Upcoming Events
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May 2025 Rounds | Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Asmaa Anwar
Housing Is Healthcare: Equity In Access For All Residents Date: Wednesday 14 May 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeLocation: Zoom Talk Abstract Inequities exist within Canada’s public healthcare system, including geographic disparities that impact access to care. In British Columbia, patients who need highly specialized care must access their treatment in the Lower Mainland.…
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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…
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February 2025 Rounds | Dr. Nisha Malhotra and Dr. Ruvini Amarasekera
Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with Nisha Malhotra (The Birthplace Lab) and Ruvini Amarasekera (R2, St. Paul’s Hospital) Date: Wednesday 26 February 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific TimeTitle 1: Healthcare Disparities in Canada: Examining the Role of Socio-Economic Status and Identity Factors (12:00 – 12:55)Title 2: Embedding Indigenous Ways of Knowing…
News and Announcements
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April Cedar Award: Jordan Christmas
The Department would like to recognize Jordan Christmas for the April Cedar Award. Jordan is the administrative coordinator, a role in which she is hugely supportive to department members.
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Hamideh Bayrampour Among Faculty Research Award Winners 2022
The award recognizes early-career researchers ready to launch the next stage of their careers.
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March Cedar Award: Vera Maesen
Vera Maesen is a self-described mother of three, wife, and cyclist, and the undergraduate program manager for the Department of Family Practice. She joined the Faculty of Medicine as an assessment coordinator in 2018 and then took on an interim assignment as the case-based learning manager.
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Six Faculty of Medicine Members Recognized with 2023 CAME Awards
Originally published by the UBC Faculty of Medicine Six UBC faculty of medicine members have been recognized by the Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) 2023 Certificate of Merit Awards and Rising Star — Certificate of Excellence Awards. Certificate of Merit recipients The CAME Certificate of Merit Award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution…
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Graduating More Midwives for BC
UBC will graduate more midwives to provide care for B.C. families, thanks to an increase in midwifery program seats announced by the Government of B.C. The expansion adds 20 new seats to UBC’s midwifery program, bringing the total annual intake to 48. This includes 12 new seats in the bachelor of midwifery program, and eight new seats in…