Allergy & Immunology
Contact
#166-1081 Burrard Street, St.
Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 1Y6
Tel: 604 682 2344 X 62708
Division Head: Dr. Amin Kanani | a.kanani@ubc.ca
Nikki Nielsen | nikki.nielsen@ubc.ca
Cardiology
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- Cardiovascular Health (ICVHealth)
- Research Focus: Outcomes research in cardiovascular health
- Resources: Refinement of research questions, planning and study design, budget consultation, grant preparation
- Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI)
- Research focus: Understanding the link between genes and the environment in causing heart, lung, and blood vessel disease
- Resources: Cellular imaging and biophysics core, digital slide scanning, GEM facility, Graphic & Imaging services, Histology, HIC, Info Systems, Molecular Phenotyping and Genotyping, Registry and Biobank, Technology Development
Contact
9th floor, DHCC
2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9
Tel: 604 875-4111 X 69821
Fax: 604 875-5504
Division Head: Dr. Jasmine Grewal| JAGrewal@providencehealth.bc.ca
Administrator: Marilyn Robertson | marilyn.robertson@vch.ca
Community General Internal Medicine
Contact
Division Head: Dr. Denise Jaworsky | denise.jaworsky@ubc.ca
Associate Division Head: Dr. Euiseok Kim | euiseok.kim@ubc.ca
Critical Care
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- BC Centre of Excellence for Prevention or Organ Failure (PROOF)
- Research Focus: Developing blood tests to better predict, diagnose, manage and treat heart, lung, and kidney disease
- Resources: The PROOF Centre’s service arm provides expertise in computation, “-omic” science and biomarker workflow to organizations seeking to discover, develop, and implement blood-based molecular biomarkers in a clinical setting
Contact
855 W 12th Ave – ICU2- JPPN
2nd Floor, Rm. 2438
Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1M9
Division Head: Dr. Cheryl Holmes | cheryl.holmes@ubc.ca
Administrator: May Wong | may.wong@ubc.ca
Endocrinology
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR)
- Research focus: The physical and psycological causes and effects of ovulation disturbances on women’s overall health
- Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI)
- Research focus: Understand link between our genes and the environment in causing heart, lung, and blood vessel diseases
- Resources: Cellular imaging and biophysics core, digital slide scanning, GEM facility, Graphic & Imaging Services, Histology, HIC, Info Systems, Molecular Phenotyping and Genotyping, Registry and Biobank, Technology Development
- BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre
- Research focus: comprehensive assessment and care for people who have osteoporosis
Contact
4th Floor, GLDHCC
2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1M9
Tel: 604 875-5929 – VGH | 604 806-8606 – St. Paul’s Hospital
Fax: 604 875-5925
Division Head: Dr. Marshall Dahl | marshall.dahl@vch.ca
Administrator: Aleta Allen | aallen@providencehealth.bc.ca
Gastroenterology
Contact
5th floor, GLDHCC
2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1M9
Division Head: Dr. Robert Enns | rob.enns@ubc.ca
Administrator: Elaine Grant | elaine.grant@vch.ca
General Internal Medicine
Contact
Ste 5910 Burrard Bldg, 1081 Burrard St.
Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 1Y6
Tel: 604 806-8668
Fax: 604 806-8338
Division Head: Dr. Nadia Khan | nadia.khan@ubc.ca
Administrator: Stephy Borgen | sborgen@providencehealth.bc.ca
Geriatric Medicine
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- VITALiTY Research Laboratory
- Research Focus: Translational laboratory investigation in the field of aging, mobility, cognition, and mood
Contact
Division Head: Dr. Kenneth Madden | kenneth.madden@ubc.ca
Administrator: geriatric.medicine@ubc.ca
Hematology
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program
- Research focus: Advancing knowledge of blood disorders and to meet the needs of patients for whom we provide care
- Resources: Hematology cell bank of BC
- The Centre for Blood Research
- Research Focus: Outcomes research in cardiovascular health
- Resources: Spectroscopy, Crystallography, Spectometry, netCAD
Contact
10th Floor, 2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9
Tel: 604-875-4089
Division Head: Dr. Stephen Nantel | snantel@bccancer.bc.ca
Administrator: Barbara Yuen | byuen2@bccancer.bc.ca
Infectious Disease
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
- Research focus: current focus is in public health areas of communicable disease protection
- Immunity and Infection Research Centre (IIRC)
- Research focus: infectious disease, transplant immunology, molecular mechanisms of immune response
- Resources: Cell analysis, gene analysis, protein/lipid analysis
Contact
452D HPE, 2733 Heather St.
Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 3J5
Tel: 604 875-5497
Fax: 604 875-4013
Division Head: Dr. Ted Steiner| tsteiner@mail.ubc.ca
Administrator: Susanna O’Neil| susanna.oneil@ubc.ca
Assistant: Melanie Parris | melanie.parris@vch.ca
Medical Oncology
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- BC Cancer Agency (BCCA)
- Resources: Research facilitation office, cancer control research, multiple research centres (lymphoid, immunology, experimental therapeutics, genome sciences, integrative & interdisciplinary oncology, investigational drugs)
Contact
BCCA, 600 W 10th Ave
Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 4E6
Tel: 604-877-6000 x 2445
Division Head: Dr. Stephen Chia | schia@bccancer.bc.ca
Administrator: May Wong | may.wong@ubc.ca
Nephrology
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
Contact
St. Paul’s Hospital
Rm. 166-1081 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6
Tel: 604 875-4111 ext. 67946
Vancouver General Hospital
5th floor, GLDHCC
2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver BC, V5Z 1M9
Division Head: Dr. Adeera Levin, Executive Director BC Provincial Renal Agency | alevin@providencehealth.bc.ca
Administrator: Maeve Lalor | Tel: 604 682-2344 ext. 62232 | Fax: 604-806-8120
Neurology
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (CBH)
- Research focus: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, MS, Mental Health and Addiction, Stroke, Neurotrauma
- Brain Research Centre
- Research focus: neuroscience research with focus on promoting neuron survival and functional recovery
- Resources: Peptide synthesis and In Vivo imaging
- Pacific Parkinson Research Centre
- Research focus: use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and recently with functional fMRI to study the natural history and progression of Parkinson disease, genetic forms of Parkinson, the complications of long-term disease and its therapy and the placebo effect
- Resources: MRI, PET, Electrophysiology
- MS/MRI Research Group
- Research focus: developing better trial methodologies to improve the lives of people with neurological diseases
- Resources: Consultation on study design and feasibility along with a full range of central MRI analysis services
- Seizure Investigation Unit
- Resources: performs Electroencephalography (EEG) tests to record the electrical brain activity that occurs with seizures
- MS Clinic and Research Group
- Research focus: improving all aspects of life for patients with MS
- Centre for Applied Neurogenetics
- Research focus: to accelerate the development of novel therapeutics for patients with neurological disease
- Resources: genetics, computing/statistics and molecular biology, model generation and characterization including behavioral testing, microdialysis, brain slice electrophysiology and neuropharmacology
Contact
UBC Hospital
Koerner Pavilion
2211 Wesbrook Mall, UBC Hospital
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 2B5
Tel: 604 822-7929
Fax: 604 822-7703
Division Head: Dr. Martin McKeown | martin.mckeown@ubc.ca
Administrator: Yvonne Ng | yvonne.ng@vch.ca
Division Secretary: Fax: 604 875-5217
Palliative Care
Contact
St. John Hospice
6389 Stadium Road (Lower Entrance)
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4
Tel: 604 806-9686 X 64941
Division Head: Dr. Fify Soeyonggo | Fify.Soeyonggo@fraserhealth.ca
Administrator: Stephanie Milne | stephanie.milne@ubc.ca
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD)
- Research focus: development and translation of more effective strategies promoting prevention of spinal cord injury, functional recovery, and improved quality of life after SCI
- Resources: rehab gym, Access Lab (kitchen, physical activity labs), biomechanical engineering lab, neurophysiology and autonomic research labs
- GF Strong Rehabilitation Research Program
- Research focus: to discover innovative solutions to optimize the outcomes of rehabilitation and improve the lives of those with disabilities and their families
Contact
G.F. Strong Rehab. Centre
4255 Laurel Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 2G9
Tel: 604 714-4157
Fax: 604 714-4177
Division Head: Dr. Jennifer Yao | jennifer.yao@vch.ca
Secretary: Sim Lee | sim.lee@vch.ca
Respiratory Medicine
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- Chan-Yeung Centre for Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease (C2OERD)
- Research focus: lung disease related to workplace and environmental exposures
- Resources: “Air Pollution Exposure Lab” (APEL)
- The Lung Centre
- Research focus: pulmonary research and on-going clinical drug trials
- Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI)
- Research focus: Understanding the link between genes and the environment in causing heart, lung, and blood vessel disease
- Resources: Cellular imaging and biophysics core, digital slide scanning, GEM facility, Graphic & Imaging services, Histology, HIC, Info Systems, Molecular Phenotyping and Genotyping, Registry and Biobank, Technology Development
Contact
7th Floor, GLDHCC
2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1M9
Tel: 604 875-4327
Fax: 604 875-4695
Division Head: Dr. Christopher Carlsten | christopher.carlsten@ubc.ca
Administrator: Gagan Basi| gagan.basi@vch.ca
Clinical Manager: Sheena Tam | sheena.tam@vch.ca |
Tel: 604 875-5412 | Fax: 604 875-4695
Rheumatology
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- Arthritis Research Centre of Canada
- Research focus: consumer-driven clinical research and trials related to arthritis diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, care outcomes and quality of life issues
Contact
10th Floor, GLDHCC
2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1M9
Tel: TBD
Fax: TBD
Division Head: Dr. Antonio Aviña-Zubieta | azubieta@arthritisresearch.ca
Administrator: Lourdes Gonzal Arreola | ubcrheum.admin@ubc.ca
Social Medicine
Members are associated with the following Research Centre(s)
- BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
- Research Focus: Epidemiology & Population Health, Gender & Sexual Health
- Resources: Routine clinical HIV/AIDS lab services, specialized HIV related testing (including drug resistance and therapeutic drug monitoring)
- BC Centre on Substance Use
- The BCCSU is a provincially networked organization with a mandate to develop, help implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to substance use and addiction.
- The BCCSU seeks to achieve these goals through integrated activities of its three core functions: research and evaluation, education and training, and clinical care guidance.
- Research Focus: Leading an innovative multidisciplinary program of research, monitoring, evaluation and quality improvement activities to guide health system improvements in the area of substance use
- Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE)
- The scope of CGSHE’s work ranges from social epidemiology and public policy to interdisciplinary, mixed methods and social science research
- CGSHE conducts research with youth, young women, LGBTQ/2S+ communities, racialized migrant and refugee communities, urban Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people, gender-based violence survivors, and communities that are over-policed and surveilled, including parents in poverty, sex workers, people living with HIV, and individuals precariously housed or incarcerated
Contact
#667-1081 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z1Y6
Tel: 604 806-8036
Fax: 604 806-8527
Division Head: Dr. Thomas Kerr | thomas.kerr@ubc.ca
Division Administrator: Julie Sagram | julie.sagram@bccsu.ubc.ca