Pathology Residency Programs
The UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is the academic home to a wide variety of exceptional individuals who create and convey knowledge related to the causes (etiology) and mechanisms (pathogenesis) of disease, enabling translation into improved diagnosis, prognosis and management of patients and populations (service). This in large part defines the “business” we are in. The Department has major roles in undergraduate medical and residency education, continuing professional development-knowledge translation (CPD-KT), and in the education of allied health professions.
Current ResidentsSpecialties we offer:
PLEASE NOTE: Medical Biochemistry is now a subspecialty and applications are submitted through the CaRMS subspecialty match. https://www.carms.ca/en/residency/msm/Anatomical Pathology
Program Director: Dr. Jonathan Bush
Clinical Associate Professor, UBC
BC Children’s Hospital
Email: jonathan.bush@ubc.caAnatomical Pathology
Associate Program Director: Dr. David Farnell
Clinical Instructor, UBC
Consultant Pathologist at Vancouver General Hospital
Email: david.farnell@vch.caMedical Biochemistry
Program Director: Dr. Andre Mattman
Clinical Professor, UBC
Medical Biochemist, St Paul's Hospital
Email: amattman@providencehealth.bc.caHematopathology
Program Director: Dr. Kate Chipperfield
Clinical Associate Professor, UBC
Hematopathologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Email: kate.chipperfield@cw.bc.ca
Interested in applying for Hematopathology in the upcoming CARMS match? Contact Dr. Kate Chipperfield
Explore our program: watch our video hereMedical Microbiology
Program Director: Dr. Chris Lowe
Clinical Associate Professor, UBC
Virology Laboratory, St. Paul’s Hospital
Email: clowe@providencehealth.bc.caMedical Microbiology
Associate Program Director: Dr. Michael Payne
Clinical Associate Professor, UBC
Medical Microbiologist, St. Paul’s Hospital
Email: mpayne2@providencehealth.bc.caNeuropathology
Program Director: Dr. Ian Mackenzie
Professor, UBC
Neuropathologist, Vancouver General Hospital, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Email: ian.mackenzie@vch.ca
Interested in applying for Neuropathology in the upcoming CARMS match? Contact Dr. Ian Mackenzie, Program Director.Area of Focused Competence (AFC) Programs
Transfusion Medicine AFC
Program Director: Dr. Youness Elkhalidy
Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC
Surrey Memorial Hospital
Email: youness.elkhalidy1@fraserhealth.caPediatric & Perinatal AFC
Program Director: Dr. Anna Lee
Clinical Associate Professor, UBC
BC Children’s Hospital
Email: anna.lee@cw.bc.ca
Pathology Residents
Podcasts: interviews with PDs
There's More Than Meets the Microscope - Dr. Kate Chipperfield
September 15, 2020 | 45:33Approaching the Bench: From Law to the Lab - Dr. Mike Nimmo
September 1, 2020 | 01:43:25Medical Biochemistry: A Chat with Dr. Mattman
September 27, 2023 | 00:31:38Fellowships
Unfortunately, there are no UBC funded fellowships in Pathology. However, fellowships funded by a specific hospital site are sometimes available. These include cytopathology at the BC Cancer Agency, general surgical pathology through Royal Columbian Hospital, and possibly GI pathology through Vancouver General Hospital. Enrollment in such a fellowship is at the discretion of the individual preceptor.
Fellowships funded through external agencies (eg. IMG residents wishing to complete additional training in a specific area or CMG residents funded by an agency to complete additional training in a specific area) are sometimes available at the discretion of the individual preceptor. In the past, such fellowships have been completed in Bone & Soft Tissue, Head & Neck, Breast, Gynecologic, Gastrointestinal & Hematopathology.
Although we do provide certificates of completion, fellowships are not credentialed by the Royal College.
Pls contact Shelley Berkow, Residency Program Manager for more information.
Where in the world are our graduates?
Jonathan Lee (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Dermpath Fellowship, Vancouver General Hospital
Hang Yang (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Gastrointestinal Fellowship, Stanford University
Taylor Salisbury (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Breast Pathology fellowship, Stanford University
Hussam Bukhari (Anatomical Pathology)
Current Fellowship: GU Fellowship at John Hopkins, BaltimoreFellowship: Yale Fellowship
Kimberly Hamilton (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Toronto FellowshipCurrent job: Forensic Pathologists, Ontario Forensic Pathology Service
Jenny Chu (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: VGH FellowshipCurrent job: Gastrointestinal Pathologist – Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, BC
Yi Ariel Liu (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship:Houston FellowshipCurrent job: Anatomical Pathologist – Royal Columbian Hospital
Carl Ren (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Yale FellowshipCurrent job: Anatomical Pathologist – Vancouver General Hospital
Julia Naso (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Rochester Minnesota FellowshipCurrent job: Anatomical Pathologist – Vancouver General Hospital
Lisa Borretta (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Virginia FellowshipCurrent job: Anatomical Pathologist - Kelowna General Hospital
Ann Tran (HP)
Current job:Staff HP, Surrey Memorial Hospital
Basile Tessier-Cloutier (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship:Gynecologic pathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan KetteringCurrent job: McGill University Health Center
Sammy Au (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship:GU fellowship at Indiana UniversityCurrent job: Abbottsford Regional Hospital
Mike Steel (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship:GI & Liver fellowship, University of TorontoCurrent job: Surrey Memorial Hospital
Raymond Yip (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship:GI & Liver fellowship at University of CaliforniaCurrent job: Royal Jubilee Hospital
Kyra Berg (AP)
Fellowship:GI & Liver fellowship at StanfordCurrent job: Staff pathologist, Kelowna General Hospital
Bhupinder Johal (HP)
Current job: Staff HP, Kelowna General Hospital
Eric McGinnis (HP)
Current job: Staff HP, Vancouver General Hospital
Adrian Levine (NP)
Current job: CIP – Sick Kids, Toronto
Alisa Abozina (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship:Breast Fellowship, Univ of Alberta Current job: Abbottsford Regional Hospital
Ellen Cai (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Gynecology Fellowship, Stanford, CA Current job: Kelowna General Hospital
Deidre Ongaro (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: GU Fellowship, Stanford, CA Current job: Brampton Civic Hospital, Brampton, Ontario
Jennifer Pors (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship:Gynecology Fellowship, Stanford, CA Current job: BC Cancer
Fatemeh Derakhshan (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Experimental/Mol Fellowship at MSKCC (Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Centre, New York), and then Breast Pathology also at MSKCC, in AY21-22 Current job: Columbia University, New York
Eric Eckbo (Medical Microbiology)
Current job: Staff Medical Microbiologist at CHEO Ottawa
Victor Yuen (Medical Microbiology)
Current job: Staff Medical Microbiologist, Victoria
Lisa Li (Medical Microbiology)
Current job: Medical Microbiologist at Vancouver General Hospital
Kenrry Chiu (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Gastrointestinal/Liver Pathology Fellowship at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York under Dr. Rhonda Yantiss for 2019-2020. Current job: Staff Pathologist, Royal Columbian Hospital
Daniel Owen (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Gastrointestinal, Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Pathology Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Current job: Staff Pathologist, Vancouver General Hospital
Jessica Saunders (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship:Pediatric Pathology fellowship in Seattle at Seattle Children's Hospital. Current job: Staff Pediatric Pathologist, BCCH
Ema Todorovic (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Head and Neck Fellowship – Toronto General Hospital, Supervisor: Dr. Ilan Weinreb Current job: Head & Neck pathologist - Foothills Medical Center, Calgary
Catherine Cheng (Medical Biochemistry)
Current job: Medical Biochemist, Vancouver General Hospital
Hamish Nicolson (Hematopathology)
Current job: St Paul’s Hospital – Hematopathologist
Krista Marcon (Hematopathology)
Current job: Vancouver General Hospital – Hematopathologist
Maryam AlBakri (Hematopathology)
Fellowship: Fellowship in Flow Cytology, Supervisor: Dr Suzanne Vercauteren
Tyler Hickey (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Forensic Pathology Fellowship (Royal College Program through University of Toronto and Ontario Forensic Pathology Services) Supervisor – Dr Iayantha Herath Current job: Staff Forensic Pathologist: Provincial Forensic Pathology Unit in Toronto
Catalin Taraboanta (Anatomical Pathology)
Current job: Staff Pathologist - East Kootenay Regional Hospital, Cranbrook, BC
Noorah Al Madani (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Clinical Fellow – Gynecological Pathology Fellowship, VGH. Supervisor Dr Lien Hoang
Sarah Cherian (Medical Microbiology)
Current job: Staff Medical Microbiologist at the University Hospitals in Cleveland, USA
Yazeed Alwelaie (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: 2018-20: Cytopathology Fellow at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia July 2020: Staff position at King Fahad Medical City (Riyadh), Saudi Arabia
Lawrence Lee (Anatomical Pathology)
Current job: Staff Anatomical Pathologist at Vancouver General Hospital
Eric Bol (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Forensic Pathology; Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Edmonton Current job: Forensic Pathologist, Calgary
Maziar Riazy (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Renal Pathology; University of Washington, Seattle Current job: Pathologist (Renal), St Paul’s Hospital
Inna Sekirov (Medical Microbiology)
Current job: Staff Medical Microbiologist, Mycobacteriology/TB Program Head: BCCDC Public Health Lab, Vancouver
Shazia Masud (Medical Microbiology)
Current job: Staff Medical Microbiologist, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health Authority
Audi Setiadi (Hematopathology)
Current job: Staff Hematopathologist:BC Children’s Hospital
Habib Moshref Razavi (Hematopathology)
Current job: Staff Hematopathologist: Fraser Health, Vancouver
Gang Wang (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Genitourinary Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, USA Current job: Staff Anatomic Pathologist, BC Cancer Agency
Brandon Sheffield (Anatomical Pathology)
Current job: Pathologist, William Osler Health System, Ontario
Susanna Zachara (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Renal Pathology, Foothills Hospital with the University of Calgary Current job: Pathologist (Medical Renal), St Paul’s Hospital
Eman Khan (Hematopathology)
Current job: Hematopathologist at the national guard hospital in Jeddah, Saudi
Shadhiya Al Khan (Hematopathology)
Fellowship: Transfusion Medicine, UBC Current job: Hematopathologist at Royal Hospital, Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman
Veronica Hirsch-Reinshagen (Neuropathology)
Current job: Neuropathologist, VGH
Tyler Verdun (General Pathology)
Current job: Staff Pathologist- Dynacare Kasper Medical Laboratories, Edmonton
Lien Hoang (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Gynaecologic pathology- New York Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Current job: Staff Anatomic Pathologist, Vancouver General Hospital
Joyce Leo (Anatomical Pathology)
Fellowship: Gyne & Breast Pathology Current job: Staff Pathologist: Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria
Michael Payne (Medical Microbiology)
Current job: Medical Microbiologist, Co-Section Head, and LHSC IPAC Medical Leader, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario
Ramesh Saeedi (Medical Biochemistry)
Current job: Staff Medical Biochemist, Royal Columbian Hospital
Sophia Wong (Medical Biochemistry)
Current job: Staff Medical Biochemist Vancouver General Hospital
Nick Sunderland (General Pathology)
Fellowship: UBC Hematopathology/ Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Current job: General & Hematopathologist, Kelowna General Hospital, British ColumbiaMeet our Staff
Dr. Michael Nimmo
Executive Program Director
Clinical Professor UBC
Vancouver General Hospital
Email: michael.nimmo@vch.ca
Shelley Berkow
Residency Program Manager
Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre
10th floor – Room 10125/10127
2775 Laurel St
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9
Tel. (604) 875-4892
Shelley.Berkow@pathology.ubc.ca
Mayumi Shimada
Residency Program Assistant
Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre
10th floor – Room 10125/10127
2775 Laurel St
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9
Tel. (604) 875-4111 ext 68709
pathology.residencyasst@ubc.ca