This announcement was made January 2018.

 

“Thanks to Wilson Quan, his partners & the First Response to Fashion Event for providing more than $100,000 to the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation towards research in PTSD and for your support towards this fund and collaborative, it really started there.” - John Misiaszek associate dean, research, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine.

 

When there is a crisis, most people run away, but first responders are the first to run in.

 

Approximately 20 per cent of first responders face post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in their careers. The University of Alberta’s Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine and Alberta Health Services’ Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital announced the first Military, Veterans and First Responder Rehabilitation Health Research Collaborative to serve the needs of these important groups and launch research into PTSD, operational stress injury and moral injury.

 

This initiative will provide a unique partnership between the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, University of Alberta faculties, military, veterans and first responders’ agencies, and other post-secondary institutions including NAIT, Veteran Affairs Canada and Covenant Health. The administration of this new entity will be initially sponsored by the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine.

 

“PTSD is our present crisis as rehabilitation and health-care professionals, experts and researchers. Together, we must face this ‘crisis’ and continue to work to improve research, innovation, rehabilitation and mental health for our military, veterans, first responders and their families,” - John Misiaszek.