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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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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A path for a new generation of Black physicians
For Black students to imagine themselves becoming doctors, they need to see Black mentors, role models and students at the university, and Black physicians providing health care in their community.
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Dr. Lucy A. Perrone to lead UBC education programs in laboratory quality
A champion for strengthening laboratory systems and improving diagnostic laboratory testing in the global south, Dr. Lucy A. Perrone has been appointed as the inaugural Donald B. Rix Professor in Laboratory Quality at UBC.
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Rural Doctors’ UBC Chair in Rural Health
Dr. John Pawlovich, MD'94 is a compassionate family physician, respected mentor of medical students, residents and physicians, and innovator in the thoughtful integration of technology into rural, remote and First Nations communities to improve equity and access to health care throughout B.C.
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Access to early phase clinical trials in B.C. depends on investment in research infrastructure
For more than five years after Tom Schlegel was diagnosed with myeloma, standard treatments kept his blood cancer in remission. When these medications stopped working, he searched near and far for experimental options in hopes they would lengthen his life.
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Three ways mRNA could change the future of medicine
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anna Blakney’s area of research expertise—messenger RNA technology—wasn’t widely known by the general public.
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