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We share that Clinical Professor Emerita Dr. Rosemary Basson, who has a special interest in sexual dysfunction in seniors with cognitive impairment, will be offering services for seniors at the BC Centre for Sexual Medicine on a priority basis for assessment, as well as providing follow up as the disease progresses.
Congratulations to Dr. Sophia Frangou on her election as the President-Elect of the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP). Her term as President-Elect will be June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2024, after which she will become President of SOBP on June 1, 2024 until May 31, 2025. This term will be followed by a 5-year term as Councilor.
Dr. Frangou is the UBC President’s Excellence Chair in Brain Health and the Associate Head of Research & International Affairs in the UBC Department of Psychiatry. She is an internationally renowned expert in the pathophysiology of mood and psychotic disorders, and her election to this new role adds to her prominent leadership profile.
The Society of Biological Psychiatry was founded in 1945 to encourage the study of the biological causes of and treatments for psychiatric disorders. It is a preeminent learned society that aims to promote excellence in scientific research and education, and reduce human suffering from mental disorders. The SOBP publishes several journals, including Biological Psychiatry, which is one of the most selective and highly cited journals in the field of psychiatric neuroscience.
Congratulations once again to Dr. Frangou on her election to this significant new role!
Congratulations to Dr. Quinten Clarke, a UBC Psychiatry Research Track Resident, who has received the 2022 Resident Recognition Award from Providence Health Care (PHC).
This award, sponsored by the PHC Medical Affairs and the Medical Staff Association, is awarded each year to a resident who has rotated through PHC and displayed excellence in the areas of education, leadership and advocacy.
Once again, congratulations to Dr. Clarke on this wonderful recognition!
We would like to congratulate Dr. Dean Elbe, who has received a Practice Innovation Award from the Canadian Healthcare Network! This award is dedicated to Canadian pharmacy professionals who are not only providing exceptional patient care, but also demonstrating creativity and innovation in pharmacy practice.
This year, Dr. Elbe has been recognized for his significant work in developing formalized psychiatry resident and fellow rotations in pharmacotherapy, which he also precepts as a clinical pharmacy specialist in child and adolescent mental health. On rotation with Dr. Elbe for four to six weeks, residents are provided with valuable experience in effectively collaborating with pharmacists to prepare them for an easier transition to prescribing as future attending physicians. As well, since 2016, fifteen child and adolescent psychiatry fellows have completed the rotation, gaining practical knowledge and insight into pharmaceutical care services, patient monitoring, and responding to clinical inquiries and drug information requests.
Dr. Elbe is a clinical faculty member in the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and holds an Associate Membership in the UBC Department of Psychiatry. He has contributed extensively to the our PGME program since 2016, participating in teaching in psychopharmacology-related topics for psychiatry residents rotating through the Child & Adolescent Mental Health programs at BC Children’s Hospital.
Congratulations to Dr. Elbe on this very well-deserved recognition!
Read the full announcement here.
Dear staff, students, residents and colleagues,
As outlined among our priorities in the UBC Psychiatry Strategic Plan, in 2021 we launched the rebuild of our entire departmental website, a project which entailed many months of planning, development and implementation of a new layout and updated content, as well as ongoing consultation between our Executive and administrative teams and our fantastic website designer, Ms. Aida Viziru.
I am delighted to announce that this project has finally been completed, and our new website is now live and available for viewing here: https://psychiatry.ubc.ca/. Our collective goal was to create a website that has a modern look and feel, and offers a user-friendly browsing experience that is not only comprehensive, but also has a logical architecture that is easy to navigate. While the complexity of this project required a great deal of work and a flexible timeline, I believe we have achieved a refreshed and more modern platform that will meet the needs of not only our Department members, but also visitors from the public and wider academic community.
Some highlights of the new website include:
Please note that updates and revisions to the content will continue on an ongoing basis, and as such, I ask that you please take the time to explore the website and provide any suggestions or feedback you may have to Margaret Koshi (margaret.koshi@ubc.ca), who will be managing and maintaining the website from here on.
Finally, I wish to take this opportunity to acknowledge and sincerely thank Dr. Sophia Frangou for her outstanding oversight, her hands-on involvement and her dedication of countless hours toward executing this enormous task over the last two years.
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).
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Clinical Instructor Dr. Paul Waraich on Friday March 3rd, 2023. Dr. Waraich was a dedicated Vancouver-based psychiatrist working in the areas of consultation-liaison, emergency, inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, who also made notable contributions to research and literature in the areas of schizophrenia and mood disorders.
Dr. Waraich was a graduate of the UBC residency program in Psychiatry, as well as the UBC Master’s of Health Sciences program in clinical epidemiology. He was first appointed to the UBC Department of Psychiatry as an academic faculty member in 2001, and during his term was involved in several impactful studies funded by the provincial and federal governments. They included a large multi-centred Health Canada project to develop national consensus on indicators that reflect the quality of care in the primary care mental health system, for which he served as Principal Investigator.
In 2007, Dr. Waraich stepped down from his academic position to focus on his clinical work and his young children, however decided to return to the Department as a clinical faculty member in 2011. Over the years, he actively participated in teaching and supervision of both medical students and residents, and in 2014, was appointed to our educational leadership team as the PGE Site Director at Burnaby Hospital. In this role, he was highly dedicated to each of our residents training at this site, ensuring they were all well supported and meeting their learning goals and objectives. While Dr. Waraich stepped down from this role at Burnaby Hospital in 2016 to transition to private practice, he remained an active and valued member of our UBC Psychiatry community.
The passing of Dr. Waraich is a significant loss to the Department, to his many friends, patients, former students and mentees at UBC, Burnaby Hospital, and SFU where he held an adjunct appointment, and to his numerous colleagues with whom he collaborated all across the country. The UBC Department of Psychiatry wishes to send its sincerest condolences to the family and loved ones of Dr. Waraich during this profoundly difficult time.
If you wish to send a message of remembrance in honour of Dr. Waraich, please do so by visiting his memorial page here.
Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Psychiatry
Co-Head, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Program
Email: julius.elefante@ubc.ca