Kanna Hayashi winner of 2015 UBC Killam Postdoc Research Prize Winner
This April, Kanna Hayashi became one of two of UBC’s many outstanding postdoctoral research fellows to be awarded a UBC Killam Postdoctoral Research Prize in recognition of her research achievements while at UBC. The Postdoctoral Fellows Office (PDFO) at the Faculty of Graduate Studies awards these two $5,000 prizes annually in the hope that the […]
Kimberly Schonert-Reichl receives the 2015 Joseph E. Zins Distinguished Scholar Award
Kimberley Schonert-Reichl, Interim Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership is the recipient of the 2015 Joseph E. Zins Distinguished Scholar Award for Outstanding Contributions to Action Research in Social and Emotional Learning. The award was given by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional, CASEL. Dr. Schonert-Reichl receives this distinction for her leadership in […]
Dianne Miller recipient of the 2015 Virginia Greene Leadership Award
Dianne Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology has received the 2015 Virginia Greene Leadership Award for her leadership in the field of ovarian cancer. This prestigious award, presented by Ovarian Cancer Canada, recognizes an individual’s outstanding contribution to the advancement of awareness, knowledge transfer, support, and research in ovarian cancer. The Virginia Greene […]
Four faculty members receive the 2014-15 Killam Teaching Prize
Four faculty members have received the 2014-15 UBC Killam Teaching Prizes. The UBC Killam Teaching Prizes recognize excellence in teaching in the medical and science undergraduate programs, residency programs, school and graduate programs within the Faculty of Medicine. The 2014-15 Killam Teaching Prize recipients are:
Two faculty members receive BC’s prestigious Robinson and Elliot awards
Two prestigious public health awards were presented to two School of Population and Public Health professors recently. Reka Gustafson, Assistant Clinical Professor, SPPH receives the James M. Robinson Award for significant contributions to public health is a mid-career award, named for Dr. James McClure Robinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology. Dr. Gustafson […]
Dawn DeWitt named Governor of British Columbia Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP)
Dawn DeWitt, Professor, General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine; Regional Associate Dean, Vancouver Fraser; Associate Dean, MD Undergraduate Program has been named Governor of British Columbia Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. The American College of Physicians is the largest medical specialty organization and the second-largest physician group […]
Faculty of Medicine gets new Canada Research Chairs
Gina Ogilvie, in the School of Population and Public Health, is the new Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV-Related Disease and Cancer.