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Specialist Services Committee / BY: Sean Virani, MD, May 2014
... health system planning guide,  Setting Priorities for the BC Health System . Priority one in the guide is to shift the ... been a unifying vision and central activity for Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health for the past 4 years. A number ... development and supportive care at the Vancouver Prostate Centre. “It is the patient deciding on what they need; not ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haroon Hasan, BSc, MPH, June 2014
... obtaining approval from the Research Ethics Board of the BC Cancer Agency. We then developed a questionnaire to ... Advisory Group of the Department of Radiation Oncology, BC Cancer Agency Vancouver Centre, and the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada.  ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2014
... the push for mandatory health impact assessments in BC. A proposed new coal transfer facility at the Fraser ... by law to be performed for major industrial projects in BC, was performed for the Fraser Surrey Docks terminal and ... of health authorities, the Ministry of Health, and the BC Centre for Disease Control. However, the current provincial ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2014
... extending from Vancouver to the Sunshine Coast, Northern BC, and Vancouver Island. Whenever I had a difficult case to ... from 1964 to 1966. In 1966 he established the Diabetes Day Centre at Lions Gate Hospital, the first of its kind in North ... and stimulated the growth of diabetes centres throughout BC. This also led to a certification process for diabetes ...
Letters / BY: Patricia Mirwaldt, MD, CCFP, June 2014
... of General Practitioners and the Rural Coordination Centre of BC to identify a diverse cross-section of family physicians ...
News June 2014
... Faculty of Medicine at UBC will serve as the home of the Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health (CEIH)—a single ... effectively with Aboriginal people and organizations. The centre will aim to boost research projects addressing ... across the province, and develop partnerships with the BC First Nations Health Authority and other indigenous ...
News June 2014
... of Health Sciences in collaboration with scientists at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, UBC, and sites across the ...
Obituaries / BY: Paul Zickler, MD, June 2014
... celebrated at a heartwarming ceremony at Crescent Beach in BC. Dr Dyck spent his career as an emergency physician at the ... at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh. Gil was born in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1942 ... there until moving with his Mennonite family to Yarrow, BC. After spending some time in Vancouver the family moved to ...
Obituaries / BY: William A. Falk, MD, FCFPC, FRCGP July/August 2014
... and served as director of its residential treatment centre. He worked with Doctors of BC on policies regarding the use of seatbelts and helmets, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH September 2014
... Canadian women aged 20 to 44 years.[ 1,2 ] Each year in BC, about 175 women will be diagnosed and 50 will die from ... has been routinely offered to girls in grades 6 and 9 in BC. Despite its benefits and organized program for delivery, ... Programs and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Service, BC Centre for Disease Control —Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, ...