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Neurotransmitter
International Partnerships
Dalhousie BRC and Ben Gurion University of the Negev
TBI Research Partnership
In 2017 the BRC received funding from the Department of Labour and Advanced Education to develop a business model to include the provision of continuing and individualized care to brain injured patients while combining with research/investigation and delivery of support through a collaborative care model. This model is based on the development of a patient-centric, inter-disciplinary and collaborative research effort that aims to improve prevention policies for all Nova Scotians and clinical outcomes for TBI survivors.
The Brain Repair Centre welcomes you to learn more about this partnership by downloading the digital version of the business plan. Click on the cover image to learn more about the proposed model concept, which promotes patient driven research projects, and exploits and capitalizes on existing talent and facilities to bring the concept of a living laboratory to the fore.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBIRP)
Photo: TBIRP Architects, Peter Covert and Ken Nason with Diana Nichols Nelson, COO, Brain Repair Centre.
This cluster includes academia, clinicians, government, associations and citizens. The TBI cluster in conjunction with a steering committee developed a business model to include the provision of continuing and individualized care to brain injured patients while combining with research/investigation and delivery of support through a collaborative care model.
In 2017 the BRC received funding from the Department of Labour and Advanced Education to develop a business model to include the provision of continuing and individualized care to brain injured patients while combining with research/investigation and delivery of support through a collaborative care model. This model - referred to as the Traumatic Brain Injury Research Partnership (TBIRP) - is based on the development of a patient-centric, inter-disciplinary and collaborative research effort that aims to improve prevention policies for all Nova Scotians and clinical outcomes for TBI survivors. This project was enabled by a steering committee, led by Dr Alon Friedman, Department of Medical Neuroscience.
Traumatic Brain Injury Research Partnership Model
Vision: Transforming TBI outcomes for Nova Scotians by enabling excellence in prevention and post-injury research.
Mission: Enabling research from TBI prevention through community integration for three levels of injury (mild, moderate and severe) in an inter-disciplinary, collaborative and patient-centered environment. Research will be conducted across a five-pillar continuum that includes:
- prevention and public health;
- pre-hospital treatment;
- in-hospital acute care;
- inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation; and
- community integration.
Steering Committee members (2017):
Alice Aikens - Faculty of Health Professions
Richard Braha - Nova Scotia Health Authority
Leona Burkey - Brain Injury Association of Nova Scotia
Lisa Cicchelli - IWK Hospital
David Clarke - Faculty of Medicine (Neurosurgery), Dalhousie & Chief, Neurosurgery, Nova Scotia Health Authority
Peter Covert - TBIRP Architect
Paul Egan - Workers Compensation Board
Alon Friedman - Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie and Brain Repair Centre
Bill Hildreth - Brain Injury Association of Nova Scotia / Insurance Industry
Gabriela Ilie - Faculty oif Medicine, Dalhousie University
Diane MacKenzie - Faculty of Health Professions
Randi Monroe - Nova Scotia Health Authority
Ken Nason - TBIRP Architect
William Webster - Faculty of Health Professions
Linda Wozniak - Faculty of Health Professions