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FoM Medicine This Week | September 19-23, 2016
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FoM Medicine This Week | September 19-23, 2016
A weekly roundup of news, stories, and media mentions from the Faculty of Medicine.
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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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