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» Faculty of Medicine » Home » 2017 » September » 29 » FoM Medicine This Week | Sept 25 – 29, 2017

FoM Medicine This Week | Sept 25 – 29, 2017

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

STORIES & NEWS RELEASES

  • 2017 Faculty of Medicine Award Recipients
  • Two faculty members receive Movember/Prostate Cancer Canada grants
  • New tool maps nature across Vancouver to boost mental health
  • Fraser Black recognized for teaching excellence
  • Philip Edgcumbe honoured with the 2017 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award

Media Mentions

  • Times Colonist: Neurosurgery’s Doug Cochrane’s appointed chair of Interior Health
  • Roundhouse Radio: SPPH and Midwifery postdoctoral fellow Kathrin Stoll interviewed about her research on childbirth fears. A similar article appeared in Breakfast Television.
  • CTV: SPPH’s Mark Haden researches whether psychedelic drugs could be a treatment for various health conditions, including PTSD and opioid addiction. Similar articles appeared in Toronto Star, National Post, Global, Winnipeg Free Press, Montreal Gazette, Regina Leader-Post, Vancouver Sun, Metro News and Castanet.
  • Metro News: SPPH’s Martin Guhn suggests providing affordable child care is key to helping families afford Vancouver
  • CTV: Surgery’s Nadine Caron comments on access to health care in First Nations communities
  • Radio Canada: Psychiatry’s Louis-Philippe Bernier speaks about the new neuroscience event held at UBC
  • Georgia Straight: Medicine’s Mark Tyndall suggests the need to shift focus from law-enforcement to those dependent on fentanyl in order to tackle fentanyl crisis
  • El Pais: Cellular & Physiological Sciences’ Claudia Krebs believes augmented reality will give students deeper understanding of the brain’s architecture
  • Metro News: SPPH graduate student Emily Ruger finds that most residents in Lower Mainland live near green space, which boosts mental health
  • Georgia Straight: Medicine’s M-J Milloy says policy makers need to recognize the pre-existing cannabis industry as they consider legalizing cannabis

ocial Media Highlights

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Congratulations to the 2017 UBC Faculty of Medicine awardees including Bruce McManus, winner of the Bill & Marilyn Webber Lifetime Achievement Award.

Top Facebook Post

Congratulations to UBC MD/PhD student Philip Edgcumbe for receiving the 2017 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (CMHF) Award.

 

 

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