APT’s 19th ANNUAL RESEARCH DAY 2025
The APT Research Day is our annual event to showcase the Research excellence of fellows and trainees. We encourage presentations in all areas of scholarship, including research, quality improvement, education, and administration. We welcome scholarship that explores and seeks to inform Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. APT Research Day also hosts our annual Dr. Jean Templeton Hugill Memorial Lecture and the Emerging Faculty Invited Lecturer.
This year’s speakers are Dr. Louise McCullough (Dr. Jean Templeton Hugill Memorial Lecturer, Professor and Chair, Neurology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth), and Dr. Anshula Ambasta (Emerging Faculty Invited Lecturer Assistant Professor, APT UBC).
The event will take place at BCCHR – Chan Lecture Theatre, Room 2111, on May 28, 2025
IMPORTANT DATES:
Event Date: May 28, 2025
Abstract Submission deadline: March 28, 2025 at 5.00 PM
Confirmed Speakers
Dr. Louise McCullough is the Roy M. and Phyllis Gough Huffington Distinguished Chair and Professor of Neurology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. She is a physician-scientist and a practicing vascular neurologist with clinical expertise in sex/gender disparities, the icrobiome, stroke and aging, and acute stroke treatments. A renowned investigator, she is well recognized for her work in cerebral vascular disease and is known for her research identifying sex differences in cell death pathways during stroke, which have now been shown to be a major factor in the response to an ischemic insult. Working closely
with the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) and the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), she was instrumental in the National Institute of Health’s requirement to include female animals in basic and translational studies.
Dr. Anshula Ambasta is a general internal medicine physician, an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesia, Pharmacology and Therapeutics at UBC’s faculty of medicine, and a member of the Therapeutics Initiative. She is an early career researcher who earned a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness. Her research focuses on improving the value of healthcare services using evidence-based implementation strategies. Anshula has been awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant to Re-Purpose the Ordering of Routine laboratory Tests in hospitalized medical patients (RePORT), using multi-modal evidence-based de-implementation strategies across 30 hospitals in British Columbia and Alberta.
Organizing Committee
Dr. Donald Griesdale
On behalf of the Research Day Organizing Committee
Dr. John (Kip) Kramer
On behalf of the Research Day Organizing Committee
Dr. Alana Flexman
Vice-Chair EDI UBC Department of APT