The BC Children's Hospital, together with Providence Health Care Research Institute and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, organizes a public lecture each March. These lectures include several talks by clinicians and scientists on the latest leading-edge health research.
Presented by Dr. Ran Goldman, Investigator, BC Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC. | Dr. Mahesh Menon, Psychologist, Vancouver Coastal Health; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UBC. | Dr. Nardia Strydom, Department Head of Family Medicine, Providence Health Care; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UBC. | Watch here.
Human height is largely under genetic control, but there is no "height gene." Instead, there are many genes that affect height, and most of them have small effects that add up together with other ones. Presented by Dr. William Gibson, co-discoverer of Cohen-Gibson syndrome, Investigator, BC Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. | Watch here.
How do we make medications (drugs) safer for all patients? I use the sciences of pharmacology and medical genetics to understand why some people benefit from drugs and others are harmed. Presented by Dr. Bruce Carleton, Investigator & Director, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Programme, BC Children's Hospital; Division Head, Translational Therapeutics, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. | Watch here.
Uncover the health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children. Explore how often infections occur, what the illness looks like in children, the impact on child health and what a vaccine will mean for kids in BC. Presented by Dr. Laura Sauvé, Investigator & Medical Co-Lead for Infection Prevention and Control, BC Children's & BC Women's Hospitals; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC. | Watch here.
Through an example of a real emergency department problem, learn how to define a health services research question, design a study to answer the question, and use your findings to change how the system works to solve the problem and demonstrate the impact of your intervention. Presented by Dr. Quynh Doan, Investigator & Physician, BC Children's Hospital; Associate Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, UBC. | Watch here.
Dr. Wyatt is seeking to develop better treatments for late-stage metastatic prostate cancer. Learn about the role of circulating tumour DNA in his research. Presented by Dr. Alexander Wyatt, Senior Research Scientist, Vancouver Prostate Centre; Assistant Professor, Department of Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. | Watch here.
Dr. Rassekh talks about improvements in cancer cure rates, the use of genomics in pediatric cancer and individualizing cancer therapy, and exciting research going on now at BC Children's Hospital. Presented by Dr. Rod Rassekh, Investigator, Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program, BC Children's Hospital; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. | Watch here.
Gastroenterologist, Dr. Telford, talks about colorectal cancer prevention and diagnosis and how screening for colorectal cancer decreases cancer death and reduces the need for more aggressive forms of cancer treatment. Presented by Dr. Jennifer Telford, Medical Director, BC Colon Screening Program; Clinical Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, UBC. | Watch here.
Presented by Dr. Bruce Bjornson, Investigator, Director, Brain Mapping & Neurotechnology Lab; Scientific Director, Imaging (3T MRI) Facility, BC Children's Hospital; Clinical Assistant Prof., Faculty of Medicine, UBC. | Dr. David Wilson, Investigator, BC Children's Hospital; Prof., Faculty of Medicine, UBC. | Dr. Robert Boone, Interventional Cardiologist, St. Paul's Hospital; Prof., Dept. of Medicine, UBC. | Watch here.
Presented by Dr. Colin Ross, Investigator, BC Children's Hospital; Assistant Prof., Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC. | Catriona Hippman, Doctoral Student, BC Children's Hospital. | Dr. Jehannine Austin, Canada Research Chair, Translational Psychiatric Genomics; Prof., Depts. of Medical Genetics and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. | Watch here.
Presented by Dr. Corinne Hohl, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC; Attending Emergency Physician, VGH. | Dr. Cynthia Verchere, Investigator & Director, Burn Unit, BC Children's Hospital; Head & Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, UBC. | Dr. Sam Wiseman, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, UBC; Chair, Thyroid Surgical Tumour Group, BC Cancer. | Watch here.
Presented by Dr. Jehannine Austin, Canada Research Chair, Translational Psychiatric Genomics; Professor, Departments of Medical Genetics and Psychiatry, UBC. | Dr. Raymond Lam, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UBC. | Dr. Christian Schutz, Associate Professor, Institute of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, UBC. | Watch here.
We need you today for a better tomorrow. Our kids are counting on it.
Each year, the University of British Columbia faculty of medicine recognizes faculty and staff members for excellence in teaching, research, administration, innovation and public service.
Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute investigators and staff members who are recognized in the 2022 UBC Faculty of Medicine Awards:
We believe there’s nothing we can’t do with your support. It can take years to turn scientific breakthrough into new interventions and treatments. Funding helps speed the pace of change. When given the resources, we can bring transformative therapies – and hope – out of the laboratory and into the clinic to save and improve children’s lives.