Pleasemark your calendars for the UBC Psychiatry Festive Celebration to take place on Friday December 15th at 5:30pm at The Arbutus Club! Stay tuned for more details and an RSVP request to follow in the coming weeks.
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All Department members are invited, including faculty, staff, fellows, students, residents and volunteers, so we hope you will join us at our annual end-of-the-year celebration!
** Sent on behalf of Dr. Sophia Frangou, Associate Head – Research, UBC Department of Psychiatry**
Dear UBC Psychiatry Faculty,
Killam Teaching Prizes 2024
Faculty of Medicine Internal Deadline:Thursday, February 1, 2024 12:00pm
UBC Killam Teaching Prizes are UBC’s most prestigious teaching awards. The UBC Killam Teaching Prizes recognize excellence in teaching in the medical and science undergraduate programs, residency programs, school and graduate programs within the Faculty of Medicine. The Prizes are awarded annually, and are supported by the UBC Killam Endowment Fund.
Please contact Ms. Laura Gillis, Office of the Vice Dean, Education, at laura.gillis@ubc.ca if you have any questions at all.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sophia Frangou, MD, Ph.D., FRCPsych, FRCPC President’s Excellence Chair in Brain Health Associate Head – Research Professor of Psychiatry
I acknowledge, with gratitude, that I live and work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations.
WHYis it happening: Psych IT will be migrating mapped drive shares I: M: N: P: U: V: Y: to a new file server.
WHEN is it happening: 5:00 PM on Friday October 6 till 5:00 PM on Monday October 9
WHO it will affect: For all supported computers on our Psychiatry AD network (Computer joined to our AD Domain with a computer name PSYTnnnn).
WHAT you need to do:
LOG OUT from your Windows account after saving and closing all documents you have opened from the share drive by 5:00 PM on Friday October 6.
DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES to any files during the migration period from 5:00 PM on Friday October 6 till 5:00 PM on Monday October 9.
REBOOT YOUR COMPUTER when returning to work on Tuesday.
Once the reboot is complete, login and your share access should be automatically updated. Test by opening commonly accessed shared files.
If you have any issues, please kindly email psychiatry.it@ubc.ca or call us at 604-827-5695 (please leave a message if we are on another call).
Sincerely,
Simon Chong Computer Systems Manager 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).
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.
Based on the novel by preeminent Canadian author Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows is a family drama about two sisters leading very different lives. Yoli (Alison Pill), a struggling writer, and Elf (Sarah Gadon), a successful concert pianist, are each uniquely impacted by the suicide of their father, a Mennonite patriarch. Their collective trauma reaches a critical point when Elf is hospitalized for a suicide attempt of her own. While Yoli challenges her sister’s wish to die, a sense of profound empathy, mutual respect, and deep love for one another shines through their joyful banter full of literary references and wry humour. Drawing on Toews’s real-life experience, the film raises the important and contentious issue—soon to be legal in Canada—of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for individuals whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness.
“Measured and thoughtful … Where many films would use this [premise] as a springboard for a tedious moral treatise on a hot-button issue, All My Puny Sorrows keeps the focus commendably and non-judgmentally personal.” — Guy Lodge, Variety
“I love this movie … What [Michael McGowan] pulls off here is a miracle of tone … Yoli, Elf, and Lottie each need something, and Pill, Gadon, and Winningham each has precisely that thing to give.” — Johanna Schneller, The Globe and Mail
Post-screening Discussion:
Welcoming remarks by Dr. Lakshmi N. Yatham, Professor & Head, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Derryck Smith and Dr. Tyler Black, facilitated by Dr. Alison Freeland. Moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
About the Panel:
Dr. Lakshmi N. Yatham is a Professor and Head of the UBC Department of Psychiatry, and is also Director of the UBC Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Alison Freeland is Board Chair of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, Vice President of Education, Academic Affairs and Patient Experience at Trillium Health Partners, and Associate Dean, Mississauga Campus, at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. The focus of her clinical work is the care of people with serious mental illness and substance use disorders.
Dr. Derryck Smith has been an advocate for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) since the Sue Rodriguez case in 1994. He has testified in the Carter case 2014 and to parliament on Bills C-14 and C-7. He is a past board member of Dying with Dignity Canada and the World Federation of Right to Die Societies. He is an active member of the Canadian Psychiatric Association Committee on MAiD.
Dr. Tyler Black is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who works both at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital, primarily in urgent and emergency cases. He is the author of the ASARI, a leading practice for suicide risk documentation and the co-author of HEARTSMAP, a psychosocial assessment tool for triaging health and social needs, as well as the co-author of the Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Medications for Children and Adolescents. He has a primary research and teaching interest in suicide and suicidology, and has testified before both the House of Commons as well as the Canadian Senate regarding medical assistance in dying. He maintains a newsletter on suicidology at suicidology.substack.com.
Dr. Harry Karlinsky, the Series Director of Frames of Mind and a Clinical Professor in the UBC Department of Psychiatry, has a longstanding commitment to professional and public education. He has presented nationally and internationally on topics ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to information technology to narrative medicine to PTSD and to the use of films in health care education.
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!
**This message is sent on behalf of Dr. Roger Wong, Vice Dean, Education, UBC Faculty of Medicine and Jennifer Golinski, Senior Director, Education Programs and Services, Office of the Vice Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine**
On Thursday, September 28, the Government of B.C. announced updated public health measures in health-care facilities to protect patients, residents in long-term care facilities, health-care workers and people during respiratory illness season.
To increase protections in health-care facilities in B.C., medical mask wearing will be required by all health-care workers, volunteers, contractors and visitors in patient care areas (including UBC faculty, staff and learners who operate in the mentioned areas) starting October 3. Health care facilities include:
All health authority hospitals and clinical settings
Long-term care facilities
Seniors assisted living settings
Private hospitals
Provincial mental health facilities
A patient care area is any area within a health care facility (including a contracted facility), hallway or lobby, which is accessible to patients, residents in long-term care facilities or clients who are there to access care or services. This includes any other location where care is provided (such as at home and community care locations), but does not include administrative areas or private staff offices that are not generally accessed by patients, residents or clients. Long-term care visitors will be required to wear a medical mask when they are in common areas of the home and when participating in indoor events, gatherings, activities in communal areas of the care home or residence.
Ambassadors will be located at the entrances to health-care facilities to support screening for symptoms of respiratory illnesses, hand out medical masks, and ensure people clean their hands before entering.
For all UBC Faculty of Medicine learners, please contact your respective program if you have any questions. For more information visit the UBC’s Safety & Risk Services website. Additional questions can be directed to fom.safety@ubc.ca.
Thank you for your ongoing commitment to ensuring the health and safety of our communities.
Sincerely,
Roger Y.M. Wong, CM, BMSc, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS, FCGS Vice Dean, Education Clinical Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine Faculty of Medicine The University of British Columbia
Jennifer Golinski (She, Her, Hers) Senior Director, Education Programs and Services UBC Faculty of Medicine | Office of the Vice Dean, Education The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory UBC Faculty of Medicine – Transforming health for everyone
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apple Products Discovered by Researchers, September 27, 2023
Latest security research found exploits that could enable remote access to Apple devices with outdated software which can allow attackers to install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Please ensure your Apple devices are running the latest software.
To check if you’re on the latest update: Go to Settings > General > Software Update.
As of Sept 28 the latest version of Apple software listed below:
Renewing Your Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Creative Cloud UBC License Subscriptions
Below is a legitamate email from noreply@kivuto.com to remind you to renew your Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Creative Cloud UBC License Subscriptions in order to keep your Adobe software licensed and running.
Please follow the link within the email, login with your CWL (Campus Wide Logon) credentials to purchase and renew the Adobe license.
If you have any questions, please call 604.827.5695 (Psychiatry IT Main Support phone line) or email psychiatry.it@ubc.ca (Psychiatry IT Main Support email address)
Sincerely,
Simon Chong
Computer Systems Manager Medicine | Psychiatry | Psychiatry IT The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory 2C1 – 2255 Wesbrook Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 2A1 Canada psychiatry.it@ubc.ca http://psychiatry.ubc.ca
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).
As the recruitment process for the position of Postgraduate Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Subspecialty Program Director has concluded, we are delighted to announce that Dr. Ashley Miller has been appointed to this role for a three-year term, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026.
Broadly, as CAP Subspecialty Program Director Dr. Miller will be responsible for the overall conduct and evaluation of the Postgraduate CAP Subspecialty Program, ensuring that the Competence by Design (CBD) curriculum in the CAP Program continues to fully meet the RCPSC standards of accreditation. Her duties will include facilitating regular review and updating of the Program’s overarching training goals based on the CanMEDs competencies, and maintaining the high quality of CAP subspecialty education in Vancouver and across our distributed training sites. Dr. Miller has served as the PGE Site Director at BCCH since 2018 and will be stepping down from this appointment in order to assume her new role in the Department.
A child psychiatrist at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) since 2007, Dr. Miller was appointed to the UBC Department of Psychiatry as a Clinical Instructor in May 2008, and was subsequently promoted to Clinical Assistant Professor in 2012 and to Clinical Associate Professor in 2020. In addition to her current role, Dr. Miller has served as co-coordinator and supervisor for both the UBC Resident Family Therapy Program and the UBC Resident Interpersonal Psychotherapy Course, for which she redesigned the curricula in 2012 and 2018. She was the recipient of a UBC Psychiatry Residents Association Award for Excellence in PGE Clinical Teaching in 2020, and recently published a book titled What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers.
Please join us in warmly welcoming Dr. Miller to this key leadership role in the Postgraduate program. As well, we wish to once again thank the outgoing Program Director Dr. Jennifer Russel for her dedication and many significant contributions over the last two years.
Sincerely,
Dr. Lynn Raymond, Professor and Acting Head on behalf of Dr. L. Yatham, UBC Department of Psychiatry Dr. Jordan Cohen, Associate Head, PGE & CPD, 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).
I wish to share with you some important staffing updates and announcements regarding our UBC Department of Psychiatry Administration Office.
I am delighted to share the news that Mr. Simon Chong has joined the Department as our Computer Systems Manager effective September 20, 2023, filling the vacancy due to the retirement of our colleague Mr. Colin Bryant in January. Simon arrives at UBC from Edmonton, Alberta, where he has been an IT administrator at AutoCanada for the last several years.
In his new role as Computer Systems Manager, Simon will be responsible for managing UBC Psychiatry’s network and IT services, including overseeing our local area network (LAN) administration, delivering desktop support for a network of users across the Department, developing and implementing IT policies and procedures to ensure network stability and security, and leading the implementation of user, team, Department, Faculty-wide and UBC-wide initiatives and upgrades with regard to IT services. He will be situated in the IT Office on the Ground Floor of Detwiller Pavilion, UBC Hospital, and all IT requests may be sent to psychiatry.it@ubc.ca.
Additionally, we are delighted to bring on board Ms. Ikuko Azuma from UBC Hiring Solutions to fill in as our interim Project Manager. She will be supporting a broad range of projects and initiatives for the Department and Administrative team as we move forward in recruiting permanently for this vacancy. Ikuko will be situated at Detwiller Pavilion at UBC Hospital, and she may be reached by email at psychiatry.projects@ubc.ca.
As well, we also warmly welcometo our team Mr. Juan Velasco, who joined our Department as the new Senior Program Assistant, UGE Years 3 & 4, as of September 22. Juan previously served as a Senior Business Development Assistant in the UBC Science Co-op Program, and in his new role, will be responsible for coordinating the scheduling for all Year 3 & 4 Psychiatry blocks and supporting the day-to-day running of the Undergraduate Medical Education in Psychiatry for Year 3 and Year 4. He will be situated in the Education office at VGH Gordon & Leslie Diamond Healthcare Centre and may be reached by email at juan.velasco@ubc.ca.
Further, Mr. Prabhjot Singh was brought on board from UBC Hiring Solutions in July to provide additional support to the UGE, PGE and SSP programs, and has done a fantastic job providing coverage as we were recruiting for vacancies in the Education office. Prabhjot will be continuing in this temporary role for the time being and may be reached at psychiatry.education@ubc.ca.
Please join me in warmly welcoming Simon, Ikuko, Juan and Prabhjot to the UBC Psychiatry Administration Team, and also taking this opportunity to thank Colin, who while in retirement, has continued to provide IT support to the Department on a contractual, as-needed basis over the last nine months.
Sincerely,
Vicky Yau 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).
** Shared on behalf of Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor and Frames of Mind Series Director, UBC Department of Psychiatry **
Dear colleagues,
There has been an alarming escalation of so-called deep-fake porn where versions of an individual’s face – generally a woman – is pasted onto other women’s bodies in pornographic scenes through artificial intelligence. Not surprisingly, the psychological effects on the victim are devastating.
We have an excellent Frames of Mind film this November 15th that addresses this issue as well as some of the uncertain legal remedies. The film is called Another Body: https://newnextfilmfest.com/film/another-body/
If there is a clinician who is currently supporting individuals who have been victims of deep fake porn and who would be generous enough to be the film’s post—screening discussant, please email me Harry.Karlinsky@ubc.ca – I would love to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Dr. Harry Karlinsky Clinical Professor Series Director, Frames of Mind UBC Department of Psychiatry
Congratulations to Professor Dr. Jehannine Austin, who has been appointed the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Genetic Counseling. Dr. Austin currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journal, and will step into this new position on January 1, 2024.
The Journal of Genetic Counseling is the official journal of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, providing genetic counselors, other clinicians and health educators, laboratory geneticists, bioethicists, legal scholars, social scientists, and other researchers with a premier resource on genetic counseling topics in national, international, and cross-national contexts.
We once again congratulate and wish Dr. Austin all the best as they move into this prominent new role!
