Natasha Lane
Scientist, MSc, MD, PhD, FRCPC (Internal Medicine/Geriatrics)
Dr. Lane is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Geriatric Medicine and Internal Medicine Physician at Providence Health. She completed her PhD in Health Services Research at the University of Toronto, as a part of the combined MD/PhD program, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at ICES. She completed her medical residency training in internal medicine at the University of British Columbia, and subspeciality training in geriatrics at the University of Toronto. She holds a Master’s in Health Studies and Gerontology from the University of Waterloo.
Research Interests
- Health Services Research
- Long-term Care
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Health Equity and Quality of Older Adult Care
- Behavioural and Psychiatric Symptoms of Dementia
- Insomnia
Dr. Lane’s research focuses on older adults with depression, delirium, and dementia, and uses clinical and health administrative data to seek to improve quality of life and explore best practices in care, in both community, long-term care and hospital settings. Her current projects focus on access to specialist care in long-term care settings, minimization of the use of physical restraints for hospitalized older adults, treatment of insomnia in older adults, and management of the behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia.
Additional Affiliations
- Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
- Investigator, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging
- Core Member, UBC Centre for Aging SMART
- Assistant Professor (status), University of Toronto
- Staff Internist/Geriatrician, Providence Health Care
- Associate Editor, Canadian Geriatrics Journal
