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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 for mom+baby: Saving mother-newborn dyads by developing a predictive risk model to identify dyads and guide delivery of post-discharge care”
A lay summary can be found – https://healthresearchbc.ca/award_researcher/yashodani-pillay/
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 inhibitors of KCNQ1 and KCNQ1:KCNE1 channel complexes”
A lay summary can be found – https://healthresearchbc.ca/award_researcher/efthymios-kyriakis/
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 our Faculty in 2017. During her short career with us, she successfully challenged the FRCPC, became a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UBC APT Department, and took on the role of Medical Director of our Preoperative Assessment Clinic. In this last capacity, amongst other achievements she helped lead our implementation of the ever-shifting perioperative COVID guidance as it pertained to children in 2020 and 2021.
Outside of work, Lindsay was a phenomenal athlete. She excelled at every sport she tried. She took a year out of anesthesia training in the UK to play professional tennis, and continued to coach here in Vancouver. She was an avid cyclist, with sub-4hr Whistler Gran Fondo times. And she loved skiing and ski touring. She was also a musician, played piano and clarinet in her time. She was a private person but great fun to be around, always with a twinkle in her eye & a wicked sense of humour. We will miss her more than words can possibly describe.
August 26, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Anshula Ambasta who recently received a Faculty of Medicine Strategic Initiative Fund (SIF) grant to support her project – RePORT – Re-purposing the ordering of ‘routine’ laboratory testing in health care systems.
The goal of Dr. Ambasta’s project is to optimize laboratory testing in clinical medicine. Appropriate laboratory test utilization can benefit: (i) patients, who avoid discomfort /inconvenience related to blood draws and downstream cascades of further testing and therapeutic use related to false-positive results, (ii) healthcare providers, who have increased confidence in ordering practices and lower cognitive load related to false positive results, and (iii) healthcare systems, that are faced with economic restraints, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Ambasta and her co-applicants will partner with relevant stakeholders to develop system re-design and knowledge exchange tools to guide future knowledge translation in this critically important area of health care.
Dr. Emmanuel Osei, Dr. Hackett’s graduated joint PhD student and PCTH program were recently highlighted by the vice provost.
You can find a link to the full article here.