Dr Dorothy Shaw new VP of medical affairs at BC Women’s

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 53, No. 7, September 2011, Page 325 News

Dr Dorothy Shaw was recently appointed VP, medical affairs, at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. She previously served as medical director of the Diagnostic Ambulatory Program at the hospital from 2000 to 2003.

Dr Shaw is internationally recognized for her advocacy efforts to advance women’s rights and improve the health of women, newborns, and children.

Her past accomplishments include being named as Canada’s spokesperson for the G8/G20 by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health in 2010, and being named one of Canada’s 100 most powerful women by the Women’s Executive Network in 2008. 

Dr Shaw was the first woman president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and the youngest person at the time to lead the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada. Dr Shaw received her medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1972 and her fellowship in obstetrics and gynecology in 1978. She joined the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1979 after a fellowship in perinatal genetics with a cross appointment in medical genetics.

. Dr Dorothy Shaw new VP of medical affairs at BC Women’s . BCMJ, Vol. 53, No. 7, September, 2011, Page(s) 325 - News.


Above is the information needed to cite this article in your paper or presentation. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommends the following citation style, which is the now nearly universally accepted citation style for scientific papers:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.

About the ICMJE and citation styles

The ICMJE is small group of editors of general medical journals who first met informally in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1978 to establish guidelines for the format of manuscripts submitted to their journals. The group became known as the Vancouver Group. Its requirements for manuscripts, including formats for bibliographic references developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), were first published in 1979. The Vancouver Group expanded and evolved into the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which meets annually. The ICMJE created the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals to help authors and editors create and distribute accurate, clear, easily accessible reports of biomedical studies.

An alternate version of ICMJE style is to additionally list the month an issue number, but since most journals use continuous pagination, the shorter form provides sufficient information to locate the reference. The NLM now lists all authors.

BCMJ standard citation style is a slight modification of the ICMJE/NLM style, as follows:

  • Only the first three authors are listed, followed by "et al."
  • There is no period after the journal name.
  • Page numbers are not abbreviated.


For more information on the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, visit www.icmje.org

BCMJ Guidelines for Authors

Leave a Reply