Program Overview | School of Medicine

There is a strong support at Queen’s University and its affiliated teaching hospitals, Clinical Researchers, Basic Science Researchers and Department Heads for the Clinician Investigator Program. Furthermore, there is strong support from Dean Richard Reznick who has made research a priority in the School of Medicine.

The School of Medicine has $80- $85 million for research funding annually and has been successful in establishing CIHR (SITHR) and NSERC (CREATE) funded training programs in the areas of cancer, gastrointestinal diseases and musculoskelal diseases that are open to a wide range of trainees. There are over 70 well-funded laboratories within active multidisciplinary research groups that include:

Cancer
Cardiac, Circulatory and Respiratory Health
Community Health and Epidemiology
Emergency Medicine and Injury
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Health Services and Policy
Human Mobility
Mental Health
Neurosciences
Obesity and Research Education
Protein Function Discovery
Reproductive and Developmental Origins of Health, Disability and Disease

The overall mandate of the Clinician Investigator Program at Queen’s University is to increase Clinician Scientist research capacity in Canada. We will achieve this by developing the next generation of Clinician Scientist research leaders who will have developed the skill sets to achieve broad-based excellence not only in research but also as clinicians, supervisors/mentors, teachers and academics in general.

If you are interested in applying to the Clinician Investigator Program or would like to obtain more information, please contact the Program Administrator at cipprog@queensu.ca.