Grace Sonja Lew

Biography

“Leadership is... your passion for excellence and making a difference." - Robin Sharma

Dedicated to finding the root causes and solutions to health and development issues, Grace is an avid researcher in the geriatrics sector, more specifically focusing on palliative care and issues regarding Medical Assistance in Dying. She hopes to continue this passion of hers by going into global health and international development by pursuing a Masters in these two areas abroad in the UK. Building off of her economics background and passion for monetary matters, she is also the Vice-President of Finance of both the Adolescent Sexual Violence Prevention Society and Health and Society Scholar's Club. In addition to her extracurricular activities, Grace is a wrestler for the U of C Dinos and is a competitive student-athlete that also represents the wrestling team at U of C's Student-Athlete Committee (SAC) and is the SAC representative for all Dinos Athletics teams at the Active Living Athletics Committee where she champions for Dinos student-athletes' voices. Overall in the long-term, after training for the 2024 and possibly 2028 Olympic cycle for wrestling, Grace hopes to obtain her Masters in International Development and Global Health and pursue further education in hopes of working for an international organization in global health policy. There, she hopes to better the economic and health conditions of developing countries by focusing on development factors such as healthcare for older-aged adults as well as human and animal rights.

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Publications

• Mele B., Ismail Z., Goodarzi Z., Pringsheim T., Lew G., & Holroyd-Leduc J. (2020) Non-pharmacologic interventions to treat apathy in Parkinson's disease: A Realist Review. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders: Clinical Practice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prdoa.2021.100096

• Mele, B., Watt, J., Wu, P., Azeem, F., Lew, G., Holroyd–Leduc, J., & Goodarzi, Z. (2022). Detecting depression in persons living in long-term care: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies. Age and Ageing, 51(3), afac039.

• Mele B., Holroyd-Leduc J., Goodarzi Z., Pringsheim T., Lew G., & Ismail Z. (2020) Screening for Apathy in Parkinson’s Disease: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis. Submitted to the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry September 2020.

• Mele B., Lew G., Holroyd-Leduc J., Pringsheim T., Ismail Z., & Goodarzi Z. (2021) Pharmacologic Treatment of Apathy in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review. Submitted to Neurology January 2021.
  
  CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• A Collaborative Care Model to Improve Care for Older Adults Seeking Emergency Care; Implementation of Geriatric Emergency Nurses in Alberta Emergency Departments- Supervisor: Dr. Zahra Goodarzi

• Starting Conversations Early: Helping Patients and Their Family and Friend Caregivers Plan For Medical Assistance in Dying- Supervisor: Dr. Zahra Goodarzi

Awards

• 2022 Provincial Seniors Health and Continuing Care Undergraduate Summer Studentship Competition for requested amount (Declined)
• 2022 O'Brien Centre Summer Studentship (OCSS) for requested amount
• 2022 Emergency Strategic Clinical Network Summer Studentship Award (ESCN-SSA) for requested amount (Declined)
• 2021 Canadian Frailty Network (CFN) Summer Student Award for requested amount
• 2021 Emergency Strategic Clinical Network Summer Studentship Award (ESCN-SSA) for requested amount (Declined)
• 2021 O'Brien Centre Summer Studentship (OCSS) for requested amount (Declined)
• 2021 Provincial Seniors Health and Continuing Care Undergraduate Summer Studentship Competition for requested amount (Declined)
• 2020 O'Brien Centre Summer Studentship (OCSS) for requested amount
• All-Academic Canadian for 2020-2021 academic year
• All-Academic Canadian for 2019-2020 academic year
• 2021-2022 EFW Radiology Student Award Scholarship
• 2020-2021 EFW Radiology Student Award Scholarship
• 2022 Alberta Athletic Award Women’s Wrestling
• 2021 Alberta Athletic Award Women’s Wrestling
• 2020 Alberta Athletic Award Women’s Wrestling
• University of Calgary Wrestling Scholarship 2022-2023
• University of Calgary Wrestling Scholarship 2021-2022
• University of Calgary Wrestling Scholarship 2020-2021
• University of Calgary Wrestling Scholarship 2019-2020
• Jason Lang Scholarship Award for 2021-2022 academic year
• Jason Lang Scholarship Award for 2020-2021 academic year
• Valedictorian for National Sport School’s High School Graduating Class of 2019