Drs. Scott Garrison and Fangwei Lui
Dr. Fangwei Liu was nominated and successful in obtaining the CFPC Research Award for Family Medicine Residents. Dr. Liu, supervised by Dr. Scott Garrison, used Google Trends search engine to see if there was a higher prevalence of google searches related to ankle swelling during the summer months. He published the results of his findings in Annals of Family Medicine .
We applaud Dr. Liu and Dr. Garrison for their excellent work and the further development of a novel methodology to help us to better understand disease seasonality.
A story about this research was one of the top ten most viewed stories on the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry website in 2016!