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Playing with creativity: UBC production helps medical students get in touch with their artistic sides
By jwong | February 11, 2015
Learn how this year’s MedPlay has helped medical students get in touch with their artistic sides.
Pushing back against a fatalistic view of cancer risk
By bkladko | February 5, 2015
In the journal Science, Carolyn Gotay and colleagues take issue with a recent article attributing most cancer risk to “bad luck.”
“Seduced by false promise”
By bkladko | February 5, 2015
Professors Judy Illes and Fabio Rossi express concern about Gordie Howe’s use of experimental stem-cell therapy to try to improve his recovery from stroke.
Brain change
By bkladko | February 2, 2015
Lara Boyd explores whether an unorthodox curriculum has a neurological impact on children.
Timothy Kieffer and Lakshmi Yatham recipients of the UBC Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer Awards
By jwong | January 30, 2015
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
By jwong | January 30, 2015
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 […]
A physician does an about-face, based on her own research
By bkladko | January 28, 2015
Clinical Professor Laura Magee found, to her surprise, that lowering pregnant women’s blood pressure is safer for them and safe for their babies.
Marco Marra appointed Head, Department of Medical Genetics
By jwong | January 26, 2015
His role will focus on fostering excellence and scholarship in education, research and service.
Closing the “injury gap”
By bkladko | January 23, 2015
The injury rate for Aboriginal people in B.C. is falling faster than it is for the general population.
Gurdeep Parhar and Sandra Jarvis-Selinger recipients of the 2015 AFMC awards
By jwong | January 23, 2015
Two faculty members Gurdeep Parhar, Executive Associate Dean, Clinical Partnerships and Professionalism and Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, Assistant Dean, Faculty Development are the recipients of the 2015 Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) awards. Dr. Parhar receives the AFMC May Cohen Equity, Diversity, and Gender Award. This new award, created in 2014 aims to emphasize the importance of […]