Affiliated Groups
Clinical Trials Group, NCIC, Cancer Research Institute
The Clinical Trials Group is a national research organization funded by the National Cancer Institute of Canada for the purpose of carrying out multi-centre studies of cancer therapy. The central coordinating office for the Group, which is responsible for developing, conducting and analyzing these trials, is located at Queen's University under the direction of Dr. Joseph Pater. Studies carried out by the Group include initial investigations of new drugs and randomized comparisons of various cancer therapies. During 1999, the Group was involved in over 30 national and international randomized trials and over 15 studies of investigational drugs. The Group has accumulated a large database of information on patients enrolled in its studies and has interests in such broad issues as cost, symptom control and quality of life.
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Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
Founded in 1991, this interdisciplinary unit was created to undertake research, external consulting, and education in the areas of health services and health policy. Its goal is to provide innovative evaluation services to individual clients and to enrich the health policy community in Canada and internationally by designing with relevant academic research. Built around a core staff of four faculty members and six researchers, the Unit close ties with affiliated faculty at Queen's and other universities in disciplines such as economics, geography, business and policy studies. Its faculty regularly provide post-graduate courses in Community Health and Epidemiology, Family Medicine and Policy Studies. Research support is provided for the Provider Services Branch of the Ministry of Health and for the Health Information Partnership of Eastern Ontario. The national office of the Canadian Health Economics Research Association is located in the Unit. While diverse research activities are going one, the largest projects to date have focused on the creation of evaluation protocols for comprehensive health organizations and the evaluation of the alternative funding plan at the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization. The unit reports to both the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and the Dean of Medicine.
KFLA Health Unit
In a partnership with Queen's University, the goal of the Health Unit is to provide a leadership role within the public health system and the health care system as a whole through the provision and integration of pubic health education, research and the development of exemplary programs and services. Learning opportunities are provided for both graduate and undergraduate students. Its research focuses on applied public health research and has included projects on program evaluation, community care, health promotion and injury prevention.
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Developmental Consulting Program
DCP is an academic and consulting program at Queen's University with a special interest in the developmental disabilities field. It has been in operation since 1985. Most of DCP's activities involve people from a wide variety of disciplines who contribute their special skills, talent and time on a task or project basis. Their contributions to particular projects are either considered to be part of their academic responsibilities ro they work on a sub-contract basis. Teaching and research in the developmental disabilities field is a primary responsibility. In addition, DCP has had contracts to work with government and several charitable service organizations on needs and service requirement studies, program operational reviews, service planning, and policy analysis efforts. DCP has consulted broadly in the areas of aging, rehabilitation and mental health. Every year, DCP supports an Educational Associateship for one Master's student in Community Health and Epidemiology. The Associateship is designed to encourage graduate education, research, and professional consulting in the developmental disabilities field.
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Emergency Medicine and Injury Research Group
Queen's University Departments of Emergency Medicine and Community Health and Epidemiology have developed a collaborative research program of applied epidemiological and medical research. This program has a special focus on injury prevention and control. The EMIRG unit is housed in Kingston General Hospital, and is currently staffed by two faculty (Dr. William Pickett, Dr. Rob Brison), a nurse coordinator, a research associate, a project coordinator, and a unit secretary. Graduate students from Community Health and Epidemiology have undertaken thesis projects in collaboration with this unit. The unit also supports residence research project in the Department of Emergency Medicine. The program is supported by external grants from a variety of internal and external agencies. Specific research foci include the surveillance and/or study of agricultural injuries, child injuries, intentional injuries (e.g. homicide, suicide), neurotrauma, whiplash disorders, and the applied use of cardiac markers in the emergency department. The EMIRG group coordinates a national program for the surveillance of agricultural injuries (the Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program), and is a regional site of the Canadian Hospitals Injury Research and Prevention Program.
Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Cancer Research Institute
The objectives of the Cancer Care and Epidemiology group are:
To increase transdisciplinary and translational research.
To increase efforts to translate new knowledge into improved cancer outcomes by building on the strong collaborative relationships between CCE with the other two divisions of QCRI as well as other research groups across Canada.
To expand capacity to do in-depth studies of cancer care and outcomes in selected areas of special interest
To aid the optimization of cancer patient outcomes through a program of research that encompasses the spectrum of cancer care in specific patient groups.
To broaden the scope of the outcomes research program to include nation-wide and international comparisons of cancer care and outcomes.
To broaden the focus of research to include other provinces and other countries to enable us to explore the implications of a broader range of care patterns on treatment outcomes.
To increase the societal benefits of research by building closer collaborations with system managers, policy makers and patients.
To work closely with policy makers, program managers, patient care providers, and consumers, both in designing studies and in disseminating their results.
To develop increased expertise in Needs Assessment, Technology Evaluation, and Modeling of Health Systems
To apply techniques for radiotherapy needs assessment and health system modeling to other components of the cancer system. Work more closely with the medical physics community in technology assessment.
To increase involvement in research training of highly qualified personnel.
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