Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season!
The CEPL research team at UBC would like to thank all of our participants, collaborators and professionals involved with our research projects this past year. ❄️ Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season! ❄️
Winners of Outstanding Virtual Poster Awards!
Congratulations to two of our CEPL members for each winning an Outstanding Virtual Poster Award at the recent 2023 BC Cancer Summit! Kelcey Bland, postdoctoral research fellow, presented on her current project of creating products supporting knowledge translation of exercise recommendations for people with bone metastases. This being vital information for both healthcare professionals and patients, […]
Staff Feature: Natalie Fujisawa!
Recently, Natalie Fujisawa, BKin, RKin, ACSM-CEP, and research coordinator for the Cancer Exercise and Physiotherapy Lab was featured in the EXCEL fall newsletter. Natalie is the Hub CEP for the BC branch of EXCEL, an online exercise program for individuals living with cancer in rural areas. Here’s a little bit more about Natalie: What […]
Gillian Smith — Student of the Month!
CEPL Lab member, Gillian Smith, has been selected as the September 2023 Student of the Month, in the Rehabilitation Sciences Graduate Program! Gill is currently working on her MSc in Rehabilitation Sciences, studying how changes in muscle and body composition during chemotherapy affect colon cancer outcomes, and how psychosocial factors like social isolation and income […]
The Arm Morbidity Self-Monitoring (AMS) Study is featured on VCHRI!
This month, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute has featured a CEPL study: the Arm Morbidity Self-Monitoring (AMS) Study. For more information about this article, please click here. Researchers from the University of British Columbia would like to understand how to assess shoulder and arm issues related to breast cancer and its treatment. Taking part in this […]
Impressions about Vancouver from a South American perspective
Rafael Fujita is a doctoral student from Brazil who is a visiting student through the UBC Go Global Program, funding from Emerging Leaders of the Americas Program (ELAP – EduCanada), and scholarship from the CAPES Foundation, an agency under the Ministry of Education of Brazil. He arrived in January 2022 and is returning to Brazil […]
International Conference on Physiotherapy in Oncology (ICPTO) 2022
Please join us in Amsterdam for the third International Conference on Physiotherapy in Oncology (ICPTO), which will take place in the EYEFilmmuseum, Amsterdam on September 14 and 15, 2023. Dr. Campbell is the conference program chair. For more information: https://www.npi.nl/cursussen-en-opleidingen/npi-cursuskalender/1334-3rd-international-conference-on-physiotherapy-in-oncology-icpto Target audience The target audience is physiotherapists, but the conference is also open to anyone interested […]
CaRE-AC: Cancer Rehabilitation for People with Metastatic / Advanced Breast or Colorectal Cancers
Study Contact: Kelly Mackenzie (Research Manager) Study: 8-week program including supervised exercise classes and self-management classes, delivered in-person or virtual We are seeking women who: Have metastatic or advanced breast or colorectal cancer Receiving 1st or 2nd line anti-cancer treatments Are 18+ years old Have good English comprehension in order to understand the study […]