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LAUNCHED!!! the Partnership Capacity Building Fund projects

The Partnership Capacity Building Fund (PCBF) is intended to encourage and support doctoral and post-doctoral students to meaningfully engage and partner with patients (people with lived experience, caregivers and community representatives) as part of their project/research work. The PCBF opportunity…

OSSU’s 10th EMPOWER Project Opportunity

Do you have a completed Ontario-based patient-oriented research project? Does your project require additional funding for knowledge translation and dissemination? If yes…..consider applying for EMPOWER!!! Entering its 10th funding cycle, the EMPOWER (Engaging Multi-stakeholders for Patient Oriented research Wider Effects…

Major moves for mental health, sex and gender work

By Kim Barnhardt Major moves for two key OSSU research initiatives will help expand the important research and patient engagement work in sex and gender and mental health and addictions in Ontario. A great place for women’s health For Dr….

A champion of patient partnership

By Kim Barnhardt For Roger Farley, the seeds of patient partnership in research were planted years ago. Chair of OSSU’s Patient Partnership Advisory Council (PPAC) for the last 4 years, Roger’s interest in the role of patients in research was…

Un champion du partenariat avec les patients

Par Kim Barnhardt L’intérêt de Roger Farley pour le partenariat avec les patients en recherche a pris racine il y a de nombreuses années. Président du Conseil consultatif sur le partenariat avec les patients (CCPP) de l’USSO depuis quatre ans,…

Celebrating 20 years!

By Kim Barnhardt Happy 20th anniversary to the Ottawa Methods Centre (OMC), a founding OSSU Research Centre, located at The Ottawa Hospital. A key provider of expertise in clinical trial design, research methods, patient engagement in research and much more,…

Vingt ans, ça se fête!

Par Kim Barnhardt Joyeux 20e anniversaire au Centre de méthodologie d’Ottawa (CMO), l’un des centres de recherche fondateurs de l’USSO, situé à l’Hôpital d’Ottawa. Véritable pilier d’expertise en conception d’essais cliniques, en méthodes de recherche, en engagement des patients dans…

World Café pilot project serves up great ideas

By Kim Barnhardt “Let’s chat over coffee” is often the start to a successful meeting and stimulating conversation. OSSU’s World Café Conversation series of three online kaffeeklatsches were a roaring success, with more than 260 unique participants and many repeat…

D’excellentes idées percolent au projet pilote World Café

Par Kim Barnhardt « Discutons-en autour d’un café » : cette formule marque souvent le début d’une réunion fructueuse et d’une conversation stimulante. La série de trois café-causeries en ligne World Café de l’USSO a connu un franc succès : plus de 260 personnes…