Events
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June 2025 Rounds | Dr. Ilona Hale
Date: Wednesday 18 June 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific Time, Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific Time, Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeBringing Environmental Sustainability to Research
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May 2025 Rounds | Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Asmaa Anwar
Date: Wednesday 14 May 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeHousing Is Healthcare: Equity In Access For All Residents
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April 2025 Rounds | Dr. Robert Petrella
Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with our department head, Dr. Robert Petrella! Sport Fandom as an Engagement Innovation in Hard-to-Reach Populations: A Cluster RCT to Evaluate a Community-Based Health Behaviour Change Intervention Date: Wednesday 16 April 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeLocation: Zoom Talk Abstract Obesity is a relapsing, progressive chronic…
News and Announcements
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Dr. Nichole Fairbrother Wins PWHR Mid-Career Excellence in Women’s Health Research Award
Dr. Nichole Fairbrother’s work is transforming how we screen, understand, and support perinatal mental health. Learn more about her work and those of other award winners here.
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Beyond the Clinic Walls: UBC Students Experience Rural Medicine and Community Life
Launched as part of the Rural Education Action Plan (REAP), the Rural Medicine Community Experience gives pre-clerkship medical students a rare opportunity to shadow rural family physicians and see first-hand what life and work look like in rural British Columbia. Learn about student experiences in rural medicine. Article and image via RCCbc.
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How Rural Hospitals Could Cut BC’s Surgery Wait Times
Performing minor surgeries in rural hospitals could help improve the provincial surgery backlog without cutting corners on the quality of health care, says Dr. Jude Kornelsen (UBC Department of Family Practice, Centre for Rural Health Research). Article and image via The Tyee.
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From Clinical Practice to Research: an Interview with Dr. Wendy V. Norman
Learn about Dr. Wendy Norman’s journey from rural family physician to internationally celebrated researcher, and the DFP Clinician Scholar Program that helped her along the way.