FoM The Link – February 13, 2018

WHAT’S NEW

• Invitation: Indigenous Research Support Initiative Open House
• Reminder: Use Staff Professional Development Funds for 2017/18
• Call for nominations: 2018 UBC President’s Awards for Staff
• Join the Move UBC campaign
• UBC offers health assessments between February and March
• Participate in the 14th Annual UBC Run for Rural Medicine in Vancouver

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LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES & SEARCHES

• Canada Excellence Research Chair in Precision Cancer Drug Design
• Director, UBC James Hogg Research Centre
• Vancouver Fraser Medical Program (VFMP) Elective Director
• Head, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Department Head, Medical Genetics, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre

STAFF SPOTLIGHT

If you are interested in being profiled or wish to nominate a colleague, e-mail: communications.med@ubc.ca

FACULTY spotlight

NEWS & HONOURS

• An unexpected target — and weapon — for one of the deadliest cancers
• Risk of fatal traffic crash higher during 4/20 cannabis celebration
• Study finds that Canadians giving up food, heat to pay for prescription drugs
• Three faculty members awarded the 2018 CAME Certificate of Merit Award
• Genetics Society of America honours Philip Hieter with the 2018 George W. Beadle Award
• 47 members of the Faculty receive latest CIHR Project Grants competition
• Use of fentanyl signals limits of substitution therapy for many Downtown Eastside residents
• Indigenous people face higher risk of transportation injuries in B.C.
• Four faculty members win UBC’s 2017 Faculty Research Awards

DATES & DEADLINES

• MSFHR Innovation to Commercialization | Deadline: Feb 16
• Call for nominations: Killam Teaching Prizes | Deadline: Feb 16
• Call for nominations: 2018 UBC Alumni Achievement Awards | Deadline: Feb 15
• Call for applications: Strategic Investment Funds | Deadline: Feb 28
• Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research | Deadline: Apr 15
• Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize | Deadline: Apr 15
• Margolese National Heart Disorders Prize | Deadline: Apr 15

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

EVENTS

• Feb 14: Global Health Cafe
• Feb 16: Building the Future: Faculty of Medicine Research Trainee Day & Lecture Series

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Feb 14: Global Health Cafe
• Feb 15: Managing Symptoms in Palliative Cancer Patients
• Feb 17 : 20th Annual UBC Respiratory Medicine Update
  Respiratory Medicine Update
• Feb 17 : 14th Annual Hot Topics in Cardiology

CONFERENCES 

• Mar 1: UBC and BC Children’s Hospital Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium
• Mar 1-2 : Perinatal Services BC’s 3rd Biennial Conference: Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies
• Mar 6-9: 34th International Seating Symposium
• Mar 19 : 8th Annual Networks Leadership Symposium

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MedNet Quick Links

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• UBC Coaching
• Email Signature
• Health & Wellness

Next issue publication date:
February 27, 2018

The Link is a biweekly publication created for faculty and staff
by Faculty of Medicine Communications.