Dr. Quynh Doan, Dr. Pascal Lavoie and Dr. Jill Zwicker are leading the BC Children’s ENRICH team
BC Children’s is also part of a new national training platform for child health researchers, Empowering Next-generation Researchers In perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH), that will provide new training opportunities for early career researchers and trainees. Dr. Quynh Doan, Dr. Pascal Lavoie and Dr. Jill Zwicker are leading BC Children’s ENRICH team. [MORE] More about […]
Congratulations Dr. Bruce Vallance!
Dr. Bruce Vallance is a co-principal investigator on a new national research training program, Training Researchers In The Next Generation in Gastroenterology and Liver (TRIANGLE) program, that will support the next generation of trainees and early-career researchers specializing in digestive health. [MORE] @BruceVallance More about Dr. Vallance’s work
ParticipACTION Community Better Challenge Grant events
The Department of Pediatrics and BCCH Research Education Services successfully awarded a Community Better Challenge grant out of over 2500 applicants! Please join us for some of our upcoming events that support our commitment to getting our community active, building resilience and promoting connection. Count me in! More information: wellbeing@bcchr.ca
Celebrate Research Day Celebrate Research Day, April 8th, 2022
Please join us for our Annual Celebrate Research Day! The UBC Department of Pediatrics’ annual resident and fellow research competition, is coming to you virtually again this year on April 8th, 2022 from 12-4pm. [MORE]
Congratulations Dr. Philip Crowell!
Dr. Philip Crowell is the recipient of the UBC Health award and scholarship in Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching & Learning. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC and a PHSA Spiritual Health Leader at the C&W campus. Dr. Crowell obtained his PhD in ethics and philosophy from […]
Building the first Canadian national pediatric diabetes registry
Dr. Shazhan Amed and Dr. Elodie Portales-Casamar recently joined with 10 childhood diabetes centres across the nation to work on CAPACIty. CAPACIty is co-funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, JDRF and Diabetes Canada and works from a lens of equity, diversity and inclusion and prioritizes indicators of inequality, their strategies will stand to positively […]
International Women’s Day and the 2022 theme #BreakTheBias
In honour of International Women’s Day and the theme #BreakTheBias, meet some outstanding women @UBCMedicine — staff, learners and faculty — who are transforming health for everyone.[MORE]
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Chilvers!
Dr. Chilvers is the 2021 Above and Beyond Award winner from Cystic Fibrosis Canada. Dr. Mark Chilvers has been a pediatric respirologist and CF clinic director at BC Children’s Hospital since 2008. CF Canada recognized his work with the Above and Beyond Award, an honour bestowed to health-care and research professionals who have consistently contributed […]
Master of Science Opportunity in Indigenous Health Services Research
A funded 2-year Master of Science position is available in the Women+ and Children’s Health graduate program at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Munro. The expected start date is September 2022. The guaranteed rate of funding is $24,000 stipend per year plus a funded research assistantship. The student […]
WACH Program launched
The Departments of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Pediatrics are collaborating on the development of an umbrella program for graduate student training in Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences (WACH). The term Women+ embraces women, transgender, and non-binary individuals. [MORE] WACH learners choose one of 3 streams and complete courses and training relevant to their chosen stream: […]