October 25, 2021
Greetings from the UBC Anesthesiology Residency Program!
We’d like to invite medical students across Canada to join us on an info session with Dr. Laine Bosma (Program Director), Dr. Sadiq Abdulla (Assistant Program Director), and some of our current residents.
This session will provide you with some information that we hope will reduce anxiety related to the CaRMS process (including interview/selection process), provide an outline of the UBC Anesthesiology curriculum, highlight key differences between our program and other programs in Canada, and showcase program events (academic and non-academic) that foster the strong sense of community among our residents and faculty. And of course, we’ll tell you all about why Vancouver is amazing!
Students from all Canadian Medical Schools are welcome to attend.
When: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at 17:00 PST
What: ZOOM + Interactive Q&A (recording of the event will be made available)
RSVP: https://forms.gle/R7gaNW6FTzozFzkr5
We look forward to meeting you!
Best,
UBC Anesthesiology Residency Team
October 22, 2021
We are saddened to share the news that Dr. Gerry O’Connor, beloved by all who knew him, died on Friday, October 1. He joined the department in 1975 as a pediatric anesthesiologist with a special interest in cardiac. He moved from Vancouver General to BC Children’s Hospital when it opened in 1982. He retired from cardiac anesthesia in 2005 due to Parkinson’s disease but continued to run the Pre-Admission clinic and help with the acute pain service until 2008. In spite of his health challenges, he never lost his wicked sense of humor. He died peacefully after a brief battle with liver cancer, surrounded by his family. He will be sorely missed.
September 1, 2021
Meeting details found here.
Educational Report details found here.
August 9, 2021
August 6, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Hoiland (Postdoctoral Fellow in Drs. Christopher West, Prof. Brian Kwon & Dr. Donald Griesdale’s laboratories) who was awarded a 2 year Craig H Neilsen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to support his research project entitled “A novel targeted vascular approach to mitigate secondary hypoxic injury following traumatic SCI”
A lay summary for the grant can be found at. https://chn.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9714653
August 7, 2021
August 6, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Lukas Linde (Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Kip Kramer’s lab) who was awarded a 2 year Craig H Neilsen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to support his research project entitled “Less is more: Low concentration topical capsaicin to relieve neuropathic pain in spinal cord injury”
A lay summary for the grant can be found here.
August 7, 2021
August 6, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Wiens who was awarded a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award to support his research focussed on Smart Discharges to improve post-discharge survival following admission for infection.
Dr. Wien’s research program focuses on understanding and predicting vulnerability of mothers, infants, and children after discharge from hospital, and using this knowledge to develop programs that improve post-discharge outcomes. In the Smart Discharges program, healthcare workers use our data-driven, individualized risk prediction score to identify children at high risk of death or complications after discharge from a hospital following treatment for suspected or proven sepsis infection. This score is used to guide the intensity of a counseling and down-referral program that links the participant to a community-level health provider for monitoring and treatment of their recovery during the post-discharge period.
August 6, 2021
Smart Discharges to improve post-discharge survival following admission for infection July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2026
My research program focuses on understanding and predicting vulnerability of mothers, infants, and children after discharge from hospital, and using this knowledge to develop programs that improve post-discharge outcomes. In our Smart Discharges program, healthcare workers use our data-driven, individualized risk prediction score to identify children at high risk of death or complications after discharge from a hospital following treatment for suspected or proven sepsis infection. This score is used to guide the intensity of a counseling and down-referral program that links the participant to a community-level health provider for monitoring and treatment of their recovery during the post-discharge period.
My research team works primarily in Uganda, though we are now beginning to apply a “reverse innovation” approach to a Canadian context, where pediatric post-discharge morbidity remains an important component in child-health research, policy and practice.
July 9, 2021
I am pleased to introduce Dr. Catrina Loucks, who is a new full-time faculty member in our department. This is a position shared jointly with the Department of Pediatrics, and is one of the faculty renewal positions we applied for in 2019. The area of research for Dr. Loucks is the Pharmacogenomics of Pain.
Dr. Loucks completed her training in Alberta and BC, most recently as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Pediatrics under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Carleton. Her area of expertise is exploring the functional impacts of genetic mutations using C.elegans as a model to understand how particular genes can lead to human diseases. During her post-doctoral fellowship she has specifically explored how genetic variation contributes to the likelihood of developing drug-related toxicities, especially in childhood cancer treatment. However, she has a particular interest in maternal and child pain management, and will be expanding her current work on the pharmacogenomics of morphine in the pediatric population to adult populations. With the recent discovery of an opioid system in C. elegans that appears relevant to human opioid signaling, Dr. Loucks plans to explore the impact of genetic variants uncovered during her PhD. Her lab will be located in the Division of Translational Therapeutics located on the Children and Women’s campus.
Welcome Dr. Loucks!
Dr. Roanne Preston.
July 7, 2021
Dr. Donald Griesdale, Associate Professor Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, has had a 2 year extension for his Michael Smith Health Professional Investigator Award.
June 29, 2021
We are very pleased to report that Dr. John Kramer has received an NSERC Discovery grant.
The neuroaxis of pain: Peripheral transduction to central integration
$ 200,000 (5 years)