Faculty of Medicine

Reinhard Michael Krausz, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Professor

UBC PHC Leadership Chair for Addiction Research

Mental health, E mental health, psychiatry, vulnerable urban, addiction psychiatry, addiction treatment

Michael Brauer, ScD

Michael Brauer, ScD

Professor

Air pollution, air quality and health, environmental health, transportation and health, healthy cities, environment and health, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Dr. Kam Shojania, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatology, ankylosing spondylitis, connective tissue diseases, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE

Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD

Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD

Public Health Researcher and Educator

public health, social equity, women’s health, global politics, social determinants of health, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, integrative health, holistic health practices, yoga, meditation, indigenous systems of health, health policy,

David Patrick, MD

David Patrick, MD

Professor

Antibiotic resistance, infectious disease, epidemiology

Vanessa Brcic

Clinical Instructor

Primary care, family medicine, poverty, social determinants of health, health inequities, health care of marginalized populations, private vs. public health care debate, health care reform

Joanna Cheek

Clinical Instructor

Mindfulness, psychotherapy, psychosocial treatments, bipolar disorder

Michael R. Law, PhD

Michael R. Law, PhD

Associate Professor

Pharmaceutical policy, prescription drugs, health insurance, cost of medicines, drug costs, health policy, health care, drug advertising

Prof.  Steve Morgan, PhD

Prof. Steve Morgan, PhD

Professor

pharmacare, health care policy, pharmaceutical policy, access to medicines, prescription drug pricing, prescription drug coverage, health care financing, health care spending, Canadian medicare,

Erin Michalak, PhD

Erin Michalak, PhD

Associate Professor

Bipolar disorder, quality of life, stigma, community based participatory research, depression, mental health, ehealth, self-management, advocacy, mental illness

Louise Masse

Professor

Obesity prevention, childhood obesity, policy approaches to address childhood obesity, physical activity

Dr. Lori Brotto, PhD, R. Psych.

Dr. Lori Brotto, PhD, R. Psych.

Professor, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Executive Director, Women’s Health Research Institute

Women’s sexual health, mindfulness interventions, sexual dysfunction, women’s health and equity, asexuality, sexual psychophysiology,

Dr. Catriona Hippman, PhD, CGC

Dr. Catriona Hippman, PhD, CGC

Postdoctoral Fellow

Genetic counselling, genetic counseling, psychiatry, mental illness, postpartum depression, reproductive mental health, perinatal mental health, prenatal genetic screening, Down syndrome, disability, pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine, antidepressants, antidepressant use in pregnancy, decision making in pregnancy,

Dr. Sarah Henderson, BASc, PhD

Dr. Sarah Henderson, BASc, PhD

Senior Scientist

BC Centre for Disease Control

wildfire smoke, air pollution, extreme hot weather, public health, epidemiology, environmental health

John Spinelli , PhD

John Spinelli , PhD

Professor

Cancer prevention, risk factors, biostatistical and epidemiologic methods, cancer and the environment, pesticides and cancer, etiology of lymphoma, multiple myeloma and leukemia, etiology of breast cancer

Jordan Guenette, MSc, PhD

Jordan Guenette, MSc, PhD

Assistant Professor

Exercise physiology, respiratory physiology, respiratory diseases, sport performance

Stephen Hoption Cann, PhD

Stephen Hoption Cann, PhD

Clinical Professor

Chair, Clinical Research Ethics Board

Ethics, clinical ethics, research ethics, research ethics boards (REBs), institutional review boards (IRBs), clinical study design, epidemiology, infectious diseases, spontaneous disease remission, cancer immunology, fever, fever management, essential trace elements, Health Canada and FDA Regulations

Kay Teschke, MPH, PhD

Kay Teschke, MPH, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Bicycling, traffic injuries, bike lanes

Soren Gantt, MD, PhD

Soren Gantt, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases

Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes simplex virus, congenital infection, newborn infection, Burkitt’s lymphoma

Christopher Carlsten, MD, MPH

Christopher Carlsten, MD, MPH

Professor and Head, UBC Respiratory Medicine

Chair in Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease

Director, Air Pollution Exposure Laboratory

Director, Legacy for Airway Health

Health care, air pollution, gene-environment interactions, public health, environmental health, respirology, and knowledge translation, air quality