Attendee Registration Open! | 2025 UBC PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH DAY

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.

Hospital (new restoration)

USA 1969 (84 min. DCP)
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 @ 7:00pm
The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St)

Film Description

“Wiseman gives us fault lines, derangement, sanctity … [He] knows that there is as much honour as absurdity in the skirmish.” – Matt Morrison, Film Comment

Just two years after his magnum opus Titicut Follies and decades before hospitals became a popular site of procedural and reality television, Wiseman turned his panoramic lens onto one of society’s greatest collective institutions. Set in the bustling Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem, Hospital documents numerous emergency encounters of patients suffering from a range of medical and psychological ailments, including states of extreme intoxication. A sense of the frenetic setting in which on-call psychiatrists carry out their responsibilities—still present to this day—emerges. So too do their myriad responsibilities, including their advocacy (not always successful) for the social services needed by psychologically vulnerable patients. Seamlessly shifting between wide and close shots, Wiseman employs a unique reportorial style showcasing the intensity of the seemingly mundane—an approach that continues to inform his observational craft, revealing the drama, personalities, and social concerns of life and death scenarios.

This screening is co-sponsored by the UBC Psychiatry Division of Adult Psychiatry. FREE TICKET: The first 10 members of the Division of Adult Psychiatry and Mental Health Services who email Terena Zhao at psychiatry.divisions@ubc.ca to RSVP will obtain a free ticket!

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“Despite the many undeniably unpleasant sights in the film, Hospital avoids sensationalism … To powerful effect, in its conclusion Hospital returns the cultural and social issues the film raises to the spectator, as Wiseman has frequently done in his work.” – Barry Keith Grant, Library of Congress

Post-screening Discussion:

Post-screening discussion with Dr. Bradley Locke, clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at UBC.

Dr. Locke is a Vancouver-based psychiatrist who works in Emergency and Inpatient care, and also has sub-specialty training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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!

Congratulations to UBC Department of Psychiatry Clinical Professors, Dr. Stacy Elliott and Dr. Biju Mathew, who have both been honoured with King Charles III Coronation Medals in recognition of their outstanding service to Canada and their communities.

MARCH 25, 2025

Dr. Stacy Elliott is Sexual Medicine Physician with Spinal Cord Injury BC and is trained to assess and treat sexual and reproductive problems in persons with illness or injury. Dr. Elliott was recognized with the King Charles III Coronation Medal for her work across BC and Canada in sexual rehabilitation and fertility in persons with spinal cord injury at the Rick Hanson 40^th Anniversary celebration on March 20. She also received a Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee medal in 2012.

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Dr. Biju Mathew is a psychiatrist with the Fraser Health Authority, researcher, and author of the book ‘Super 30 – Changing the World 30 Students at a Time‘. Dr Mathew was involved in the development of the current inpatient Psychiatric unit at Ridge Meadows Hospital. He was one of the early sponsors of Nurse Practitioner’s program in BC. Through advocacy and in print he championed the need for housing for the homeless in BC from 2015. He worked collaboratively with the local cities, Fraser Health and Division of Family Practice for the establishment of Foundry for the communities of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. Dr Mathew is the founder of the Ridge Meadows South Asian Cultural Society where he has dedicated his philanthropic efforts to highlighting the outstanding contributions made by South Asian immigrants to Canada and to raising awareness about mental health and its impact on communities.

Dr. Mathew wishes to thank the ‘UBC department of Psychiatry, Fraser Health and the local communities for their ongoing support’.

Congratulations again to Drs. Elliott and Mathew for their well-deserved recognition!

Dear Department members,

The Department is saddened to share the news that Dr. Roger Freeman passed away on March 13, 2025, at the age of 91. He was a Clinical Professor Emeritus and had been a member of the Department of Psychiatry for over 50 years. Before his retirement from clinical practice, Dr. Freeman taught regularly in the Psychiatry Residency program at UBC.

Dr. Freeman co-founded the Neuropsychiatry Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital, where he was a Senior Neuropsychiatrist. He also co-founded and managed the Tourette Syndrome International Database Consortium, a worldwide clinical dataset on Tourette syndrome. A well-known child psychiatrist, he had a special interest and expertise in tic disorders and also served as a psychiatrist for hearing and visual impairment and meningomyelocele clinics. Dr. Freeman was the author of numerous papers on Tourette syndrome and a frequent presenter at Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada (TSFC) conferences. In recognition of his clinical expertise and research contributions, he was honoured as Clinician of the Year (2006) by the TSFC and received a distinguished service award from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.

Beyond his work in psychiatry, Dr. Freeman was an avid outdoorsman. He was an honorary member of the BC Association of Forest Professionals and a Life Member of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of BC. Alongside his wife, he also co-authored numerous hiking and trail guidebooks for Vancouver’s North Shore Mountains and elsewhere.

On behalf of the UBC Department of Psychiatry, we extend our sincerest condolences to Dr. Freeman’s family and loved ones for their loss.

Sincerely,

Dr. Lakshmi N. Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC, MRCPsych (UK), MBA (Exec)                       
Professor and Head, UBC Department of Psychiatry
Director, Institute of Mental Health, UBC
Regional Head and Program Medical Director, VCH/PHC

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).