Stephanie Garies
Positions
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
Primary Care Scientist
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
Co-Director, Southern Alberta Primary Care Research Network (SAPCReN)
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
PhD Epidemiology, University of Calgary, 2020
MPH Public Health & Epidemiology, University of Warwick, 2010
BSc Nutrition & Food Science, University of Alberta, 2007
Research
Areas of Research
Projects
- Why we need to modernize the disease classification system used by outpatient physicians
- What are Canadian family physician preferences on an updated coding system?
- Barriers & facilitators reported by Canadian family physicians to implementing a new disease classification system
- Organizational readiness and perspectives on a newer diagnostic coding system
Funded by a CIHR Project Grant.
https://www.deependcanada.org/what-we-do/#sparktool
Funded by Alberta Innovates.
- Primary care perspectives on using AI to derive patient social data
- Co-designing an AI tool to derive social determinants of health in primary care
- Testing machine learning to determine housing instability & low income status using primary care EMR data
Funded by the CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship program & Unity Health Toronto.
- Examining the International Classification of Health Interventions for use in Alberta
Funded by a CIHR Project Grant.
Co-Director of the southern Alberta node of CPCSSN; projects include:
- Case definition development & validation
- Epidemiology
- EMR data quality
- EMR & administrative data linkage
Awards
- Reviewers' Choice Research Award (First Place) - Oral Presentations, Alberta College of Family Physicians. 2024
- Research Excellence Award, Unity Health Toronto. 2023
- Health System Impact Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, CIHR. 2021
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