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Big jump coming for UBC’s speech-language pathology program
By bkladko | September 16, 2014
First-year slots in the master’s degree program will grow by 56 per cent, to help address the shortage of therapists.
New research finds quicker method to create insulin-producing cells
By jwong | September 12, 2014
Professor Timothy Kieffer leads research of a protocol that turns stem cells into insulin-producing cells in just six weeks
Occupational therapist-turned-children’s author shares her personal journey
By jwong | September 11, 2014
Paulette Bourgeois was the keynote at this year’s OT Capstone Conference.
UBC health researchers join new national team tackling dementia
By jwong | September 10, 2014
Howard Feldman, Executive Associate Dean, Research, will serve on the consortium’s executive committee, helping to oversee clinical trials and drug discovery efforts.
UBC’s Rural Family Medicine Residency Program expanding to Kootenay Boundary region
By jwong | September 9, 2014
The expansion will build on new residency programs in the Coastal and Interior regions of B.C.
An injection of youth
By bkladko | September 5, 2014
Meet the two youngest medical students in UBC history.
A road less travelled
By jwong | September 4, 2014
To build a more diverse medical workforce, UBC has been encouraging youths in Aboriginal, rural and remote communities to consider careers in health.
Therapeutics Initiative takes aim at multiple prescriptions
By bkladko | September 2, 2014
In its latest bulletin, the advisory group urges physicians to be vigilant about the number of different drugs their patients are taking.
Federal health minister tours UBC’s brain health centre
By bkladko | August 21, 2014
Brian MacVicar, Co-Director of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, was one of three researchers to meet with Canada’s Minister of Health, Rona Ambrose.
UBC lauds pioneers in heart failure and brain imaging
By bkladko | August 20, 2014
Cardiologist Paul Armstrong and neuroscientist Alan Evans have won the Margolese National Prizes in Heart and Brain Disorders from the Faculty of Medicine.