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

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