The Department of Community Health Sciences and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health present:

Patient-oriented research in digestive health – The IMAGINE (Inflammation, Microbiome, and Alimentation: Gastro-Intestinal and Neuropsychiatric Effects) Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Chronic Disease Network

The Canadian Institutes for Health Research Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) aims to provide evidence to inform health policy and improve health care and ultimately achieve benefits that matter to patients. The SPOR initiative funded five chronic disease networks to facilitate patient-oriented research. The IMAGINE (Inflammation, Microbiome, and Alimentation: Gastro-Intestinal and Neuropsychiatric Effects) Chronic Disease Network is one of these SPOR chronic disease networks. The IMAGINE network involves 17 hospitals/universities and 75 researchers across Canada focused on investigating the interactions between inflammation, microbiome, diet and mental health in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IMAGINE undertakes a range of patient-oriented research projects that engage patients as partners and focusses on patient-identified priorities, is conducted by multidisciplinary teams and aims to apply the knowledge generated to improve healthcare systems and practices. The IMAGINE team has also invested in capacity building for patient engagement through patient research partners and research training through our Patient and Community Engagement Research Program. This session will provide an overview of the IMAGINE project and specifically the subprojects with the Patient Engagement theme.

Objectives:
- Identify the aims of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR)
- Understand the aims and be aware of the research themes of the IMAGINE Chronic Disease Network
- Understand the patient-oriented research (POR) and patient engagement research subprojects in IMAGINE and reflect on the opportunities to engage patient as partners in research along with the benefits and challenges

Speaker Biography:
Deborah Marshall, Professor, University of Calgary, Arthur J.E. Child Chair Rheumatology Research is a health services researcher and health economist leading a program of applied research using patient preferences, patient engagement and simulation modelling methods in the context of precision medicine. She has experience in technology assessment agencies, academia and pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry research settings in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She is the co-lead for health economics for CIHR and Genome Canada research programmes in precision medicine in childhood arthritis and rare genetic diseases and also the co-PI for IMAGINE (Inflammation, Microbiome, and Alimentation: Gastro-Intestinal and Neuropsychiatric Effects) – a CIHR Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Chronic Disease Network and the co-lead of the Patient Engagement theme.

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