Dr. Steven Pelech, PhD
Professor
Cancer, Neurological disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, Diabetes, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Biochemistry, Signal Transduction, Cell signalling, Protein kinases, Protein phosphatase, Transcription factors, Cell receptors, Proteins, Peptides, Peptide synthesis, SPOT peptide synthesis, Antibodies, Antibody microarrays, Serological tests, Bioinformatics, Ethics, Evolution, Social intelligence, Cellular intelligence, Molecular intelligence, Biotechnology,
Robert Schellenberg, MD, FRCP(C)
Professor
Primary immune deficiency, asthma, allergic diseases
David Stapells, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Newborn hearing screening, tests of hearing in children and adults, brain responses and hearing, electrophysiological diagnosis, auditory evoked potentials
Siân Spacey
Associate Clinical Professor, Neurology
Director, UBC Headache Clinic
Headaches, migraines, ataxia
Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC
Professor
Injection drug use, population health, epidemiology, urban health, HIV/AIDS, antiretroviral therapy, addiction, opioids, fentanyl
Dr. Elizabeth M. Simpson, BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor
Genetics, genomics, mouse modeling, CRISPR, aniridia, blindness,
Peter von Dadelszen
Professor
hypertension in pregnancy; fetal growth restrictions; medical complications of pregnancy; provision of maternity services
Jack Taunton
Professor; Co-Director
sports medicine; exercise management; stress fracture; exercise and the elderly; 2010 medical programs, doping, emergency, care and sports medicine, Chief Medical Officer for 2010
Stephan K.W. Schwarz, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Professor & Dr. Jean Templeton Hugill Chair in Anesthesia
Director, Hugill Anesthesia Research Centre
Dept. of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d’anesthésie
Anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, local & regional anesthesia, analgesia, pain, pharmacology, study design, biomedical publishing,
Dr. Jean Chanoine, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Pediatric endocrinology, Capacity building, access to medicine, clinical care in low-income countries,
Short CV:
Dr. Chanoine trained in Belgium and joined British Columbia Children’s Hospital (Vancouver) in 1998 as Head of the Endocrinology and Diabetes Unit. His previous experience includes a fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, USA; Pediatric Endocrinologist at Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola in Brussels; and Medical Director for Novo Nordisk Belgium.
Dr Chanoine has published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is increasingly active in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in low resource settings (Low and Middle Income Countries) as a researcher, a mentor and an advocate. He is presently Secretary General of Global Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (GPED, www.globalpedendo.org) a charitable organisation that he incorporated in Canada. He sits on the NCDChild working group for “access to Medicines” and on the expert committee for Essential InVitro Diagnoses at the WHO.
He was a teacher at the Pediatric Endocrinology Training Centers in Africa (PETCA) in Kenya and at the Maghreb School (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria). His primary interest in global health is “access to essential medicines” in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes.
Carolin Klein
Multidisciplinary Vulvodynia Program Director
Vulvodynia, provoked vestibulodynia, sexual pain, sexual desire, sexual function
Eric M. Yoshida, BSc, MD, MHSc
Professor of Gastroenterology
Liver disease including autoimmune, viral hepatitis (including Hepatitis B, C and non-B, non-C), liver transplantation, aboriginal issues regarding liver diseases, viral hepatitis, transplantation, biomedical ethics of transplantation
David G. Huntsman, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG
Professor
Hereditary cancer, molecular pathology, cancer biomarkers
Mark Ansermino, MBBCh, MMed (Anaes), MSc (Info), FFA (SA), FRCPC
Professor
Pediatric anesthesiology, global health, mHealth, health technology, digital health, health informatics
Prof. Helen Tremlett, PhD
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis
multiple sclerosis, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health administrative data, drug safety and effectiveness, disease-modifying drugs for multiple sclerosis, gut microbiome, pediatric-onset MS, observational studies, real-world data, post-marketing research,
Karen Bartlett
Professor
Occupational and Environmental Health Division
Cryptococcus gattii, occupational hygiene, environmental hygiene, mould, fungi, indoor environmental quality, environmental toxicology, public health toxicology, bioaerosols
Michael Noble, MD, FRCPC
Professor
Medical laboratory quality management, quality assurance of medical laboratories, medical laboratory safety, international standards for medical laboratories, laboratory errors
Karen A. Gelmon
Clinical Professor
Cancer, breast cancer, new cancer therapies
A. Jon Stoessl, CM, MD, FRCPC, FAAN
Professor and Head, Division of Neurology
Co-director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Director, Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre
Parkinson’s, Positron emission tomography, neuropharmacology, dopamine
Dean Foti, BSc, MDCM
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Pick disease, traumatic brain injury, concussions, head injuries, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease