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Research in Focus: Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
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Dr. Judith Anne Dowd passed away on November 15, 2025
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Dr. Laine Bosma Appointed as the Department’s Representative in the Faculty of Medicine’s Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee (CFAC)
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Trainee Spotlight: Shams T. Osman
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Congratulations To Our Spring 2026 MSc and PhD Graduates
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Faculty Spotlight: Ilana Sebbag
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Research in Focus: Matthew Weins
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Brandon Kohlen and Ryan Loke Awarded Dr. K. Leighton Pharmacology and Therapeutics Graduate Award
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Dr. Jason Chui Awarded $250k in Seed Funding for the PRIME Program at VGH
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Faculty Spotlight: Katherine Bailey
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Janny Xue Chen Ke
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Research in Focus: Mark Ansermino
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Trainee Spotlight: Ines Zuna
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Faculty Spotlight: Brenda Lau
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Faculty Spotlight: Khaled Abdelrahman
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Introducing our 2026 Incoming R1 Residents
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Research in Focus: Ilana Sebbag
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Juliana Kruthof
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Faculty Spotlight: Pascal Bernatchez
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Nader Riahi
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Doreen Larvie
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Bethany Kondiles
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Nishadh Rathod
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Yusuke Shiraishi
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Shabnam Azimi
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Jennifer Firth-Gieben
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Akaljot Grewal
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William Yao
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Jason Chui
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Jamie Head
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Chris Pollitt
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Danielle Tinker
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Andrea Kreitz
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Jennifer Dvorak
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Eric King
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Jay Gorman
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Kimberley Li
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Rory Blackler
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Clinical Professor Dr. Hamed Umedaly Recognized for the Alumni UBC 2025-26 Alumni Builder Award
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Trainee Spotlight: Jaycee Farmer
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Trainee Spotlight: James Taylor
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Faculty Spotlight: Michael van der Westhuizen
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Research in Focus: Lynnie Correll
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Research in Focus: Donald Griesdale
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Faculty Spotlight: Navraj Chima
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Faculty Spotlight: Catrina Loucks
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Trainee Spotlight: Annabel Chapman
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Dr. John Boyd Appointed as New Associate Professor and Recipient of the Professorship in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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Research in Focus: Anshula Ambasta
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Trainee Spotlight: Wesam Farag
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Research in Focus: Janny Ke
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Faculty Spotlight: Sandy Kisilevsky
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Trainee Spotlight: Zeren Sun
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Dr. Amrit Singh appointed as new Vice Chair, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
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Research in Focus: Teresa Skelton
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Research in Focus: Matthew Turnock
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Faculty Spotlight: Wade Thompson
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Trainee Spotlight: Danielle Lessor
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John Boyd
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Congratulations to Dr. Sukhpal Brar, Clinical Assistant Professor at Royal Columbian Hospital
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Jacob Pelling
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Taylor Bucyk
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Congratulations to members of our Department who were successfully promoted as of July 1, 2025
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Dr. Wesam Farag, Postdoctoral fellow awarded a 3 year Michael Smith Health Research BC / Alzheimer Society of BC Trainee Award
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Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) Award for The Abdelrahman Lab on the role of GPCRs in Alzheimer’s Disease pathophysiology
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Congratulations to the Therapeutics Initiative Portrait team who were successfully awarded the 2025 Faculty of Medicine Award for Innovation in CME/CPD
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Dr. Terrence (Terry) Waters passed away on September 7, 2025
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Robertson Venema
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Amir Siddiqui
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Sergiy Shatenko
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Marthinus Pretorius
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Adam McIntyre-Smith
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Duncan Maguire
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Vladislav Kovalik
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Jiin Kim
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Shih-Cheh Huang
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Vivien Hu
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Cassian Horoszczak
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Rachel Guo
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Vanessa Giesbrecht
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Rosemary Earle
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Claire Broe
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Hamish Bodnar
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Simon Adamson
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Hilary Grocott
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Congratulations to members of our Department who received a CIHR Spring (2025) Project Grant!
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A new app developed and now available
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Congratulations to the “Raincity Resuscitators” Anesthesia Resident Simulation Team who won the simulation Olympics at the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland – June 20 – 22 2025
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Congratulations to Drs. Alana Flexman and Teresa Skelton who were successfully awarded research grants from the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society
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Congratulations to Dr. Helen Parker – Best Abstract Winner at the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland – June 20 – 22 2025
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Congratulations to Dr. Jason McVicar who was recognized for his achievements at the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland – June 20 – 22 2025
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Dr. Kondiles, postdoctoral fellow awarded a 2 year Craig H Neilsen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Congratulations to Dr. Chris Chin and Dr. Yvonne Csanyi-Fritz on their promotion to Clinical Professor
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Congratulations to our 2025 graduating Anesthesia Residents!
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Congratulations to our 2025 graduating Pain Medicine Residents!
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Congratulations to our 2025 graduating Family Practice Anesthesia Residents!
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Congratulations to our 2025 Pharmacology graduates
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Gregory Allen
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Congratulations to Dr. Mark Ansermino on the awarding of BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute/Institute of Global Health at BCCH – CHIPS grant