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July 17, 2024

July 17, 2024

On behalf of our Advisory Circle and our leadership team we are thrilled to share that our Food as Medicine project grant has been ranked 1st in our category at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research with a score of 4.63. We have been...

June 27, 2024

June 27, 2024

We are grateful to the wonderful care providers, patients, and caregivers on the Bruyere Palliative Care Unit for partnering with us in our ethnographic study of the role and importance of food as part of person-centred palliative and...

June 26, 2024

June 26, 2024

Happy to share our work using the qualitative methods of interviewing and descriptive phenomology at the 2024 Qualitatives Conference in Brantford, Ontario.

June 25, 2024

June 25, 2024

Very excited to hear that our abstract titled "The role of primary care teams in identifying modifiable risk factors for food insecurity in rural dwelling older adults" has been accepted for presentation at the North American Primary Care...

June 22, 2024

June 22, 2024

We are looking for a new Research Coordinator to join the CCAER team. Check out our job posting here and please share broadly. https://www.bruyere.org/en/hr?job=19791 Closing date: 2024/07/18

June 19, 2024

June 19, 2024

We had a fun and productive co-design session with our community paramedic partners at the Ottawa Paramedic Service. We modified our food insecurity screening and assessment tool for their patient population and will soon be rolling out a...

June 17, 2024

June 17, 2024

Thank you to Carole Bérubé, Manager, Nutrition and Food Services at Bruyère, for the informative interview and kitchen tour. As we learn about the role and importance of food as part of person-centred palliative care, it is essential to...

June 14, 2024

June 14, 2024

We are thrilled to be in the Palliative Care Unit (PCU) at Bruyere's St. Vincent Hospital doing a study of the role of food as part of patient-centred palliative care. We are using rapid, team-based ethnography which means we will be here...

June 13, 2024

June 13, 2024

It is with great pleasure to share that our Student Research Assistant Katelyn Wang was selected by the Research Executive Committee of the Department of Family Medicine for the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Student...