It is coming this November!
The 3rd Annual UBC APT Faculty Retreat
It will affect all of us…
Competence By Design (CBD)
CBD is a significant change in medical education. This is your chance to find out more. What are the implications for you and the residents you teach?
Venue: Arbutus Club
Application for MOC credits pending
Download the notice here
The Department of Anesthesiology Pharmacology & Therapeutics would like to wish Brian Warriner a very enjoyable retirement and thank him for his many years of dedication!
The Faculty of Medicine 2016-2021 Strategic Plan can be downloaded here or can be viewed through the FOM website: stratplan.med.ubc.ca
From Dr. Dermot Kelleher, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine:
Dear Colleagues,
I’m pleased to share with you the Faculty’s new strategic plan: Building the Future.
In “Building the Future,” we articulate the commitments, principles, goals and objectives that will propel us forward during the next five years. Each has been shaped through consultation with you, as well as our colleagues and partners. I look forward to now working together to develop a robust implementation plan that supports our collective plan.
Attached is a copy of the Strategic Plan; you are also welcome to download and visit our website at stratplan.med.ubc.ca. We will be sharing the plan with all faculty, staff and students in the coming days.
Thank you again for your input and support.
Best wishes,
Dermot
Dermot Kelleher, MD, FRCP, FRCPI, FMedSci
Dean, Faculty of Medicine
The University of British Columbia
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.
One of our fine researchers has made the news on his research endeavours:
Dr. Don Griesdale, an Assistant Professor and practicing anesthesiologist at Vancouver Acute and Intensivist at VGH has, with his team, made a rapid transition from new discovery to dramatic improvements in patient care.
Please see the following article: http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/world-class-skier-thanks-b-c-doctors-for-taking-bold-new-steps-to-save-her-life
Congratulations Don, and to the other members of your research team!
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
The department would like to congratulate Dr Paul Kliffer for being awarded the Clinical Faculty Award for Career Excellence in Clinical Teaching. This award recognizes senior clinical faculty members who have demonstrated sustained excellence in teaching over the course of their careers.
More information and a list of other award recipients can be found here.
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:
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”
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”
This years event will be held on Thursday May 12th, 2016 at VGH Paetzold Auditorium.
Full program available here
The Paetzold Auditorium and multipurpose room are located in the Jim Pattison Pavilion,
Vancouver General Hospital.
These can be accessed via the 899 W12th Avenue or 2700 Laurel Street entrances.
There is plenty of pay parking around the Hospital.
Translink: VGH is a 5 min walk from the Canada Line – Broadway City Hall station and the B-line bus stop.
12:00 – 12:30 Set up Posters and Upload Slides – Lunch is NOT provided
12:30 – 14:15 Opening Remarks and Oral Presentations Session #1
Opening Remarks: Dr. Roanne Preston & Cathy Pang
Chair: Dr. Don Griesdale
14:15 – 15:45 Poster Session & Judging
15:45 – 17:30 Oral Presentations Session #2
Chair: Dr. Pascal Bernatchez
17:30 – 18:15 Cocktail & Hors d’oeuvres
18:15 – 19:15 Awards & Keynote Presentation – ‘A Translational Approach to Assess the Risk of Perioperative Anemia and to Develop Strategies to Improved Clinical Outcomes? Dr. Greg Hare
19:15 – Closing Remarks