Training with AI to build more equitable healthcare
UBC medical students are leading the way across Canada in exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) and data literacy can help to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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Delivering AI’s promise of better health care
Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care.
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UBC opens Gordon B. Shrum Building, Canada’s first purpose-built biomedical engineering facility
As Canada’s first purpose-built facility for biomedical engineering, the building brings together researchers, students and industry partners under one roof to advance biomedical research, education and innovation.
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Bridging science and medicine
As Michelle Kwon worked on her PhD at UBC and then as a scientist in the biotech sector, she witnessed the potential of stem cells to transform medicine—and was inspired to do even more to help these new therapies reach patients.
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Creating those lightbulb moments
“How might you get your patients to share how they are really feeling? What might you do to make a patient feel comfortable? Why might they not want to accept your help?” These are just a few of the questions that Mandy Young asks her students to think about as part of her role as a health mentor with Patient and Community Partnership for Education (PCPE) in UBC Health.
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The science of brain wellness
The human brain is among the most complex systems in the universe. It makes you who you are as a person, guiding everything from your thoughts and feelings to your personality and physical abilities.
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Inspired by out-of-the-blue recognition
Kirsten Ward didn’t apply for the Nancy Cho Alumni Award in Physical Therapy, so the good news that she received the award came as a surprise.
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Charting a new course for MS treatment
Research from the UBC Faculty of Medicine could stop the disease in its tracks — and even reverse its devastating effects.
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Engaging patients to improve health care
Canfield has donated to the UBC Faculty of Medicine to create the Canfield Distinguished Scholar in Patient Partnerships at UBC. Her intention is to augment UBC’s leadership and scholarship in the field of patient and community partnerships in health care.
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Expanding birth options closer to home
Sage Thomas wants to create a birthing center for her community of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and surrounding communities in the Interior of British Columbia.
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