Dr. Linzi Williamson is awarded a CIHR POR Transition to Leadership Award!

SCPOR is delighted to celebrate the success of Dr. Linzi Williamson, Post-Doctoral Trainee, on her Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Patient-Oriented Research Transition to Leadership award! SCPOR has supported Dr. Williamson in two research endeavors; her doctoral degree project “Examining the Stigma and Stereotypes Related to Involuntarily Childless Women Using the Stereotype Content Model and Weiner’s Attribution Affect Action Model”, and a second on-going post-doctoral project “Assessing the Effects of Therapy and Service Dogs in Individual Well-Being”.

Linzi’s research exemplifies patient engaged research as she empowers patients to take an active role in the research process. An excellent example of this is the Knowledge Translation event she cohosted with a patient partner at the Saskatchewan Research Day in 2019. Linzi and her patient partner presented their team’s preliminary results on “A pilot test of the effect of psychiatric service dogs on PTSD symptoms and problematic substance use among a sample of Canadian Veterans” to health researchers across the province. As part of her SCPOR traineeship, Linzi has demonstrated her ability to successfully prioritize patient engagement while maintaining scientific rigour in her studies. We believe that Linzi will serve as an excellent patient-oriented research mentor as she pursues her CIHR award and furthers her patient-oriented research career.

On behalf of SCPOR, congratulations Linzi!