Jeff Brubacher Receives Major CIHR Operating Grant
January 31, 2013
Congratulations to DEM faculty member and Road Safety strategic initiative leader Jeff Brubacher. Jeff learned yesterday that he and his team were awarded a significant 4 year operating grant from the CIHR for a study on “Prescription Medications and the Risk of Motor Vehicle Crashes”. Also included on the grant from the DEM are Herb […]
Come participate in a free public forum: Social Media for Health – Feb 4th
January 18, 2013
Dear Department colleagues: I would like to invite you to participate in a free forum (more info in the attachment), organized by UBC eHealth Strategy Office together with nursing, business, engineering and Library science, on a very timely topic of interest to ourselves and our patients: Title: Social Media for Health: The Good, The Bad, […]
Tracy Pickett wins a SECOND Royal College award, the Detweiler Travelling Fellowship
January 7, 2013
Please join me in congratulating Tracy Pickett on winning a second Royal College award, the Detweiler Travelling Fellowship ($10,500) to acquire new knowledge or pursue research. Tracy is part way through a Master’s of Forensic Medicine degree at Monash University in Melbourne. She will spend May 2013 at Monash to complete coursework at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine. Tracy is the first […]
Tracy Pickett wins the Royal College Professional Development Grant!
January 7, 2013
Please join me in congratulating Tracy Pickett for winning the Royal College Professional Development Grant ($4000) to support personalized and practical professional development. Tracy used it to support the month she committed to the DEM NERD Research Methodology course which she says she thoroughly enjoyed.
Public notification of the addition of Emergency Medicine as an entry route to the subspecialty of Pain Medicine
December 13, 2012
This memo is provided to stakeholders of the Royal College, to seek your feedback on a proposed change to add Emergency Medicine as a route of entry to the newly recognized subspecialty of Pain Medicine. Please click here to read more information.
Open invitation to the upcoming Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consortium Meeting
November 22, 2012
This is an open invitation to the upcoming Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consortium Meeting which will be held in Seattle in January 2013. This is a unique conference of three North-Pacific Pediatric Emergency Medicine Divisions: BC Children’s Hospital Seattle Children’s Hospital OHSU Emergency Medicine/Doernbecher Children’s Hospital http://pacificnwpem.org/
Congratulations to UBC EM resident Dr. Doug Brown on a NEJM publication
November 16, 2012
Congratulations are in order to UBC RCPS-EM Senior Resident Dr. Doug Brown for his lead author publication on accidental hypothermia in the November 15, 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. A first author publication in the NEJM while still in residency is a remarkable accomplishment that is unprecedented in the history of […]
Position available for Department of Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director
November 15, 2012
Applications are invited for the position of Department of Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director. This position is open to Department of Emergency Medicine faculty members from all of the distributed sites. The DEM Clerkship Director will be appointed within the Department of Emergency Medicine, and will report to the Department of Emergency Medicine Undergraduate Education Program […]
Critical appraisal templates now available on DEM website
November 13, 2012
Critical appraisal templates now available on DEM website It is recommended that whenever possible Journal Club presenters use a standardized template to organize their review. To facilitate this, templates have now been posted on the Journal Club section of the DEM website from the UK “Critical Appraisal Skills Program”. These are the same templates that […]
Congratulations to Rod McFadyen in his new role as UBC Specialty Medical Director/CPD Educator and Royal College CPD Educator Region 1
October 26, 2012
Congratulations to Rod McFadyen in his new role as UBC Specialty Medical Director/CPD Educator and Royal College CPD Educator Region 1. Rod works with the Victoria group and has a long interest and experience in education at all levels. We are indeed honoured to pleased for Rod. He will be an exceptional professional education leader and a […]
Dr. Terry Klassen will be visiting professor for 2013 EM Research Day
September 4, 2012
The DEM is pleased to announce that Dr. Terry Klassen, Director of Research for the Manitoba Institute of Child Health and Associate Dean Academic at the University of Manitoba, has agreed to be the Visiting Professor for 2013 UBC EM Research Day on April 10, 2013. Dr. Klassen is an internationally known and highly respected […]
Dr. Gary Andolfatto’s paper in top 25 annals of EM downloads
August 27, 2012
Congratulations to DEM Faculty Member and ED Research Director at Lion’s Gate Hospital Dr. Gary Andolfatto. From April-June 2012, the full text of Gary’s paper, “Ketamine-Propofol Combination (Ketofol) Versus Propofol Alone for Emergency Department Procedural Sedation and Analgesia: A Randomized Double-Blind Trial,” was among the top 25 downloads from the Annals of Emergency Medicine website. […]
Dr. Sandra Jenneson wins CJEM humanities writing award
June 4, 2012
Congratulations to UBC RCPS-EM Resident Dr. Sandra Jenneson for winning the 2012 CAEP Penelope Gray-Allan Memorial CJEM Award. This national award is given to the best “Humanity” article submitted by a Canadian Resident in an RCPS-EM or CFPC-EM Residency program. The full text of Sandra’s winning submission is available in the May 2012 issue of […]
Dr. Corinne Hohl wins ACEP Best Paper Award
December 1, 2011
Congratulations to DEM Faculty Member Dr. Corinne Hohl. Corinne is leader of the DEM Strategic Initiative on Recognizing and Mitigating Adverse Drug Events in the ED and received the Best Paper Award at the Research Forum of ACEP 2011 in San Francisco for the following presentation: “Clinical Decision Rules to Improve the Detection of Adverse […]
Congratulations to Dr. Ka Wai Cheung for her success in receiving the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Mentored Clinical Scientist Award.
March 31, 2011
This is a significant achievement and a major step in Ka Wai’s academic career. Her focus will be on smoking cessation in patients seen in the emergency department and we wish her the best of success. The link at the UBC website is: http://www.med.ubc.ca/about_us/Awards_and_Honours.htm