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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM May 2017
In January 2017 the BC Minister of Health announced the approval of publicly ... of vaccination. The vaccine that will be used in the BC program is the 9-valent HPV vaccine (HPV9 or Gardasil 9, ... Programs and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Service BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control HPV ...
Obituaries / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD January/February 2017
... on the role of provincial director of TB control for the BC Ministry of Health, which is where he worked until his ... Canadian Thoracic Society, and served on the board of the BC Lung Association. He was honored with the George Elliot ... he interviewed me for a position at what is now the BC Centre for Disease Control. It was my first introduction to ...
Letters / BY: John Walton, MD June 2017
... to the fore the perilous state of general practice in BC. Congratulations to Dr Brown for having the courage to ... using some of this money to create a one-stop medical centre. Perhaps to keep the stench of government bureaucracy ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bidu, MBA December 2017
... In the entrepreneurial world, we call this building BC’s digital health ecosystem. So what exactly does ... in transforming our health care system?  For doctors in BC to continue delivering high-quality care and achieve ... the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, the UBC Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, the ...
News April 2017
... about participating in the trial at stridercanada@cw.bc.ca . The research team is co-led by Dr Kenneth Lim, ... head for the maternal-fetal medicine program at UBC and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, and Professor Peter von Dadelszen, academic head of ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2017
... other physician who has made such diverse contributions to BC and Canada. Dr McGeer is a native Vancouverite and one of ... There he met Edith and they married before returning to BC. Recognizing the potential growth and opportunities ... hospital made sense and the hospital has since become a centre of excellence. Dr McGeer also revamped ICBC, amending ...
News May 2017
... in Surrey, and 10 will be provided by Cedars Discovery Centre in Cobble Hill on Vancouver Island. The contracted providers are managed by BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, an agency of the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD June 2017
Over 1 in 10 households in BC are food insecure, and approximately 1 in 6 children under ...  showed that the majority of food-insecure households in BC are employed (65%), and a minority (15%) are receiving ... Morrison, MHSc, RD Population and Public Health, BC Centre for Disease Control, PHSA —Melanie Kurrein, MA, RD ...
News October 2017
... Kelowna has been renamed the Bill Nelems Pain and Research Centre to honor the popular and much-loved surgeon who died ... earlier this year. Dr Bill Nelems, a thoracic surgeon in BC, worked at the Okanagan Interventional Pain Clinic in the ... improve countless lives. The Bill Nelems Pain and Research Centre will continue to operate out of its current location ...
Letters / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC January/February 2017
The BC Centre for Disease Control article by Dr David Patrick and ... Laboratory Medicine UBC Faculty of Medicine Letters Re: BC physicians reduce unnecessary antibiotic use—and costs ...