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Pathology at a Glance 2017/18
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The UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is an academic department of the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and has major responsibilities and leadership in activities related to education, research and academic practice.
Pathology Facts and Figures 2017 and Pathology Facts and Figures 2018

Pathology Educational Resources

Professional Advancement Learning Series (PALS)

The UBC David F. Hardwick Pathology Learning Centre (DHPLC)

Opportunities for Students: The Summer Student Fellowship Program

The Office of Biobank Education and Research (OBER), UBC Pathology

Read the latest edition of the Pathology Newsletter, published biannually





LSBC Awards 2018: MSFHR Aubrey J. Tingle Prize - Dr. David Huntsman
Created in honour of MSFHR’s founding president & CEO, this award is given annually to a British Columbia clinician scientist whose work in health research has had a significant impact on advancing research and improving health, and the health system, in BC and beyond.
Video interview with Dr. Huntsman:



	Events
  
 2018/10
   2018 Canada Gairdner Awards Laureate Lectures:  Join us to learn about the exceptional work that won this year’s awards and the exceptional individuals behind it. Monday, October 22, 2018 - 3:30pm; LSC2, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia 
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	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/09
  MSc  DEFENCE - Student: Cameron Oram [TITLE: GRANZYME B: ROLE IN SPINAL CORD INJURY AND IMPEDED REPAIR]  
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	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/09
  MSc  DEFENCE - Student: Wenchen Zhao [TITLE: AXL RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE REGULATES APOLIPOPROTEIN E EXPRESSION]  
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	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/09
  MSc  DEFENCE - Student: Yang (Zhouchunyang) Xia [TITLE: LINE-1 RETROTRANSPOSITIONS IN EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER: CAN WE USE DNA “PARASITES” FOR GOOD PURPOSE?]  
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	Awards
	Research
  
 2018/08
   Dr. Poul Sorensen,   a Professor in the UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, was very recently awarded a US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant as the Vancouver Principal Investigator of a multi-institutional grant, led by Drs. John Maris of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Crystall Mackall of Stanford University.  The grant award is $1.6M USD per year for 5 years.   


	Awards
	Research
  
 2018/07
    Dr. Elizabeth Bryce: BC Health Care Gold Apple Award for Top Innovation  
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	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/07
  PhD DEFENCE - Student: Tina Yang [TITLE: PROTEOMIC INVESTIGATION OF PROTEIN FUNCTION AND REGULATORY PATHWAYS IN CANCER]  
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	Awards
	Research
  
 2018/07
   Dr. Bruce McManus:  Dr. McManus has been named the 2018 recipient of the Margolese National Heart Disorders Prize. Join us in congratulating Dr. McManus on this remarkable achievement.
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	Events
  
 2018/07
  PUBLIC LECTURE: Gordon & Leslie Diamond Family Theatre  Speaker:  Dr. Michael Hummel,  Professor and Head of Molecular Diagnostics at the Institute of Pathology at the Charité, Berlin, and a longstanding Clinican-Scientist Researcher with a scientific interest in molecular mechanisms in malignant lymphoma. In addition he is the director of the Central Biobank at the Charité and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH).  Title: ‘Molecular diagnostics for next generation oncology’ at 1200, Monday July 23, 2018.” 


	Awards
	Service/Leadership
  
 2018/07
   Dr. Bruce Verchere:  Congratulations to Dr. Verchere for been selected as a recipient of one of the 2018 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Awards, category of Service to the University and Community 


	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/07
  MSc DEFENCE - Student: Fraser Muir [TITLE: CD1D LIPID ANTIGEN PRESENTATION IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS]  

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	Awards
	Service/Leadership
  
 2018/07
   Dr. Bruce McManus:  Congratulations to Dr. McManus C.M. on his appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada 
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	News
  
 2018/06
   Machine learning takes disease detection to the next level:   Dr. Stephen Yip and resident Dr. Adrian Levine talk about CNN technology
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	Awards
	Research
  
 2018/06
    Dr. Elizabeth Bryce &  Dr. Diane Roscoe: People First Awards, Excellence in Innovation, VCH  
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	Awards
	Service/Leadership
  
 2018/06
   Dr. Michael Allard:  Congratulations to Dr. Allard, Professor and Department Head for being awarded  'Canada India Networking Initiative (CINI) Award' of Distinction for his provincial, national and international collaborations to improve health 
 


	Awards
	Research
  
 2018/05
   Dr. Marianne Sadar:  Dr. Sadar has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Thompson Rivers University.  She is one of six recipients of TRU honorary degrees, to be conferred at Spring Convocation 2018.

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	Awards
	Research
  
 2018/04
   Dr. David Huntsman:  Congratulations to Dr. Huntsman  the 2018 recipient of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research – Aubrey J. Tingle Prize. LifeSciences BC have posted Dr. Huntsman's interview to their YouTube channel 
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	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/04
  MSc DEFENCE - Student: Stephanie Santacruz [TITLE: GRANZYME B DISRUPTS CELL-CELL ADHESION AND EPITHELIAL BARRIER FUNCTION]  

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	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/04
  PhD DEFENCE - Student: Kevin Chung-Hua Tsai [TITLE: SHAPING OF THE T CELL REPERTOIRE BY SELF AND FOREIGN ANTIGENS]  

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	Awards
	Education
  
 2018/04
   Dr. Amanda Bradley:  Congratulations to Dr. Bradley on being selected as the recipient of a 2017-2018 UBC Killam Teaching Prize.  This honour is in recognition of her outstanding achievement as a teacher and is no doubt a reflection of her enthusiasm for teaching and commitment to her students.  


	Events
  
 2018/04
  Professional Advancement Learning Series (PALS), Friday, April 6, 2018 - this event will be held at the VGH Paetzold Theatre (1891 LT) from 12:30 to 1:30pm.   Speaker:  Dr. Niamh Kelly, Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Title: "Creativity and Medicine” 
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	News
  
 2018/03
   Dr. Titus Wong, VCH’s new regional medical director:     As VCH’s new Regional Medical Director of Infection Control, Dr. Titus Wong knows he’s got some big shoes to fill after taking over the role from long-time leader Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Bryce on March 1. 
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	News
  
 2018/03
   Dr. Schaeffer was featured in the media  for his research on pancreatic cancer:     'Extreme responders' to pancreatic cancer treatments to be studied by researchers in new initiative.  North Vancouver woman to be studied for her remarkable recovery from the deadly disease. 
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	Events
  
 2018/03
    Welcome to the Annual Pathology Arts Gala, Friday, March 9th, 2018 from 7:00pm to 10:00 PM at the UBC Medical Student & Alumni Centre, 2750 Heather Street.  Join us this night for live performances and visual arts!  Food and drinks available.  
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	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/03
  PhD DEFENCE - Student: Tom (Wai Hang) Cheng [TITLE: THE INTERACTION OF REPETITIVE MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, ALZHEIMER DISEASE AND AGEING]  

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	News
  
 2018/02
    Associate Professor Supat Sinawat (Associate Dean for International Relations and Cooperation Strategies) met with Professor Reza Alaghehbandan from School of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada on occasion of giving lectures on Follow up Pathologic residents in interest in breast, GU and GYN pathology at the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, KKU during November 6 and 7, 2017.  
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	Awards
	Research
  
 2018/02
    Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu:  Congratulations to Dr. Kizhakkedathu on being awarded a 2017 Killam Research Prize, in recognition of his outstanding research and scholarly contributions!... 
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	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/01
  PhD DEFENCE - Student: Haoyu (Eric) Deng [TITLE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF COXSACKIEVIRUS TYPE B3 AS A NOVEL ONCOLYTIC VIRUS AGAINST KRAS-MUTANT NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER]  

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	Departmental Exams
  
 2018/01
  PhD DEFENCE - Student: Sara Saberi [TITLE: DYNAMICS OF TELOMERE LENGTH AND MITOCHONDRIAL DNA CONTENT IN A COHORT STUDY OF HIV-INFECTED AND HIV-UNINFECTED PREGNANT WOMEN AND CELL CULTURE MODELS]  

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	Departmental Exams
  
 2017/12
  MSc DEFENCE - Student: Thyrza May Toledo [TITLE: OPTIMIZATION OF THE DETECTION OF CIRCULATING DNA IN PEDIATRIC SOLID TUMOR PATIENTS TREATED WITH GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR]  

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	Awards
	Research
  
 2017/12
   Dr. David Schaeffer:  "Congratulations to Dr. David Schaeffer and the Pancreas Centre BC team on being awarded funding for the Terry Fox Pan-Canadian Enhanced Pancreatic Cancer Profiling for Individualized Care (EPPIC) Program! This funding through the Terry Fox Research Institute, to start in January 2018 and last for five years, provides $4,984,557 to support pancreatic cancer research."  


	Departmental Exams
  
 2017/12
  MSc DEFENCE - Student: Marta Salvador Ordono [TITLE: PLACENTAL MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION IN RELATION TO PRETERM DELIVERY IN HIV PREGNANCY]  

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	Awards
	External
	Service/Leadership
  
 2017/12
   Dr. Jiri Frohlich:  Dr. Frohlich appointed to the Order of British Columbia.  Recognized as the founder of modern preventative heart disease practices, Frohlich’s research and clinical work shaped contemporary medical thinking around the link between cholesterol and heart disease and led to the creation of national guidelines for identification and treatment for inherited heart disease.
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	Departmental Exams
  
 2017/11
  PhD DEFENCE - Student: Deborah Chen [TITLE: RED BLOOD CELL HEMOLYSIS: PROTEIN BIOMARKER DISCOVERY FOR PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT]  

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	Departmental Exams
  
 2017/11
  MSc DEFENCE - Student: Arash Samiei [TITLE: ROLE OF EEF2K IN DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE]  

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	Events
  
 2017/11
  The Childhood Diseases Research Theme at BC Children's Hospital presents:     "Control of Pathogen Colonization by Host Immunity and the Microbiota in the Gut" Dr. Gabriel Núñez, MD, Paul de Kruif Endowed Professor, Inflammation & Immunology, University of Michigan School of Medicine  November 16, 2017, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Chan Centre for Family Health Education Auditorium BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute  
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	Departmental Exams
  
 2017/09
  PhD DEFENCE - Student: Jonathan Lim [TITLE: THE IMPACT OF ONCOGENIC KRAS ON REDOX BALANCE TO SUPPORT CELLULAR TRANSFORMATION AND TUMORIGENICITY]  

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	Departmental Exams
  
 2017/09
  PhD DEFENCE - Student: Hani Bagheri [TITLE: GENOMIC AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DNA COPY NUMBER VARIANTS ASSOCIATED WITH DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES]  

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	Awards
	External
	Service/Leadership
  
 2017/09
   "Dr. Christian Steidl   named member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.  Congratulations!" 
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	Awards
	Service/Leadership
	UBC and FOM
  
 2017/09
   Dr. Bruce McManus:  "Congratulations on being a recipient of the 2017 Faculty of Medicine Bill and Marilyn Webber Lifetime Achievement Award.  This award is evidence of the very high regard in which you are held and recognizes your extraordinary and distinguished career." 
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	Awards
	Service/Leadership
	UBC and FOM
  
 2017/09
    Dr. Marcel Bally:  "Congratulations on being a recipient of the 2017 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement, Service to the University and Community. " 
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	Awards
	Research
	UBC and FOM
  
 2017/09
    Dr. Kevin Bennewith:  "Congratulations on being a recipient of the 2017 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement, Excellence in Basic Science Research. " 
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	Awards
	Education
	UBC and FOM
  
 2017/09
    Dr. Cornelia Laule:  "Congratulations on being a recipient of the 2017 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement, Excellence in Education. " 
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	Awards
	Research
	UBC and FOM
  
 2017/09
   Dr.  Ian Mackenzie:  "Congratulations on being a recipient of the 2017 Faculty of Medicine Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize.  Dr. Mackenzie has pulled back the curtain on the molecular pathology leading to frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. " 
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	News
	Research Grants
  
 2017/09
    CIHR Foundation Grants: "Congratulations to Dr. David Huntsman for being one of the recipients of the CIHR Foundation Grants 2017. "Mutation, cell context, and the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer", $2.7M for 7 years " 
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	Awards
	Research
  
 2017/09
  Dr. Andrew Minchinton:   Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Minchinton on receiving the Michael Smith Foundation Health Research (MSFHR) Innovation to Commercialization (I2C) Program. 
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	Awards
	Research
  
 2017/09
  Dr. David Granville:   Congratulations to Dr. David Granville on receiving the Michael Smith Foundation Health Research (MSFHR) Innovation to Commercialization (I2C) Program. 
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	Awards
	Education
	UBC and FOM
  
 2017/09
   Dr. Patrick Doyle:  "Congratulations on being a recipient of the 2017 Faculty of Medicine Clinical Faculty Award for Career Excellence in Clinical Teaching.  This award recognizes clinical faculty members throughout BC who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and made an educational impact in a local community." 
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	Events
  
 2017/07
 Please join us for the following lecture:  Building the Dutch tissue block procurement program July 20th, 12:00-1:15 pm UBC Eye Care Lecture Theatre – ECC 100 2550 Willow Street Vancouver BC Please join us in learning from Dr. Folkert van Kemenade about the creation and operation of the Dutch National Tissuebank Portal (DNTP) – a […] 


	Awards
	External
	Service/Leadership
  
 2017/06
  Dr. Muhammad Morshed   Dr. Morshed is one of the recipients of 2017 RBC Top 25 Immigrant Awards. This “people’s choice” national award recognizes outstanding immigrants who have come to Canada, achieved success and made a positive difference. 
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