We wish to congratulate Dr. William Cunningham on receiving the 2021 David Haughton Leadership Award. Dr. Cunningham is a Clinical Associate Professor with the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Physician at Saanich Peninsula Hospital, Department Head for Primary Care at Island Health, and Medical Director for Community Health Services in Urban Victoria.
“It was a great privilege to be one of the last CCFP(EM)s to have been given an academic appointment in the UBC Department of Surgery, and a founding member of the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine,” said Dr. Cunningham. “I am proud to be a member of the department and have the opportunity to teach and hold an academic appointment.”
The David Haughton Leadership Award is awarded every few years by the Section of Emergency Medicine of the Doctors of BC for exemplary achievements as a physician, leader, and teacher.
I am greatly honoured to be recognized by my peers with this award—for being a very active member of the Section of Emergency Medicine and permitted to lead great change in our chosen discipline.
— Dr. Cunningham, Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
“I am greatly honoured to be recognized by my peers with this award—for being a very active member of the Section of Emergency Medicine and permitted to lead great change in our chosen discipline,” said Dr. Cunningham.
