interRAI Fellow Andrew Costa Awarded Prestigious Canada Research Chair in Integrated Care for Seniors
March 15, 2024
interRAI is proud to announce that interRAI Fellow Andrew Costa has received the prestigious honor of appointment as the Canada Research Chair in Integrated Care for Seniors. Costa is an associate professor and Schlegel Research Chair in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact and the research lead at the DeGroote School of Medicine at the University of Waterloo Regional Campus.
“I am honoured to be nominated and awarded a Canada Research Chair in Integrated Care for Seniors. The chair will help me and my team to expand important initiatives that will help align our health system with the rapid demographic shift taking place,” Costa says.
The Canada Research Chairs program attracts and retains a diverse cadre of world-class researchers to reinforce academic research and training excellence in Canadian postsecondary institutions. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences. They improve our depth of knowledge and quality of life, strengthen Canada’s international competitiveness, and help train the next generation of highly skilled people through student supervision, teaching, and the coordination of other researchers’ work.