Bassam Masri receives the 2016 Pier Giorgio Marchetti Award
Bassam Masri, Professor and Head of the Department of Orthopaedics receives the 2016 Pier Giorgio Marchetti award. This award was established in 2010 and is given to recognize outstanding lifetime achievement in orthopaedic surgery by an international fellow who trained at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). Dr. Masri has been involved with training 122 fellows, […]
Larry Goldenberg receives Societe Internationale D’Urologie Distinguished Career Award
Larry Goldenberg, Professor and former Head of the Department of Urologic Sciences and Founding Director of the Vancouver Prostate Centre receives the Societe Internationale D’Urologie Distinguished Career Award. This award is in recognition of his contribution to the field of urology. “I’m very proud of the programs that I’ve developed over the course of my […]
Folefac Aminkeng receives two Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics awards
Folefac Aminkeng, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics receives two awards from the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Dr. Aminkeng receives both the Boehringer Ingelheim Postdoctoral Award in Pharmacology and the Publication Award. The Boehringer Ingelheim Postdoctoral Award in Pharmacology is designed to recognize and stimulate research in the field […]
Susan Forwell named the recipient of the 2016 Townsend and Polatajko Lectureship
Susan Forwell, Associate Professor and Department Head, Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, has been named the recipient of the prestigious Townsend & Polatajko Lectureship. This biennial lectureship is awarded to someone who has not only contributed to promoting and fostering occupational science (OS) in Canada and globally, but who have made significant contributions to leadership […]
Natalie Zeytuni receives the 2015-2016 Banting Postodoctoral Fellowships
Natalie Zeytuni, Postdoctoral Fellow is one of this year’s Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships recipients. Originally from Israel, Natalie has been working at the Strynadka Lab in the UBC Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry since 2014. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program is Canada’s most prestigious postdoctoral funding program. Adminstered by the Government of Canada, Banting Fellowships […]
MOT alumni and PhD student Stephanie Glegg receives the CIHR Vanier Graduate Scholarship
Stephanie Glegg, Masters of Occupational Therapy and current PhD student in Rehabilitation Sciences recently received a CIHR Vanier Graduate Scholarship, in support of her PhD research. Her project, titled “Using Social Network Analysis to Advance Knowledge Translation in Pediatric Rehabilitation,” draws on her training in the UBC Occupational Therapy program, as well as her ten years […]
Christopher Wong honoured with 2016 Fraser Health Above & Beyond Lifetime Achievement Award
Christopher Wong, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine was recently honoured with 2016 Fraser Health Above & Beyond’s Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is given to those colleagues have made a lasting contribution to Fraser Health’s work and culture for more than a decade. Each year, Fraser Health recognizes […]
UBC honours three of Canada’s leading health researchers
Connie Eaves, Michael Meaney and Ernesto Schiffrin have been recognized for their accomplishments in brain health, heart health and cancer.
William Schreiber becomes president of American Society for Clinical Pathology
William E. Schreiber, a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, assumed the presidency of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) during its annual meeting this month. Dr. Schreiber, a consultant pathologist at Vancouver General Hospital, is also the Medical Director of the Provincial Toxicology Centre, which performs specialized drug testing […]