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 […]