Sandra Zelinsky is the Co-Lead with Dr. Deborah Marshall, for the IMAGINE SPOR Patient Engagement Sub-Committee. She has been working as a patient engagement researcher for the past 7 years, is a graduate of the Patient and Community Engagement Research program at the University of Calgary and is passionate about bringing the collective patient voice to health research and healthcare. She is also currently working as the Lead Patient Research Partner for the Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit, Patient Engagement Platform and is the Project Lead for the IBD Partnerships project. She has been living with Crohn’s disease for 27 years and it is her lived experience that motivates her to work in patient-oriented research.
Recent Posts
- Advancing a living evidence synthesis about the intersections between primary-care based population-health management (PHM) approaches and specialty service lines
- Digital Tools for IBS
- An innovative patient-led patient-oriented qualitative research project to understand the motivations and barriers to getting and staying involved in IMAGINE’s MAGIC study – Implementation Phase – (completed September 2020)
- Fecal Microbial Transplantation in active Ulcerative Colitis with Antibiotic Pre-treatment – Analysis Phase – October 2020
- Supporting Rapid Learning and Improvement for Select Chronic Conditions in Canada (final results completed February 2020)