Traffic, Asthma and Genetics (TAG) study featured as CIHR success story
The Traffic, Asthma and Genetics (TAG) study, undertaken by Dr. Michael Brauer, Professor, UBC School of Population and Public Health, and Dr. Christopher Carlsten, Respiratory Division, UBC Department of Medicine, along with Canadian and European collaborators, has been featured as one of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada’s […]
Graydon Meneilly elected as APM Council Member At-Large
Dr. Graydon Meneilly, Professor and Head of UBC Department of Medicine has been elected an APM Council Member At-Large of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM), a consortium of five academically focused specialty organizations representing departments of internal medicine at medical schools and teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada. His three year […]
Three faculty members receive the 2015 CAME Certificate of Merit Award
Three faculty members have received the 2015 CAME Certificate of Merit Award. This award promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools. The award winners will be recognized at the upcoming Canadian Association of Medical Education (CAME) Annual General Meeting which is held in conjunction with the Canadian Conference on Medical Education […]
Four faculty members among winners of the 2015 LifeSciences B.C. Awards
Four faculty members have received the 2015 LifeSciences British Columbia Awards. These awards presented annually by FARRIS, are given in recognition to individuals and companies who have made a significant and meaningful contribution in the field of health and life sciences in our world-class life sciences community in British Columbia.
Lindsay Machan receives 2015 SIR Leader in Innovation Award
Lindsay Machan, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology receives the 2015 Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Leader in Innovation Award. The Leaders in Innovation Award recognizes and promotes innovation within interventional radiology, continuing IR’s historical innovative development that has revolutionized medicine over the last 40 years. The Award acknowledges those individuals who have conceptualized and implemented […]
Wendy Norman recognized with The Enid Johnson MacLeod Award
Wendy Norman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice is recognized with the Federation of Medical Women of Canada’s 2015 Enid Johnson MacLeod Award. The Federation of Medical Women of Canada presents this annual award to the nominated member or associate member who is felt to have made the most significant contribution to women’s […]
Faculty members win the NSERC Brockhouse Canada prize
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded Faculty of Medicine scientists with the Brockhouse Canada prize. The recipients from UBC include Drs. Paul Schaffer, François Bénard and Anna Celler from the Department of Radiology, and Dr. Thomas Ruth in the Division of Neurology, for their outstanding teamwork in realizing a solution […]
Timothy Kieffer and Lakshmi Yatham recipients of the UBC Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer Awards
Timothy Kieffer, Professor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences and Department of Surgery and Lakshmi Yatham, Professor, Department of Psychiatry are recipients of the 2014 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer (DMRL) Awards. Every year the Faculty of Medicine recognizes the outstanding lecturers in our medical research fields. Candidates from Basic Sciences or Clinical […]
Four faculty members receive the 2014 UBC Faculty Research Awards
Four faculty members have received the 2014 Faculty Research Awards. Faculty researchers are nominated by their peers. Winners are selected by UBC’s Faculty Research Award Committee, which spans arts and humanities, business, education, applied science, science, and medicine. Three faculty members receive the UBC Killam Research Prize in the Senior Category. This award recognizes outstanding research […]