Research Trainees

Michael Asamoah-Boaheng has a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Michael’s research interests includes Obstructive Airway Diseases specifically (Asthma and COPD), COVID-19 seroprevalence and the burden of diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa. He has over the years conducted and published high quality research and currently has over 24 peer reviewed publications and 15 international research conference presentations to his credit. He is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow on the project “COVID-19 Occupational Risks, Seroprevalence and Immunity among Paramedics in Canada (CORSIP)” and also a member of BC RESURECT.

Callahan is a graduate of Mechanical and Materials Engineering from Queen’s University who has embarked on a new journey in the medical field as an MD candidate in the Vancouver Fraser Medical Program at UBC. His research focuses on vascular access strategies employed by paramedics during out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA), with a particular emphasis on intraosseous (IO) access. He is engaged in a project that aims to compare the clinical outcomes of adult OHCA patients treated with different vascular access strategies

Jacob has a PhD Experimental Medicine from the University of British Columbia, with a focus on prehospital resuscitation science, including large-scale analyses of EMS data, randomized trial design, and predictive modeling. He is Postdoctoral Fellow at BC RESURECT and Canadians Saving Arrest Victims Everywhere (CanSAVE). His current research efforts within CanSAVE include leveraging cardiac arrest data to conduct epidemiological modelling for projects related to early detection and intervention for cardiac arrest using wearable and non-wearable sensors. He also leads multiple observational and prospective studies in OHCA, including trials of wearable monitoring technologies in palliative and MAiD populations. His broad research interests involve applying real-world and non-traditional sources of data to emergency response systems to increase the early recognition and prediction of acute health emergencies. In addition to his fellowship, Jacob is a paramedic with BC Emergency Health Services. Outside of this work, Jacob can be found skiing, running, or mountain biking in the coast mountains surrounding Vancouver.

Mahsa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia. As a researcher on the Canadians Saving Arrest Victims Everywhere (CanSAVE) Novel Biosensor project, her research is focused on using wearable devices to detect out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest incidents. This work involves (1) identifying/developing appropriate wearable sensors to collect bio-signals associated with cardiac arrest conditions (e.g., electrocardiogram, breathing rate); and (2) using unsupervised/supervised machine learning algorithms to identify appropriate combinations of collected bio-signals to detect a sudden cardiac arrest event. The outcome of this research may contribute to rapid recognition of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which can summon bystanders and Emergency Medical Services to provide the required emergent life-saving interventions.

Justin is a Research Assistant working with supervisor Dr. Grunau on several clinical medicine and epidemiology studies in the field of Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and makes contributions to BC’s Cardiac Arrest Registry and the COVID-19 Occupational Risks, Seroprevalence and Immunity among Paramedics (CORSIP) project. He is currently the study coordinator for the “Cardiac Arrest Detection in Palliative Care” and “OHCA wearable” studies. Outside of work, Justin enjoys volunteering and exploring the outdoors.