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

• 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

• 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.