Interdisciplinary PhD candidate Kim Taylor wins the Student Abstract Award from the Canadian Bioethics Society
Kim Taylor, Interdisciplinary PhD candidate wins the Student Abstract Award from the Canadian Bioethics Society for her abstract entitled: Patients’ experiences negotiating healthcare decision-making as “a two-way street, working relationship” Background: A growing emphasis on patient-centered care in recent years has led to a shift from paternalistic towards shared decision making (SDM) models that emphasize […]
PhD candidate Andrea Jones receives Research Training Award from WorkSafeBC
Andrea Jones, PhD candidate has received a two-year Doctoral Research Training Award from WorkSafeBC for her project, “Injured workers and mental health: exploring how depression and mental health services impact return to work following workplace musculoskeletal injury”. Andrea will be looking at Canadian workers’ compensation systems, which have, in recent years, seen a decline in […]
Interdisciplinary PhD candidate Brittany Barker wins CIHR Doctoral Research Award
Brittany Barker, Interdisciplinary PhD candidate recently wins the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Research Award for her project titled, “Street-Involved Youth and the Child Welfare System: Evidence to Improve Outcomes.” Brittany’s project looks at the child welfare system. Children and youth currently in this system have notably poor outcomes, including elevated rates of […]
Lara Boyd, Physical Therapy
Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology of Motor Learning
Julio Montaner, HIV/AIDS
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame 2015 Inductee
Two local chefs host a cooking class for prostate cancer survivors
Chef Vikram Vij leads a cooking class as part of a prostate cancer study led by #UBC Dr, Carolyn Gotay.
Christie Newton appointed Director, Interprofessional Education
Dr. Newton’s appointment is effective May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2017.
The key to stopping sarcomas’ spread
Poul Sorensen found a previously unknown protein pathway that enables tumour cells to withstand hypoxia — and cancer drugs.