On Monday, December 14, 2020, Dr. Leah Lambert was officially announced as BC Cancer’s Executive Director and Senior Scientist, Nursing and Allied Research and Knowledge Translation.
December 16, 2020
UPDATE
Dr. Leah Lambert, Executive Director and Senior Scientist, Nursing and Allied Research and Knowledge Translation
I am excited by the unparalleled opportunity to lead and develop the Nursing and Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation department as part of an expanding relationship between BC Cancer, the BC Cancer Research Institute and the UBC School of Nursing. A focus of the new department will be to forge a stronger, more tangible connection between BC Cancer and UBC School of Nursing.
~ Dr. Leah Lambert
BC Cancer Announcement
Dr. Leah Lambert joined BC Cancer in September 2019 as a health system impact postdoctoral fellow, where her program of work was focused on identifying and mitigating barriers impeding effective care transitions for women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Dr. Lambert is a registered nurse with a PhD in Nursing from the University of British Columbia (UBC). During her PhD, Leah was supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategic Training in Health Research (CIHR-STIHR) Psychosocial Oncology Research Training Fellowship and a four-year UBC Doctoral Fellowship, as well as several distinction awards including two UBC Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Awards on the basis of outstanding scholarship. Leah was the first embedded researcher at BC Cancer to hold a CIHR and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Health System Impact Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research program is focused on examining the health service needs of people diagnosed with cancer and their families, and expanding multidisciplinary approaches to problem-solving within the care system. Dr. Lambert has a special interest in examining how cancer care practices, policies and systems are contributing to health and health care inequities and investigating strategies to enhance equity-oriented care in the cancer sector. The long-term goal of her research is to generate evidence on how to most effectively provide quality and efficient health services and deliver excellent person-centred care across the cancer care trajectory that is equitable for all patients.
In her new role, Dr. Lambert and her team will lead collaborative research and knowledge translation initiatives in partnership with health care practitioners, health system leaders, policymakers, and patients to generate evidence-informed improvements in care, better patient outcomes and increased system performance. Dr. Lambert will also hold a dual appointment as a clinical assistant professor at the UBC School of Nursing.
BCCancer Research Centre's Feature Story
From November 29, 2019
Impact Fellowship Award
We are proud to acknowledge that Dr. Leah Lambert was awarded a CIHR-MSFHR-BC Cancer Health System Impact Fellowship in September 2019 for her postdoctoral project Interpreting and addressing barriers impeding effective care transitions for women diagnosed with breast cancer in British Columbia. Dr. Lambert will be instructing NURS 504: Research and Evidence-based Practice at UBC in January 2020. Click below to read more about Leah's research and career.
