2012 UBC Medical Alumni Association Awards
The UBC Medical Alumni Association presented the following awards at the Medical Alumni Association AGM & Awards Reception on May 12, 2012 at the William A. Webber Medical Student & Alumni Centre. Wallace Wilson Leadership Award Awarded annually to a graduate of the UBC Faculty of Medicine who has demonstrated high ethical standards and outstanding […]
Jehannine Austin receives Pfizer Psychiatry Research Award
Jehannine Austin, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics and a member of the Brain Research Centre, has received an inaugural Psychiatry Research Award from Pfizer Canada. The $100,000 award will support her research into the effect of genetic counseling on adherence to psychotropic medication in serious mental illness. “I am truly […]
Learning “…to provide culturally safe care”
“Since 2001, BC’s Aboriginal peoples experienced ‘worsening trends’…including increased rates of HIV/AIDS, use of prescription drugs, poor housing, low birth weights, and the number of children who live as governmental wards. Since 1992, Status-Indian men maintained the lowest life expectancy of any group in the province, dying almost 10 years earlier than non-Aboriginal women, the […]
2012 Faculty of Medicine Awards
Max Cynader, Professor of Ophthalmology, receives the Bill and Marilyn Webber Lifetime Achievement Award.
Studies of two drugs point to vision risks
Mahyar Etminan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, recently published two studies – one in JAMA, the other in the Canadian Medical Association Journal – about the ophthalmological side effects of two drugs: oral fluoroquinolones (a type of antibiotic) and oral bisphosphonates (used to treat osteoporosis). The study of fluoroquinolones, in the April […]
H1N1 discovery paves way for universal flu vaccine
UBC researchers found that the “swine flu” vaccine triggers antibodies that protect against many influenza viruses.
Faculty of Medicine to double enrolment in midwifery education program
Bolstered by increased funding from the Province of British Columbia, first-year spaces in the program will grow to 20.
Stephen Withers elected to the Royal Society of London
Stephen Withers, Associate Member in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Professor in the UBC Department of Chemistry, has been elected as a Fellow to the prestigious Royal Society of London. Dr. Withers, a Canada Research Chair in Chemical Biology, studies how enzymes function and investigates their potential use in industry and in […]