The Ontario Tobacco Network contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to design, implement and report on an evaluation of the Ontario Tobacco Network .

Working with Dr Ken Allison to design, implement and report on a needs assessment of the Youth Advocacy Training Institute, on behalf of the Ontario Lung Association.

Working with the Alberta Cancer Board  to design, implement and report on a community-based weight loss study.

The Public Health Agency of Canada contracts with PICEPS to help in the development of guidelines to measure the performance of cervical cancer screening programs.

The Canadian Cancer Society - Ontario Division engages PICEPS to assist with the development of a policy paper on artificial tanning.

The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer contracts with PICEPS to undertake a review of the literature on breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening to create guidelines for  performance measurement of cancer screening.

The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre contracts with PICEPS to plan, facilitate and report on a full-day retreat to design an integrated psychosocial oncology program for the hospital.

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) contracts with the Health Promotion Consulting Group to update a best practices review of nutrition interventions conducted by HPCG in 2000, and to expand the review to include best practices for physical activity interventions for cancer and chronic disease prevention..  PICEPS is asked to assist with the review.

Cancer Care Ontario extends agreement with PICEPS Consultants, Inc., through to September 2007 to assist with provincial cohort research platform design.

Canadian Partnership Against Cancer contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to help plan, implement and report on a workshop to develop guidelines for synoptic reporting tools in cancer surgery and pathology.

PICEPS completes and submits report on the evaluation of the Canadian Network of Smokers' Helplines.

Cancer Care Nova Scotia (CCNS) has awarded Harry Cummings & Associates (HCA) a contract to develop an evaluation framework for CCNS's cancer management guidelines.  HCA has asked PICEPS (Dr Fred Ashbury) to assist with this important initiative.

Canadian Network of Smokers' Helpline contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to evaluate its 2006 program experience.

Canadian Breast Cancer Network (CBCN) contracts with the Health Promotion Consulting Group to review its community-based Model for National Collaboration and create plain language tools to increase awareness and use of the Model by those working in breast cancer, cancer and other health care sectors.  PICEPS is requested to assist with the evaluation of the model.

Campaign to Control Cancer engages PICEPS Consultants, Inc., to design and implement a national leadership consultation on cancer control plans and priorities, in response to the launch of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.

Cancer Care Ontario contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to help develop provincial cohort research platform.

Results of Ontario Quit Smoking (2002) Contest program evaluation published in Chronic Diseases in Canada, Vol 27(2):81-88.

Chronic Diseases in Canada (Vol 27(2)) publishes the report of the Ontario Cancer Cohort Planning Workshop held in Toronto, Ontario.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research provides proposal development grant for a youth cancer cohort study.

Presentation on Quality Assurance in Health Care: Strategies & Measurement to College of Optometrists of Ontario at strategic planning retreat.

PICEPS facilitates strategic workshop to develop an Ontario Cancer Cohort research platform at the request of Cancer Care Ontario , held in Toronto, Ontario.

Cancer Quality Council of Ontario asks Dr Fred Ashbury to facilitate strategic planning workshop for palliative care in Ontario.

Cancer Care Ontario Division of Preventive Oncology asks PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to help plan and facilitate 2006 strategic retreat to identify research directions.

Ontario College of Optometrists asks Dr Fred Ashbury to present on "provider behavior change" at strategic retreat.

CAREpath Inc. (the "cancer assistance program") contracts with PICEPS Consultants Inc. through November 30, 2006 to develop and implement a not-for-profit research institute to focus on cancer in the workplace.  Dr Fred Ashbury to direct initiative.

Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initaitive contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to assist with the development of an evaluation framework for program dissemination.

Physician Services Committee Secretariat, a joint partnership of the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to help with the evaluation of the Northern Physician Retention Initiative.

Ontario Medical Association contracts with PICEPS to help develop physician survey research tools.

Dr Fred Ashbury is pleased to announce that Dr Ken Allison joins PICEPS as a Research Consultant.

Cancer Care Ontario contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to help plan and facilitate 2005 Surgical Oncology Retreat.

Bridgesite Clinical Research, Inc. of Ohio extends agreement with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to develop and implement oncology clinical trials networks through August 2006.

Oncology Metrics, a leading provider of oncology knowledge products based in Fort Worth, Texas, contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to design, implement and report on oncology practice-based interventions and performance measurement systems.

Cancer Care Ontario contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to facilitate two-day workshop (Feb 1/2) on Occupational Cancer Surveillance, held in Toronto, Ontario.

Workplace Safety & Insurance Board requests Dr Fred Ashbury to be an external reviewer on research grant applications.

National Cancer Leadership Forum contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to help design content for public access cancer information website.

Ontario Quit Smoking (2005) Contest Planning Team contracts with PICEPS to evaluate 2004 contest.

Ottawa Hospital asks PICEPS to facilitate one-day retreat to develop recommendations for the reorganization of palliative care delivery.

Candlelighters , The Childhood Cancer Foundation, appoints Dr Fred Ashbury as member of Board of Directors.

Bridgesite Clinical Research, Inc. of Ohio extends agreement with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to develop and implement oncology clinical trials networks.

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation - Ontario Division issues contract to Health Promotion Consulting Group and PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to design, implement and report on a study investigating the experiences and needs of Ontario women and other key stakeholders in the breast health/breast cancer community.  

Inbalance (Germany) contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. for workplace health initiative.

Cancer Care Ontario publishes final report on Cancer Quality Council of Ontario Roundtable for Waiting Times Measure, prepared by Dr Fred Ashbury (PICEPS), Helen Angus (CQCO) and Dr William Mackillop (Queen's Cancer Research Institute): Cancer Quality Council of Ontario Roundtable Final Report on Wait Times Measurement

Cancer Quality Council of Ontario contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to facilitate and report on a roundtable to discuss strategies to reduce wait times for cancer care services in Ontario.

Dr Fred Ashbury receives recognition award from the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology for "outstanding service and commitment" to the board over the past 10 years.

In collaboration with Bridgesite Clinical Research, Inc., Headminder  and Dr Timothy Moore of Mid-Ohio Oncology/Hematology, Inc ., Dr Fred Ashbury, President of PICEPS Consultants, Inc. is co-principal investigator with Dr Moore on a pilot project in which cancer patients are randomized to receive an intervention to ameliorate the effects of chemotherapy on cognition.

Mid-Ohio Oncology Hematology, Inc . contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to facilitate needs assessment to expand cancer services.  

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., world leader in the design and manufacture of integrated systems and software to deliver radiation therapy acquires the oncology assets of OpTx Corporation and assumes the contract of PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to develop, implement and monitor oncology data licence agreements.

A paper entitled, "A model of collaborative health care delivery between chiropractors and physicians in primary care reform", was presented at the Association of Chiropractic Colleges-Research Agenda Conference, "Best Practices", in Las Vegas, Nevada by Drs S Mior, J Barnsley, F Ashbury, H Boon, R Haig and H Abeygunawardena.

The Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care Ontario, contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to publish reports of the Ontario Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Survey.

A poster entitled, “A single pegfilgrastim dose per cycle supports dose-dense (q14d) CHOP-R in patients with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma”, was presented at the December meeting of the American Society of Hematology in San Diego, California.  The authors included:  Moore TD, Patel T, Segal ML, Zangmeister J, Chidiac TA, Roach RW, Thompson ME, Merriman N, Larrimer NR, Maher J, Christensen R, Ashbury FD.

Ontario Quit Smoking Contest team contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to design, implement and report on a one-year evaluation of 2002 contest participants.

Bridgesite Clinical Research, Inc ., a leading oncology clinical trials research network, enters into agreement with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to facilitate the design, implementation of oncology clinical research.

PICEPS Consultants, Inc. enters into four-year agreement with OpTx Corporation , an electronic medical record software company, to sell data licence agreements based on the OpTx data warehouse.

Canadian Institutes for Health Research funds $1.5 million multi-year nutriton intervention study submitted by Drs David Jenkins (University of Toronto), Nancy Kreiger (Cancer Care Ontario and University of Toronto), Ahmed El-Sohemy (University of Toronto), Neil Klar (Cancer Care Ontario and University of Toronto) and Fred Ashbury (PICEPS Consultants, Inc., and University of Toronto).

Cancer Care Ontario's Surgical Oncology Program contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to develop and facilitate a strategic planning retreat to guide program design.

NORTH Network contracts PICEPS Consultants to design, implement and report on key components of the evaluation of the telemedicine program.

Dr Peter Raich received funding from the Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Program for Medically Underserved Women, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to support a part-time clinical research associate to coordinate cooperative group clinical trials at the Denver Health Medical Centre.

Pegasus Healthcare International contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to advise on health education and awareness programs directed at healthcare professionals, including program design and evaluation.

The Canadian Health Network (Health Canada) contracts PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to evaluate the CHN and identify recommendations for ongoing evaluation of the network.

Dr Peter Raich is participating as a co-investigator on a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, entitled, "Return to work in cancer survivors: a pilot study".  The purpose of this project is to assess adult cancer survivors for domains that are salient to their decision to return to work and to work outcomes.

A poster prepared by Drs Iverson, Ashbury, Thompson, Dugan and Ms. Rothman, entitled, Use of quality indicators to improve medical oncology practice” was presented at the European Cancer Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. 

Dr Fred Ashbury, with Drs Donald Iverson and Peter Raich, and Ms. Rachel Rothman, presented a poster at the European Cancer Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, entitled, “Patterns of symptom identification and response in a community-based oncology practice."

OpTx Corporation , an oncology software provider, contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to develop and implement a clinical research and outcomes measurement system for OpTx and OpTx clients.

Smartrisk, a national non-profit organization dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives, contracts PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to design, implement and report on a needs assessment to facilitate its Data Applications Working Group.

Dr Peter Raich receives a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Program (NSABP).  The goal of this grant is to guide and develop cancer control clinical trial activities of the NASBP cooperative group.  Dr Raich is Chair of this newly formed "Cancer Control Committee," charged to developand implement cancer control clinical trials appropriate for the membership of NSABP.

Dr Peter Raich is a co-investigator on a study funded by the Department of Defense (US) to develop an interactive CD-ROM intervention for prostate cancer screening and test its effectiveness in a large, group-model HMO.

The Office of Health and the Information Highway, Health Canada, contracts PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to survey Canada E-Health Conference participants knowledge of, attitudes towards, and plans/actions regarding information and communication technology to facilitate program design and policy.

Pan American Health Organization of the World Health Organization contracts PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to identify key world experts in cancer screening and to develop and facilitate a workshop in which these experts review, discuss and advise on a strategy for the design and implementation of cervical cancer screening information systems in developing countries.

Health Promotion Consulting Group and PICEPS Consultants, Inc. complete a review of nutrition interventions to develop a vegetable fruit behaviour change pilot program in Ontario under contract to Cancer Care Ontario.  The results of the review are available from: http://www.cancercare.on.ca/prevention/Report%20Final%20-%20Nutrition%20Review.pdf.

The Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College contracts the services of PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to assess faculty research strengths, identify funding opportunities and create a strategic plan for a sustainable research initiative within the college.

Cancer Care Ontario contracts PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to design and facilitate a workshop on physical activity and cancer prevention, the purpose of which will be to identify priorities for research, programs and policies.

Health Promotion Consulting Group and PICEPS Consultants Inc. were successful bidders to review nutrition interventions to develop a provincial program under contract to Cancer Care Ontario.

Dr Fred Ashbury was invited to present on the topic, “Physician behaviour change strategies” at the International Workshop on Anti-microbial Resistance, held in Vancouver, BC April 22, 1999.

Dr. Fred Ashbury, presented “Linking Behavioural Research and Clinical Trials Studies:  Opportunities & Lessons Learned” at the Joint Meeting of the Sociobehavioural Cancer Research Network and Clinical Trials Group, National Cancer Institute of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, March, 1999.

PICEPS Consultants, Inc. participates on the research team to support the "Canadian Agenda for Research in Palliative Care".  Results of the initiative are available from: http://www.chpca.net/initiatives/Canadian_Research_Agenda.PDF.

Health Canada contracts PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to prepare a review of scientific literature that describes the current evidence for transmitting health information guidelines to underserved populations.

Cancer Care Ontario contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to help in the development of a survey to measure sun exposure.

Health and Community Services Western, Newfoundland, signs three-year contract with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to facilitate evaluation of cervical cancer screening project.

Centre for Child Community Health Research, University of British Columbia, contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to help design and facilitate a two-day national workshop to identify measurement strategies for sun-protective behaviours.

Health Canada contracts with PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to develop an evaluation framework for a two-city pilot project on physician communication skills.

Ontario Medical Association contracts PICEPS Consultants, Inc. to help with the development of survey of Ontario physician practice patterns.

The results of the National Cancer Institute of Canada “Opinion Survey on Cancer Staging” were presented at the 17^th International Cancer Congress of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland (Abstract published in the conference proceedings), August, 1998, by Drs. Mary Gospodarowicz, Brian O’Sullivan, Fred Ashbury, Boris Kralj, and Elizabeth Kaegi.

CAN-AM Health Concepts of Denver, Colorado, enters into two-year agreement with PICEPS Consultants, Inc., to support the development and evaluation of an employee assistance program in chronic disease risk reduction.