Jason M. Sutherland
Dr. Jason M. Sutherland is an Associate Professor in the Center for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) and is the Program Head, Health Services and Outcomes at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) in Vancouver. Dr. Sutherland’s research falls into the broad categories of health system performance and clinical outcomes. He has been studying funding policy, methods for improving cross-continuum care, and health systems’ variations in efficiency, effectiveness and quality of care.
Trafford Crump
Dr. Crump is an Assistant Professor with the Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. He is also a researcher with the Alberta Prostate Cancer Research Initiative, and the Prostate Cancer Centre. His research interests involve measuring and improving the value of preference-sensitive surgical care. This involves conceptualizing, designing, and implementing novel study methods to systematically collect patient-centred measures, including patient-reported outcomes.
Guiping Liu
Guiping is a research analyst at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. His primary focus is healthcare policy research in Canada. Before joining CHSPR, Guiping worked in research related to family dynamics, population aging, and heath care in China, Europe, and Canada. He holds a Masters in Science from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the Renmin University of China, both specializing in Demography.
Dawn Mooney
Dawn is a Geographer with the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. She specializes in cartography, geography, and data visualization. Her work focuses on using mapping health and healthcare variation and using data visualization to communicate health data and statistics. She holds a Masters of Public Health from the UBC School of Population and Public Health.
Ernest Lai
Ernest is a research assistant at the UBC Center for Health Services and Policy Research. His key interest is on the use of patient reported outcomes (PROs) data for quality improvement among patients waitlisted for elective surgery. Ernest’s research focus includes assessing the impact of wait times on patient quality of life and risk factors for readmission. In Fall of 2017, Ernest will begin his studies for the Master of Science Program at UBC School Population and Public Health.
Alex Peterson
Alex Peterson is a research analyst at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, where he studies surgical outcomes and the measurement characteristics of patient-reported outcome instruments. He has a Masters of Science in Population and Public Health from the University of British Columbia
Zuzanna Kurzawa
Zuzanna Kurzawa is a research assistant at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Her work focuses on evaluating the measurement properties of patient-reported outcomes (PROs), and the application of PROs in clinical practice. She is an MSc Candidate in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.
