Stephanie VandenBerg

Biography

Dr. Stephanie Vandenberg is an emergency physician in the Calgary Zone, Associate Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine (@uofcemresearch) and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. She received her MD from the University of Toronto and holds a Bachelor of Arts & Science from McMaster University with a Minor in Biochemistry and a thesis in Paediatric HIV. She completed a Master’s of Science in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and performed a subgroup analysis of the WOMAN trial data (tranexamic acid in postpartum hemorrhage) for her graduate project.

Stephanie uses a “research for advocacy” framework to engage discussions on health systems, harm reduction, and ways to improve vulnerable populations’ health outcomes using principles of community based research and information design/visualization. She is currently co-leading a project to better support people who use crystal methamphetamine and use the emergency department when experiencing a behavioural crisis as well as the staff who care for them. She is an advocate for including people with lived experience of addictions as a part of healthcare teams and is working on creating space for recovery coaches in the Emergency Department.