Grant: Embedded Clinician Researcher Salary Award - Central Canada

Dr. Snider is an emergency physician in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and a Scientist at the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba. She has a strong track record in applying multiple methodologies to approach the chronic health problem of youth violence. In 2013, Dr. Snider launched the Emergency Department Violence Intervention program (EDVIP) study. EDVIP is a unique care program that uses a wraparound care model delivered by a support worker with lived experience with violence, assisted by a social worker and links to multiple community services. Successes are highlighted in this video: https://youtu.be/uxmns_Y-GUc. Dr. Snider uses integrated knowledge translation throughout her research to ensure that interventions are relevant to the community. She employs observational, randomized control trial as well as qualitative methodologies to understand the key risk and protective factors of youth violence and to design, implement and rigorously evaluate interventions. Dr. Snider has developed an international reputation for her research and is translating her research to policy at the World Health Organization. The CIHR Embedded Clinician Scientist Award is an ideal fit for Dr. Snider's program of research which focuses on care redesign for youth injured by violence and translating this to policies and programs that will improve the quality of care for this vulnerable population. This award would provide Dr. Snider with the protected time required as she continues to grow her research program to new areas of enquiry and mobilizes her knowledge both nationally and internationally.