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From Dr. Roanne Preston (Department head), with thanks to Dr. Umedaly for writing this tribute: It is with profound sadness that I inform you of the tragic loss of our beloved friend and respected colleague Pieter Swart on May 25th at 0530 PST.Pieter succumbed while descending below Camp 4 on Everest/ Chomolungma due to an…

I wish to take this opportunity to bring the recent successes of our graduate students to everyone’s attention: Congratulations to our trainees and we wish them all the best!. Dr. Pascal Bernatchez.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Terri Sun has been awarded an SCA/IARS Starter/Diversity and Inclusion Grant by the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) and the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).

We are very pleased to announce that Ms. Himali Bergeron-Vitez and Mr. Zeren Sun are the joint winners of the Dr Stephen Sacks Award for this year. They are recognized for receiving the highest scores in audience surveys, and also for their contributions to the seminar discussions. Congratulations to Himali and Zeren.

Congratulations to Dr. Khaled Abdelrahman who was awarded a Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional-Investigator Award to support his research focussed on The contribution of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) to impaired control of brain blood flow in Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease is a major crisis and a huge burden on healthcare system. It…

Congratulations to Dr. Anshula Ambasta who was awarded a Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional-Investigator Award to support her research focussed on Re-purposing the ordering of ‘routine’ laboratory tests in hospitalized medical patients (RePORT) Blood tests can help diagnose diseases and monitor health status. However, overuse of blood testing, particularly in hospitals, leads to…

Congratulations to Dr. Wade Thompson who was awarded a Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional-Investigator Award to support his research focused on Making medications fit for older adults:  advancing the science and implementation of deprescribing guidelines. As people age, they can end up taking many medications. Certain medications might have made sense when they…

We would like to congratulate  two of our BSc Pharmacology students who have just being awarded UBC’s Wesbrook Scholar Awards (2022-23).  “The Premier Undergraduate Scholarships and Wesbrook Scholars are UBC’s most prestigious designations given to senior students with outstanding academic performance, leadership, and involvement in student and community activities. Awards range from 20 Wesbrook Scholar designations each worth…

Congratulations to Dr. Pascal Bernatchez and team on the successful renewal of their University of British Columbia Research Excellence Cluster – The UBC Advanced Angiotensin Therapeutics Network.  Initially funding in 2022/2023 as a new emerging cluster, this unit has now been renewed.  Research Excellence Clusters are interdisciplinary networks of researchers addressing societal and cultural problems,…

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Ansermino and team on the successful renewal of their University of British Columbia Research Excellence Cluster – Action in Sepsis.  Initially funding in 2020/2021 as a new emerging cluster, this unit has now been renewed for an additional 2 year period as an Established Cluster.  Research Excellence Clusters are interdisciplinary networks…

Congratulations to Fatemeh Aminazadeh (PhD student in Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett’s laboratory) who was awarded a 1 year Canadian Lung Association / CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health Research Studentship to support her research project entitled “The contribution of sex differences to small airways disease in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)”.

Congratulations to Dr. Gillian Goobie (Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett’s laboratory) who was awarded a 1 year Canadian Lung Association Post-doctoral Fellowship to support her research project entitled “Air pollution as a modulator of molecular, structural and clinical outcomes in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease ” A lay summary can be found –…

Congratulations to Dr. Gillian Goobie (Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett’s laboratory) who was awarded a 3 year Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Fellowship to support her research project entitled “Air pollution as a modulator of molecular, structural and clinical outcomes in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease ” A lay summary can be…

Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Wiens, Assistant Professor who was recently awarded a 5 year Canadian Institutes of Health Project Grant valued at $1,526.175 to support his research project entitled “Smart Discharges in children over 5:  Expanding a personalized public health approach to improving discharge care in resource limited settings” A lay summary: In resource-limited countries,…

Video recording can be found here.

For more information, please see link under Faculty Development section with red highlight.

Full Department Meeting presentation can be found here. UBC Workplace Experiences Survey 2021 results can be found here.  

Dr. Pillay, postdoctoral fellow awarded a 3 year Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee Award: Postdoctoral Fellowship Congratulations to Dr. Yashodani Pillay (Postdoctoral Fellow in Drs. Matthew Wiens and Mark Ansermino’s laboratories) who was awarded a 3 year Michael Smith Health Research BC Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her research project entitled “ Smart discharges…

Dr. Kyriakis, postdoctoral fellow awarded a 3 year Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee Award: Postdoctoral Fellowship Congratulations to Dr. Efthymios Kyriakis (Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. David Fedida’s laboratory) who was awarded a 3 year Michael Smith Health Research BC Postdoctoral Fellowship to support his research project entitled “ Cryo-EM studies of activators and…

It is with profound sadness, mixed with a degree of disbelief, that we have to share the devastating news of the death of Dr Lindsay Rawling, friend, colleague and staff anesthesiologist at BC Children’s Hospital. Lindsay trained in the UK and first came to BCCH as a Clinical Fellow in 2014. She returned to join…