Impact of Giving

Training with AI to build more equitable healthcare

UBC medical students are leading the way across Canada in exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) and data literacy can help to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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Delivering AI’s promise of better health care

Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care.
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UBC opens Gordon B. Shrum Building, Canada’s first purpose-built biomedical engineering facility

As Canada’s first purpose-built facility for biomedical engineering, the building brings together researchers, students and industry partners under one roof to advance biomedical research, education and innovation.
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Bridging science and medicine

As Michelle Kwon worked on her PhD at UBC and then as a scientist in the biotech sector, she witnessed the potential of stem cells to transform medicine—and was inspired to do even more to help these new therapies reach patients.
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Creating those lightbulb moments

A caregiver draws on her lived experience to help shift future health providers’ assumptions about patients and families.
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The science of brain wellness

The human brain is among the most complex systems in the universe. It makes you who you are as a person, guiding your thoughts, feelings, personality and physical abilities.
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Inspired by out-of-the-blue recognition

Kirsten Ward didn’t apply for the Nancy Cho Alumni Award in Physical Therapy, so the good news that she received the award came as a surprise.
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Charting a new course for MS treatment

Research from the UBC Faculty of Medicine could stop the disease in its tracks — and even reverse its devastating effects.
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Engaging patients to improve health care

Carolyn Canfield has donated to the UBC Faculty of Medicine to create the Canfield Distinguished Scholar in Patient Partnerships at UBC.
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Expanding birth options closer to home

Sage Thomas wants to create a birthing center for her community of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and surrounding communities in the Interior of British Columbia.
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