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Events

  • May 2025 Rounds | Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Asmaa Anwar

    Date: Wednesday 14 May 2025
    Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

    Housing 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…

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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…

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News and Announcements

  • Lifestyle program geared at hockey fans helps improve men’s health

    Participants take part in a Hockey FIT training session. A new study led by researchers at UBC and Western University shows how a lifestyle program that taps into people’s passion for local hockey teams can help improve men’s health. The study, published in The Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine, details the main results of the Hockey Fans in Training (Hockey…

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  • Developing a Capacity Estimator (CapEs) to Support Canadian Primary Care Planning in a Time of Crisis

    Elka Humphrys and Morgan Price of the UBC Innovation Support Unit share their recent research project “Primary Care Teams Capacity Estimator”.  This study’s goal was to estimate how clinical capacity changes when different healthcare providers are embedded in primary care teams.  In this study, the team completed 7 modified Delphi sub-studies to co-develop evidence about…

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  • Green Healthcare – Collective Wellbeing for People and Planet

    Drs. Farah Shroff (UBC DFP) and Lumas Joseph Helaire (Harvard Chan School of Public Health) BackgroundAs global climate change accelerates, the crisis of species survival invites holistic ways of knowing. There is a resurgence of engagement in Indigenous spiritual wellbeing systems as part of anti-colonial liberation movements. Green collective wellbeing systems (GreenCoWell) offer opportunities to…

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  • In Memoriam: Dr. Jack Taunton

    On behalf of the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Family Practice and the Section of Sports and Exercise Medicine, it is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Jack Taunton, professor emeritus, physician, researcher and beloved colleague. His loss leaves a big hole in our sport and exercise medicine community, not…

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