This page will provide bios and disclosures for all authors. Authors are listed in alphabetical order according to last name.
Dr. Judy Allen works at the Sleep Disorder programme at UBC, as well as the psychiatric clinic at the Mood Disorders Association of BC. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at UBC and a psychiatrist with a subspecialty in Mood Disorders.
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Dr. Neda Amiri is an internal medicine resident at University of British Columbia. She also completed her medical school and degree in Microbiology and Immunology at UBC. Her areas of research in the past have included maternal fetal medicine, gastroenterology and mass gathering medicine.
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Dr. Hugh Anton is a physiatrist practicing in Vancouver and a member of the medical staff at the G.F. Strong Rehab Centre and Vancouver General Hospital. His clinical practice at present includes medical and rehabilitation management of patients with musculoskeletal pain syndromes, neurological disorders (including spinal cord injury and acquired brain injury) and multiple trauma. He is a member of the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of British Columbia and participates in teaching and research.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Anne Antrim is a graduate of the UBC Medical class of 1986 and completed her Pediatric residency training at UBC in 1992. She worked both as a Community Pediatrician and in Neonatal Intensive Care unit until 2001, then full time in the community till late 2007. She is now full time in the NICU as a Clinical Associate and gets energized on Wednesdays when she works in the Neonatal Followup Program seeing the graduates from the NICU.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Rosemary Basson, MD, FRCP (UK)
Rosemary Basson, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry is the Director of the University of British Columbia Sexual Medicine Program. In 2003 and 2009 she was vice-chair of the 2nd and 3rd International Consultations on Men and Women’s Sexual Dysfunction sponsored by ICUD, ESSM, WAS, IASR, ISSWSH. As Co-chair of an International Committee organized by the American Urological Association Foundation in 2003 to recommend revised definitions of women’s sexual dysfunction, she is now a Consultant to the American Psychiatry Association’s DSMV Committee. Recent research includes collaboration with Professors John Petkau and Fernand Labrie to use measures of total androgen activity by means of androgen metabolites in the detailed assessment of women with and without sexual dysfunction. Current studies focus on Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal dysregulation in women with and without dysfunction. Her 70 plus peer reviewed publications include a series in The Lancet on sexual dysfunction subsequent to illness and a NEJM review on clinical aspects of women’s sexual dysfunction plus online reviews for the British Medical Journal Point of Care and BMJ Best Practice.
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Dr. Monica Beaulieu is a nephrologist at St. Paul’s and also the director of the integrated care clinic – a clinic that provides integrated care for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes Mellitius with and without cardiac disease. She has a special interest and has written several articles on the primary-specialty care interface and the use of multidisciplinary care models and links to primary care.
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Dr Bergman graduated from University of Manitoba medical school in 1991. He completed a Pediatric residency at the University of Manitoba in 1995 and went on to complete a Clinical Allergy and Immunology fellowship in 1996. He completed his residency in Dermatology at the University of British Columbia in 1999. Following that he completed a fellowship in Pediatric Dermatology at University of California San Diego in 2001. He was a staff physician at UCSD Children’s hospital until 2004. Thereafter, he returned to Vancouver and formed the Pediatric Allergy Dermatology Centre which is a multidisciplinary clinic that treats pediatric patients with cutaneous diseases and allergic disorders.
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Dr. Black is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Urologic Sciences, UBC and a Research Scientist at The Vancouver Prostate Centre. Dr. Black trained in Urology at the University of Washington in Seattle and completed a fellowship in Urologic Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He treats all urologic cancers including prostate, bladder, renal and testicular carcinoma, with a special clinical focus on bladder cancer and robotic surgery. He has established a laboratory research program at the Vancouver Prostate Centre investigating novel targeted agents in the treatment of bladder cancer.
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Dr. Dan Bilsker is a psychologist practicing in Vancouver. His clinical practice includes psychological treatment of depression/anxiety as well as assessment of mental health-related disability (see www.psychdrs.ca). His research is focused upon innovative ways to deliver psychological interventions and enhance knowledge exchange in mental health. He is a consultant to the Knowledge Exchange Centre of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. His academic appointments are Clinical Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University.
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Bob Bluman MD, CCFP, FCFP, Assistant Dean of UBC CPD
Dr. Bob Bluman received his MD from the University of British Columbia and completed his specialty training in Family Medicine at McGill University (CCFP). He has been in active family practice for the past 30 years and is a Clinical Professor in the UBC Department of Family Practice. He has been a Designated Medical Practitioner, Federal Department of Citizenship and Immigration since 1987 and a Preceptor in the Family Medicine Residency Program since July 2001.
Dr. Bluman has served as the Assistant Dean, Continuing Professional Development since 2003. In addition to participating in the planning, development, organization and implementation of numerous CME/CPD programs within the Division of CPD and with key stakeholders, he has taken the lead in the development of the Commercial Support Guidelines document which has been submitted and approved by the Faculty Executive Committee. Dr. Bluman is also the Chair of the national SCCPD working group on industry relations and CME. He continues to take charge of the Accreditation application document and process for the UBC Faculty of Medicine. His research activities include his role as the Principal Investigator of several large-scale BC wide CME/CPD and cancer screening needs assessments. Dr Bluman actively works with many provincial and national stakeholders to optimize CME/CPD delivery to physicians.
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Disclosures: No disclosures
Dr. Brian Bressler is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Medicine. Dr. Bressler received his MD from the University of British Columbia and completed his residency in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Toronto. He received an MS in Epidemiology from the Harvard Public School of Health and completed an advanced fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bressler is a recognized expert in inflammatory bowel disease. His research interests include population based studies focusing on colon cancer, and inflammatory bowel disease, and clinical trials in inflammatory bowel disease.
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Disclosures: Dr. Bressler has received an Honorarium from Ferring, Abbott and Merck.
Dr. Karen Buhler is a family physician practicing in Vancouver for 30 years with a special interest in maternity care. She is currently the Head of the Department of Family Practice at BC Women’s Hospital, co-chair of the Collaboration for Maternal and Newborn Health, and an Associate Clinical Professor at UBC. Her practice includes the Perinatal Addictions Service at BC Women’s Hospital. She assisted in the implementation of licensed midwifery in BC and is actively involved in interdisciplinary maternity education.
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Dr. Edmond Chan is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy. He is a staff physician in the Allergy clinic at BC Children’s Hospital, and is also program director of the new UBC fellowship training program in Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Allergy based at BC Children’s Hospital. He received his MD from the University of Alberta, and completed his residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Allergy at the Children’s Hospital of Winnipeg. His research interests include food allergy and asthma.
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Disclosures: No Disclosures.
Dr. Maria Chung graduated from McGill Faculty of Medicine in 1983, and completed her Internal Medicine residency and Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at UBC. She is a currently on staff at VGH and UBCH as a Consultant Geriatrician, and is active in teaching as well as inpatient and outpatient care. She also provides consultative support for the Broadway Lodge Residential Care Facility, and Pacific Spirit Health Unit. She also is Site Medical Director for UBCH, and Medical Manager for the Subacute Medical service at VGH, and the Acting Co-Head of UBC Division of Geriatric Medicine. She is interested in acute care of the elderly, as well as transitions of care between hospital and community.
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Dr. Cathy Clelland is a graduate of the University of Alberta MD program and did her Family Medicine Residency at the Misericordia Hospital in Edmonton. She began practice in Full Service Family Medicine in Prince George BC from 1986 – 1989, then relocated to Kelowna until 2004. Since 2004, she has been the Executive Director of the Society of General Practitioners of BC and until very recently, maintained a part time family practice in Coquitlam. She provides staff support to the GP Services Committee and is the chair of the GPSC Practice Support Program End of Life Module steering committee. Her interest in end of life care stems from a commitment to “cradle to grave” family practice and the ongoing relationship with her patients throughout the span of their lives.
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Dr. Richard Cohen is a Clinical Associate Professor in the UBC Division of Respiratory Medicine. He chairs the Pulmonary Block in the first year of the UBC MD Undergraduate Program, and also teaches the ABC Primer for the Office of Faculty Development.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Marisa Collins is a family physician whose interests lie at the interface of primary care and public health. After graduating from McMaster (’88) she completed the rural residency program through UBC, and practiced in Hazelton, then Pemberton, until 2007. Somewhere in between she completed a Master’s in Community Medicine and Epidemiology. She has provided focused primary care in sexual and reproductive health in Whistler for the past 15 years. Recipient of a Vancouver Foundation Community-Based Clinician Investigator Award, 2007-2010, her research interests include sexually transmitted infection screening. She recently served as Physician Lead for the HIV Testing Initiative in Family Practice, and is currently on leave as Site Research Faculty for the Vancouver Fraser Family Practice Residency Program.
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Disclosures: Served as a Physician Lead for the HIV Testing Initiative in Family Practice at time of writing May I add an HIV test to your bloodwork today?.
Dr. Dan Ezekiel is a family physician in Vancouver, BC. He graduated from the medical school at the University of Toronto in 1988 and completed his post-graduate residency in Family Medicine at the University of British Columbia in 1991. At present, Dr. Ezekiel is an Attending Physician at Vancouver General Hospital and a Clinical Instructor with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Prior to his present office-based practice, he worked extensively in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Ezekiel is well-travelled and occasionally works as a ship’s physician for the cruise ship industry.
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Michael Clifford Fabian, FRCPC FRCSC FACS
Dr. Cliff Fabian has experience as a clinician, educator, administrator and researcher. He has practiced ENT in both the urban and community setting. Clinically, he presently concentrates on community otolaryngology in BC Northern communities, as well playing a role in medical student and resident teaching. He is dually trained and certified as both a Pediatrician and Otolaryngologist/Head and Neck Surgeon and is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Surgery at the University of British Columbia.
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Dr. Andrew Farquhar, MB ChB BSc DA
Andrew Farquhar is an Edinburgh Medical school graduate who emigrated to Canada in 1975. He worked for 3 years in the Arctic and in Australia for 6 months (locum work). 1981 to present Solo Private Practice in Kelowna BC.
Dr. Farquhar has a special interest in diabetes with a significant referral practice and has given multiple talks on diabetes management throughout Canada, and also in USA, Switzerland, Bermuda, New Zealand, Dubai and 2 presentations at the World Diabetes Congress in Montreal in Oct 2009 and Dubai Dec 2011. His publications include: “Diabetes Review: What’s New?” as presented at the BC College of Family Physicians 21st Annual Scientific Assembly, Vancouver; Can Journal of Diagnosis, May 2009; “The Kelowna Diabetes Program”, Canadian Journal of Diabetes, May 2008; “Insulin Protocols for Hospital Management of Diabetes”, Can Family Physician, Oct 2007; “Intensive Insulin management in Type 2 Diabetes” supplement to The Medical Post Oct 2006; “Exercising Essentials” Diabetes Dialogue Fall 1996.
Dr. Farquhar is passionate about: Diabetes Education for health professionals and patients, Endurance sports -The benefits of an active lifestyle; Photography – have won several national and international photo awards and had numerous publications, including a cover on the National Geographic Traveler calendar; and Adventure Travel/ Writing – published photo essays on the Arctic, rafting the Tatshenshini river in BC, climbing desert dunes in Namibia, shooting Hong Kong and a recent one published on the Galapagos Islands. Photo web page: www.afarfotos.com
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Dr. Sarah Finlayson, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Finlayson is a Gynecologic Oncologist with the Ovarian Cancer Research Program at VGH and BC Cancer Agency. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Her career is focused on the surgical and medical care of women with gynecologic cancers. Her academic interests include minimally invasive surgery in gynecologic oncology and medical education. She is currently focused on a knowledge translation project entitled, “Preventing Ovarian Cancer: the role of the gynecologist”. This educational outreach project targets all BC gynecologists and aims to decrease new cases of high grade serous ovarian cancer by 50% over the next 20 years.
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Dr. Frohlich is a UBC Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Clinical Trials Division of St. Paul’s Hospital Healthy Heart Program.
Having obtained his medical degree from Karlova University, Prague in 1965, Dr. Frohlich relocated to Montreal in 1968 and worked as a research fellow and trained in internal medicine and clinical pathology at McGill University and UBC. Before assuming his current positions in 1995, Dr. Frohlich was the associate director of the department of pathology of the Shaughnessy/ University Hospital, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Over the last 30 years, his service activities centered on establishing the first B.C. Lipid Clinic (1980) and being instrumental in the development of lipid clinic outreach programs throughout B.C. His research has focused on the biochemistry of lipoprotein metabolism, the pathology of atherosclerosis, and the development of new markers for the prediction of atherosclerosis. In addition to his service, research and teaching duties Dr. Frohlich also reviews numerous grants and publications and serves on the Editorial Board of scientific journals in the field of clinical biochemistry. Dr. Frohlich is a prolific author (co-author) of over 250 publications in journals such as Circulation, Laboratory Investigation, Nature, Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, American Journal of Cardiology and Canadian Journal of Cardiology, among others dealing mostly with HDL metabolism, LCAT, clinical trials and guidelines.
Dr. Frohlich is a member of The Canadian Cardiovascular Society Dyslipidemia Working Group and the Canadian Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Working Group. He has also served on the British Columbia Heart Foundation Committee for the chair in cardiology. Dr. Frohlich is the president of the Healthy Heart Society of British Columbia (HHS) a non-profit organization which facilitates improvements in cardiovascular prevention practices in B.C. communities and collaborates with BCMA and Ministry of Health to improve management of chronic diseases. HHS received the BCMA “Excellence in Health Promotion Award” for these activities in 2005. In 2006 Dr. Frohlich received the UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine’s “Excellence in Service” Award.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Dr. Gelmon is a Professor of Medicine at the UBC and a Medical Oncologist at the BCCA, combining clinical and translational research. She is Co Chair of the Breast Site Committee for the NCIC Clinical Trials Group and a member of the NCI Breast Steering Committee and of the BIG (Breast International Group) Advisory Group. She sits on the NCIC-CTG IND executive and is a past Chair of this committee. She is Clinical leader of Advanced Therapeutics department at the BCCA. She sits on the International Advisory Board of The Lancet, The Lancet Oncology, The Oncologist and Clinical Breast Cancer. She is a reviewer for journals and grant review panels and recently has become a member of the Scientific Advisory Council for the Susan Komen Foundation. She has been track chair for Breast at ASCO and is on the Education Committee currently. She is an active teacher interested in education of health care professionals and the public and has published extensively. She has been a member of the Board of the BC Cancer Foundation, on the Medical Advisory Board of the BC/Yukon Chapter of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and sits on the board of Rethink Breast Cancer. She was the recipient of a YWCA Woman of Distinction award in 2003. She is the mother of two daughters and is active on volunteer boards for the arts and community in Vancouver.
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William T. Gibson, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Dr. Bill Gibson is a Medical Geneticist who researches rare genetic disorders that cause obesity. He is an Assistant Professor at UBC, and sees patients of all ages in his clinical practice at BC Children’s Hospital.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Sharlene Gill, BSc (Pharm), MD, MPH, FACP, FRCP(C)
Dr. Sharlene Gill is a medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies at the BC Cancer Agency and an Associate Professor of Medicine at UBC. She received a BSc in Pharmacy and MD from the University of British Columbia in 1996 followed by residencies in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. Dr. Gill subsequently completed a fellowship in Gl Oncology at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) and a Master’s of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA) before returning to BC in 2003. She is enthusiastically involved in residency teaching and is an active investigator with several research publications to her credit. She currently serves as the NCIC Clinical Trials Group Co-Chair for the Intergroup Colon Cancer Task Force and is on the NCIC.CTG GI Disease Site Executive. She is Chair of the BCCA GI Tumour Group.
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Dr. Ran Goldman is the current Assistant Dean of UBC Continuing Professional Development. Dr. Ran Goldman was the recent Chief of the academic Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at BC Children’s hospital and is a full Professor with the Department of Pediatrics. He is heading the Pediatric Research in Emergency Therapeutics (www.PRETx.org) research and education program and published over 150 peer reviewed publications in pediatrics. Dr Goldman was trained in pediatric emergency medicine and clinical pharmacology and s the co-lead in the new Division of Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Pediatrics at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. Ran is passionate about research, clinical medicine, and education and developed curricula for several large CPD events.
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Dr. Hajek is an Infectious Diseases physician at Vancouver General Hospital. He specializes in TB and Tropical Medicine. He completed his Infectious Diseases fellowship in Toronto, including a malaria research fellowship in Guyana, and tropical medicine training in Peru. He has been a medical advisor for Citizenship and Immigration Canada and has worked overseas with governmental and non-governmental organizations in resource-limited settings.
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Dr. Jason Hart trained in Hematology and Medical Oncology in Edmonton, Alberta. He completed training in 2005, and joined the Medical Oncology team at the Vancouver Island Cancer Centre in the fall of that year. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and at the University of Victoria. Areas of clinical practice and research interests include benign and malignant hematology, as well as sarcoma.
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Dr. Hill is a Consultant Geriatrician, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UBC. She is also an Operations leader for geriatric medicine at St Paul’s Hospital. Dr. Hill is actively engaged in an in-patient and out-patient practice in geriatrics and internal medicine. She has a particular interest in the elderly in acute care and the impact of systems on their care.
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Dr. Devin Harris is a Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC and a Staff Emergency Physician, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver. He is on the Steering Committee of the British Columbia Stroke Strategy (BCSS) and is currently the Chair of the Measurement and Evaluation Committee of the BCSS. He has authored numerous publications, spoken, and been an investigator for multiple studies on the management of patients with transient ischemic attack and stroke. He is currently completing a PhD in the School of Population and Public Health, UBC, with a focus on stroke health services research. Originally from Penticton, B.C., he completed medical school, residency and graduate studies at UBC.
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Susan Hollenberg, B.Sc., M.D., MCFP
Dr. Susan Hollenberg is a UBC Med School Graduate. She has been in General Practice in urban and rural settings since 1989. Dr. Hollenberg is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Family Practice, teaching in the UBC Health Clinic, where she supervises medical residents, students and interdisciplinary learners in a Family Practice setting. For nearly twenty years, she has provided pre-travel health advice, both at the ‘Vancouver Coastal Health Travel Clinic’ and the ‘Travel Medicine and Vaccination Centre’ (ISTM Certificate in Travel Health, 2007). Dr. Hollenberg is also a member of TMEG, the Tropical Medicine Group of B.C. She’s been providing pre-travel health advice for participants in Canada World Youth exchange programs for over ten years and she also works in the Vancouver Coastal Health Youth clinic system providing medical care to local and international youth.
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Susan Inman’s memoir After Her Brain Broke, Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity (Bridgeross, 2010) has been recommended both by NAMI and by EUFAMI which are the world’s largest organizations advocating for families coping with mental illnesses; in Canada it has also been recommended by the Mood Disorders Society of Canada, the BC Schizophrenia Society, and numerous professional journals including the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Susan’s articles about mental illness have appeared in a variety of publications including the National Post, the Globe and Mail, the Province, The Tyee, the BC Teacher Newsmagazine, and CMHA-BC’s Visions magazine. Susan is a Past-President of the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society’s Vancouver/Richmond branch and a Past Vice-chair of Vancouver Coastal Health’s Family Advisory Committee.
While continuing to provide ongoing assistance to her daughter, who is recovering from a severe schizoaffective disorder, Susan is a very active public speaker about the situations of families coping with psychotic disorders. Susan has taught secondary school in Vancouver for over twenty years.
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Dr. Kunimoto practices medical dermatology at the Skin Care Centre, 835 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E8. He is the Director of Continuing Medical Education for the Department of Dermatology and Skin Science and the founding Director of the Vancouver General Hospital Wound Healing Clinic, established in 1990. MD degree: UBC 1983. Dermatology FRCPC: 1989. Clinical Appointment: Clinical Associate Professor.
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Dr. Joseph M Lam is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Department of Paediatrics and an Associate Member at the Department of Dermatology and Skin Sciences, UBC. Dr. Lam completed his medical degree at McGill University and a residency in Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia. He completed 2 years of fellowship training in Pediatric Dermatology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and at Rady’s Children Hospital at the University of California, San Diego. He currently practice Pediatric Dermatology in Vancouver in the community. He has particular interests in infantile hemangiomas and atopic dermatitis.
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Dr. Levin is a Professor at UBC in the Division of Nephrology. She is also the Executive director of the BC Provincial Renal Agency. She has clinical research interest in early kidney disease and prevention of progression – she has authored over 160 peer reviewed publications, and sits on numerous editorial boards for major journals. She continues an active outpatient practice focusing on chronic kidney disease.
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Dr. George Luciuk completed his medical school at University of Alberta and pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland and Winnipeg Children’s Hospital, Manitoba. Allergy/Immunology Fellowship was completed at Health Sciences Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland and Seattle Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, Washington. Dr. Luciuk is also a part of the Medical Advisory Committee, B. C. Lung Association Research Centre and the Patient/Public Education Committee, B. C. Lung Association.
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Kenneth M. Madden MSc, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Ken Madden is an associate professor of geriatric medicine at the University of British Columbia. His main area of research is exercise interventions in Type 2 diabetes and preventing falls due to syncope in older adults. He is the medical manager of the Acute Care for Elders Unit and Vancouver General Hospital.
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Dr. Roey Malleson is a clinical associate professor holding joint appointments in both the department of family practice and the department of pediatrics. She is currently Education Director in the Department of Specialized Women’s Health at BC Women’s Hospital and provides reproductive health services in various community settings in Vancouver.
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Disclosures: No Disclosures.
Julian Marsden is an emergency physician who has been in practice for almost 21 years, most of those at St. Paul’s Hospital.
His other interests include knowledge translation and the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine as well as quality improvement and he is the Clinical Director of the Clinical Care Management Program at the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council.
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Dr. Melosky is a Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a Medical Oncologist at the British Columbia Cancer Agency. She graduated from medical school at the University of Manitoba and did a residency in internal medicine and a oncology fellowship at the University of British Columbia. She is currently a medical oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency with clinical interests in lung and gastrointestinal malignancies.
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Disclosures: No Disclosures
Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC, FACP, ASTMH
Dr. Mirzanejad is a Consultant in infectious diseases at Surrey Memorial Hospital- Fraser health Authority and a Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of ID – UBC. He’s an MD Graduate 1985 from Iran University of Medical Sciences and completed his Internship in 1988 at St. Paul’s Hospital- UBC. Residency in Internal Medicine – University of Manitoba 1994. Fellowship in Infectious diseases and Microbiology Vanderbilt University Medical Centre 1994- 1997. Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from Gorgas institute 2008.
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Disclosures: No Disclosures
Julio Montaner, MD, DSc(hon), FRCPC, FCCP, FACP, FRSC, OBC
Professor of Medicine, UBC and St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation Chair in AIDS Research, Head of Division of AIDS, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital-Providence Health Care; Past-President, International AIDS Society, Canada.
Dr Julio Montaner is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received his Medical Degree with Honors from the University of Buenos Aires in 1979. In 1981, Dr. Montaner joined the University of British Columbia (UBC) at St Paul’s Hospital (SPH) where he completed his training in Internal Medicine and Respiratory Medicine. While still in training, he led several clinical studies that demonstrated the role of adjunctive corticosteroids in PCP-related respiratory failure. In 1988, he became the Director of the AIDS Research Program and the Immunodeficiency Clinic at SPH/UBC. Since then, he focused his research in the development of antiretroviral therapies and management strategies. In the mid 90’s, he played a key role in establishing the efficacy of NNRTI based highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). This was one of the pivotal contributions emerging from the IAS-sponsored Vancouver 1996 International AIDS Conference, of which he was a co-organizer. He is a Professor of Medicine at UBC and has held the Endowed Chair in AIDS Research at SPH/UBC since 1996. He is a founding Co-Director of the Canadian HIV Trials Network. He is the Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. He has been a member of the International AIDS Society since 1988, an elected member of the North American Region since 2002 and President from 2008-2010. Dr. Montaner has authored over 400 scientific publications on HIV/AIDS. His current research interests include HAART as prevention, optimal use of HAART, salvage therapy, new antiretrovirals, as well as hard to reach populations and harm reduction. In 2008, he received the inaugural Avant-Garde Award of $2.5 million over 5 years, from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support his project entitled “Seek and Treat for Optimal Outcomes and Prevention in HIV & AIDS in IDU (STOP HIV/AIDS)”. In September 2009, he was the recipient of the $100,000 Knowledge Translation Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health (CIHR) and, in November 2009, he was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada-The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences (RSC). Founded in 1882, the RSC, consisting of distinguished Canadian scholars, artists and scientists, is Canada’s senior and most prestigious scholarly organization. In 2010, he received a Doctor of Science honoris causa from Simon Fraser University, the Order of BC as well as the Albert Einstein World of Science Award.
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Disclosures: Dr. Montaner is supported by the Ministry of Health Services and the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport, British Columbia; supported through Knowledge Translation Award from CIHR; and through an Avant-Garde Award from NIDA-NIH. Funding is also received from Merck, Gilead, and ViiV Healthcare to support research into Treatment as Prevention.
Sue Murphy is Senior Instructor and Associate Head, Clinical Education in the Department of Physical Therapy. Her research interests are in clinical and interprofessional education. Sue currently holds a TLEF grant related to the formation of a student led clinic at Royal Columbian Hospital and a grant from the Vancouver Foundation Cedar Lodge Fund which to allow a pilot project in interprofessional education on an acute neurosciences unit. Sue is also involved in a pilot project to assist internationally educated Physical therapists obtain licensure in Canada. She was a Killam Teaching Award winner in 2011.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Dr. Daniel Ngui, BSc (P.T), MD, FCFP
Dr. Ngui is a Family Physician who works at a Vancouver Coastal Community Health clinic in Kerrisdale. He is involved with the family medicine training program at St. Paul’s Hospital and has been involved with promoting, developing and providing continuing health education with the BCCFP and hospital CME committees.
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Disclosures: National Advisory Boards/Speakers Bureau for Amgen Canada, BMS, Astra Zeneca, Merck, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Valeant, Complete Medical Communications, Science and Medicine Canada, Canadian Urological Association, Osteoporosis Canada, Primary Care Updates, Healthchoicesfirst.ca, UBC CPD CME and Memorial University CME committees and Committee member for St. Paul’s Hospital CME committee.
Dr. Paty is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine . He works in the VGH Diabetes Clinic, the UBC Bone Marrow Transplant and the Islet Transplant Programs and is Program Director for the Division of Endocrinology.
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Disclosures: Dr. Paty has received speaking fees and/or sat on advisory boards for Merck, Novo Nordisk, Astra Zeneca, and Boehringer Ingelheim.
Dr. Natasha Press works as an Infectious Diseases physician at St. Paul’s Hospital. She graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School, and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia. Following that, she did a research fellowship in HIV clinical trials. She is the program director of UBC’s Infectious Diseases training program, and currently runs the anal dysplasia clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital.
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Disclosures: Advisory board meeting for BMS – attendee; involved in research study (unfunded) with Acroptronix; dealings with multiple pharmaceutical companies to obtain funding for the Infectious Diseases Residents’ Education Fund.
Launette Marie Rieb, MSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Dr. Launette Marie Rieb is a Family Physician certified by both The American Board of Addiction Medicine and the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia where she is the Director of the Addiction Medicine and Inter-collegial Responsibility Program for education of undergraduate medical students and Family Medicine residents. Dr. Rieb works at OrionHealth (Vancouver Pain Clinic) in chronic pain rehabilitation, utilizing her graduate degree in the area of pain physiology. Also, she works at The Three Bridges Community Health Centre where the focus of her practice is Addiction Medicine, including methadone maintenance. She is an invited speaker locally, nationally and internationally, including recently for the Olympic Committee in Doha, Qatar. She teaches regularly for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (biannual methadone conference), and for the Foundation of Medical Excellence – from Portland, Oregon (Pain and Suffering annual conference). In the past, Dr. Rieb was a consultant for St. Paul’s Hospital where she was also Site Faculty of Curriculum for Family Practice, UBC. She is a past Board Member of the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine and past Chair of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s Inquiry Board for Physician Incapacity due to drug dependence and mental illness.
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Disclosures: Medical consultant at OrionHealth – Vancouver Pain Clinic. It is 51% worker owned, including Dr. Rieb’s shares. Employed as a medical consultant for clinical work in the Pain Management Program.
Dr. Carol-Ann Saari is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the Clinical Head of the Provincial Youth Concurrent Disorders program at BC Children’s hospital. Dr. Saari is involved in assessment and treatment, knowledge exchange education, multi-disciplinary teaching and training, and research regarding youth with concurrent disorders. Dr. Saari received her MD and completed specialty training in psychiatry at UBC. She is also a consultant psychiatrist at the Provincial Autism Resource Center in Vancouver. The Provincial Youth Concurrent Disorders sees youth between 12-25 with mental health and substance use issues. http://www.bcchildrens.ca/Services/ChildYouthMentalHlth/ProgramsAndServices/ProvincialYouthConcurrentDisordersProgram/default.htm
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Disclosures: No Disclosures
Dr. Laura Sauvé is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious and Immunological Diseases and the Pediatrics Residency training program director. She did her medical school and pediatrics residency at the University of Calgary, followed by an infectious diseases fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children and a Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her research interests include public health surveillance, especially with respect to vaccinology and pediatric HIV/AIDS. She is the BC Investigator for IMPACT (the Immunization Monitoring Program, ACTive) which does surveillance for vaccine preventable diseases and adverse events following immunizations.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Mary V. Seeman O.C. is a psychiatrist; she graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in 1960 and completed her residency in N.Y.C. and her Fellowship in Cambridge, U.K. Her clinical interest has always been in the study of schizophrenia, especially in gender differences. Formerly in charge of an outpatient clinic for women with schizophrenia, she is currently Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto. Since her retirement from clinical practice, she works with graduate students at the Institute of Medical Science, U. of T.
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Disclosures: Medical Advisor to Clera Inc
Ken Seethram, MD, FRCSC, FACOG
Dr. Seethram is a clinical lecturer in the department of OBGYN at the University of British Columbia. He received his undergraduate and post-graduate training at the University of Alberta. He is certified through the Fetal Medicine Foundation to provide First Trimester Screening. Conjunctly, he works at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive medicine, providing advanced fertility investigations and assisted reproductive technologies. In addition, he is the co-chair of both the Specialist Services Committee (SSC), and the Shared Care Committee (SCC) which work in concert with the Ministry of Health to deliver practice changing programs. His special interests include ultrasound, minimally invasive pelvic surgery, and fertility.
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Disclosures: Dr. Seethram works at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive medicine, providing advanced fertility investigations and assisted reproductive technologies. In addition, he is the co-chair of both the Specialist Services Committee (SSC), and the Shared Care Committee (SCC) which work in concert with the Ministry of Health to deliver practice changing programs.
Dr. Sandra Sirrs is an endocrinologist at Vancouver General Hospital. She is also the medical director of the Adult Metabolic Diseases Clinic which specializes in the diagnosis and therapy of adults with inborn errors of metabolism.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Dr. Squire currently practices in Vancouver BC where she has a consultative practice in complex pain. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia and is involved in medical education and curriculum development for both undergraduate and post-graduate physicians. She was a member of the guidelines committee (2010-2012) for Pain Medicine, the national group mandated to write the curriculum for the new Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons specialty of Pain Medicine.
In 2008 she was given the inaugural Helen Hays award for excellence in pain management and in 2010 she was given the Academic Pain Educator of the Year award by the American Society of Pain Educators.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Dr. Steiner received his MD and completed internal medicine residency at Duke University. He did his infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Virginia, training in enteric pathogenesis and Tropical Medicine with Richard Guerrant. Dr. Steiner joined the faculty at UBC in 2000 and he is currently Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases. His clinical interests are intestinal infections, Tropical Medicine, and Infections in patients on biologic agents. His research focuses on basic immunology of the gut.
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Disclosures: Honorarium for educational speeches from Amgen, Wyeth, and Pfizer. Iroko Pharmaceuticals advisory board.
Dr. Nigel Sykes has served as Treasurer of the Association of Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland, and as a member of the Association’s Executive and Ethics committees. Currently he is a member of the Neurological Diseases Strategy Group of the UK National Council for Palliative Care. He set up the first UK clinical ethics committee to be located in a hospice and has spoken on television and radio, and made presentations to British parliamentary committees, on ethical issues relating to palliative care.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Shirley Sze, BMSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Dr. Shirley Sze started full service family practice in 1979. Dr. Sze has been a member of the Continuing Medical Education Committee for the Royal Inland Hospital for over 20 years and Chair of the Committee for over 10 years and has been highly involved in organizing and chairing CME for physicians as provincial CME Coordinator. She has taught and facilitated at various educational workshops. Dr. Sze has been involved with CME for the BCMA, the Practice Support Program (PSP) as a presenter, Family Practice Champion, and has received the Distinguished Leadership Award for the Improvement of Primary Care in BC through the PSP. Dr. Sze has been a member of many Advisory Committees through UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) and continues to Chair the BCMA Continuing Medical Education Nucleus Committee. She has been a representative for BC and Yukon to the CMA Council on Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development. Recently, Dr. Sze was an invited presenter at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement for Re-designing the Clinical Office Practice in 2009 and 2010. She reviews online medical educational programs for University of Western Ontario and UBC and is a Faculty Member for Health Literacy Prototype Collaborative (Ministry of Health). Dr. Sze continues to be involved with teaching and research forums and highly committed to CME for BC Family Physicians.
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Disclosures: Funded by Interior Health Tobacco Cessation Program to attend Mayo Conference on Tobacco Cessation and to teach in this area – paid on hourly basis. Not funded to submit the article.
Dr. Paul Thiessen is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UBC. He graduated of the University of Alberta in 1974, and completed his residency training at the University of BC as well as the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is the Medical Director of Intermediate Nursery, BC Women’s Hospital since 1996, and the Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital since 1994. He has a longstanding interest in medical education, and was chair of the Annual Meetings Committee of the Canadian Pediatric Society from 2003 to 2009. He is a general pediatric consultant in a group practice of 6 pediatricians involved extensively in neonatal medicine. He has a longstanding interest in international health, and over the past 20 years has been involved in health care projects in Ukraine, India and Uganda.
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Disclosures: No Disclosures
Dr. Mustafa Toma is a clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. He completed his training in internal medicine and cardiology in Edmonton, AB followed by training in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic. His areas of interest are in advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Dr. David Topps is a Family Medicine Professor at the University of Calgary. Previously Director of Clinical Informatics at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, with over 20 years of experience in educational technology, mobile communications and ubiquitous computing. A family physician by background, he has worked in rural and remote medicine since 1984, turning to academic medicine in 1997. He has worked and taught in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, and has been part of a number of international collaborative projects. Current areas of research include digital professionalism, virtual patients, and mixed modality simulation in Interprofessional education.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Dr. Kiran Veerapen is Regional Faculty Development Director of the Island Medical Program. She completed medical training in Rheumatology in the United Kingdom and practiced as a Rheumatologist in Malaysia from 1986-2004. She has a long-standing interest in medical education and in 2008 completed a Masters in Medical Education degree through the University of Dundee, Scotland. In June 2012, Dr. Veerapen was awarded a PhD from the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at the University of Victoria. Her doctoral thesis is entitled “The impact of uni-professional medical and nursing education on the ability to work collaboratively.” Dr. Veerapen is responsible for planning, supporting, developing, implementing and evaluating educational activities to meet the needs of members of the teaching faculty. Through these activities she hopes to promote a culture of teaching and learning amongst the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching faculty on Vancouver Island region.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Randall F. White is a general psychiatrist at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, BC and a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia. He is a leader in collaborative mental health care with family physicians at St. Paul’s and at Three Bridges Clinic in Vancouver. He writes for Medscape.com and has published commentaries in a variety of media. He received his medical degree from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and has practiced in the United States and Canada.
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Disclosures: Dr. White is a freelance medical writer for Medscape.com which is sponsored by pharmaceutical companies including Shire, Janssen, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Dr. Wilkins was a Clinical Professor Emeritus (Ret.) at the UBC Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and he also chaired the weekly Endocrine Rounds for residents and staff at St. Paul’s Hospital. His major teaching interest have been to introduce residents and fellows to the management of patients with endocrine disease by utilization of clinical practice and office practice. Post Graduate Training: Junior internship: Toronto Western Hospital- 1965-66.
Assistant Resident Medicine: Vancouver General Hospital- 1966-67. Fellow in Metabolism: Toronto Western Hospital- 1967-1968. MRC Fellow in Endocrinology: Vancouver General Hospital 1968-69. Chief Resident Medicine: Vancouver General Hospital- 1969-1970. Fellow in Nuclear Medicine: Vancouver General hospital- 1970-1971.
He’s the recipient of 2006 The Prix d’excellence from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Region 5, in recognition of his longstanding contribution to medical education and to the academic community. Dr. Wilkins has also received Career Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching: Awarded by UBC Faculty of Medicine in 2005.
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Disclosures: No disclosures.
Dr. Michelle Withers is a community-based medical and surgical dermatologist. She completed her undergraduate training and medical school at the University of British Columbia. She graduated from the Department of Dermatology and Skin Science at UBC in 2004 and now practices in north Burnaby. Dr. Withers is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the UBC Department of Dermatology and Skin Science and teaches medical students and residents in her private office. She is the president of the Dermatology Society of British Columbia and an active member of the Canadian Dermatology Association.
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Disclosures: Advisory board for Pediapharm and Valeant, both makers of barrier repair creams. Honorarium from Valeant, speaking on atopic dermatitis.
Dr. Steve Wong completed his MD degree at the University of Calgary. He joined the Internal Medicine residency program at the University of British Columbia and completed a fifth year in the General Internal Medicine Fellowship with a focus on perioperative medicine.
Dr. Wong has developed a number of courses and initiatives aimed at bridging technology, evidence-based medicine and clinical practice in close collaboration with the UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD). He is currently the Medical Director for “This Changed My Practice” — a free, web-based educational resource for BC physicians at UBC CPD.
In addition, Dr. Wong is the Medical Director for Clinical Practice Reviews, a new initiative in partnership with the Ministry whereby BC specialists and GPs provide direct feedback regarding new drugs on the Pharmacare formulary.
Currently in practice in Vancouver at the Seymour Clinic and in Richmond, BC as a General Internist, Dr. Wong’s clinical interests include hypertension, lipids, cardiology and global management of diabetics. He also attends on the clinical teaching unit at VGH and has trainees 12 months a year integrated into all of his practice environments.
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Disclosures: I own ~35 shares in AAPL. I am not affiliated with any iOS app developer. Speaker’s honoraria: Abbott, Glaxosmithkline, Merck, Novartis, Novonordisk, Boehringer-Ingelheim, UBC-CPD, Vancouver Coastal
Eric M. Yoshida MD, MHSc, FRCP(C), FACP, FACG
Dr. Eric Yoshida is a Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Gastroenterology of the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Yoshida is the past Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program of BC Transplant and remains a member of the liver transplant program. He is the Head of the BC Hepatitis Program, a partnership of the BC Centre for Disease Control and the UBC Division of Gastroenterology and is the Past President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Liver. He is a member of the national governing board of the Canadian Liver Foundation.
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Disclosures: Dr. Yoshida has been the principle investigator of clinical trials sponsored by Vertex Inc, Merck Inc (formerly Schering Plough), Hoffman LaRoche Inc, Pfizer Inc, Boringher Ingleheim Inc, Norvartis Inc, Gilead Sciences Inc, Astellas Inc, Human Genome Sciences Inc. He has received unrestricted research grants from Cangene Corp, Hoffman LaRoche Inc and has received honouraria for CME lectures and industry sponsored forums/symposia from Hoffman LaRoche, Merck Inc, Vertex Inc and Cangene Corp. He is a consultant for BC Pharmacare in the area of viral hepatitis adjudication.
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