Brain Trust: How B.C.’s sports organizations are facing the concussion epidemic
Dr. Shelina Babul was featured on CBC discussing her Concussion Awareness Training Tool. See: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/brain-trust-grassroots-1.5485443 Dr. Babul is the Associate Director, Sports Injury Specialist, BC Injury Research & Prevention Unit, BC Children’s Hospital, Director, Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting & Prevention Program (CHIRPP), BC Children’s Hospital Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital and Investigator, Djavad Mowafaghian Center for […]
Congratulations CIHR Project Grant Recipients!
Congratulations to the BC Children’s and BC Women’s investigators who were awarded funding through the highly competitive Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Fall 2019 competition. Our research community received more than $8 million in new research and bridge grants. Many of the investigators who were successful in this competition benefited from the […]
Farewell to Dr. Soren Gantt
** A message on behalf of Dr. Wyeth Wasserman, Vice-President Research, BC Children’s Hospital ** Dear research community, With mixed emotions, I would like to announce that Dr. Soren Gantt is leaving Vancouver in July 2020 for a new position with CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre at the Université de Montréal. In his many roles […]
Congratulations Dr. Aven Poynter!
Dr. Aven Poynter is the winner of the 2019 Dr. Judith Hall Award. Each year the BC Pediatric Society presents the Dr. Judith Hall Award, which recognizes excellence in research, policy development, community involvement and improving the status of or empowering pediatricians. Here’s what Dr. Poynter’s nominator said about her: Aven has done so much to empower […]
The Pharmacy Informer – Winter 2020 Edition
The Pharmacy Informer – Winter 2020 Edition of the Pharmacy Informer is hot off the press! The Pharmacy Informer is a quarterly newsletter that contains important updates and highlights from the Children’s & Women’s Health Centre of BC, Department of Pharmacy. Download editionPharmacy Informer Winter 2020 FINAL
Congratulations Dr. Ruth Grunau!
On Jan 31, 2020, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health announced that Dr. Ruth Grunau ranks in the top 1.5% of researchers cited globally for her work in Developmental Neuroscience. In 2019, Dr. Ruth Grunau received the Outstanding Pain Mentorship Award at the Canadian Pain Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting this week. The award recognizes her outstanding mentorship […]
Congratulations Dr. Kyla Hildebrand!
Dr. Hildebrand is the recipient of the 2020 Royal College / AMS Donald Richards Wilson Award from The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. This award was established to honour and acknowledge the contribution of the late Dr. Donald R. Wilson (President, RCPSC, 1988-1990) to medical education. It is given annually to a medical […]
BCIRPU Wins Physical Literacy Video Award from CIHR
BCIRPU’s video on physical literacy has received an award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Human Development, and Youth Health (IHDCYH) for the 2019 IHDCYH Talks Video Competition! (https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/51823.html) The video was developed using an integrated knowledge translation approach with key stakeholders and end users including injury prevention researchers, practitioners, a […]
Distributed Teaching Sites & Community-Based Clinical Faculty
BC is widely recognized for its distributed medical school. The expansion began in 2004 in partnership with the provincial government, academic partners and the health authorities. The Department of Pediatrics is highly appreciative of the great work done by pediatricians across the province as UBC undergraduate medical student teachers at the four campuses: the Vancouver-Fraser […]