Dean’s Staff Awards Each year, the Faculty of Medicine recognizes faculty and staff members for excellence in teaching, research, administration, innovation and public service. The Dean's Staff Awards honours exceptional…
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Health Research BC’s funding for 71 researchers through the 2022 Scholar and Research Trainee competitions will help develop, attract and retain BC’s best and brightest health researchers and support the…
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Jason Gencher presented the RAFT-AF Trial which was a randomized, multicenter, open-label trial comparing ablation-based rhythm control to rate control among patients with high-burden paroxysmal (>4 episodes in 6 months) or persistent (duration <3 years) AFib, NYHA…
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Miles Marchand presented the SODIUM-HF Trial which was an international, open-label, randomised, controlled trial comparing usual care according to local guidelines or a low sodium diet of less than 100 mmol (ie, <1500 mg/day) among patients…
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Majeed Alosail presented the PACMAN-AMI Trial which was a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial comparing the use of biweekly subcutaneous alirocumab to placebo, in addition to high-intensity statin therapy among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial…
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Andy Dhaliwal presented the CHAP Trial which was an open-label, multicenter, randomized trial, comparing the use of antihypertensive medications to no treatment (unless severe hypertension developed) among pregnant women with mild chronic hypertension and singleton fetuses at a gestational age of…
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River Jiang presented the DISCHARGE Trial which is a pragmatic, randomized trial comparing CT with Invasive Coronary Angiography (ICA) as initial diagnostic imaging strategies for guiding the treatment of patients with stable chest pain who…
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Andrew Kochan presented the PARADISE-MI Trial. The trial's goal was to assess the efficacy and safety of sacubitril/valsartan compared with ramipril in the acute myocardial infarction (AMI) population. This trial enrolled 5661 patients with a duration…
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