Department of Medicine 2009 Annual Report
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Department of Medicine 2009 Annual Report The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM DR. GRAYDON MENEILLY 2 Heads & Directors 4 Administration 5 Research 7 Committee for Appointments, Reappointments, Promotion and Tenure 8 Teaching Effectiveness Committee 10 DIVISION REPORTS AIDS 11 Allergy & Immunology 20 Cardiology 23 Community Internal Medicine 36 University of British Columbia Critical Care Medicine 39 Department of Medicine 2009 Annual Report Endocrinology 44 Gastroenterology 47 Graydon S. Meneilly General Internal Medicine 53 Professor and Eric W. Hamber Chair Geriatric Medicine 60 Head, Department of Medicine, Hematology 64 Vancouver Hospital Infectious Diseases 67 Contributors Medical Oncology 69 Division Heads and Administrators Program Directors and Managers Nephrology 71 Neurology 77 Linda Rasmussen Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 85 Director of Administration Department of Medicine Respiratory Medicine 88 Rheumatology 91 Editor Donna Combs Members at Large 97 Department of Medicine EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Designer Clinical Investigator Program 98 Sabina Fitzsimmons Department of Medicine Continuing Medical Education Program 103 Graduate Studies Program in Experimental Medicine 104 Cover photo Courtesy of “Tourism Vancouver” Postgraduate Education Program 109 International Health Project 111 Photography Undergraduate Education Program 113 Janis Franklin Andy Fang Photospin Departmental Strategic Directions 2009 114 Canada Research Chairs & Endowed Chairs 121 Printer RR Donnelly Research Funding 128 Publications 129 Affiliated Institutes 130 Mentoring Program 131 Honours and Awards 132 DEPARTMENT HEAD’S MESSAGE t is my pleasure to introduce the annual report of the UBC IDepartment of Medicine. 2009 was a busy and successful year despite economic challenges, and our success is a reflection of the tremendous talent and dedication of our faculty, staff, residents and students. This report highlights the activities and accomplishments of our department members over the past year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Paul Man, Associate Head of Medicine at UBC and Chair, Department of Medicine at Providence Health Care, and Dr. Michael Barnett, Associate Head of Medicine at UBC and Vancouver Hospital, for all of their contributions. Dr. Man and Dr. Barnett are absolutely integral to the function of the Department and all of its strategic initiatives. The Department holds regular external reviews of all divisions as a means of facilitating continuing divisional renewal and accountability. In June 2009, a review was held of the Division of Nephrology. The reviewers were Dr. Eric Yoshida, Professor and Head, UBC Division of Gastroenterology, and Dr. Edward Cole, Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at the University of Toronto. The Experimental Medicine Program was reviewed in November 2009 by Dr. Helen Burt, Professor and Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, UBC Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Dr. Hugh Bennett, Professor and Director, Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University. The division and the program will work to integrate the recommendations of the reviewers into their strategic objectives. Endowed chairs bring prestige not only to the department and institution, but also to the faculty member upon whom this honour is bestowed. An endowment also provides the financial support to attract the best and brightest of medicine’s future generation. The UBC Department of Medicine has had phenomenal success in securing endowed chairs. The most recent chair successfully secured in the Department is the Koerner Chair in Neurosciences Endowment, which is held by Dr. Jason Barton, Professor, Division of Neurology and Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. The foundation of all activities in a Department of Medicine is exemplary patient care. Maintaining the highest quality of care has been challenging due to resource constraints but our members continue to provide excellent care to the citizens of Vancouver and the province of British Columbia. In the last year we have implemented an innovative lower mainland wide program for COPD, begun a comprehensive review of endoscopy services and continued to implement the regional stroke strategy. Graydon S. Meneilly, MD, FRCPC, FACP Professor and Eric W. Hamber Chair Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia Head, Department of Medicine, Vancouver Hospital 2 Once again the Department was extremely successful in In the subspecialty area we continue to have some of the best attracting research support, receiving $33,474,219 in peer training programs in the country and attract high quality trainees reviewed grants and $10,082,041 in non-peer reviewed grants. from around the world. The number of high profile peer reviewed papers by members of the Department continues to increase. The Department In closing I would like to take this opportunity to once again published nearly 1,000 peer reviewed papers in the last year acknowledge the contributions of all faculty and staff and to in journals of the highest impact including The New England thank them for their hard work, outstanding achievements and Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and many others. These dedication to the success of the Department of Medicine. research contributions highlight the fact that many groups within the Department are among the best in the world in their Sincerely, area of expertise. The Department has also been successful in fundraising for research activities through the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation and the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation. This year we have 4 renewable CIHR Scholarship/Scientist awards and 14 renewable Michael Smith Scholarship/Scientist awards. Graydon S. Meneilly, MD, FRCPC, FACP Recruitment and retention are a large part of our business. In Professor and Eric W. Hamber Chair 2009, we appointed 5 Professors, 4 Assistant Professors, 1 Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia Clinical Professor, 1 Clinical Associate Professor, 30 Clinical Head, Department of Medicine, Vancouver Hospital Assistant Professors, 9 Clinical Instructors, 1 Adjunct Professor, and we promoted 28 faculty members. There were also several changes in divisional leadership last year. I am very pleased to announce the appointments of the following division heads: • Dr. Kenneth Gin, UBC Division of Cardiology at VGH – CHAIR’S HIGHLIGHTS November 2009 • Dr. Andrew Ignaszewski, UBC Division of Cardiology at SPH – October 2009 he Department extends its warmest congratulations to • Dr. Najib Ayas, UBC Division of Critical Care Medicine – July Tthese outstanding individuals who received the following 2009 Departmental faculty recognition awards: the Fay R. Dirks • Dr. David Landsberg (Acting Head), UBC Division of Awards for Excellence in Teaching were awarded to Dr. Natasha Nephrology – November 2009 Press (Infectious Diseases) and Dr. Jeff Beckman (Neurology); • Dr. Jon Stoessl (Acting Head), UBC Division of Neurology – the Martin M. Hoffman Awards for Excellence in Research were January 2009 awarded to Dr. John Gill (Nephrology) and Dr. Donna Hogge (Hematology); the Donald M. Whitelaw Awards for Outstanding I would like to express a sincere thank you to the division heads Grand Rounds were given to Dr. Robert Enns and Dr. Jennifer who stepped down for all of their efforts on behalf of the Telford (Gastroenterology) and Dr. John Wade (Rheumatology); Department: Dr. Chris Buller (Cardiology), Dr. Dean Chittock the Master Teacher Awards were given to Dr. Pearce Wilcox (Critical Care Medicine), Dr. Paul Keown (Nephrology) and (Respiratory Medicine) and Dr. Hugh Anton (Physical Medicine Dr. Howard Feldman (Neurology). All of them have done an and Rehabilitation). outstanding job in serving their divisions and the department, and I know that the new heads will continue this tradition of In addition, members of the department were recognized by excellence. the Faculty of Medicine and other bodies for their excellence in teaching and research. Some of the special honours and The Undergraduate Education Program is now led by Dr. Janet awards received by our members in 2009 are: Dr. Jason Barton Kushner Kow, who was appointed Director in July 2009. I would (Neurology) received the Faculty of Medicine Distinguished like to express my heartfelt thanks to Dr. Grant Stiver, who Achievement Award for Overall Excellence; Dr. Larry Dian stepped down from this role, for his unwavering commitment to (Geriatric Medicine) received the Vancouver Acute Bobby the program over the last 16 years. Miller Award for Excellence in Teaching; Dr. John Esdaile (Rheumatology) received the Vancouver Acute Award for Our undergraduate program was the first in North America Scientific Excellence; Dr. Julio Montaner (AIDS) won the to distribute the entire 4-year curriculum across three LifeSciences BC Leadership Award; Dr. Peter Pare (Respiratory geographically distinct sites including the Island Medical Program, Medicine) was awarded the Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Northern Medical Program and the Vancouver Fraser Medical Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions by a Senior Program. A fourth site, the Southern Medical Program, will be Faculty Member; and Dr. Evan Wood (AIDS) received the British added in 2011. Enrolment has more than doubled since Medical Journal International Junior Doctor of the Year Award. we began using this unique model of distributed education in 2004. In the postgraduate realm, we have the second largest internal medicine