Pathology Residents

                                




Pathology Residency Program



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.
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Specialties 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/










Hematopathology
 
       

Co-Program Director:  Dr. Kate Chipperfield 


Hematopathologist, BC Children’s Hospital 

Clinical Associate Professor, UBC

Email: kate.chipperfield@cw.bc.ca 



Anatomical Pathology
 
       

Program Director: Dr. Brian Skinnider 


Vancouver General Hospital

Clinical Associate professor, UBC


Email: brian.skinnider@vch.ca 







Hematopathology
 
       

Co-Program Director: Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren


Hematopathologist, BC Children’s Hospital

Clinical Associate professor, UBC


Email: svercauteren2@cw.bc.ca 






Medical Microbiology
 
       

Program Director: Dr. Chris Lowe


Virology Laboratory, St. Paul’s Hospital

Clinical Associate Professor, UBC


Email: clowe@providencehealth.bc.ca  


   














Neuropathology
 
       

Program Director: Dr. Ian Mackenzie


Neuropathologist, Vancouver General Hospital, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

Professor,  UBC



Email: ian.mackenzie@vch.ca 



Medical Biochemistry

 
       
Program Director: Dr. Sophia Wong 


Medical Biochemist, Vancouver General Hospital

Clinical Assistant Professor,  UBC


Email: sophia.wong@vch.ca  

  












Transfusion Medicine
 
       



Transfusion medicine is an Area of Focused Competence (AFC) program, and is accredited by  Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada.
 
For more information and to apply, pls contact: Program Director: Dr. Karen Dallas 
 










       Want to Apply?      UBC Pathology Residency Program accepts applications through CaRMS.   
Canadian Residents Matching Service










 










       Visa Trainees:   
       
Contact the UBC Postgraduate Medical Education Office 


       Electives:         
       
Contact the Program Manager Shelley Berkow to arrange an elective   






  

  



























    





















Fellowships














  





 
  
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?         

  

     



     
   

        

            

                
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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.  
    


     
     

 



            
 

     

Daniel Owen 
 (Anatomical Pathology)   
Fellowship:   Gastrointestinal, Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Pathology Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    


     
     

 



            
 

     

Jessica Saunders 
 (Anatomical Pathology)    
Fellowship:Pediatric Pathology fellowship in Seattle at Seattle Children's Hospital.  
    


     
     

 




            
 

     

Ema Todorovic 
 (Anatomical Pathology)   
Fellowship:   Head and Neck Fellowship – Toronto General Hospital, Supervisor:  Dr. Ilan Weinreb

    


     


     
     




 



            
 

     

Catherine Cheng 
 (Medical Biochemistry)  
 
Current job: Medical Biochemist, Vancouver General Hospital