The "Research & Dialogue" speaker series places substance use research in dialogue with lived experience to put the latest evidence into real world context. Each virtual hour-long session takes place on the last Wednesday of the month. The sessions are broken in to a 35-minute presentation, a 10-minute response from the respondent, and a 15-minute […]
The “Research & Dialogue” speaker series places substance use research in dialogue with lived experience to put the latest evidence into real world context. Each virtual hour-long session takes place on the last Wednesday of the month. The sessions are broken in to a 35-minute presentation, a 10-minute response from the respondent, and a 15-minute […]
Join Health Research BC for ENGAGE MY BRAIN, NOT MY EYE: The non-negotiables in the visual communication of data and concepts. In this workshop, Martin Kryzwinski, staff scientist at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer will explore what makes a good visual explanation — theme, continuity, clarity, and a constrained and unadorned […]
The BC Drug and Poison Centre’s medical toxicologists will discuss recent changes in the management of drug overdose. Program highlights include presentation of difficult management cases and discussions of controversial management areas. Toxicologists will demonstrate why the management of each case is difficult and emphasize key management strategies while focusing on pearls and pitfalls in […]
Second time’s the charm! Due to unforeseen weather circumstances, we unfortunately had to cancel our February 28th Fraser Social, but the UBC Faculty of Medicine Alumni Engagement Team is back for another free networking event on April 3rd! Join us for a casual get-together with Fraser students, residents, and alumni in Coquitlam! Come chat with […]
The Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) is presenting a hybrid Work in Progress seminar with Associate Director Dr. Amy Salmon and Program Head of Patient-Reported Outcomes Dr. Rick Sawatzky looking at novel methods for equitable people-centred health measurement. It is widely recognized that social inequities are associated with health outcomes. There has […]
The Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) in collaboration with UBC Learning Circle will be hosting a conversation about the importance of cultivating safe spaces for 2SLGBTQ+ people for healing. We will be centering our shift as a society to consciously make space for our people who are frequently forgotten about in healing spaces. This […]
The presentation will focus on the Aaniish Naa Gegii: the Children’s Health and Well-being Measure© (ACHWM), a strengths-based and culturally relevant app developed to measure the health and well-being of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis (FNIM) children. It will delve into the application of the ACHWM as a culturally safe assessment tool to gather local […]
The UBC Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) is pleased to announce the return of an in-person Research Day! We are excited to welcome audience members and presenters to join us at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (Chan Centre Lecture Theatre & Chieng Family Atrium) for a full day of podium presentations on April 12. […]
The Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the Faculty of Medicine invites you to join us in a conversation with Jorden Hendry. Jorden Hendry is Tsimshian/settler and a member of the Lax Kw’alaams band with nine years of experience contributing to reconciliation and anti-racism in the health and educational system. As a PhD student […]
We are pleased to invite you to attend our annual UBC Department of Orthopaedics Research Day, taking place Wednesday, May 3 on the main floor of the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre at Vancouver General Hospital. This one day event will feature UBC Orthopaedics residents, fellows, and graduate students research.
About the Talk Dr. Meera Dhebar will review traditional cis-heteronormative colonialist assumptions embedded within the discourses and professional practice of mental health systems. She will discuss the centering of queer of colour cultural knowledge, queer theory, and queer of colour critiques to move beyond the current models of LGBT competencies and affirming therapy to a […]