March 12, 2019
Congratulations to ICVHealth Scientific Director Dr. Karin Humphries who is the recipient of the 2018 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Research Award! Dr. Humphries receives this award in recognition of her outstanding clinical research to improve …
Read this article...February 4, 2019
February is Heart Month, a time to bring attention to the importance of cardiovascular health and what we can do to reduce our risk of cardiovascular disease. As such, Providence Health Care’s Daily Scan interviewed our …
Read this article...February 1, 2019
Gender Outcomes INternational Group: to Further Well-being Development (GOING-FWD) is a Data Science, Personalized Medicine project funded by Canadian Institutes of Health and Research (CIHR) and GENDER-NET+, a European initiative part of the EU H2020 …
Read this article...October 5, 2018
HeartHub.ca – our online information resource for patients, by patients – is now officially available in four different languages: English, Chinese (simplified), Punjabi, and Farsi!
Our goal is to improve access to heart health …
Read this article...July 12, 2018
Congratulations to our Scientific Director Dr. Karin Humphries who will co-lead one of seven large grants funded in the latest Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) competition!
Her study, nicknamed “CODE-MI”, was awarded $1.6M over …
Read this article...July 1, 2018
ICVHealth is pleased to announce the launch of its newest patient information resource – HeartHub.ca!
The idea for HeartHub.ca first came from a previous ICVHealth research project. Health experts and coronary artery disease (CAD) patients with diabetes identified …
Read this article...June 25, 2018
Mark your calendars!
We are pleased to announce that on July 1st, we will be releasing HeartHub.ca – a coronary heart disease information website made for patients, by patients!
The website will feature interactive pages …
Read this article...April 3, 2018
Congratulations to ICVHealth Scientist Dr. Nathaniel Hawkins who was awarded one of three Investigator Awards as part of Vancouver Coast Health Research Institute’s 2018 award competition.
Dr. Hawkins’ study, titled “Contemporary Treatment and Outcomes …
Read this article...March 9, 2018
Congratulations to our colleague and ICVHealth Scientist Dr. Tara Sedlak on her nomination as a YWCA Metro Vancouver Woman of Distinction in Health and Wellness!
We are so proud of Dr. Sedlak’s well-deserved recognition and wish …
Read this article...February 1, 2018
According to a new report by the Heart & Stroke Foundation, we are decades behind in our knowledge of the differences between men’s and women’s hearts, and too many women’ lives are being …
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