R.G. Matson
Professor Emeritus
Prehistoric Archaeology of B.C., Southern Coastal B.C., Southern Interior B.C., Archaeology of the U.S. Southwest
Dr. Charles Menzies
Professor
Fisheries crises, traditional ecological knowledge, local ecological knowledge, social inequality, neo-liberalism, Tsimshian, Brittany, Ireland, maritime communities, coastal communities, ethnoecology, First Nations land claims
Nicholas Coops, PhD
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing (I)
Optical remote sensing, LIDAR, computer visualization, biodiversity, climate change, forest mapping, biological diversity, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
David Edgington, PhD
Professor
Japanese economy, Japan-Canada trade and investment links, Pacific Rim trade and investment patterns, Japanese cities and regions, multiculturalism and local government in Vancouver, Australia
Prof. John O’Brian, PhD
Professor Emeritus
visual art, photography, Canadian art, modern art, atomic imagery, nuclear photography, the bomb, art and violence,
Peter O’Brien
Associate Professor
Adult trauma
Deborah O’Connor, PhD, RSW
Professor
Family support to frail or mentally impaired seniors, formal support services, senior citizens
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.
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. Don Baker, PhD
Professor
Korean history, religion in Korea, the Kwangju (Gwangju) Democratization Movement of 1980,
Vicki Bernstein
Clinical Professor Emerita
Heart disease in women, cardiac failure, risk factors in heart disease, hypertension
Susan Cox, PhD
Associate Professor
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar
Genetic testing, experiences of hereditary risk, social and ethical implications of genetics, interpersonal and family communication, qualitative research, narrative and story, human genome, gene mutation
Todd Handy, PhD
Professor
Aging and cognition, aging and exercise, cognitive neuroscience, mind wandering, attention, migraine, fMRI
Don McKenzie, PhD, MD
Professor
Exercise, cancer, elite athletes
Edie Rasmussen, PhD
Professor
Information retrieval, search engines, indexing, digital libraries, multimedia databases
Robert Guy
Professor; Editor-in-Chief for the Americas, TREES Structure and Function
Plant biology, plant physiology, tree physiology, trees, stable isotopes
Gordon Weetman
Professor Emeritus
BC forestry, forest management, silviculture
Dr. Lisa Cooper, PhD
Professor
Archaeology of Ancient Near East, Archaeology of the Ancient Middle East, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Babylonia, Ancient Syria, Material Culture, Artifacts, Gertrude Bell, ancient pottery, Ancient Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, History of Archaeology, Archaeological Photography, Ancient History of Near East/Middle East, cuneiform,