John-Jose Nunez

**Shared on behalf of VFMP Faculty Development**

Dear VFMP Colleagues,

We invite you to register for a series of online teacher development workshops provided as a collaboration between the Regional Faculty Development Sites (Island, Northern, Southern, and Vancouver-Fraser Medical Programs).

The Teacher Certificate Program (TCP) welcomes faculty who teach and assess in the MD Undergraduate Program (MDUP) across all sites:

• TCP 1: Foundational Teaching is designed for all who teach in the MDUP. Five 1.5-hour sessions on facilitating active learning, building healthy learner relationships, and developing effective feedback and assessments. This certificate is eligible for CME credits.
• TCP 2: Career Planning & Wellness is designed with particular attention to the career and personal development of clinical faculty who teach in the MDUP with topics like promotions for clinical faculty and planetary health.

Each session is delivered on Zoom from 5:30 – 7:00 PM and courses within each track can be taken in any order towards a certificate. If you miss a session this year, not to worry, we will likely have another session the following year!

Join us at our upcoming sessions:

TCP 1: Focus on Foundational Teaching

• Oct 17, 2024: Active Learning
• Dec 12, 2024: Learning Relationships
• Feb 13, 2025: Feedback & Reflection
• Apr 3, 2025: Assessment
• May 15, 2025: Learning Context

TCP 2: Focus on Career Planning and Wellness

• Nov 14, 2024: Promote Me, CV! Promotions for Clinical Faculty
• Jan 13, 2025: Planetary Health in Practice
• Spring 2025: Difficult Conversations
• Spring 2025: Indigenous Health
• Spring 2025: Physician Wellness

Our programs aim to support you with your teaching and learning endeavours. Visit the VFMP Teacher’s Hub for other faculty development opportunities. Or please speak to us to explore ways we can work together including customized workshops and ways to share best practices with colleagues across the MD program. 

Kind regards,

VFMP Faculty Development
Faculty of Medicine | University of British Columbia
Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre | Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Traditional Territory
2775 Laurel Street, 11th Floor, Vancouver BC V5Z 1M9
vfmp.facdev@ubc.ca 
vfmpfacdev.med.ubc.ca/

UBC’s campuses and learning sites are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

**Shared on behalf of Concurrent Disorders Faculty Recruitment, UBC Department of Psychiatry **

Dear Department Faculty Members,

The UBC Department of Psychiatry is currently recruiting for a faculty position in the area of Concurrent Disorders at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. The Search Committee has recently reviewed the applications and shortlisted three candidates. The co-Chairs of the Search Committee would like to invite you to attend the virtual presentations by these candidates and provide your input.

The three presentations have been scheduled for the following Thursdays:

Comments about the candidate can be emailed to Leah Ranada (leah.ranada@ubc.ca) following the presentation. As members of the Department, your attendance to these presentations and your subsequent feedback would be highly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Leah Ranada
Assistant Human Resources Manager
UBC Department of Psychiatry

We humbly acknowledge, with gratitude, that we live, work, and play as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations. 

The 18th Annual Pacific Psychopharmacology Conference, organized by the UBC Department of Psychiatry and UBC CPD, took place in downtown Vancouver on September 19th and 20th, 2024. The format was truly hybrid with some presenters and some attendees participating remotely. On Thursday afternoon, a total of 178 practitioners spent the afternoon learning from local experts about ADHD across the life cycle. On Friday, 192 attendees were on site at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, and 193 attended virtually.

Derek Thompson, Director, Indigenous Engagement for the UBC Faculty of Medicine, provided remarks for the conferees and speakers to open the meeting in advance of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Highlights of the day’s plenary sessions included Professor Stefan Leucht‘s presentation on recent meta-analytic studies in psychiatry. Professor Leucht, of the Technical University of Munich in Germany, is a world leader in such investigations, and he gave an intimate session in the afternoon for clinicians on understanding methods of meta-analysis. Dr. Andrea Iaboni from the University of Toronto provided updates in a plenary session on the Canadian guidelines for managing anxiety in older adults.

Other speakers included Dr. David Taylor of the Maudsley Hospital in London, UK, Dr. Benjamin Goldstein from CAMH in Toronto, and Dr. David Crockford from the University of Calgary. The conference has a goal of including high-quality speakers, both international and local, who can address important clinical topics across the spectrum of ages and disorders. Perspectives from people with lived experience have been included in recent years. The conference committee is co-chaired by Randall F. White and Reza Rafizadeh and includes Nick Mathew, Katelyn Halpape, Jackie Siu and William Mak. The committee is very grateful to the organizational and on-the-ground support from UBC CPD including conference director Lindsay Callan and manager Michelle Baysan. 

Next year’s conference will be in September. Look for the announcement of the exact date in early 2025.

Dear Department members,

I would like to share a couple of staffing updates and announcements regarding our UBC Department of Psychiatry Administration Office.

Firstly, we are delighted to welcome Ms. Gitika Bhowmik who is joining the UBC Psychiatry Administrative team as our new HR Assistant as of September 26. Gitika brings to this role several years’ experience in human resources and a strong background in supporting UBC administrative and HR-related processes. Most recently, she served as Senior Administrative Assistant to the UBC School of Social Work, and previously in 2021 she provided temporary support to the Department of Psychiatry’s HR team through UBC Hiring Solutions.  As our new HR Assistant, Gitika will be taking over the Student/Staff/Volunteer HR portfolio, handling all Workday processes, and providing day-to-day HR support for these groups. She will be situated in the main Administration Office on the 2nd Floor at UBC Hospital, Detwiller Pavilion (UBC Campus), and may be reached by email at gitika.bhowmik@ubc.ca.

We would also like to formally welcome Mr. Trevor Mah who joined the Faculty of Medicine as a Financial Analyst supporting the Department of Psychiatry in August. Trevor replaces Eric Toh who moved into a new analyst role in Administration Finance, FoM. Prior to joining UBC, Trevor worked as a senior accountant with D&H Group LLP.  In his new role, Trevor oversees processes related to general finance, including review of funding for hires and reconciliation processes. He also manages project grant set up, and provides guidance on financial policies and procedures for the FoM and the Department, as well as solutions and support for all finance-related issues and queries. Trevor can be reached by email at trevor.mah@ubc.ca.

Please join me in warmly welcoming Gitika to the UBC Psychiatry Administration team, as well as Trevor to the UBC FoM Finance Team supporting Psychiatry!

Sincerely,

Margaret Koshi
Director, Administration
UBC Department of Psychiatry

The UBC Department of Psychiatry Administration Office respectfully acknowledges the land on which we 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) Nations.