REMINDER: 2015 Call for Nominations: FoM Standing Committees Representation

This is a reminder that the nomination deadline for representation on a number of Faculty of Medicine standing committees is Friday, April 24, 2015. Please see the message below for additional information.

 

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This message is being sent to all voting members in the Faculty of Medicine on behalf of Dean Gavin Stuart.

 

You are invited to submit nominations to fill upcoming vacancies on a number of the Faculty’s major standing committees. As required, an election by the Faculty’s voting members will be conducted in the late spring, after this call for nominations is complete.

 

The following FoM standing committees will have vacancies as of July 1, 2015:

 

  1. Faculty Appointments, Reappointments, Promotion & Tenure Committee (4 year term)
    Vacancy for one (1) senior faculty member (professors with tenure), representing clinicians elected by Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominee is:
  • Dr. Youwen Zhou (Dermatology and Skin Science)

 

  1. Faculty Executive (3 year term)
    Vacancy for two (2) faculty members elected by Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominees are:
  • Dr. Michelle Butler (Family Practice)
  • Dr. Maria Hubinette (Family Practice)

 

  1. Faculty Professional Development Committee (3 year term)

 

  1. Vacancy for one clinical faculty member elected by Clinical Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominee is:
  • Dr. Linlea Armstrong (Medical Genetics)

 

  1. Vacancy for one (1) full time clinician faculty member elected by Faculty.   The Nominating Committee’s nominee is:
  • Dr. Peter Black (Urologic Sciences)

 

  1. MD Admissions Policy Advisory Committee (3 year term)
    Vacancy for two (2) faculty members elected by Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominees are:
  • Dr. Steve Martin (Family Practice)
  • Dr. Sarah De Leeuw (Population & Public Health)

 

  1. MD Admissions Selection Committee (3 year term)
    Vacancy for one (1) faculty member representing scientists elected by Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominee is:
  • Dr. Amina Zoubeidi (Urologic Sciences)

 

  1. Research Council (3 year term , Research Associate 1 year term)

 

  1. Vacancy for one (1) faculty member representing clinicians elected by Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominee is:
  • Dr. K. S. Joseph (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)

 

  1. Vacancy for one (1) faculty member representing scientists elected by Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominee is:
  • Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi (Cellular & Physiological Sciences)

 

  1. Vacancy for one (1) faculty member at Large elected by Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominee is:
  • Dr. Wendy Norman (Family Practice)

 

  1. Vacancy for two (2) mid-career faculty member (Associate Professors or Instructors with 5 – 7 years of experience) elected by Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominees are:
  • Dr. Francis Lynn (Surgery / Cellular & Physiological Sciences)
  • Dr. Artem Cherkasov (Urologic Sciences)

 

  1. Vacancy for two (2) junior faculty member (Assistant Professors or instructors with less than 5 years of experience) elected by Faculty.  The Nominating Committee’s nominees are:
  • Dr. Sheona Mitchell-Foster (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)
  • Dr. Joan Sims Gould (Family Practice)

 

  1. Vacancy for one (1) Research Associate* elected by Research Associates.  The Nominating Committee’s nominee is:
  • Dr. Paul Orban (Surgery)

 

*The “Call for Nominations” for the Research Associate vacancy is available here.

 

To nominate additional faculty members who are eligible for the above vacancies, please complete and return the nomination forms and nominee statements by midnight on Friday, April 24, 2015 to the attention of Patricia Lou, Assistant, Governance and Recognition, by mail/delivery/fax/email to:

 

Dean’s Office, Faculty of Medicine

317-2194 Health Sciences Mall

Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3

Fax: 604 822-6061

patricia.lou@ubc.ca

Nomination Materials

  1. Nomination Form, to be completed and signed by two voting members of the Faculty, as well as by the nominee.
  2. Nominee’s Statement Form
  3. Current membership and time commitment of standing committee with vacancies.

For an overview of the Faculty’s major standing committees and governance structure, please visit the FoM Overview of Governance and Major Standing Committees Organization Chart on MedNet.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Patricia Lou, Assistant, Governance and Recognition, at patricia.lou@ubc.ca or (604) 822-0397.

 

Thank you.

 

Gavin C.E. Stuart, MD, FRCSC

Dean, Faculty of Medicine

Vice Provost Health, UBC

 

The Faculty of Medicine is committed to equitable and diverse representation in its students, faculty, staff and administration, as outlined in the Faculty of Medicine’s Strategic Directions and in Valuing Difference: A Strategy for Advancing Equity and Diversity at UBC. Please keep the commitment to equity in mind in the nomination and selection process for new standing committee members.