**Shared on behalf of Dr. Joseph Tham, Clinical Faculty Affairs Representative, UBC Faculty of Medicine, UBC Department of Psychiatry**
Dear Clinical Faculty Members,
It was great seeing all the clinical faculty members who attended the Annual Clinical Faculty Appreciation Dinner last Thursday, and congratulating the award recipients for their many outstanding contributions!
I was pleased to share a presentation with some helpful tips on Clinical Faculty Promotions at the dinner, and have attached the slides as a PDF below for those who were not able to attend the dinner, or for anyone who wishes to review this information once again.
Should you have any questions on clinical faculty promotions, please don’t hesitate to contact Leah Ranada (leah.ranada@ubc.ca) and our HR team for assistance and support in the clinical faculty promotion process.
Best regards,
Joe
Joseph C. W. Tham, MD, FRCPC, FAPA Clinical Faculty Affairs Representative, Department of Psychiatry
I respectfully acknowledge the land on which I live, work and play is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-waututh).
This is your 1-week notice of a regular building power shutdown for regulatory electrical maintenance work.
BUILDING(S) INCLUDE:
David Strangway Building
Michael Smith Laboratories
SERVICE: All electricity not on a back-up generator
SHUTDOWN FROM: 8:00 AMSaturday, June 14th, 2025
SHUTDOWN TO: 6:00 PMSaturday, June 14th, 2025
REASON: Maintenance to High Voltage Feeder 12F10
Feeder shutdowns are done every 5 years, and this exercise is designed to provide the campus with reliable power on our end (doesn’t include Hydro’s side). We’re simply doing everything in our “power” to ensure reliable electricity to all buildings.
NOTE: Please keep this date in mind when planning/booking events, exams, and classes around this date and time. My suggestion would be to simply block off this period of time as “busy”. As there will be no regular power, the building will be essentially shutdown during this timeframe. Because there are so many buildings impacted, these shutdowns are not cancelled last minute due to classes, events, etc. The shutdown will go on!
What to expect?
Regular power within your building will be off. Generator power will be active during this time if your building has a generator.
How this will affect you?
If your equipment is on generator power there will be a short power outage (10 – 20 seconds as the generator gets up to speed) then all gets transferred over. The same will happen when the power is restored at the end of this exercise.
If your equipment is not on generator power, please plan to power it down in advance of the shutdown.
Concerns?
If you have power sensitive equipment including computers, it’s highly recommended that the equipment be manually shutdown and unplugged during this maintenance.
If you have a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) this is a great opportunity to test out your equipment, if you don’t have one this is a great opportunity to look into and possibly purchase one (UPS won’t be supplied for the duration of this shutdown)
This is a great excuse to clean out general food storage fridges and freezers. What often happens is that occupants will return to their fridge/freezer and notice a mysterious puddle of water at the base of the unit and call in a maintenance request to have the issue looked into, only to find it was the result of the ice buildup in the freezer that has melted.
All fume hoods will need to be shut down to a Level 1 standard.
The attached form needs to be completed and attached to the hoods’ sashes by the end of day on Friday June 13th.
Thanks,
Jeffrey Smith
Facilities Manager VP Finance & Operations (VPFO) Portfolio | Facilities | Customer Services and Informatics The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus 2329 West Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada Phone 604 822 3425 jeff.smith@ubc.ca https://facilities.ubc.ca/
**Sent on Behalf of the UBC Psychiatry Space Allocation Committee**
Dear Staff, Faculty and Learners in Detwiller Pavilion,
This summer, the Department plans to make upgrades to Room 2N A/B on the 2nd floor of Detwiller Pavilion in order to enhance its functionality. The upgrades will include a new touch-down lounge for Department members to use as an informal space to sit and gather on a casual basis. As well, the other half of Room 2N A/B will be repurposed into a shared work area furnished with nine workstations, which will replace the large wooden meeting tables. This project is expected to be completed by the end of July.
In anticipation of this project, please note the following:
FREE FURNITURE: If any faculty are interested in taking any of the wooden tables or chairs currently in use in 2 A/B for use in their own labs/offices, please let Margaret (margaret.koshi@ubc.ca) know by June 30, 2025. Otherwise, they will be disposed of on July 10.
ACCESS AFTER JULY 31: The NEW 2N A/B Lounge and Shared Workspaces do not need to be booked for general use, however, if you would like to reserve this space for private use, please complete the Detwiller Room Booking Request Form on our Space webpage to make the booking.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Frangou (sophia.frangou@ubc.ca).
A monthly film series promoting professional and community education on issues pertaining to mental health and illness. Presented by The Cinematheque and the Institute of Mental Health, UBC Department of Psychiatry. Screenings are generally held on the third Wednesday of each month at The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC.
Inedia
Canada 2024 (107 min. DCP) Director: Liz Cairns Wednesday, June 18, 2025 @ 7:00pm The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St)
Film Description
“[Cairns] has made an atmospheric debut feature that immerses us in an eerie, unsettling world … Through its heroine, the film explores themes of desire for escape, pain, and grief, all within a halo of strangeness and ethereal poetry, enhanced by the grain of 16mm film.” – Festival du nouveau cinéma 2024
While straining to emotionally connect with those around her, a young woman named Cora experiences debilitating and painful allergic reactions to food. Looking for answers to her medical mystery, Cora discovers Sun Haven, an isolated community practicing breatharianism—the pseudoscientific belief that humans can survive solely on light and air. Set on a Gulf Island in British Columbia, Inedia creates, with glistening 16mm cinematography, a trance-like atmosphere mirroring Cora’s fragile mental state. After a series of unsettling events, Cora notices cracks of darkness hiding in the corners of her new community, revealing how vulnerability can be exploited under the guise of healing. Cairns’s screenplay offers a suspenseful and nuanced portrayal of eating disorders and group manipulation, resulting in one of the most compelling Canadian dramas of the past year.
Post-screening discussion with writer-director Liz Cairns.
Liz Cairns is a filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada, and an alumni of the Berlinale and Reykjavik talent labs. Her short films have played at festivals including TIFF, Palm Springs, Interfilm Berlin, and Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. Her first feature Inedia premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and had its American premiere at Mill Valley, where Cairns was nominated for the Mind-the-Gap Creation Prize.
The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, the Series Director of Frames of Mind and a Clinical Professor in the UBC Department of Psychiatry.
Want to be a regular at Frames of Mind screenings on the third Wednesday of every month? Subscribe to the email list and be the first in line for tickets!
All Department members across the province are invited to attend the UBC Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds. The next session will be held Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 8:30 am on Zoom. The session, Magnetic Seizure Therapy: a Novel Neuromodulation Treatment for Difficult to Treat Schizophrenia, is presented by Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA, Associate Professor and Director of Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies Laboratory, Co-head of Interventional Brain Medicine Program, University of British Columbia.
A single registration link is available for all 2025 Grand Rounds:
For Outlook users: Simply double-click the downloaded file to add the events. *Please note, the events may open as a new calendar -simply drag or copy them to your preferred calendar
For other calendar apps: Open the file with your preferred calendar application
Previous Grand Rounds are now accessible on Canvas
Department of Psychiatry members with UBC CWL can self-enrol in the Grand Rounds Canvas course to view past recordings:
The VCH/PHC Regional Psychiatry Grand Rounds are now the UBC Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds and are accessible via Zoom to all Department members across the province. Grand Rounds are held the first Tuesday of every month (unless otherwise stated), from 8:30 am to 9:30 am.
The Grand Rounds are a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
