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$10.4 million Genome Canada grant for Silent Genomes
Dr. Nadine Caron, from the Division of General Surgery, in collaboration with Dr. Laura Arbour and Dr. Wyeth Wasserman have been awarded $10.4 million dollars from Genome Canada to fund their “Silent Genomes” project. Read the full CBC story.
Dr. MacNeill publishes ground-breaking study on the carbon footprint of surgical suites
Dr. Andrea MacNeill, a surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and Clinical Associate Professor with the UBC Department of Surgery, recently analyzed
SURG 516 Program Planning and Evaluation in Surgical Care Low Resource Settings
We are pleased to be offering this online graduate course through the Branch for International Surgical Care’s Graduate Certificate in Global Surgical Care (GCGSC) program.
CRASH 2017
Many junior surgical residents are participating the Surgical CRASH Course this October!
Dr. Nadine Caron in the News!
Meet Canada’s 1st female Indigenous surgeon – Dr. Nadine Caron. View the CTV news clip here.
Meet our Postdoc Fellows
In honour of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we thought we’d share a little bit about our postdoc fellows in the Department of Surgery. Read their bios here.
MSFHR Innovation to Commercialization Awards
Three Department of Surgery faculty members are among the 11 award recipients in the first Innovation to Commercialization (I2C) competition. These awards will help BC health researchers bridge the gap between discovery and practical application to improve health outcomes in BC. http://secure.campaigner.com/csb/Public/show/iq87f–d6jni-5kohqi96 Dr Aziz Ghahary (Plastic Surgery) Liquid skin substitute accelerates burn and non-healing wounds. […]
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Surgery Fellow Awarded Research Grant
Dr. Francois Letarte, a Colorectal Surgery Fellow working with Dr. Carl Brown (General Surgery) and the colorectal group at Providence Health, has won the Canadian Society of Colorectal Surgeons 2016 Clinical Research Grant for his proposal Day care ileostomy closure surgery – a multicentre randomized controlled trial.
Synthetic heart valves will help doctors improve surgical skills
A UBC invention has made it possible for doctors to vastly improve their bypass surgery techniques without relying on animals. Full Story.