Dr. Rita McCracken, MD, PhD, CCFP(COE), FCFP
Assistant Professor
Family Physician
family doctor shortage, family practice, primary care, audit and feedback, prescribing patterns, prescribing safety, quality improvement, end of life, frailty, physician remuneration, health policy (primary care), geriatrics, nursing homes, long term care, residential care, doctors, social justice in medicine, social determinants of health, health equity,
Amori Mikami, PhD
Associate Professor
Peer relationships, friendships, peer rejection, bullying, social skills training, social networking, Facebook, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, children, adolescents
Dr. Stan Floresco, PhD
Professor
Dopamine, reward, decision making, cognitive flexibility, frontal lobes, addiction,
Darko Odic, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cognitive development, language acquisition, mathematics, perception of time and space, psychophysics, visual cognition, preschoolers, confidence, statistics
Trevor Dummer, PhD
Associate Professor
Health geography, cancer prevention, environmental exposures, health inequalities, geographic information science, obesity, risk factors
Lindsey Richardson, D.Phil
Associate Professor
Drug Use, Poverty, Social Determinants of Health, Social Welfare/Income Assistance, Precarious Employment
John Carsley, MD, CM, MSc
Clinical Associate Professor
Public health practice and teaching, healthy public policy, preventive medicine, determinants of health, injury prevention, maternal and child health
Danuta Skowronski, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Professor
Epidemiology Lead, Influenza and Emerging Respiratory Pathogens
Influenza, emerging respiratory viruses, pertussis, vaccine-preventable diseases, epidemiology, rapid response research, risk assessment, public policy, public education through media
Hugh Davies
Associate Professor
Occupational exposures, occupation noise, noise induced hearing loss, environmental noise, occupational health, silica, Anti-neoplastic drugs, construction
Jeff Brubacher, MD, MSc
Associate Professor
Drugs and driving, alcohol impaired driving, road safety
Prof. Gregor Kiczales
Professor
Online learning, online course design, Computer programming, software development, teaching programming, programming languages,
Luke Clark, PhD
Professor
Director, Centre for Gambling Research at UBC
Gambling, problem gambling, addiction, decision-making, reward, cognitive neuroscience
Dr. Rickey Y. Yada, PhD
Dean and Professor
Food systems, food waste, food policy, agricultural policy, food protein chemistry, enzymes (aspartic proteases), carbohydrate biochemistry, food nanotechnology,
Doris Barwich, MD, CCFP (Palliative Care)
Medical Director, BC Centre for Palliative Care
End of life care, palliative care, advance care planning
Mark Martinez, PhD
Professor
Pulp & paper, fluid mechanics,
Jason Sutherland, PhD
Associate Professor
Health care funding, patient outcomes
Villy Christensen, PhD
Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Director, Global Ocean Modeling
Ecosystem modeling, global ocean, IPBES, Ecopath, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Susan Birch, PhD Yale
Associate Professor
Social perspective taking, social learning, social cognition, imitation, nonverbal behavior, confidence, communication, decision-making, impression formation, child development, the study of children and adults’ social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples’ mental states–their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person’s perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as ‘the curse of knowledge bias’ (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one’s current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)
Francois Benard, MD
Professor
Medical isotopes, radioisotopes, nuclear medicine, cancer imaging, molecular imaging of cancer, radionuclide therapy
Simon Peacock
Professor
Earthquake, geology, education, STEM education, science education, tsunami, earth science