Dr. Sandra Jarvis-Selinger an Assistant Professor and Associate Research Director in the Division of Continuing Professional Development and Knowledge Translation (CPD-KT), UBC Faculty of Medicine and is also a recipient of the 2008 MSFHR Career Investigator Award. Dr. Jarvis-Selinger’s research focuses on four themes: community engagement, 2) health promotion and awareness, 3) educational innovation and 4) patient centred care. Research which brings together these aspects in a ‘knowledge into action’ approach is central to the work she does. She is also an Adjunct Professor with the School of Health Informatics at the University of Victoria where she teaches “Telemedicine in Action”. In addition to the many projects she leads at CPD-KT she is also the recipient of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research three-year grant to explore the development and implementation of a research project entitled ‘Community Learning Centres” A Model of Community Engagement in Health, Education and Training”.

Current Research Interests:

• Technology enabled knowledge translation
• Technology and learning
• e-Health and telemedicine
• Aboriginal and community health 
• Community learning centres
• Interprofessional education
• Patient education
• Participatory Action Research
• PDA technology for learning
• Identity transformation