Victoria Baronas awarded a 2016 Vanier scholarship
Victoria Baronas, an MD/PhD student in our department, was recently awarded a 2016 Vanier scholarship. The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship is a prestigious award for doctoral candidates who exhibit outstanding academic achievement, leadership, and research potential. She also received the highest ranked submission (nationwide) in the CIHR CGS-D doctoral award competition. Victoria graduated from our undergraduate honours program (and co-op) in 2013, and was admitted to UBC medical school and the UBC MD/PhD program. She is investigating a novel regulatory mechanism of a neuronal voltage-gated potassium channel involved in epilepsy. Her research project is supervised by Harley Kurata and Filip Van Petegem (UBC Biochemistry). Congratulations to Victoria for these well-deserved accomplishments!
The 3rd Annual UBC APT Faculty Retreat
Save the Date: November 19th 2016
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
Past Departmental Head, Dr Brian Warriner Retires
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!
Building the Future – The Faculty of Medicine 2016-2021 Strategic Plan
The Faculty of Medicine 2016-2021 Strategic Plan can be downloaded here or can be viewed through the FOM website: stratplan.med.ubc.ca
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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
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.
Dr. Donald Griesdale and his team make dramatic improvements in patient care
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!
Changes to the UBC Pain Medicine Residency Program Applications
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
Career Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award – Dr Paul Kliffer
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.