Dr. Andrew Kestler is an emergency physician at St. Paul’s and Vancouver General Hospitals in Vancouver, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. He has additional training in healthcare administration, public health, and tropical medicine.
His current research, public health efforts and quality improvement projects focus on emergency-department interventions for patients with opioid use, at the local, regional and national levels.
Read Less Read MoreDr. Kestler is the Vancouver Coastal Health Regional Emergency Department Addictions Lead and a leadership group member of an implementation science program at the CIHR-funded Canadian Research Initiative on Subtance Misuse (CRISM).
Why do people discharged from hospital after alcohol withdrawal often return within a week? Dr. Frank Scheuermeyer aims to find out.
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While people understood public health guidelines, they did not adhere to them, citing need for food, medication & fresh air
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Dr. Andrew Kestler is involved in a new study interviewing people with opioid use disorder to understand their perspectives of the pandemic
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