Maria Hubinette
MD, CCFP, MMEd, FCFP
Department of Family Practice
3rd Floor David Strangway Building
5950 University Boulevard
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z3
maria.hubinette@ubc.ca
Dr. Maria Hubinette is a community-based family physician with a special interest in youth and women’s health, including survivors of gender-based and sexualized violence. Her clinical practice serves as a constant reminder of why we do what we do in health professions education. She is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Practice at UBC and a Scholar at the UBC Centre for Health Education Scholarship. Dr. Hubinette has the honour of being the first Canfield Distinguished scholar in Patient Partnerships and holds research support funding through the Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional Investigator Program. Dr. Hubinette is the former Family Medicine Undergraduate Program Director at UBC and former Assistant Dean, Equity Diversity Inclusion for the UBC Faculty of Medicine. She is the past Chair of the Undergraduate Education Committee at the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
Dr. Hubinette’s scholarly and professional activity focuses on equity and diversity, health advocacy, social accountability of the medical profession, and professional identity formation of learners. Dr. Hubinette also enjoys engaging in teaching, mentorship and supervision of scholarly projects with medical students, family medicine residents and clinical education fellows.
Outside of the office, Dr Hubinette enjoys cruising the coastal waters aboard her sailboat, Dengue (yes, as in the fever) and spending time with friends and family.