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CJEM 2002;4(2):157

Dr. Riyad Abu-Laban -- MSFHR Career Award recipient

In November 2001, Dr. Riyad Abu-Laban received a Career Award from BC's Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR). Dr. Abu-Laban is an emergency physician at the Vancouver General Hospital, Director of the VGH Emergency  Medicine Research Division, and sits on the CAEP Research Consortium Board of Directors. He is an active emergency medicine researcher and has focused most recently on acute cardiovascular diseases in the prehospital setting.

This award will give Dr. Abu-Laban 5 years of salary support at the "Scholar" level. It was one of 33 awards granted through a competitive peer-review process, only 6 of which were in the Clinical Research category. The primary submission for this award was the "Aminophylline Bolus in Bradyasystolic Arrest (ABBA) Study," a large randomized clinical trial funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and currently underway in Vancouver. This award will provide Dr. Abu-Laban with the protected time necessary to carry out the ABBA Study, as well as to pursue his other emergency medicine research interests.

Dr. Abu-Laban is originally from Edmonton; he completed his medical training at the University of Alberta in 1984, his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia in 1996 and his MHSc in Epidemiology from the University of British Columbia in 1998. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.

Brian Rowe, MD
University of Alberta, Edmonton