ADAPT Collaboratory
Building perioperative resilience in a changing planet
ADAPT acronym
Advancements and Data science to Address Planetary perioperative Threats
Mission
We study the impact of emerging environmental hazards (including climate change and extreme weather events) on outcomes and care delivery for patients undergoing surgeries. We integrate these insights into patient-centred healthcare redesign to improve outcomes and strengthen health system resilience.
Principal Investigator
Janny Xue Chen Ke, MD MSc FRCPC
Dr. Janny Ke is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at The University of British Columbia (UBC), an anesthesiologist at Providence Health Care in Vancouver, BC, and an adjunct member of the Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine at Dalhousie University. She completed medical school at UBC, anesthesiology residency at Dalhousie University, and Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research interests include understanding the impact of extreme weather and climate change on perioperative outcomes, predicting and monitoring for complications after surgery at a population level, and use and evaluation of artificial intelligence in clinical research and patient care.
Publications: please visit ORCID and Web of Science.
Funders
Project: Multidisciplinary consensus of impact and mitigation strategies of climate change on healthcare delivery: a national modified Delphi study
2026 UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective Climate Catalyst Award – Knowledge Translation Stream
Project: Understanding the relationship between extreme heat and patient-centred outcomes and experiences after surgery
2026 Providence Health Care Planetary Health Funding Award
Project: Association between wildfire smoke exposure and emergency room visit, readmission, and death after major inpatient surgeries: a retrospective population cohort study
2023 UBC Faculty of Medicine New Faculty Research Award
Dr. Ke gratefully acknowledges research support from the Providence Health Care Department of Anesthesia.
Land acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge that we live and learn in the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.