Matthias Görges Receives Partner Appointment in APT

We are very pleased to share news about a new faculty member, our first Partner Appointment in the Department:
I would like to congratulate Matthias Görges on his appointment as Assistant Professor (Partner) in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at UBC. Matthias is a biomedical engineer with extensive clinical research experience. He is a Scientist at the Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital, where he co-leads the Clinical & Community Data, Analytics & Informatics group. He has collaborated with a number of the researchers in the Department and undertakes research in an inter-disciplinary team of engineers, computer scientists, and health care providers, where he leads a wide range of projects focusing on the development and application of new technologies primarily in pediatric anesthesia and intensive care. His research interests are patient monitoring alarms, medical displays, decision support systems, mobile health applications, and data integration/communication platforms. Matthias’ goal is to extract clinically-useful information from vital signs and other clinical data, and to transform these data into information for better, more timely, and more efficient decision-making by clinicians.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Starting in 2016, the Pain Medicine residency program applications are to be submitted through the CaRMs process. There are four programs involved in this year’s CaRMs match.

These include: the University of British Columibia, University of Toronto, University of Ottawa and University of Western Ontario. For information on the Quebec programs, please see the National Pain Centre, McMaster University site that contains all information about all Pain Medicine Program in Canada. This can be found on the following link : http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/pain-medicine-residency/index.html

For the University of British Columbia program, sample rotation schedules, goals and objectives for mandatory rotations and rotation evaluations are available for you to review.

For any questions, please contact assistant Bridget Begin. bbridget@mail.ubc.ca

More information on the UBC Pain Medicine Residency

The 10th annual research day for Anesthesiology Pharmacology & Therapeutics was held on May 12th. We would like to thank all the participants and the people who helped make it a success.
Here are the award recipients:

Oral Presentations

Anesthesia:

1st place
Anne-Marie Madden “Review of Recombinant Activated Factor VII (rFVIIa) Administration at a Tertiary Care Centre”

2nd place
Elizabeth Allison “Overnight oximetry at home before and after adenotonsillectomy”

Pharmacology:

1st place
Emmanuel Osei “Defective collagen I remodeling and contraction is a feature of asthmatic airway fibroblasts”

2nd place
Stephanie Sellers “The Off-Target Effects of Losartan in Marfan Syndrome: Role of Nitric Oxide”

Poster Presentations:

Anesthesia:

1st place
Enda Shanahan “Difficultintubationapp.com- A Difficult Airway Electronic Record”

2nd place
Preeti Dewan “Volumes and peak airway pressures with bimanual compressions of an adult Ambu® bag through a Frova intubation bougie using maximal and normal effort into a standard adult lung compliance simulator”

Pharmacology:

1st place
Lik Hang Nicholas Lee “The Pharmacokinetics of Second-Generation Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics: Limitations of Monograph Values of Half-Life”

The Wesbrook Scholarship, UBC’s most prestigious undergraduate award.

Each year, a total of 20 Westbrook scholarships are awarded to senior undergraduate students (from various faculties, e.g., Science, Arts, Medicine, Applied Science, Education and Law) with outstanding academic performance, leadership, and involvement in student and community activities.

Pharmacology students who won Wesbrook and Premier Undergraduate Scholarships (2015-6):

Farnaz Javadian

Third year Pharmacology student Farnaz Javadian was recently awarded both the Wesbrook and the HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarships. Farnaz has contributed extensively to the UBC community as an ambassador for student leadership and social change. She has helped create an opportunity for hundreds of undergraduates to learn more about a career in healthcare directly from health professionals as the Director of UBC iKonnect, an annual charitable healthcare networking event. As part of this event, she has raised thousands of dollars for charities such as HOPE International, Covenant House Vancouver and the Reading Bear Society. Farnaz is also a UBC SCI Team student leader, the Vice President Communications of the UBC Women in Science Club and an Orientations Leader. As a provincial medallist in artistic gymnastics, Farnaz is passionate about promoting physical fitness in youth and she currently volunteers as a Gymnastics Canada certified coach for Special Olympics BC. In addition, she has developed a clinical research profile at St. Paul’s Hospital and was awarded a Surgical Quality Action Network summer studentship at BC Children’s Hospital. In her free time, Farnaz enjoys playing the piano and has completed the Grade 9 Royal Conservatory of Music Piano Program with Honours.

Cody Lo

Fourth year B.Sc. Pharmacology student, Cody Lo, has been awarded the Wesbrook Scholar Award as well as the Carl Bradford Robertson Premier scholarship. Throughout his undergraduate degree, Cody worked in five academic labs and is currently a co-author on multiple peer-reviewed publications. He is a two-time winner of the NextGen Voices essay competition in the journal Science. Additionally, he was twice placed 1st in the UBC Science Case Competition and has won multiple awards for his research presentations. Cody has given back extensively to the undergraduate research community at UBC; he recently co-founded and is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research. He is also the Vice President of two student led clubs: “Undergraduate Research Opportunities” and “UBC Project PATHS”. Cody is currently the Finance Team Lead on the organizing committee for the UBC Global Health Conference this year. In his free-time, Cody volunteers to promote health literacy amongst marginalized populations such as those with infectious disease from the downtown eastside.