July

Dr Alan Godfrey Clews was born on 24 March 1929 in Stoke-on-Trent, England, and died at his home in Victoria on 18 January 2013. Dr Clews graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1952 with an MBChB and later earned a D(Obst)RGOC in London. After working in general practice in England he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Singapore, Taiping, Malaya, and Libya.

Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly 
Saturday, 31 May 2014 • Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver

This year’s Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly was once again held at the Pan Pacific Hotel in downtown Vancouver. Dr Granger Avery was nominated and acclaimed as chair, and began the meeting with a brief introduction of the standing rules and election of the Resolutions Committee. Dr Avery’s reminder to everyone of the importance of maintaining respectful debate set the tone for the remainder of the proceedings.

As many as one in five women in BC will experience a mental health disorder during the perinatal period (conception through pregnancy and up to 1 year postpartum). The Best Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Disorders in the Perinatal Period has been developed to support health care clinicians in this early detection and coordinated treatment of pregnant and postpartum women with mental health challenges. 

UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers have discovered that so-called sticky synapses in the brain can impair new learning by excessively hard-wiring old memories and inhibiting our ability to adapt to a changing environment. Memories are formed by strong synaptic connections between nerve cells. A team of UBC neuroscientists has found that synapses that are too strong can hinder people’s capacity to learn new things by affecting the ability to modify behaviors to adjust to circumstances that are similar, but not identical, to previous experiences.

As part of Doctors of BC’s commitment to better engage with members, we will soon be launching our new, redesigned website. 

Upon launch this summer, members, partners, and the public will see a completely restructured Doctorsofbc.ca. Easy to navigate and intuitive to use, the site will feature engaging visuals and a contemporary design. The redesign will allow us to better profile how, through partnership and innovation, doctors are making a meaningful difference for the profession and for their patients.