Costa, Vanstone appointed Canada Research Chairs

Andrew Costa

Andrew Costa and Meredith Vanstone have each been appointed Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs, with extendable terms running until March, 2028. The Chairs were awarded last spring but only just formally announced.

Costa was named Canada Research Chair in Integrated Care for Seniors, which will enable him to continue to build interdisciplinary research programs to impact the health and well-being of older adults across care settings. His research programs have already made important contributions to seniors’ policy, care practices, and recently infectious disease practice and policy. Costa, who is also a Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging, says the Research Chair “will help me and my team expand important initiatives that will help align our health system with the rapid demographic shift taking place.”

Vanstone was appointed Canada Research Chair in Ethical Complexity in Primary Care. She studies several different kinds of healthcare “ethical complexity,” which occurs in medical encounters which provoke uncertainty, dilemma, or distress in the patient, clinician, or both.

Primary care providers are the first point of contact for patients. When a diagnosis is uncertain or when no effective cure is possible, primary care providers are there to assist patients in the community manage their symptoms and circumstances, and to help them cope with the impacts of health challenges on other aspects of their life. “Primary care providers, therefore, address many health issues for which there is no clear evidence, or for which evidence is not the main decision determinant. One of the hallmarks of high quality primary care is the provider’s ability to manage uncertainty and complexity.”

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