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Number of Visitors
since May 31, 2007: 274355 |
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Room 679, 6th floor, Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building
University of Toronto
144 College Street
Toronto Ontario M5S 3M2
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416-946-3696 |
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416-946-3719 |
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wendong.chen@theta.utoronto.ca |
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| Biography | |
Wendong Chen graduated from the NCRTP-HepC in December 2009. He is currently involved in several international initiatives to estimate the burden of major chronic diseases both in China and Canada. In addition, he has been invited to participate a World Bank funded study to develop approaches to correct the overuse of health resources in the rural area of China. In Canada, he continues to work on the solutions to reduce the disease burden of chronic HCV among immigrants living in Canada. |
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| Testimony | |
National Canadian Research Training Program for hepatitis C provides me not only the financial support but also a comprehensive network for hepatitis C research from basic science to clinical practice. The greatest benefits to be a trainee in this program could be summarized as:
1. The comprehensive hepatitis C course has projected a whole story about hepatitis C and a fundamental base for the hepatitis C research. This is extremely helpful for me to formulate my research question to match up the current needs in managing patients and hepatitis C related health care policymaking.
2. The annual conference provides opportunities to improve presentation skills, research experience exchange, potential collaboration, and brainstorm for new thoughts.
3. The website of the training program provides an excellent platform for journal club, research update, exchanges between trainees, and funding resources. Furthermore, the website also provides the window to let the public know our research.
4. Elective training out of the home department is unique and important for trainee to understand the research activities outside. It creates opportunities for trainee to establish collaboration for future research or formulate the future employment.
5. The clinical observation provides the trainee to have direct contact with real patients that could strengthen the understanding the disease and stimulate the mind to formulate potential research idea to meet the needs from physicians and patients in managing the disease.
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| Mentor(s) | | Murray Krahn (primary)
Jenny Heathcote (secondary) | | |
| Disciplines | |
hepatitis C, epidemiology, health economics, health policy. |
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