Reza Rafizadeh

Dear Department members,

As you are aware, 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.

We are excited to announce our first session of 2025 will be held on January 7: CANMAT Depression Guidelines Update – Deep Dive presented by UBC Department of Psychiatry Professor and BC Leadership Chair in Depression Research, Dr. Raymond Lam.

A single registration link is available for all 2025 Grand Rounds:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For additional information regarding the monthly UBC Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds please contact Kevin Elsaputra at kevin.elsaputra@vch.ca.

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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.

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.

Inay

Canada 2024 (56 min.)
Director: Theo Loo
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 @ 7:00pm
The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St)

Film Description

In Inay (which means ​“mama” in Tagalog), Vancouver-based filmmaker Thea Loo compassionately examines the legacy of Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program and its lasting psychological impact on the two people closest to her: her husband Jeremiah (also the film’s cinematographer), and her close friend Shirley. Despite offering economic opportunities and paths to permanent residency, such employment programs for years separated mothers from their children, creating enduring emotional consequences. Through intimate conversations and candid self-reflection, both Jeremiah and Shirley confront difficult truths about their childhoods. By delicately weaving their personal stories alongside the structural issues of immigration policies, Loo offers a path towards healing and understanding for many Filipino Canadians grappling with the long-term effects of family separation, reunification, and the struggle of being caught between two cultures. Ultimately, Inay is both personal and universal in its approach, expertly illuminating the complexity of mood disorders such as depression and showing how migration and labour are significant social determinants of health.

In English and Tagalog with English subtitles

Arbutus Award (Best BC Film)
VIFF 2024

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“A moving film, Inay is full of raw moments that illustrate the trauma that can exist as a consequence of the live-in caregiver program … [The film] puts a human face on the complicated relationship between Canada and the Philippines.” – Gail Johnson, Stir

Post-screening Discussion:

Post-screening discussion with Thea Loo and Jeremiah Reyes.

Thea Loo is a producer and director from Vancouver, BC. Her work spans several successful short films such as No More Parties (2020), which was programmed at Sundance in 2022. Her debut feature documentary Inay premiered in New York City at the Asian American International Film Festival and won the Arbutus Award for Best BC Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Jeremiah Reyes is a multifaceted filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. Since graduating from BCIT’s Video Production and Editing program, he has worked in post-production as an online and dailies editor. His short films, which he shoots, edits, and scores himself, have played at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival and The Polygon Gallery. Inay is his first feature documentary as director of photography and composer.

Moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, the Series Director of Frames of Mind and a Clinical Professor in the UBC Department of Psychiatry.

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Dear colleagues,

With 2024 drawing to a close, I wish to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to each of you for your many valuable contributions, and celebrate our remarkable achievements this year as a department.

The targets outlined in our 2020-2025 Strategic Plan guided us through half a decade of growth and served as reliable benchmarks to measure our successes. I am delighted to note that as we approach the end of this plan and begin preparing a refreshed 2025-2030 Strategic Plan, we can confidently say we have achieved most of the concrete goals that were set before us. This is a testament to our collective dedication, focus and hard work.

As we look forward, we remain committed to expanding our research capacity at UBC Vancouver and across our distributed sites, and have recruitments in progress in the areas of Concurrent Disorders, Data Science, as well as in the Northern Medical Program, Fraser Program and Vancouver Island. Building on our 2023 momentum, we launched a second successful round of our Stimulus Grant program and the seventh year of our IMH Marshall Fellows Program. On the educational front, we welcomed more Psychiatry postgraduate students for 2024/2025 into our programs than ever before, a trend we look forward to continuing into the future.

Additionally, the 2023 departmental internal review, conducted by a panel of FoM reviewers, presented a valuable opportunity for us to track our many milestones over the last several years, reflect upon the state of the Department, and take a closer look at the opportunities and challenges of our academic environment. In response, we have taken meaningful steps to address the recommendations, including the coalescing of the Resident and Faculty EDI Committees into a unified Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism (EDIA) Committee, establishing an Indigenous Strategies Committee, gathering feedback on the new website to continue improving the visitor experience, and conducting a Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students Mistreatment Reporting Survey, with a Resident Wellness Survey expected in the new year. Additionally, as we continue building clinical faculty support and engagement, we announced the redesignation of the VCH-PHC Regional Rounds as the UBC Psychiatry Grand Rounds beginning in January 2025, extending access to faculty across the province, and our Awards and Recognition Committee have established terms of reference and begun developing processes to identify and proactively promote faculty for nomination.

As you review this year’s highlights in our newsletter, I hope you share a sense of pride in our collective accomplishments. As I embark on my second term as Department Head, I remain indebted to our four Associate Heads and Executive team, who have been indispensable to our leadership team and, of course, to all of our outstanding Department members without whom our achievements thus far would not have been possible. With your continued engagement and ongoing support, I look forward to our continued collaboration in the years ahead.

Once again, I wish to thank you all and wish you a safe, happy and well-deserved rest this holiday season!

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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

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