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  • April 2012, Linda Li and Lara Boyd

    The Early Career Scholars Program is for full-time UBC faculty who are in the professorial ranks and at the early stage of their academic careers at UBC. The Institute appoints a single cohort of up to fourteen untenured Assistant and recently tenured Associate Professors each year. Researchers are chosen as individuals and from all academic…

  • April 2012, Kristin Campbell and Susan Harris

    April is Cancer Month, and Drs. Kristin Campbell (Assistant Professor) and Susan Harris (Professor Emerita) are working to improve the lives of patients with breast cancer. Their research has been featured prominently as part of an important supplement in the journal Cancer. The supplement was published online April 6, 2012 and will be in print…

  • Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, April 2012

    Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose has recently been featured on CTV and on the front page of the Vancouver Sun for her work on the benefits of resistance training on cognition.  Read more on the UBC Media Release. She and her team have also recently released an educational You Tube video describing the benefits of and proper…

  • March 2012, Lara Boyd

    The Canada Research Chairs program is part of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world’s top countries in research and development. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Tier 2 Chairs are tenable for five years and renewable once, are for…

  • March 2012, Robin Roots

    We are delighted to announce that Robin Roots has accepted the position of Coordinator of Clinical Education, Northern and Rural Cohort and will officially join the UBC MPT Clinical Education team on May 1, 2012. She will continue in a contractual basis until that date. Robin, a former UBC MSc grad, brings a wealth of…

  • February 2012, Jodi Edwards

    Jodi Edwards, PhD Candidate supervised by Lara Boyd received a 2012 Brain Star Award from the CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA). This award is designed to recognize the excellence of research done in Canada by students and trainees in all fields and disciplines covered by INMHA. Jodi was chosen as a…

  • Faculty members receive funding to study pulmonary rehab

    Professor  Darlene Reid, Assistant Professors Jordan Guenette and Pat Camp have received $150,000 in funding from the BC Lung Association to support research and knowledge translation in pulmonary rehabilitation.  The funding will be used to equip the programs and laboratories at St Paul’s and Vancouver General Hospital;  and to develop a knowledge translation platform to…

  • October 2011, Marie Westby

    Clinical Associate Professor, Marie Westby, presents Prehab through Rehab: Stepping along the Continuum of Care for Persons with Total Joint Replacement Surgery at the Arthritis Care Clinical Symposium, October 12, 2011.