Please click on link below for Dr. John Kramer’s presentation:
Objectifying the Experience of Pain
Virtual Research Day 2020 video recording link
Please find link below for the Virtual Research Day 2020 recording stream:
https://mediasite.audiovisual.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/c40ab33dab134beb8e7d84ef514425151d
Virtual Research Day 2020 Winners
The winners for Research Day are:
Anesthesiology Oral Presentation: Dr. Ryan Hoiland – The use of tocilizumab and corticosteroids in critically ill patients with severe COVID-19
Runner Up: Ms Marie Johns – Non-invasive microcirculation monitoring using near-infrared spectroscopy during scoliosis correction surgery to inform blood transfusion – results of a prospective observational study
Pharmacology & Therapeutics Oral Presentation: Desmond Fung – Long-Lasting Motor Block and Local Tissue Toxicity Produced by QX-572: A Preclinical Comparison to Lidocaine in Mice.
(there were only 2 oral presentations in P&T)
Anesthesiology Video Short: Dr. Elena Vowels – A comparison of COVID-19 intubation barrier techniques for the prevention of droplet and contact contamination in health-care workers
Runner Up: Kai Zhu – The Effect of Intra-operative Lidocaine Infusion on Post-operative Opioid Consumption in Children Undergoing Posterior Spinal Instrumentation and Fusion for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Pharmacology & Therapeutics Video Short: Dr. Emmanuel Osei – New Insights into Fibroblast-Extracellular Matrix Interactions: Implications for Airway Remodeling in Asthma
Runner Up: Elodie Sauge – Losartan metabolites EXP3174 and EXP3179 interefere with epithelial-mesenchymal transition via transforming growth factor beta signaling pathway
Papers of the Year:
Basic Science Category: Dr. Tillie Hackett – Defective Fibrillar Collagen Organization by Fibroblasts Contributes to Airway Remodeling in Asthma. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2019;200:432-443.
Anesthesiology Category: Dr. Simon Whyte – Effects of Dexmedetomidine on Myocardial Repolarization in Children Undergoing General Anesthesia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Anesth Analg 2019;129:1100-8.
VIRTUAL RESEARCH DAY 2020 invite
The UBC Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics is pleased to announce its Annual Virtual Research Day 2020. For details, please click on Invitation/Program.
Please attend and support the work of our trainees and Departmental colleagues!
With many thanks to all of our department staff who have helped make this day happen.
In Memoriam: Dr. David M Quastel
Dr. David Quastel a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics passed away on Friday February 28, 2020.
Services will be held at 11:00AM Tuesday, March 3rd at Beth Israel Cemetery 1721 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, followed by a reception at their home at 4489 Marguerite Street in Shaughnessy.
Our thoughts are with his family
2020 Visiting Professor Lecture – Dr. David Juurlink
“The North American Opioid Crisis, and Why the Perioperative Period Still Matters”.
For more details, please view poster.
In Memoriam: Dr. Kitt Turney
Dr. Kitt Turney was on staff at Lion’s Gate Hospital since 2018.
She was a talented, engaging young woman with many great accomplishments in life, as well as being an excellent anesthesiologist.
Our thoughts are with her family, friends and colleagues.
Please read message from Dr. Clare Morrison.
Announcement – UBC and Oxford University MOU in training Clinical Pharmacology
For more information, please check out the Memo from Dr. Roanne Preston.
2020 Visiting Professor Lecture – Dr. David Juurlink (CANCELLED)
This Lecture is Cancelled.
“The North American Opioid Crisis, and Why the Perioperative Period Still Matters”.
For more details, please view poster.