the youth's mental health and resilience. I am also supervising a resident research project surveying Canadian pediatricians' perspectives on their comfort level providing care to trans-identified and gender variant youth.

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