Congratulations to Dr. Anshula Ambasta who was recently awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant from the Spring 2025 competition.

Dr. Anshula Ambasta, Assistant Professor – was recently awarded a 3-year Canadian Institutes of Health Project Grant valued at $416,924 to support her project entitled “People with Prediabetes and Mild Diabetes:  management and outcome (PPreMild DM Study).”. 

Dr Alana Flexman – Clinical Associate Professor

BCAS Dr Pieter Swart Perioperative research award – $10,000

RESPonsive Nature-Driven Imagery to Reduce Delirium afTEr Cardiac Surgery: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (RESPITE Trial)

Dr Teresa Skelton – Clinical Associate Professor

Perioperative Blood Management Research Award (PBM) – $20,000

Nutritional optimization in pediatric varus-derotational osteotomy: an observational pilot study investigating the impact of perioperative management of iron deficiency anemia on surgical outcomes

CAS – Humanitarian Award

KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA Jason McVicar, MD, FRCPC is Métis from the Red River Settlement in Manitoba. He was born in the Northwest Territories and raised in western Manitoba. He pursued his medical studies at the University of Manitoba and anesthesia residency at Queen’s University, followed by a fellowship in regional anesthesia and pain medicine in Toronto. He practiced at The Ottawa Hospital for the past decade and is now an anesthesiologist at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Jason has worked for Médecins Sans Frontières, has been a trustee of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society International Education Foundation, and completed a public policy fellowship with Action Canada. Dr. McVicar was lead author on two CMAJ publications on surgical outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. He was awarded the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine Social Accountability Award in 2022.
Dr. McVicar’s current appointments include membership on the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists Pain Committee, co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Circle at The Ottawa Hospital, co-chair of the Collaborative Advisory Group for Rural Anesthesia for the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society, and chair of the Global and Rural Health Committee with the Academic Canadian Universities Departments of Anesthesia.

Jason is the proud father of two loud children who has selfishly taught downhill skiing so he can return to the slopes after a decade hiatus. He perpetually pesters his kids by over photographing them with long lenses and can be occasionally found taking pictures of other slower moving things.

Given in recognition of excellence in global anesthesiology.