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FoM Medicine This Week | September 19-23, 2016

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Medicine This Week | September 19-23, 2016

Here is the round-up of news, stories, and media mentions from the UBC Faculty of Medicine.


STORIES & NEWS RELEASES

  • Genetics-based prescribing moves one step closer to reality
  • COPD epidemic could overwhelm healthcare systems within two decades
  • $51.5M in joint federal-provincial funding to benefit Faculty of Medicine
  • Julio Montaner given UBC’s highest faculty honour: Killam Professor
  • William Schreiber becomes president of American Society for Clinical Pathology
  • New UBC education space opens at Royal Inland Hospital
  • Island Medical Program graduate Dr. Roxanne Mitchell wins prestigious award in psychiatry

Media Mentions

  • SCMP: SPPH’s Michael Brauer says air quality won’t improve until air pollution is reduced
  • Scientific American: Brett Finlay shares the impacts of limiting children’s exposure to microbes
  • CBC TV News: Physical Therapy’s Naznin Virji-Babul says younger brains are more vulnerable to injury. Similar stories appeared in the Vancouver Sun, The Province, Regina Leader-Post and Metro News.
  • ABC News Good Morning America: Brett Finlay says exposing kids to dirt may benefit their health.
  • National Post: Lori Brotto says asexuality is a sexual orientation.
  • News 1130: Medicine’s Mohsen Sadatsafvi says spike in lung disease cases will overwhelm health care system. Similar stories appeared in Medical Xpress and Metro News.
  • Indo-Canadian Voice: Canada and B.C. invest $51.5 million in three Faculty buildings
  • CBC’s Early Edition: SPPH’s Carolyn Gotay conducts study on improving sleep quality for night shift workers (scroll to 01:42:15)
  • Prince George Citizen: Northern Medical Program’s Jacqueline Pettersen heads research site for Canada’s largest study of dementia
  • CBC: SPPH’s Paul Kershaw holds rally on housing crisis. Similar stories appeared on Yahoo News and similar stories appeared on CTV and in Metro News.

Social Media Highlights

Top Tweet

Mohsen Sadatsafavi says chronic obstructive pulmonary disease epidemic could overwhelm health care systems
Top Facebook Post

Congratulations to Samuel Aparicio, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, on being named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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