FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS: AWARDS & HONORS

Congratulations to our 2023 Faculty of Medicine Award Recipients!
We're happy to recognize the following department members for their exceptional achievements:

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Amanda Bradley, from Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, has been awarded the Excellence in Education award.
This recognizes her significant contributions to health education in areas of leadership, innovation, and scholarship of education.

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David Huntsman, who holds positions in both Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Aly Karsan from Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, have been honored with the Excellence in Clinical or Applied Research award.
This celebrates their outstanding clinical or applied research and scholarly contributions.

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Honglin Luo from Pathology & Laboratory Medicine is the recipient of the Excellence in Basic Science Research award.
This recognizes her exceptional research and scholarly contributions in the realms of health and life sciences.
Please join us in congratulating our colleagues for their well-deserved recognitions!
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🌟 INTRODUCING OUR STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 2023-2028

This plan presents our commitment and vision for the future of laboratory medicine.

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Vision: Transform laboratory medicine and our understanding of disease for better health.

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Mission: As an inclusive department of pathology and laboratory medicine, we focus on making cutting-edge discoveries, training future leaders in medicine, and ensuring patients receive the highest quality of care.

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Values: Global relevance, societal commitment, integrity, collegiality, curiosity and innovation, equity, and inclusiveness.

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Explore our strategic plan and join our path forward!
🔗 View our Strategic Plan here

CMPT 2022/23 ANNUAL REPORT NOW AVAILABLE!

Explore the achievements and accomplishments showcased in the latest Canadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing annual report.
🔗 View the report here

INFO SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT:
Please share with others who might be interested

• 📅 Event: Pre-CaRMS Information Sessions via Zoom
• 🌐 Reference: CANPREPP website
• ✉️ RSVP: Please click here to register for the sessions

CALL OUT FOR MENTORS: FACULTY OF MEDICINE STAFF MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

The Faculty of Medicine has launched a mentorship program and is seeking individuals who are interested in serving as mentors.

If you wish to support a colleague in their career development, we invite you to participate. Our mentors come from a variety of backgrounds, and prior mentoring experience isn't necessary. All that we ask for is a genuine desire to make a positive impact.

Please submit your mentor application 🔗 here by October 20th, 2023.

For more information about the program, visit our 🔗 website or reach out to us at FoM.OrgDev@ubc.ca.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF DR. NAVEENA SINGH: A REMARKABLE LIFE AND LEGACY

 

It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the passing of Dr. Naveena Singh. Dr. Singh joined the department in 2021, having been recruited to Vancouver from London, where she was an adjunct professor at Queen Mary’s University and an anatomic pathologist at Barts Health. Naveena was born in Washington DC and in the course of her father’s diplomatic career spent formative years in London, Madrid and Khartoum, before returning closer to home when he became the Indian Ambassador to Nepal and then Myanmar/Burma. Naveena attended medical school in New Delhi and did her residency at the Post Graduate Medical Institute in Chandigarh, where she formed lifelong friendships. She was proudly Indian and was especially proud to be the first Indian to be elected president of the International Society of Gynecologic Pathologists. While in India she met the English artist Stuart Robertson, and after an eventful courtship over a period of years, they married and moved to London where their three children, Arjun, Amrita and Lakshmi, were born. Naveena completed residency training and took a staff position at Barts Health, where she remained until moving to Canada. She was active in the British Association of Gynecological Pathologists, serving as meeting secretary and then president. It was in these roles that she was able to demonstrate her leadership, organizing meetings, guidance documents, and collaborative studies. She established criteria for assignment of primary site and assessing response to chemotherapy in tubo-ovarian serous carcinoma, and these criteria were rapidly adopted by the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting, College of American Pathologists, Royal College of Pathologists and are featured in the WHO blue book (Female Genital Tumours). She moved to Vancouver for the opportunity to work at Vancouver General Hospital/UBC with the multidisciplinary team here doing research on gynecological cancers. She was just hitting her stride in that work when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Over the last year of her life she continued to be active and her characteristic cheerful commitment to doing the right thing never wavered. She was able to fit in trips to the Okanagan wine country, London, New York, New Delhi and Hawaii during her final year, before the cancer progressed and prevented further travel. We offer condolences to Stuart, Arjun, Amrita, and Laskshmi; her family was always first in her heart and mind.

HIGHLIGHTED EVENT(S)

 

CTLT Generative AI Support Clinic (Online Drop-in) – October 11, 2023

Online The Generative AI Drop-In clinics are open for all faculty and staff at UBC and UBC Okanagan on teaching and learning topics to do with the use of tools such as ChatGPT, Stability AI, Google Bard and others. The sessions will be in an open-hours format where the questions will be answered such that 🔗 Read More