Three faculty members receive the 2015 CAME Certificate of Merit Award
Three faculty members have received the 2015 CAME Certificate of Merit Award. This award promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools. The award winners will be recognized at the upcoming Canadian Association of Medical Education (CAME) Annual General Meeting which is held in conjunction with the Canadian Conference on Medical Education […]
Four faculty members among winners of the 2015 LifeSciences B.C. Awards
Four faculty members have received the 2015 LifeSciences British Columbia Awards. These awards presented annually by FARRIS, are given in recognition to individuals and companies who have made a significant and meaningful contribution in the field of health and life sciences in our world-class life sciences community in British Columbia.
Lindsay Machan receives 2015 SIR Leader in Innovation Award
Lindsay Machan, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology receives the 2015 Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Leader in Innovation Award. The Leaders in Innovation Award recognizes and promotes innovation within interventional radiology, continuing IR’s historical innovative development that has revolutionized medicine over the last 40 years. The Award acknowledges those individuals who have conceptualized and implemented […]
Wendy Norman recognized with The Enid Johnson MacLeod Award
Wendy Norman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice is recognized with the Federation of Medical Women of Canada’s 2015 Enid Johnson MacLeod Award. The Federation of Medical Women of Canada presents this annual award to the nominated member or associate member who is felt to have made the most significant contribution to women’s […]
Faculty members win the NSERC Brockhouse Canada prize
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded Faculty of Medicine scientists with the Brockhouse Canada prize. The recipients from UBC include Drs. Paul Schaffer, François Bénard and Anna Celler from the Department of Radiology, and Dr. Thomas Ruth in the Division of Neurology, for their outstanding teamwork in realizing a solution […]
Timothy Kieffer and Lakshmi Yatham recipients of the UBC Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer Awards
Timothy Kieffer, Professor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences and Department of Surgery and Lakshmi Yatham, Professor, Department of Psychiatry are recipients of the 2014 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer (DMRL) Awards. Every year the Faculty of Medicine recognizes the outstanding lecturers in our medical research fields. Candidates from Basic Sciences or Clinical […]
Four faculty members receive the 2014 UBC Faculty Research Awards
Four faculty members have received the 2014 Faculty Research Awards. Faculty researchers are nominated by their peers. Winners are selected by UBC’s Faculty Research Award Committee, which spans arts and humanities, business, education, applied science, science, and medicine. Three faculty members receive the UBC Killam Research Prize in the Senior Category. This award recognizes outstanding research […]
Gurdeep Parhar and Sandra Jarvis-Selinger recipients of the 2015 AFMC awards
Two faculty members Gurdeep Parhar, Executive Associate Dean, Clinical Partnerships and Professionalism and Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, Assistant Dean, Faculty Development are the recipients of the 2015 Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) awards. Dr. Parhar receives the AFMC May Cohen Equity, Diversity, and Gender Award. This new award, created in 2014 aims to emphasize the importance of […]
Two faculty members appointed to Order of Canada
Two faculty members Julio Montaner, Professor of Medicine, Head, UBC Division of AIDS, and Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Joanne Sullivan Douglas, Clinical Professor Emerita, UBC Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics and long-time B.C. Women’s Hospital and Health Centre anesthesia expert have been recognized by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor […]