Congratulations to Dr. Hamed Umedaly for being awarded a 2025-26 Alumni Builder Award!

Created in 2017 as part of the 100th year of alumni UBC, the Alumni Builder Awards recognize a cross-section of alumni representing both campuses who have significantly contributed to the university and enriched the lives of others, and in doing so, have supported alumni UBC’s vision of a global alumni community for an exceptional UBC and a better world. We are proud to honour this year’s Alumni Builder Awards recipients whose generous contributions have been recognized by their UBC faculty. 

Recently recognized with an Alumni Builder Award, Dr. Hamed Umedaly has shown exceptional commitment to UBC and the medical community through decades of volunteerism, philanthropy, and global health service. As a clinical professor and long-serving anesthesiologist at VGH and UBC hospitals, he led VGH’s Anesthesiology Department and has earned multiple UBC teaching awards. His involvement spans from supporting the Medical Student and Alumni Centre to nearly a decade on the UBC Medical Alumni Association Board, where he served as treasurer and later president. Internationally, his 20-year effort advancing anesthesiology training in Uganda through a UBC-led program with international universities reflects his lifelong dedication to improving global health care.