UBC MEDICINE Volume 3 Number 1 Fall/Winter 2006

TAKE TWO ASPIRIN® AND ...

How Patrick and Edith McGeer turned our understanding of this familiar old prescription on its head—and other stories from the lab and the basketball court 12

Flying Solo in Fort St. John 15

Coffee Hot Shots 10

Medical Alumni News 19

A publication of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia What Are You Doing After Work?

GEOFF PAYNE, assistant professor, Northern Medical Program, left Prince George for Penticton in August to swim 3.86 km, bike 180.2 km and run 42.2 km in the Subaru Ironman Canada Triathlon. Page 3

c2 UBC Medicine Fall 2005 In This Issue 5 UBC MEDICINE DEPARTMENTS is published twice a year by the Faculty of Medicine, and provides news and information about the activities of faculty 2 Taking Risks members, students, staff, alumni, and friends, and their contributions to the health and well-being of people and 3 What Are You Doing After Work? populations locally, nationally and internationally. 4 Flash: News from . . . Volume 3 Number 1 Fall/Winter 2006 8 Point of View: Mapping the Legacy of Teaching Editor-in-Chief (Acting) Dr. Dorothy Shaw, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs 6 Editor/Managing Editor PROFILES 9 Miro Kinch Editorial Advisory Committee 9 Naomi Broudo Lesley Bainbridge Alison Buchan Passionate about interprofessional education Alison Liversage Chris Petty Dr. Beverley Tamboline 10 Coffee Hot Shots Randy Schmidt Students run—and own—a hot new business Contributors Tim Carlson Erin Creak 10 Derry Dance Dr. David Hardwick FEATURES Dr. Lynn Doyle Miro Kinch Mari-Louise Rowley, Pro-textual Communications 12 Patrick and Edith McGeer Dr. Beverley Tamboline Copy Editor The 2006 Faculty of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award winners Vicki McCullough are lifelong scientific visionaries, trail-blazers and risk takers—with an Design Tandem Design Associates Ltd. impressive list of “firsts” in neurodegenerative disease research. As a Photography team, they’re unbeatable—oh, and by the way, to see where it all began, Martin Dee Trasi Jang take a look at that basketball score on page 14. Carey Linde Rob van Adrichem, UNBC 12 Additional photographs courtesy of: British Columbia Medical Association BC’s Children’s Hospital Foundation 15 Flying Solo in Fort St. John Canadian Medical Association Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics Entrepreneurial ophthalmologist Dr. Stephen Drance took a chance on Fort St. John Hospital Foundation Government of British Columbia, Protocol and Events Branch a new residency program in northeastern BC. Thirty-two years later, Karyo Communications Providence Health Care Media Services both the residents and the community they serve are still benefiting University of British Columbia Archives University of British Columbia Public Affairs from their longstanding relationship. Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute 15 Correction: Photographs in Vol 2 No 2 were incorrectly attributed. The photos on page 2, 3 and 21 were taken by Trasi Jang MEDICAL ALUMNI NEWS AWARDS ISSUE Faculty of Medicine T 604-822-2421 The University of F 604-822-6061 British Columbia www.med.ubc.ca 20 MAA President’s Report 317–2194 Health Sciences Mall Vancouver BC 21 MAA Awards Canada V6T 1Z3 23 Wallace Wilson Leadership Award; Honourary Alumni; The editor reserves the right to edit submissions for Silver Anniversary Award length, content and/or clarity, as well as the right to decline submissions. 25 MUS Report; MSAC Report; [email protected] Introducing Alumni Affairs 25 26 Alumni Awards,Achievements & Activities

28 Last Words: The Class of 2006 28 Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medicine 1 Professor Stuart with Jennifer Mills, MD Class of 2007 and resident Dr. Marketa Gogela-Spehar.

midwives, our occupational and physical therapists, our public health administrators, our scientists and our researchers in 30-plus health-related programs, departments and research centres. We expect our students, staff and faculty members to take risks, to think outside the box, to take on new challenges, and be open to experiences of every shape and descrip- tion. Indeed, our people do so throughout their professional careers. Risk taking can be exhilarating and lead to exciting new discoveries and accomplishments. It can also have negative TAKING RISKS consequences and extract a high price. Its rewards may be immediate, or frustratingly slow in arriving. In one’s professional career one is constantly assessing and/or tak- UBC FACULTY OF MEDICINE At the end of August, I stood in ing risks. Deciding when the risk is worth Vision front of the newly-arrived medical taking requires applying existing knowledge Through knowledge, creating health. and invoking accepted practices. Mission undergraduate Class of 2010, and I recognize that all of you in the Together we create knowledge and talked about the journey they were advance learning that will make a Faculty—students, residents, staff, faculty vital contribution to the health of about to embark on—and the individuals and communities locally, and alumni—have high ideals, and hold nationally and internationally. wonderful professional choices that yourselves to the highest standards.You are Commitments Through education, research and would be open to them. caring, committed and amazingly hard service, UBC’s Faculty of Medicine will working.You take risks, accept challenges positively and measurably influence For a new MD undergraduate student the health of people in British and devise out-of-the-box solutions. Columbia, Canada and the world. there are many choices. Some members of The determination and focus that makes In its words, attitudes and behaviour, this class will be maternity care providers that possible has served, and will serve UBC’s Faculty of Medicine will in Uganda. Others will be neuroscientists in build a common identity as a you well throughout your professional and single, integrated entity across an academic centre. Some will be primary British Columbia. your personal lives. care providers in the interior of British As a global leader in health education I am extremely proud to be part of and research, UBC’s Faculty of Columbia, perhaps serving the needs of Medicine will be a source of pride such an extraordinary team in the Faculty the geriatric population, while still others to all its members. of Medicine. We choose to advance our mission will go on to become surgeons or through leadership in information technology and communication. translational researchers. Reflecting on my comments, I realize

For the full text of the Faculty’s that every one of those opportunities strategic plan, Health Trek 2010, go involves a measure of risk, and the degree to to “About Us” at www.med.ca and click on “Health Trek 2010.” which risk-taking has become a part of GAVIN C.E. STUART, MD our culture in the Faculty of Medicine—not Dean, Faculty of Medicine just for our physicians, but for our audiolo- gists and speech language pathologists, our

2 UBC Medicine Fall/Winter 2006 WHAT ARE YOU DOING AFTER WORK? Re-energizing on the Road—And What a Road!

GEOFF PAYNE, assistant professor in the nine hours going non-stop, blah is expected. Northern Medical Program, has degrees in Then over the next few miles my ability to Behavioural Neuroscience, Neuroscience and process liquid and food begins to change. Cardiovascular & Renal Physiology. He did “The wind is blowing and it’s 35 degrees; post-doctoral work at Yale—and has just man, this is tough. . . . I’m walking now and begun a second master’s degree in Health even a tiny sip of water makes me nauseous. Care Education. I continue to slug it out for another two This year’s winner of the NMP student- hours.At mile 11 the body says stop. I sit for nominated Lasting Impressions award, a while and do the math—15 miles to go. Geoff not only teaches and mentors medical My stomach complains bitterly and lets go students, but spent last semester with UNBC of everything I’ve attempted to put in it. nursing students as well. Ambulances are going crazy picking up peo- This summer he went south to Penticton ple. One stops for me.A paramedic checks to swim 3.86 km (2.4 mi.), bike 180.2 km my BP (90/60) and says my day is done. (112 mi.) and run 42.2 km (26.2 mi.) in the “After 11 hours of pushing my body Subaru Ironman Canada Triathlon. to the nth degree, my day is cut short. An “Great swim and bike,” he reports by IV and some medical attention leaves e-mail.“On the run at just under eight hours only my heart feeling pain as I think of the into the race. Feeling great, wave to wife lost moment.” and kids and on we go.The first four miles He signs off with a cheerful “Will do are fine. I start to feel a little blah—but after it again in 2008.”

In June this year, just outside Golden, BC, the second leg of a two-part, 5,426-kilo- one of the cyclists in the Canadian Cystic metre cross-country fundraising trip. He Fibrosis Foundation’s Gear Up for CF ride cycled the first leg—from Minneapolis to was hit by a truck.The driver didn’t stop. Freeport, Maine—last year. The cyclist, so angry he didn’t pause to Riding for the Canadian CF Foundation consider the gash in his leg, leapt back on to is his way of thanking the organization his bike in hot pursuit. He caught up with for nearly three decades of research support. the vehicle at a stoplight. “My connection with CF goes back about “The driver was charged,” DR. DAVID 28 years, when I began researching bacterial SPEERT reports, with more than a little infections in CF patients,” he says.The funds satisfaction. he raises will support other researchers David was riding with his brother Peter, seeking to improve the lives of children and sister Ellen and brother-in-law Paul—“Their adults with this disease. role is to keep me upright,” he wrote on Not all Speert family members cycle; the event website,“and mine is to translate some choose to play a supporting role. But all conversations from Canadian to American everyone seems to get caught up in what for them.”All four went on to finish the sister Ellen calls “the spirit of the Speert nine-day, 1,052-kilometre,Vancouver-to- gang.” They’re already making plans for next Calgary ride without further incident. year’s Gear Up for CF, counting the days Six weeks later, the UBC Pediatrics pro- until June 23, 2007. fessor rode into Minneapolis, wrapping up

Fall/WinterWinter 20062005 UBC Medicine 3 FLASH!NEWS FROM THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE COMMUNITY at home & abroad

Death Channel Secret Revealed Key Discovery in Reducing Thompson said,“but nobody Stroke Impact knew the exact process. So we went looking for the death Women and Children First Members of the UBC Brain channel.And we found it.” BC’s Infant Transport Team Research Centre have found a The researchers discovered Sets the Bar High new stroke “death channel”— that cell membranes were the conduit through which key BC’s Infant Transport Team disrupted at the site of gap chemicals flow out of brain cells, (ITT) is celebrating 30 years of and children to hospital, and junction hemichannels. Gap leading to the rapid cell death dramatically reducing morbidity repatriate them following junctions, composed of two that disables stroke victims. rates for newborn infants, for treatment. Physicians at the hemichannels that bridge the Roger Thomson,a UBC sick or injured children, and in Children’s & Women’s Health intercellular space, allow mole- Psychiatry post-doctoral fellow, high risk pregnancies. Medical Centre of BC coordinate each cules and ions to flow between made the discovery in animal director Dr. Andrew Macnab,a call and oversee the medical cells. During a stroke, hemichan- models, along with graduate professor of Pediatrics in the attention—delegated to the nels can form outside the student Ning Zhou and Faculty, has been a member of paramedic at the scene—that junction and leak chemicals. Psychiatry professor Brian the team since ITT first began. each patient requires. The next step in the MacVicar.“We’ve known for Responding to over 2,000 BC’s transport program is investigation will be to deter- 40 years about chemicals calls per year, advanced life internationally renowned for its mine the cause of the flowing out of cells after stroke,” support (ALS) paramedics— research on safe transport. hemichannel malfunction. who have the specialized train- Macnab, who leads the research Therapies for stroke patients ing required to escort and care province-wide, notes,“BC has may be available within for these patients—transport set standards of care worldwide. five to 10 years. critically ill or injured women ITT provides guidelines and training models for transport Dramatic Genetic cancer, Huntsman reports,“they teams in the UK, US and for the Discovery tackled their genetic destiny Flying Doctors of Kenya.” Family Makes Pre-emptive Strike head-on.” Against Gastric Cancer “What I was expecting was to meet people who were Genetic pathologist Prof. David feeling life was pretty lousy but Huntsman has been in the were grateful they weren’t going national and international news to get stomach cancer,” he said recently for finding a genetic in a Globe and Mail profile this mutation in a large US family— summer.“And what was a really a discovery that led to 11 pleasant surprise was to meet 11 cousins having their stomachs people who are really enjoying removed to avoid a fatal type of life and who are now looking stomach cancer. Instead of living forward to growing old.” in fear when genetic testing revealed a 70 percent chance of developing the rare hereditary 4 UBC Medicine Fall/Winter 2006 Cure for Huntington a cure for Huntington’s disease mouse, using drug inhibitors, Disease is Closer Than (HD) in mice. with the ultimate goal of mov- We Think Hayden found that by ing to humans. Currently, Cure for Disease in Mice Means preventing a deadly cleavage of there is no treatment to delay Hope for Humans the mutant huntingtin protein or prevent HD in humans. responsible for HD in a mouse Dr. Hayden is director Dr. Michael Hayden and his model, the degenerative symp- and senior scientist at the colleagues at UBC’s Centre toms underlying the illness do Centre for Molecular Medicine for Molecular Medicine and not appear and the mouse dis- and Therapeutics and holds Therapeutics have provided plays normal brain function. a Canada Research Chair groundbreaking evidence of Hayden’s team is now testing in Human Genetics and this model of prevention in a Molecular Medicine.

Major Dementia Discovery International Team Led by the door to new possibilities for Faculty Researchers treatment,” says Mackenzie. There is currently no treatment UBC researchers Prof. Ian for the disease, which affects Mackenzie (Pathology & both men and women and caus- Laboratory Medicine) and Prof. es devastating language impair- Authentic Happiness California and Illinois, Deepak Howard Feldman (head, ment and serious changes in Exploring the Relationship Chopra and Psychiatry professor division of Neurology) have dis- behaviour. Expected lifespan Between Happiness and Health Allan Young, associate head covered the genetic cause of an of the Institute of Mental Health after diagnosis is five to 10 years. His Holiness the Dalai Lama was inherited form of frontotempo- and holder of the BC Leadership Feldman adds that the in Vancouver in September to ral dementia (FTD)—the second Chair in Depression at UBC. investigation process is an excel- inaugurate his new Center for most common type of dementia UBC president Prof. lent example of clinicians, Peace and Education and give in those under the age of 65. Stephen Toope gave the open- neuroscience researchers and keynote addresses at the Working with colleagues at ing remarks.“It’s unfortunate geneticists working together Vancouver Dialogues 2006, the the Mayo Clinic in the US, the that the pursuit of happiness gets to accelerate new findings. first in a regular series of talks to scientists identified mutations such short shrift in our society,” The research team will now be hosted by the centre. in the progranulin gene that he said.“We North Americans develop screening tests for The third Dialogues result in the underproduction are incredibly accomplished families with FTD, explore session, Happiness and Stress as of progranulin protein, an at treating sickness, but we are genetic and non-genetic thera- Determinants of Mental Health, essential growth factor for nerve underfunded, underequipped pies, and determine if the was presented in partnership cell survival. and underachieving when gene plays a role in more com- with the Faculty’s Institute of “The discovery is particular- it comes to promoting public mon degenerative diseases Mental Health—also very ly exciting because the way health . . . We are here today such as other forms of dementia recently established. Institute these mutations cause dementia with some of the foremost and amyotrophic lateral head and department of was quite unsuspected. It opens experts in the world to expand sclerosis (ALS). Psychiatry professor Anthony our understanding of happiness. Their findings were Phillips moderated the two- That gives me hope.” published online in Nature in part discussion. On the platform To see the webcast of the July 2006. with the Dalai Lama were session, click on “Multimedia” at distinguished researchers from www.dalailamacenter.org. McGill and the Universities of

Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medicine 5 FLASH! ...... NEWS FROM THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE COMMUNITY AT HOME AND ABROAD...NEWS FROM THE FACULTY OF MEDICIN

The New York Times “Rudolf Vrba, 81, A Radical New Auschwitz Witness, Dies” He was one of only five Jews Prevention Strategy April 7, 2006 known to have escaped the Creating a Chemical Quarantine camp. Vrba and his fellow escap- The Globe and Mail Around the HIV Virus er,Alfred Wetzler, wrote a report “When Rudolf Vrba fled “A bold and strategic shift in the that became known as the Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, UBC Prof Alerted World way HIV drugs are used could Auschwitz Protocols—consid- he made what may have been to Auschwitz Atrocities reduce the global prevalence of ered one of the key documents the most monumental escape Dr. Rudolf Vrba, UBC professor the virus 70-fold,” the Globe and of the 20th century. of all time, slipping past Nazi emeritus, department of Mail reported in an article on guards and attack dogs that Pharmacology & Therapeutics, the international prevention were trained to rip prisoners passed away March 27, 2006,at The Times of London strategy proposed by Dr. Julio to pieces.” the age of 82. Vrba was a pris- “Witness to Auschwitz horror dies Montaner and his team at the March 31, 2006 oner of Auschwitz concentration at 82: Rudolf Vrba escaped the BC Centre for Excellence in camp from 1942 until his escape gas chambers to tell the world HIV/AIDS. in April 1944, when he alerted of the Nazi genocide” the world to the atrocities there. April 1, 2006

Going Wireless Dr.Tung and recipient John High-Tech for Hearts Sieffert (left) examine the latest technology, which offers many advantages over the previous Treating everyone infected generation of implantable defib- with HIV could create a chemi- rillators—from efficiencies in the cal quarantine around the virus, operating room to new ways of the UBC researchers hypothe- monitoring patient health and sized in a special issue of The disease progression. Lancet dedicated to HIV/AIDS. Initially, ICDs were only The upfront expense of implanted in patients who had providing universal treatment survived a previous cardiac would be more than offset by arrest, to prevent a recurrence. A patient in the Heart Centre savings from not having to However, in recent years at St. Paul's Hospital was the first treat new infections. research has shown that, for in Canada to receive a wireless “[We] could move into an some patients who are diagnosed implantable cardiac defibrillator area where [we not only] treat with heart disease and poor (ICD) early this summer. because the patient needs it, but heart function, ICDs can be used Cardiologist and clinical faculty also because it’s good for socie- prophylactically to prevent a member Dr. Stanley Tung and ty,” Montaner told the Globe.He first cardiac arrest. his team implanted the high- presented the team’s findings at tech device. the plenary session of the international AIDS conference in Toronto in August.

6 UBC Medicine Fall/Winter 2006 E COMMUNITY AT HOME AND ABROAD...NEWS FROM THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE COMMUNITY AT HOME AND ABROAD... NEWS FROM TH

Down Syndrome Song and his team discov- product, BACE2, previously venting Alzheimer’s symptoms,” and Alzheimer’s Under ered that an accumulation thought to stimulate production says Song. the Microscope of a gene product, called beta- of the characteristic Alzheimer’s Song is the Jack Brown Revolutionizing What We site APP cleaving enzyme 1 plaques, actually has the poten- and Family Professor in Know About Alzheimer’s (BACE1), is the molecular tial to treat the disease.“We now Alzheimer’s Disease at UBC and mechanism that produces the realize that if we stimulate pro- holds a Canada Research Psychiatry professor Weihong Alzheimer’s disease symptoms duction of BACE2, we may ulti- Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease. Song is turning previous ideas which affect virtually all people mately reverse plaque formation The findings were published about Alzheimer’s disease in with DS in middle age. and have a new therapy for pre- recently in two papers in the Down Syndrome (DS) patients At the same time, the scien- Federation of American upside down. tists also found that another gene Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal. theL IST

Order of Canada Dr. Yu-Tian Wang, professor, Carol Park, senior instructor, Dr. Leslie Ann Sadownik, B. Brett Finlay, professor, department of Medicine department of Pathology & assistant professor, department Laboratory Medicine, and of Obstetrics & Gynaecology departments of Biochemistry 3M Health Care Quality & Molecular Biology (Faculty coordinator, Medical Laboratory Team Award Applegarth Staff Service Award of Medicine) and Microbiology Science program For their innovative sepsis- Darcie Prosser, coordinator, & Immunology (Faculty prevention protocol: the Faculty of Medicine Awards reviews and searches, Faculty of Science) multidisciplinary team from Affairs, Dean’s Office the emergency department and Lifetime Achievement Award Dr. Harvey Thommasen, the intensive care unit at St. Drs. Patrick and Edith Sabrina Cheng, administrator, clinical assistant professor, Paul’s Hospital, which included McGeer, professors emeriti, department of Biochemistry department of Family Medicine, Faculty members Drs. Kirk department of Psychiatry & Molecular Biology Prince George Hollohan, Peter Dodek, Rob Career Award in Clinical Elected to International Office Order of British Columbia Stenstrom, Grant Innes, Teaching Dr. Julio Montaner, professor, Dr. Wallace B. Chung, and executive sponsor Jeremy Dr. Richard Loomer, department of Medicine and professor emeritus, department Etherington clinical professor, department director, BC Centre for of Surgery of Orthopaedics UBC Killam Teaching Prize Excellence in HIV/AIDS,as Dr. S. Larry Goldenberg, Ross MacGillivray, professor, Dr. John Masterson, clinical president-elect of the professor and head, department department of Biochemistry & professor, department of Surgery International AIDS Society of Urologic Sciences Molecular Biology, and director, Clinical Excellence in Dr. Dorothy Shaw, senior Centre for Blood Research Royal Society of Canada Teaching Award associate dean, Faculty Affairs, Dr. Clyde Hertzman, A. Wayne Vogl, professor, Dr. Nazira Chatur, and clinical professor, Obstetrics professor and director, Human department of Cellular & clinical instructor, department & Gynaecology and Medical Early Learning Partnership Physiological Sciences of Medicine Genetics, as the first woman president of the International Natalie Strynadka, professor, Tyler Dumont, clinical Federation of Gynecology department of Biochemistry & instructor, school of and Obstetrics Molecular Biology Rehabilitation Sciences

Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medicine 7 POINT OF VIEW

MAPPING THE LEGACY OF TEACHING

In the same way geneticists or molecular biologists trace the history of disease by gene mapping and linkage, DR. PETER BLAIR, clinical associate professor in the department of Surgery, traces the legacy of teaching.

I come from a family of teachers.There are of the research tradition in our profession— into base or perform a slapshot. But, of teachers in all six Canadian generations of and a great teacher. course, you taught them much more than our family—and quite by accident, and with- During our time together, Bruce Tovee basic sports skills.You taught them patience, out any training, I have become a teacher often quoted Dragstedt. How much was kindness, tolerance, and understanding. myself. My family tradition and my own Bruce Tovee, the surgeon, the teacher and These lessons will benefit them as much as, experience have imbued me with the impor- the individual, altered by working with or more than, the skills they acquired. tance of teaching—not just in surgery or such a great man? How much was I in The influential and memorable teacher medicine or family practice; not just about turn affected by Tovee—and how much also passes on knowledge and wisdom the clinical signs of appendicitis, the tech- by Dragstedt? through his or her behaviour.The great nique of cholecystectomy or the treatment of And who taught Dragstedt? Other clinician and teacher Sir William Osler hypertension—but teaching in the global, great masters, including Hartmann in wrote:“In the teacher I have always valued holistic sense.Teaching is the fabric that Paris, DeQuervain in Berne and Polya the message of the life above the message weaves through our society, shapes its values in Budapest. of the pen.” and determines the course of civilization. So we can construct a genealogy of our The opportunity to teach is a privilege Teaching gives us an opportunity to leave teachers—a family tree, if you will. Just as whether you are teaching medical students, behind a strong legacy—one that will spread geneticists and molecular biologists can trace residents or a little league baseball team. in ever widening circles through the years the history of disease by gene mapping and The knowledge and wisdom you possess was and through subsequent generations. linkage, we can trace the legacy of teaching. passed down through generations, just as We have all had memorable teachers. The further back we go, the greater the mix- some part of your own teaching will be. In Bruce Tovee, a staff surgeon at Toronto ing and redistribution of the teaching pool. If The Education of Henry Adams, published in General Hospital, is one of several I’ve had. we were able to identify a “genetic marker” 1907, Henry Brooks Adams said it this way: After his training, he went to Chicago as a for teaching, we would no doubt find that all “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell fellow in Lester Dragstedt’s lab.The son of of us have been taught by Hippocrates. where his influence stops.” Swedish immigrants, Lester Dragstedt And what about the greater world Abridged from a speech to the Westminster Medical (1893–1975) was one of the great figures in beyond the bedside, the operating room or Association’s spring 2006 meeting. An earlier version of seminar room? Many of you no doubt this speech, to the North Pacific Surgical Association, American medicine.A physiologist, a scientist was published in the American Journal of Surgery and a surgeon, he was one of the founders coached your child’s sports team—helped in May of this year. them learn to dribble and pass the ball, slide

8 UBC Medicine Fall/Winter 2006 PROFILE

LESLEY BAINBRIDGE

Passionate Advocate for Interprofessional Education by Erin Creak

Working as a physical therapist in geriatric care at UBC’s Purdy Pavilion in the mid- 1980s was an eye opening experience for Lesley Bainbridge. For the first time in her career she was part of a team approach to patient care. Psychologists, nurses, physicians, physical therapists, and others actively helped one another contribute to the elderly residents’ well-being.This initial exposure to shared learning and interprofessional team- work would shape the next 20 years of Bainbridge’s professional life. Fast forward to 2006 and it is no surprise that Bainbridge is the recently appointed director of Interprofessional Education (IPE) Adept at bringing professionals together, patients—rather than “paper” cases or actors in the Faculty of Medicine, following a Bainbridge is a natural fit as the Faculty’s playing the part of patients—and incorpo- three-year term as interim director of the interprofessional education ambassador. One rates an interprofessional team format. Faculty’s school of Rehabilitation Sciences. of the many activities she plans to undertake It should be no surprise that Bainbridge’s She is also heavily involved with Health in her new role is identifying interprofes- personal life is just as busy as her professional Canada IPE initiatives—and serves as the sional learning objectives and outcomes for one.When not travelling for work, she associate principal of the College of Health the current undergraduate medical curricu- splits her time between Vancouver and her Disciplines at UBC. lum. She is also playing a key part in con- six-acre farm in Victoria: home to two With a background in education as well structing IPE learning objectives, learning dogs, four cats, four horses, and “one as physical therapy, Bainbridge is an ardent activities and evaluation metrics for the menopausal chicken.” supporter of the learning that occurs when upcoming revisions to the fourth year of Bainbridge is planning a future hot-air professionals pool resources and share the medical program. balloon trip over the Serengeti and is actively expertise. She talks enthusiastically about Associate dean of Curriculum Angela trying to improve her golf game—or at least the improvements in patient care and the Towle notes:“We’re fortunate that Lesley come a bit closer to par. In her “spare time,” benefits to patients that are the well-docu- will be coordinating this piece of the she is completing an interdisciplinary doctor- mented results of collaborative practice. curriculum for us—building on what we are al degree with a focus on interprofessional First discussed in the 1960s, IPE has only already doing and helping to create new education and collaborative practice. recently been at the forefront of pedagogical learning opportunities for students.At a per- Two things about Lesley Bainbridge agendas. Definitions vary, but the emphasis sonal level, I’ve worked with Lesley on are unmistakable: not only does she believe on shared learning is universal.According several projects—she’s got tons of enthusiasm strongly in the fundamental IPE concept to the UK Centre for the Advancement of and energy and great ideas.” of shared learning and in continuous, lifelong Interprofessional Education,“interprofession- One such great idea is Bainbridge’s learning, but she practises what she preaches. al education occurs when two or more work with UBC Health Clinic director Dr. Bainbridge is delighted that the Faculty professions learn with, from and about each Christie Newton. Over the past year the of Medicine has made IPE an integral part other to improve collaboration and the qual- two, along with medical student Kyle of its strategic plan—and the Faculty will ity of care.” Bainbridge characterizes IPE as Merritt, have been developing a model for definitely benefit from having her as part “teaching students and practitioners in health “problem-based learning (PBL) in action,” of its team. and human services how to work together.” or “clinical PBL.” This model uses real

Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medicine 9 PROFILE

COFFEE HOT SHOTS by Tim Carlson John Chen jokes that, as caffeine-dependent PhD students in the Faculty of Medicine, he and Heather Heine calculated it would be a money-saving proposition to open their own café.

They insist that the newly opened for the biotech industry on a freelance basis. management skills will be an essential ele- Boulevard Coffee Roasting Company is a All these pursuits require creative thinking ment in a career that she sees encompassing fine complement to their medical enterprises and deductive reasoning. I think exercising three environments: the research lab, medical and to their lives as part of the UBC com- the mind in one field makes me better in practice and the corporate boardroom. munity—as opposed to a time management the other areas as well.” During a co-op stint at QLT Inc. in 2001 nightmare threatening to topple an already Heine explores the potential for bone (where she met Chen), Heine was inspired heavy workload. marrow stem cells to regenerate damaged by former QLT CEO Dr. Julia Levy, a “I always like to have ten things on vascular tissues for her PhD thesis, under the researcher who bridged the gap between the go,” says Chen, whose research in the guidance of Dr. Bruce McManus and Dr. academia and industry. Experimental Medicine Program under Drs. Thomas Podor at the iCAPTURE Centre. “I wanted to do the MD program so I Steinbrecker and Duronio focuses on heart She is one of only two students annually that I could work with patients and the PhD disease.“I’ve been a professional photogra- accepted into UBC’s combined MD/PhD so I could to focus on research,” she says.“I pher for the last six years, and I also consult program. For her, gaining hands-on business ultimately hope to bring stem cell therapy to

10 UBC Medicine Fall/Winter 2006 the public in some form and that will “I remember speaking to [former The e-mail wormed its way through require working with a biotech company. I UBC president] Martha Piper after one of cyberspace and a few weeks later she look at the way my supervisors run their her talks,” says Heine.“She said,‘Oh, you received a request for a business plan from labs and there are many business themes in two are opening the café! That’s global citi- Bentall Realty. terms of management and dealing with zenship.That’s precisely what we should At about the same time, the Specialty other issues. I see running The Boulevard as be doing here.’” Coffee Association of America held a confer- training in those areas.That’s why it makes The financial sustainability and growth ence in Vancouver.“This was just a week sense to be doing all three of these things.” of the operation is on the partners’ minds as after my med school final exams, so we had The clean white design of The well.A state-of-the-art coffee roaster stands the time,” she says.“We paid to go and took Boulevard’s café might be described as anti- just inside the door.This is the key to not courses—like eight hours of latte training.” septic if weren’t so stylishly contemporary only the freshest brews in-house, but also to Chen and Heine went on the (Heine and Chen were the driving forces future potential for creating and selling cus- assumption that a students’ business plan behind the design).This room has breathing tom roasts to outside clients such as hotels. would have to be above average to be space—socially inviting, but also a good “A green bean is a fraction of the cost of a accepted.“We took a scientist’s approach environment to open up the laptop and get roasted bean,” explains Heine.“The whole- to it—broke it all down and just went to to work.The café opened this past summer sale side of this business can be very good.” town on it,” she says.“It was 100 pages, in the new David Strangway Faculty of Although they have followed parallel including even artist’s drawings of what we Dentistry building on University Boulevard. tracks since meeting at QLT, Chen, 30, and had in mind. It was very thorough and the Not surprisingly, the partners are dedicat- Heine, 27, have very different backgrounds. university said,‘Yes,we’re interested.’” ed to a business philosophy that puts envi- The daughter of a teacher specializing in Over the next year, the pair charmed ronmental and community health into action First Nations education, Heine was born in fellow medical and dental school students in numerous ways. Vanderhoof and lived in a dozen different into putting up 80 percent of the capital Two large colour prints of Victoria communities ranging from UBC to Bella (in the form of loans) before going to Falls in Africa, taken by Chen when he took Bella to Takla Landing to Surrey. She was the the banks to top it up. part in a Habitat for Humanity project first to graduate from the joint UBC-BCIT in Zambia last year, hang near the entrance. Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology pro- Proceeds from the sale will go to charity. gram. Chen was born in Hong Kong, but The room is energized with bright abstracts largely raised in Richmond, with the excep- by painter Gabe Daly, an Emily Carr tion of a high school year at an international Institute student, who will collect the entire school in Indonesia. He earned a biochem- price on the sale of the pieces.The istry degree from Simon Fraser University. Boulevard acts as a commission-free gallery The idea for The Boulevard was born in for student work.With the exception of a brief moment of whimsy, but became seri- the manager,The Boulevard Coffee Roasting ous business very quickly. Company is student owned and operated. In the spring of 2004, just as she and Soon to be introduced are electronic Chen were about to finish their exams, club cards that give patrons a 10 percent Heine happened to strike up a conversation The result is a welcome addition to break on purchases, as well as a 10 percent with a woman who ran a Blenz franchise— the university environment—and, really, a donation to the UBC club of their choice. and grilled her for the secrets of success. health service. Organic, fair trade (the farmers are Later the same day she floated the idea with “The majority of a coffee drinkers’ guaranteed a fair price) coffee is on the Chen, who had long yearned to open a daily intake of antioxidants is from coffee,” menu, and the operators are also looking to restaurant. Chen mulled it over for a few smiles Chen, citing a recent study.“Another source shade-grown beans (produced in an days, then signed on. recent paper said that drinking coffee helps environmentally friendly manner).This “I had lived in UBC residences for four- reduce liver damage due to alcohol intake.” would give the coffee “triple certification” and-a-half years and knew about the univer- Ask Chen if the research was from by industry standards. sity town development, so I just fired an e- peer-reviewed journals if you see him at The mail to info@ubc, asking if there were any Boulevard. He said he’d check up on it. potential retail spaces available,” says Heine.

Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medicine 11 PATRICK AND E DITH M C G EER TRAIL-BLAZING RESEARCH IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE

by Mari-Louise Rowley

Recipients of the 2006 Faculty of Medicine LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, Drs. Patrick and Edith McGeer have set international benchmarks for understanding and treating neurodegenerative diseases. At 79 and 82, they are still “at the bench,” honing discoveries that promise hope for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative disorders.

Their history reads like a storybook romance written for research scientists. Patrick and Edith McGeer met while working as chemists for DuPont.They lived in the same apartment building across the hall from one another.When Patrick McGeer decided to return to medical school at UBC, Edith came with him. In 1954 they both began working as volunteers under Dr.William Gibson in what was then known as the department of Neurological Research in the Faculty of Medicine. Ever since—for the past 52 years—they have worked side-by-side making groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of neurodegenerative disease.

12 UBC Medicine Fall/Winter 2006 The Drs. McGeer have received numerous prestigious awards for proved crucial to the study and treatment of Parkinson’s disease their research, including appointments to the Order of British (PD).They were first to administer large doses of DL-DOPA to Columbia, the Order of Canada and the Royal Society of Canada. schizophrenics with parkinsonian side effects and to Parkinson’s dis- They have been named two of the world’s most highly cited ease patients, publishing a seminal paper in the Journal of the American researchers in neuroscience by the International Scientific Institute. Medical Association in 1961, several years before L-DOPA became a Both have served major stints in administration as heads of the divi- standard therapy for PD. sion of Neurological Sciences in the department of Psychiatry— The couple were the first to provide biochemical evidence of Patrick from 1964 to 1977 and Edith from 1983 to 1989. aging in the normal brain, and then compare this evidence with Patrick McGeer also served in the British Columbia Legislative neurologically diseased brains. By counting neurons in the substantia Assembly from 1962 to 1986. He took annual leaves of absence from nigra, or midbrain, they showed that two-thirds of neurons are lost the university during legislative sessions until 1975, when he took before PD becomes evident.They were also pioneers in the use of full-time leave until 1986 as a cabinet minister in the Social Credit positron emission tomography (PET scans) and magnetic resonance government. He held various portfolios, including Minister of imaging (MRI) in neurological disease, and the first to follow up Education; Minister of Universities, Science and Communications; pre-mortem imaging with postmortem findings.“At that time there and Minister of International Trade, Science and Communication. were only two imaging centres in the world that had both PET As a medical educator and an early supporter of distance education and MRI.The other was in London,” notes Dr. McGeer. and distributed learning, Dr. McGeer was instrumental in founding Inflammation an Antagonist in Alzheimer’s Disease the Open Learning Institute and the Knowledge Network. One of the most fascinating—and controversial—areas of the While in office, he continued to work with Edith and other McGeer’s research has been in the role of inflammation in neurode- colleagues in the laboratory in the evenings and on weekends.They generative diseases. Initially, they were investigating a theory that published 150 papers during that period as well as the first edition Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was caused by a viral infection. Finding no of their textbook, Molecular Neurobiology of the Mammalian Brain, with direct evidence of this, they consulted an immunologist and were Nobel Laureate Sir John Eccles. Both have served on numerous told that anywhere you find viral disease, you find HLA-DR, a human editorial boards, and over the course of their careers have supervised leukocyte antigen that stimulates immune response—in this case, over 100 post-doctoral students and numerous graduate students— an inflammation. in addition to raising a family and teaching. “Instead of a virus, we found something entirely new—a spectac- What do they attribute to such a long and fruitful partnership, and ular display of activated cells not generated by an infectious agent what do they do to recharge? “Curiosity, and a mutual interest in at all, but by abnormal biochemical elements,” Dr. McGeer explains. investigating human disease,” states Patrick McGeer.“Reading about They realized what they had found were microglia, cells first identi- new discoveries is revitalizing, and with the Internet, we have access fied by the renowned Spanish neuroscientist Pio del Rio-Hortega in to a smorgasbord of discovery every day.”And they go to Hawaii 1919. Microglia comprise roughly 15 percent of cells in the central every year, he adds. nervous system, and it is now universally accepted that they act as the Curiosity Drives Discovery “Firsts” first line of defence when the nervous system is attacked. Patrick McGeer credits Dr.William Gibson, one of the first faculty The McGeers discovered that as part of their cellular defence members of UBC’s medical school, for setting them on their long and mechanism, activated microglia upregulate a variety of receptors and celebrated career path. He hired the McGeers to do biochemical other molecules involved in inflammation. In particular, HLA-DR research in schizophrenia, before antipsychotic drugs revolutionized was present in microglia and upregulated in Alzheimer’s disease. the treatment of psychiatric disorders.“Medical students today Anti-inflammatory Drugs Decrease Incidence of don’t know what acute schizophrenia is like because they never Degenerative Disease see it.The early symptoms are treated and all of the acute From there, the McGeers hypothesized that people taking anti- symptoms are blunted,” he says. inflammatory agents should be spared from getting AD.They The McGeers worked on neurotransmitters and their metabolites consulted rheumatologists across the country and finally found in the study of schizophrenia.They were first to demonstrate the the data they were looking for, compiled by Dr. John Sibley, neurotransmitter function of dopamine in the brain (dopamine is crit- a rheumatologist in Saskatoon. Indeed, people with rheumatoid ical for many brain functions, including movement, cognition, arthritis had an apparent six-fold sparing of AD—presumably memory, motivation, and pleasure).Their work on neurotransmitters due to their anti-inflammatory medication.

Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medicine 13 THE McGEERS’ ADVICE TO STUDENTS IS SIMPLE. “What motivates [ people to do research is curiosity.That’s the only driving force.” ]

The McGeers’ initial findings—nearly 20 years ago—were vindicated what Hortega had postulated; namely, that these microglial considered flawed by the research community. Since then, however, cells are phagocytes derived from the bloodstream,” says Patrick their research on inflammation and AD has been confirmed by 25 McGeer. Such phagocytes ingest and destroy foreign cells and micro- studies worldwide. Not only has the McGeers’ work been vindicated, organisms. Paradoxically, they can become overactive and produce it has created a whole new field, with departments and professorships excessive levels of toxins, contributing to neuronal death. in neuroinflammation established around the world.“We have also As a result of their discoveries, the McGeers were the first to establish the difference between autoimmunity and autotoxicity— work that transformed the medical community’s understanding of inflammation. In autoimmunity, a systemic response, rogue T-cells and B-cells triggered by the adaptive immune system attack the body’s THE UBYSSEY Saturday, January 12, 1946 own proteins. In autotoxicity, activated microglia, or their equivalents BIRDS BOP in other tissues, destroy cells at a local level.There are no T-cells or B-cells involved. Remarkably, their research on AD has led to similar hypotheses HARLEM 42-38 and findings not only in other neurodegenerative diseases such as PD and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but also in vascular disease, Young Pat McGeer Paces UBC; macular degeneration and, lately, diabetes type II.“It appears that all of the age-related degenerative diseases follow this pattern, where Gym Bulges with 2000 Studes an inflammation starts and then these local phagocytic cells try to By Don McLean repair the damage and end up doing harm,” says Patrick McGeer.

UBC’S HIGH-FLYING Thunderbirds out-ran, out-shot and out-played Better Drug Design to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease the mighty world-famous Harlem Globe Trotters as they chalked up a There is still much to discover about anti-inflammatory agents and well-earned 42-38 victory before a jam-packed house of screaming students in their Varsity Gym Friday at noon. their potential as drug therapies for degenerative disease.“NSAIDS Paced by young Pat McGeer, who tallied a total of 14 points, the ’Birds such as ibuprofen act to inhibit the production of prostaglandins, grabbed a 23-16 lead at half time and then played the Trotters at their which turn out to be very weak inflammatory mediators,” Patrick own slow-moving pace for the second half to take the four-point victory. McGeer explains.“The most widely utilized class of drugs in the world is only swatting around at the edge of the inflammatory prob- lem.” The McGeers have identified stronger, more specific inflammatory mediators, and are now screening different peptides to identify new agents that will block the inflammatory process in different degenerative diseases. An estimated 290,000 Canadians over 65 suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and the burden of care is astronomical.The disease costs $5 billion to $10 billion a year, with at least 100 people involved in the care of each patient in the acute stage of the disease.“For every 10,000 people looking after patients, there is only one researcher trying to find a cure,” says Patrick McGeer. The first wave of baby boomers will turn 60 in 2007. Prevention and treatment should be more of a priority, he feels. Both Patrick and Edith would like to see more scientists recruited into this effort—and the sooner the better.“There is a wealth of tools at our disposal that weren’t available a few years ago,” says Patrick McGeer.“All the great- est discoveries have yet to be made.”

Pat McGeer far left.

14 UBC Medicine Fall/Winter 2006 F LYING SOLO IN FORT ST. JOHN by Tim Carlson

Ophthalmologists are an adventurous bunch, travelling far and wide—even taking to the skies—to reach out to people in need of eye care, wherever they may be.

UBC’s Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Residency Training Program in the northeastern BC community of Fort St. John is the first experience most residents have in “flying solo” as an ophthalmologist. It’s also their first experience applying the ophthalmologists’ mission—it’s virtually built into the program.

Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medicine 15 The 32-year-old initiative is a model of mutual benefit.The residents gain community experience—and the community gains access to a whole range of specialized eye care services.

The 32-year-old initiative is a model of mutual benefit. moose, or even a bear attack—the program’s most important impact The Ophthalmology residents gain community experience—and has been on the care and treatment of chronic conditions. the “maturation process of independent thinking and problem- “Children who may not have had adequate care for strabismus solving, away from constant supervision,” as Dr. Gordon Douglas, [now] had ongoing care—often by pediatric specialists,” says Dr. one of the Fort St. John program’s first faculty members, describes it. Douglas.“Diabetics received care that would commonly have been The community gains access to a whole range of specialized end-stage before the eye clinic was initiated. Cataracts that would eye care services. [previously] have been neglected too long were identified and In 1974, department chairman Dr. Stephen Drance heard the BC treated earlier and better. health minister on the radio saying the government would fund “new “Glaucoma, another chronic disease, was diagnosed or confirmed residency positions for imaginative projects.” Drance, who was also as a problem in many cases that would have otherwise been left the driving force behind the creation of the UBC/VGH Eye Care until one eye was blind or nearly blind.There were many . . . patients Centre in Vancouver, wasted no time in making his pitch. who thought they could leave their ‘cataracts’ for a while—only “I went to the deputy minister and said we could create an to find out that they [actually] had glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.” outreach clinic to serve the North and give our residents experience Suddenly, there was an extremely important perceptual shift in outside the local teaching hospitals,” Drance recalled in a recent the population.The solution to their eye problems was actually interview. “But I said he’d have to make up his mind in a week, within reach. because the person I had in mind was not funded, and if we lost this “Patients would still travel hundreds of kilometres for a visit, person, the chance of finding someone in the next year wasn’t very and often through snowstorms or rainstorms . . . [but] distances good.The program was approved almost immediately. I appointed the became relative as soon as facilities were ‘closer,’” recalled Dr. Douglas, resident and we began the program six weeks later.” in an e-mail from Accra, Ghana. He is in Ghana to work with Project At the time, there were no ophthalmologists in the Peace ORBIS International, the well-known non-profit organization that District, and only “one or two optometrists” in Fort St. John, operates the world’s only flying eye hospital. Drance remembers. The residents in the Fort St. John program experienced a Residents signed up for two- or three-week stints, and supervisors perceptual shift too, in social terms as well as in their medical practice. flew up to oversee their work for two days of each resident’s session. “Winter in Fort St. John can be traumatic for many whose The residents’ commitment to their Northern patients was ongoing— homes may be in warmer climates,” Dr. Douglas wrote.“One such they usually tried to schedule their patients’ surgery with specialists in resident was seen walking down the main street on a Friday evening Vancouver or Prince George so that both resident and patient would in a raincoat when the wind chill was close to –40ºC. He was return to Fort St John at the same time, and the resident would be on redirected back to the hotel before he lost any body parts to freezing. the spot for the post-operative follow-up. “The other issue was one of boots and shoes. It was a regular While the rural setting may offer students the odd case they occurrence to see residents trying to walk in snow and on ice likely wouldn’t see in a large urban centre—a corneal injury from a with ‘city shoes.’” Last, but not least, he adds,“The local scene also had horsetail flick, for instance, or injuries from vehicular collisions with to be taken into account. You simply don’t schedule a clinic in the middle of bonspiel season!”

16 UBC Medicine Fall/Winter 2006 Six residents now travel to Fort St. John for two- or three-week “On a personal level it gives me some confidence and some stints each year. “The program has evolved rapidly and a lot idea of the areas I need to improve on. It’s good from a learning of that has to do with the support of the community,” says Dr. perspective and also from the perspective that you’re helping Simon Holland, who was introduced to Fort St. John as a resident out the community.” in 1981. He is now a clinical professor in the UBC department As they move ahead in their professional lives, many former resi- of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,and UBC medical director dents maintain an ongoing commitment to the Fort St. John program, of the Fort St. John program. Dr. Holland says the region has taking their turn as an instructor, visiting specialist or administrator. chosen to stay with the program, because it provides access to the Ladner-based ophthalmologist Dr. David Fine, a UBC graduate vast subspecialist knowledge available through UBC and VGH. who went to Fort St. John in 2001 and 2002, has continued his com- Optician Glen Merwin, born and raised in Fort St. John—he mitment by supervising residents for a few weeks every year. describes himself proudly as “a lifer”—has been working with “It’s a very well-run clinic and you see a wide variety of patients,” the Ophthalmology Residency Training Program for the past six Dr. Fine says. His commitment is fed by the chance to sharpen his years.“The program has saved hundreds and hundreds of skills in teaching surgery—an opportunity that doesn’t exist for him people the trouble and expense of having to go far from home, in the Lower Mainland. by themselves, for treatment.The majority of patients are seniors,” “I’d like to make teaching a larger part of my practice,” says Fine. he adds,“the very people who are least able to travel.” “I’ve been gearing towards international work. Once I’m comfortable Fort St. John does not suffer technologically from its remote teaching cataract surgery in Fort St. John, I’d like to do it in develop- location.“We’ve been generously supported by industry up there,” says ing countries. I have a master’s degree in Public Health as well, so Dr. Holland.“We do cataract surgery with ultrasound machines that I’m interested in population-based studies and teaching.” Fort St. John got about the same time Vancouver did.” Fine likes the challenge of working in remote locations. A passionate advocate for eye care services in the North, Dr. “You learn self-reliance,” he says. Holland is hoping that a needs assessment study will soon be Dr. Holland agrees. Born, raised and trained in Zimbabwe, he underway to identify key current and future eye care challenges worked for Project ORBIS between 1982 and 1987 in various in the region and facilitate planning for them. locations around the world, and most recently, earlier this year, in Ophthalmology resident Dr.Tanya Orton has spent three Libya.“It’s good to be able to go out into the world and do weeks in Fort St. John already, and will pay another visit in the final something useful,” he says. year of her residency. But in the true spirit of the Fort St. John program, he “The nice thing about it is that it helps give you an idea of adds,“It’s important to remember we also need to do some what your own practice would be like,” says Orton.“A lot of times of the same work closer to home.” residents don’t get that kind of experience until they are finished and out on their own.

“On a personal level it gives me some confidence and some of idea of the areas I need to improve on. It’s good from a learning perspective and also from the perspective that you’re helping out the community. ”

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Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medical Alumni News 19 PRESIDENT’S schools, the UBC medical alumni have been overlooked. Led by Dean Stuart, the Faculty has set out to remedy this. I have been asked POINT OF VIEWreport Lynn Doyle, MD’78 to extend the following message to you: “The Faculty of Medicine gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of Medical Alumni Executive the UBC Medical Alumni Association and Greetings, President the many alumni who are clinical faculty D. Lynn Doyle, MD’78 I am writing my first president’s report on members in the teaching enterprise of Past-President a glorious early September evening awaiting the Faculty.” David W.Jones, MD’70 the Gulf Islands ferry. I hope you have all I would encourage you to participate President-Elect had as wonderful a summer as my family and Jim Lane, MD’73 in the focus groups and opinion survey being I have enjoyed. Secretary-Treasurer conducted early in the new year. Harvey Lui, MD’86 These are indeed exciting times for I have included some key points regard- Newsletter Editor medicine. Nationally, there is renewed discus- ing credentialing and remuneration of Beverley Tamboline, MD’60 sion of how we can best deliver quality teaching faculty from a report to the Medical Members-At-Large health care in a timely fashion. Provincially, Jim Cupples, MD’81 Alumni executive committee by Dr. Ron Warneboldt, MD’75 the first cohort of UBC medical students Katherine E. Paton, clinical associate profes- Drew Young, MD’59 in the distributed program started their sor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Dean (ex-officio) clinical clerkships in September. More than Gavin Stuart, MD and special advisor to the dean, Clinical 2,600 physicians serve as clinical faculty Faculty Representative (ex-officio) Faculty Affairs. Bruce Fleming, MD’78 across BC, helping to teach these students. PAR-BC Representative For some time, many have felt that unlike Have a great fall! TBA alumni at other prestigious Canadian medical MUS Representative Derry Dance, Class of 2009 Advisors Arun Garg, MD’77 David Hardwick, MD’57 Clinical Faculty Affairs Report at the undergraduate level, and new princi- Charles Slonecker (Hon.), DDS,PhD ples for post-graduate teaching, with patient Representatives to Faculty of Medicine Committees Clinical faculty appointments are made by care money to follow the resident to off-site Admissions Policy Committee the UBC Board of Governors through the and off-service rotations in a more accurate David W.Jones, MD’70 clinician’s department of practice, regardless recognition of the burden of teaching.There Admissions Selection Committee are also new processes to support payment, Jim Cupples, MD’81 of where and whom they teach.The dura- tion of these appointments is linked to the and better processes are under development for capturing the teaching activities of clini- The Medical Alumni News is published faculty member’s rank.Accreditation semi-annually.We welcome your requirements mandate that all clinical teach- cal faculty. suggestions, ideas and opinions. Please In view of ongoing discussions between send comments, articles and letters to: ers have an appointment.There is a short the BCMA—representing the University Beverley Tamboline, MD’60 form of the CV and a process for facilitating c/o MSAC appointment for any clinical faculty Clinical Faculty Association, a voluntary 2750 Heather Street Vancouver BC V5Z 4M2 requiring this assistance. organization of more than 525 clinical teach- Tel: 604-875-5522 Separate from the appointment is a con- ers—and UBC, there is no requirement for Fax: 604-875-5528 tract, which articulates financial recognition clinical faculty to sign a contract at this time. of teaching activities, and is in effect for a We wish all alumni a terrific fall term time-certain duration so that all clinical fac- and hope those newly engaged in teaching ulty are paid by the same rates, regardless find the experience exhilarating. of their date of appointment.A new contract Dr. Katherine Paton, Special Advisor is being introduced, which builds upon the to the Dean, Clinical Faculty Affairs previous contract. It includes substantial new monies for clinical teaching for patient care Information and advocacy services are available through the Office of Clinical Faculty Affairs and at www.med.ubc.ca/clinfac.

20 UBC Medical Alumni News Fall/Winter 2006 MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS

Dr. Basil Boulton—Wallace Wilson Leadership Award

Being ‘four sheets to the wind’ is not campaign to improve pediatric and maternity expected after morning lectures. His wife services, which were split between two Marilyn remembers her disbelief as a group major hospitals in Victoria.The result was of students brought him safely home— a single, well-equipped and staffed, insisting it truly was an experiment! integrated unit at Victoria General Hospital. [EDITOR’S NOTE: Basil protests! His This endeavour was broadened to include recollection is that he was “volunteered”— all community child health services with the after Frank Anderson declined.] release of the influential 1980 report on Basil’s road led him into pediatrics, child health care in the Capital Region, while I pursued internal medicine. which he co-authored with former deputy We remained good friends, keeping in health minister James Mainguy. contact through patient management. Basil is a dedicated and concerned Basil would call me about a patient, and advocate for all patients and their needs. I could tell immediately that he was He has served on the board of the aware of every aspect of that patient’s health Greater Victoria Hospital Society and the and welfare. He is intense and detailed BC Medical Association, and on various in his practice of medicine, taking every Victoria and provincial committees and symptom of a patient very seriously. organizations. He currently sits on the BC And he always sought the best possible Medical Association Council of Health I met Basil Boulton—physician, husband, investigation and treatment. Basil’s patient Promotion and the Child and Youth Health father, friend, and children’s advocate— management was detailed and complete— Committee. He is also an elected councillor in medical school.We became very close an excellent quality in a physician. for the Township of Esquimalt. friends, who shared our faith and Basil found his calling in pediatrics in In addition to his service at home, Basil life principles. Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1964, during has volunteered internationally.As a member I had the special privilege of playing a rotation from the Montreal General of the Christian Medical Society, he worked the organ at Basil and Marilyn’s wedding, Hospital. Invited to return as a Pediatric with the Cuban Ministry of Health and with a flypast of jets roaring overhead as resident, he found himself the principal Cuban doctors to improve the health and the minister pronounced them man and physician for a large, mainly black outpatient welfare of children in that country. wife. It seemed impressive—until we found population in the early days of desegregation. Basil is dedicated to his family of four out that it was for the opening of the PNE! In 1967 he returned to Canada to children and eight grandchildren. He In those days, few medical students were complete his training at the Health Centre chooses and builds solid friendships. I have married. Basil and I were two of just seven for Children at Vancouver General Hospital. always found him to be open and honest in our class of 60, and Basil worked He was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II in his relationships and his criticisms. He’s a very hard to support himself and his family Fellowship to work with Dr. Denny Vince person you’d really like to know—loyal throughout medical school. in pediatric cardiology. Pediatrics was and supportive of his friends and family, and Basil took his medical training very not well developed outside Vancouver, so in a true gentleman. seriously. He even volunteered to be a 1969 he established a practice in Victoria, I am honoured to share in recognizing scientific guinea pig at a two-hour Saturday where he worked to improve the health care my friend and colleague, Basil Boulton, morning session in the old Lecture Hall A. of children until he retired from active as the recipient of this year’s Wallace Wilson Many in our class will remember his practice in 2004. Leadership Award, for making significant matchup with the late Bill McIntyre to As students, we didn’t think kids had contributions to our profession. help demonstrate how different people important illnesses, but obviously that is handle a given amount of alcohol—seven from the presentation by not the case. In 1977, supported by medical Frank Anderson, MD’63 ounces over two hours—differently. colleagues and the public, Basil led a

Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medical Alumni News 21 MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS

Dr. Gordon B. Thompson—Honorary Alumnus

Dr. Gordon Bruce Thompson, or GBT He is currently professor emeritus in the Canada and a member of its supervisory as we affectionately call him, was born in UBC department of Surgery. Nucleus Committee, which shapes the Saskatchewan on February 6, 1925, the Among his many accomplishments course of the specialty. GBT has been a visit- youngest of three boys, all of whom became are the establishment of: ing professor at several universities, including surgeons. He completed a BSc at the • One of western Canada’s first accredited the Chang Gung Memorial University in University of Manitoba in 1946, and his MD training programs in Neurosurgery, with a Taipei,Taiwan, and he has published widely. at McGill in 1952. His internship and core trainee pass rate of 100 percent on the The UBC Faculty of Medicine and surgical years at Vancouver General (VGH) Royal College exams—unique in Canada VGH have both recognized GBT for his and UBC hospitals (1952-1955) included a to this day clinical expertise.The Canadian Medical six-month stint as a clinical clerk in • With Dr. Juhn Wada, the first formal Association accorded him senior membership Neurology at the world-famous National Canadian program outside of the MNI for in 2000, and the BC Medical Association Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London, the surgical correction of intractable its Silver Medal of Service in 2006. England.When he returned to McGill and epilepsy, with results on par with any other The Faculty of Medicine also awarded the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) world centre at that time him a Golden Jubilee Medal, for his singular, for neurosurgical training, he was particularly • With orthopaedic and neurosurgical col- outstanding contributions to the Faculty influenced by Dr.William Vernon Cone, a leagues at Shaughnessy Hospital, one of and his vision of how the complex area of neurosurgical icon. Dr. Cone’s obsession with North America’s first comprehensive units neurosurgery might be practised, taught and excellence, high ethics, compassion, and for the treatment of spinal cord injury studied—which created one of Canada’s hard work permanently left their mark on • Canada’s first intracranial pressure monitor- prominent neurosurgical divisions. the young GBT. ing program GBT’s humane approach and commit- He obtained his FRCSC in 1959, and ment to his patients are perhaps reflected [EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr.Thompson credits his married Sally, a nurse at MNI. She has been best in some of the cherished aphorisms colleague, Dr. Felix Durity, with the development his supportive wife for 47 years! that we, his residents, came to associate and implementation of this last program.] GBT joined the neurosurgical staff at with the man: VGH in 1960, the youngest of six busy sur- GBT’s achievements as one of Canada’s “If you don’t examine the patients, you geons. He practised his profession at UBC premier surgeons in the management of do not hit any home runs.”“I’d rather and its affiliated teaching hospitals for degenerative spinal disc diseases have been spend three hours more in the OR and have 31 years and was the divisional head of widely recognized, as has his generous my patients go home three months earlier.” Neurosurgery for an amazing 26 years. fostering of the careers of younger surgeons “Felix, when you operate on a wife and on his staff. Under his leadership, Ian mother with three kids, you are operating Turnbull, MD’57, in stereotactic neuro- on five people.” surgery, and Sydney Peerless, MD’61, Gordon and Sally are the proud parents in cerebral microsurgical revascularization, of three daughters, and grandparents of three became recognized international leaders. boys.They have retired to Parksville, where His many administrative roles include GBT has become an accomplished golfer, a the presidencies of the Canadian and the veritable green thumb, a proficient knitter, Western Neurosurgical societies, the North and an active community leader. Pacific Society of Neurology, Neurosurgery He is truly deserving of this award and Psychiatry, and the Society of from the alumni of the university he has University Neurosurgeons. served so well. He has been chief examiner in from the presentation by Neurosurgery for the Royal College of Felix Durity, MD’63

22 UBC Medical Alumni News Fall/Winter 2006 HonoraryPOINT Alumna—OF VIEWDr. Dorothy Shaw

I consider it an honour to introduce Dr. who are currently attending three separate Dorothy Shaw as a new honorary member. Canadian universities. Interestingly, all three Dorothy was born in England, but are preparing for careers related in some did her early medical training in Scotland. way to health care. One of them plans Graduation from the University of to look after four-legged, rather than two- Edinburgh was followed by an internship legged, patients. in Edinburgh hospitals. She came to Dorothy’s strong sense of social justice Canada in 1973 to enter the residency pro- has been an important influence on her gram in obstetrics and gynaecology at career. Her focus has been predominantly VGH. In 1974 she returned to England for on a range of women’s health issues, but a year of clinical and research experience her goals are based on the principles of before coming back to Vancouver in 1975 universal tolerance, respect and equal oppor- to complete the final three years of tunity. Beginning with her early interest her residency. in the Planned Parenthood Association and The emerging subspecialty of maternal the place of choice for women, she has and fetal medicine became her chosen become a champion of women’s sexual field of interest. She took further training in and reproductive rights. medical genetics, prenatal diagnosis and As an obstetrician and gynaecologist, obstetrical ultrasound before joining the staff she has come through the ranks of several of the department of Obstetrics and professional organizations to positions Gynaecology in 1979. During the ’80s and of influence and opportunity. In 1992 she ’90s, she played an active role in teaching, became the fourth female president in clinical care and counselling, working the Society of Obstetricians and closely with colleagues in Medical Genetics, Gynaecologists of Canada’s 47-year history. about her vision of what the future of UBC in which she holds a joint appointment. She was honoured by the society in 2005 In the last five years her career has with the President’s Award. should be. It was to achieve excellence in undergone a gradual shift in emphasis and During the past few years, she has teaching and research, and to promote what direction. She has assumed increasing extended her voice to the international field she called “global citizenship.” By this she administrative responsibilities within the through the International Federation of meant that we should extend our horizons and prepare our students to think as, and Faculty, serving as Associate Dean, Equity, Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO).As an to be, global citizens. from 2000 to 2005, and currently as invited speaker, delegate and/or committee Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs. member she has travelled extensively to Dorothy has demonstrated this global These are the milestones in a professional other parts of the world, speaking on gender vision and serves as a role model for career in progress, but they tell you little equity, reproductive rights and responsibili- our students and for our faculty as we strive about Dorothy the person; about who she is ties, and discrimination and violence against to meet Dr. Piper’s challenging dream for UBC. Dorothy will be a credit to the and what she stands for. She is a charming, women. Since the year 2000, she has visited independent-minded woman who likes countries on five different continents. Her Medical Alumni Association, as she people. She is a good listener and good com- travels and influence will continue after her already has been to the medical profession. municator. She enjoys gardening, travel and installation in November in Kuala Lumpur from the presentation by learning about other cultures. as the first woman president of FIGO. Dr. Fred E. Bryans (Hon.) Dorothy and her husband, Mark I recently heard Dr. Martha Piper, the Millman, are the parents of three daughters [now former] president of UBC, speak

Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medical Alumni News 23 MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS

Dr. Warren Julien, Dr. Ramon Lam, Dr. Ivo Olivotto—Silver Anniversary Award Winners

This award is presented to a graduate of the hard it was to balance the incessant call Active in his local community, Ray has 25th anniversary class who, in the opinion demands with the needs of a young family… coached his son’s baseball and soccer teams. of his/her classmates, has best demonstrated yet I think he did this as well as anyone. Ivo Olivotto qualities in one or more of the following “When I recently caught up with Gail Dodek areas: leadership, research, teaching, clinical him and his teenage son doing the BC Lung Wenner nominated care, administration, or public service. Association Trek for Life and Breath—a Ivo Olivotto, pro- For the first time since the award’s 200-kilometre bicycle trip to raise funds for fessor of Radiation inception, voting ended in a tie—and a respiratory research—the chemistry between Oncology at UBC, three-way tie at that.This year’s winners him and his son was heartwarming.” chief physician and are Drs.Warren Julien, Raymond Lam Raymond Lam head of Radiation and Ivo Olivotto. Dr. Ray Lam is Oncology at the I think our classmate Rod Densmore, professor and head BC Cancer Agency who practises in Salmon Arm, speaks for all of the division of in Victoria, and of us when he says,“I could not be happier Mood Disorders founder and head of the BC Cancer Agency’s this is a three-way tie. I salute them all—and in the department Breast Cancer Outcomes Unit. look forward to seeing what comes next for of Psychiatry After graduation, Ivo did a rotating each one.” at UBC—but internship at St. Michael’s Hospital in Warren Julien first and foremost Toronto, locums in Victoria, and then a Rod Densmore he is a clinician. residency in Radiation Oncology. In nominated “Ray has always 1987 he joined the BC Cancer Agency in Warren Julien. been available for consultation regarding dif- Vancouver as a staff radiation oncologist. For several ficult depressive patients,” nominator He taught undergraduates and residents, years Warren Kathleen Cadenhead says.“He has been very winning teaching awards in 1991, 1992 contended with a supportive of family practitioners and has and 1996. life-threatening spearheaded several programs to help support Since 1987, Ivo’s clinical work has illness, surgery and psychiatric care by primary care physicians in focused on the care and treatment of patients several courses the community.” with breast cancer. He has authored over of chemotherapy. An active researcher, with a main focus 100 publications, ranging from screening to Despite this health challenge, he continued on understanding the biological basis of diagnosis to treatment, communication to work as a GP/anesthetist in Summerland, seasonal affective disorder, Ray has authored and alternative therapy, with a particular and to be very involved with family.A source over 230 scientific articles and written four emphasis on outcomes research. One of his of strength through all this was his church— books on depression. most meaningful works is a book for he was, and is, a central person in the music Ray co-developed the Brain and women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, ministry in his church. Behaviour block in the Faculty of Medicine’s Breast Cancer:All You Need to Know to “Warren is an exceptionally caring new curriculum. He is a gifted educator Take an Active Part in Your Treatment,now doctor and family man—an inspiration for of both medical students and residents, and in its fourth edition, written with Drs. the rest of us,” Rod wrote.“He survived has been recognized by the Canadian Karen Gelmon, David McCready, Kathleen the rather (very!) harrowing job of small- Mental Health Association for his public Pritchard, and Urve Kuusk. northern-town GP for almost a decade. education initiatives. from the presentation by I saw him a few times then and learned how Jim Cupples, MD’81

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report Derry Dance, Class of 2009

followed by law school, with an emphasis on an exciting next step, but one that will health law and mediation. My passion and likely entail a number of challenges. end objective has always been medicine, but A cooperative effort by the MUS, the I find that I’ve acquired a taste for student Faculty and alumni will allow us to As the new president of the Medical governance and advocacy. My ‘hobby’ is address those challenges together. Undergraduate Society, it is my pleasure to food: I am an avid eater, who relishes both The future for UBC medical students introduce myself and give a brief update the cooking and the consuming.When is looking bright.As we start along on the state of the student body. I’m not in the kitchen or at the table, you’ll this exciting but unfamiliar path, we are I spent my formative years in the rasp- find me playing most any sport—though encouraged by the knowledge that berry capital of Canada (Abbotsford, BC), most likely hockey or soccer. there is a strong medical community to after which I sought the bright lights and I hope my experiences will assist me support and assist us.With the recent sushi of Vancouver for my Bachelor of in serving both the MUS and alumni changes in medical education, the resources Science degree in Pharmacology at UBC. with the variety of issues that lie ahead. available to students are becoming Having whetted my appetite for learning, Notably, the expanded and distributed increasingly valuable, and we are continually I spent two years doing pediatric drug program is beginning its third iteration, grateful for investments made on our policy research at BC Children’s Hospital, and the first expanded class will now have behalf by the alumni. entered its clinical clerkship—this is

MSAC In response, the MSAC Board has reduced evening and weekend public rentals, freeing up more time for students and alum- David F. Hardwick, MD’57 report ni.They are encouraging faculty and staff from UBC and our affiliated hospitals to rent The 224 members of the Class of 2010 bring made extensive use of the exercise room. MSAC for daytime workshops, retreats and the number of MD undergraduates to a Competition for evening times was intense. other events. healthy 776 students—632 of whom are in Over and above student demand, there MSAC is certainly fulfilling its mandate the Vancouver Fraser Medical Program. are 15 years of alumni who used MSAC dur- to provide facilities for students and alumni This has had a huge impact on activity at the ing their undergraduate and/or residency to meet socially and recreationally! Thanks Medical Student & Alumni Centre. years—not to mention alumni from earlier to financial support from students, alumni From September 2005 to May 2006, stu- years. More and more of them are taking and the Faculty of Medicine, it will dents booked both halls most weekdays and advantage of the space for reunions and continue to do so. other activities.

Introducing the Office Our job in this office is to work with all I’d like to begin by of Alumni Affairs of you—alumni-to-be as well as graduates— getting to know you, Miro Kinch, Director to help build and support a thriving commu- and I hope you’ll help nity of people who share interests, experi- me do that by agreeing Did you know that we’re the only Canadian ences and good times. to be part of a focus Faculty of Medicine to have our own We focus on friend-raising (not fundrais- group, and/or respond- building specifically for students and alumni? ing)—on supporting established relationships ing to our survey later Opening an Office of Alumni Affairs and developing new ones that truly reflect this fall/winter.And of at MSAC is another first—services for your interests, abilities, needs, and concerns, course the door is both groups are now available, on the spot. while complementing and supporting those always open at MSAC— of the Faculty, and of the university. drop by anytime.We’d love to see you!

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Alumni Awards,Achievements & Activities

Nazira Chatur, MD’99,(1 above) was a developing a new graduate program in clini- Patrick McGeer, MD’58, was a recipient of the Faculty of Medicine Clinical cal psychology. recipient of the BC Institute of Excellence in Teaching Award.This award As director of the HIV Neurobehavioral Technology’s Honorary Doctor of recognizes the essential role clinical faculty Research Center, Dr. Grant heads a transla- Technology, 2006, conferred for members play in enabling students and resi- tional research program that receives approx- outstanding and sustained achievement dents to develop clinical skills and to inte- imately $15 million annually in extramural in the recipient’s area of expertise. grate and translate prior classroom and text- research funding. His own research concerns Philip Muir, MD’67, received a 2006 book learning into effective health care. neurological and behavioural complications College of Physicians and Surgeons of of HIV/AIDS. He is author or co-author of In April this year, Doug Clement, MD’59, BC Award of Excellence. 400 publications. was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Andrea Procter, MD’03,(7 above) and Hall of Fame for his remarkable four-decade Alan Hemming, MD’87,(4 above) was in Dr. Chris Steyn were married on August 6 sports career. Prior to the current honour, General Surgery at UBC from 1988 to in Vancouver. She is an Anesthesia resident Doug received the Order of Canada and the 1994, did liver transplantation and hepatobil- at the University of Western Ontario. Sports Medicine Council Lifetime iary surgery in Toronto from 1994 to 1996, Achievement Award and was inducted into and served as associate professor at the The Canadian Medical Association awarded both the BC and UBC Sports Halls of Fame. University of Toronto from 1996 to 1999. the 2006 Sir Charles Tupper Award for Since 1999, he has been at the University Political Action to Robert Strang, MD’90, Charles Eckfeldt, MD’93, Hazelton, BC, of Florida in Gainesville and is professor and (6 above) of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in recogni- received the Rural Service Award from the chief, division of Transplantation and tion of his work in advancing CMA health Society of Rural Physicians of Canada HPB Surgery. He married in 1990 and he policy through his tireless efforts to educate at the 14th annual Rural and Remote and Marie have three children. government, the public and health care Medicine convention in Winnipeg. professionals about the importance of Louisa Mackenzie, MD’01,(5 above) The Canadian Medical Association Honorary smoke-free public spaces. completed a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Membership Award was conferred on Fellowship at Alberta Children’s Hospital 2006 BCMA Awards Charles Ennals (2 above) and William in June 2006. Dr. Patricia Baird (Hon.) (8 above left) Meekison, both from the Class of 1962. She and best friend Kevin Mottershead received the BCMA’s Dr. Cam Coady Psychiatrist Robert Fairbairn, MD’59,is were married in August 2006 and are now Award.The Dr. Coady Foundation was now retired. He resides in Denver, Colorado. in Laos, South East Asia, to work for a year established to commemorate Dr. Coady’s with Health Frontiers.They will return to great love of medicine and to ensure that Igor Grant, MD’66,(3 above) received the Canada in the summer of 2007 and Louisa his objectives of achieving excellence 2005 Annual Faculty Award for Excellence in will set up shop in Victoria, BC. in health care continue to be fostered. Teaching from the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego, where John Masterson, MD’77, received the William Mackie, MD’76,(8 above right) he is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry. 2006 Faculty of Medicine Career Award in was installed as chair, General Assembly, BC The award recognizes his more than 30 years Clinical Teaching in recognition of his Medical Association, for 2006/2007. as an educator at UCSD, as well as his sustained record and reputation for Heidi Oetter, MD’85,(9 above) was award- contributions in developing and teaching excellence. ed the Dr. David M. Bachop Gold Medal core courses to medical students and in for Distinguished Medical Service.

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Dr. Gordon Thompson (Hon.) received Dave Harder, MD’59, won the putting event and made it part of their reunion the BCMA Silver Medal of Service, the contest with a ball less than one centimetre plans. Festivities took place September 29, association’s highest honour. from the hole. 30 and October 1. Other golfers such as Doug Clement, VGH Celebrates 100 Years MD’61 celebrated their 45th Anniversary MD’59, and Ron Warneboldt, MD’75, Alumni can take a trip down memory lane Reunion with dinner at Watermark (11 above, right)—who both shot personal by browsing through the special anniversary Restaurant on Kits Beach,Alumni Weekend bests—participated for the collegiality, rather publication Vancouver General Hospital: 100 activities on Point Grey campus, and a than the competition. Years of Care and Service, by Donald Luxton. private tour of the Life Sciences Centre. The golf tournament is an opportunity The archival photos are fascinating—that’s for classmates to get together, to compete MD’66 gathered for their 40th Anniversary Heather Pavilion (10 above)—and there are and to work together again as a team.The Reunion on Point Grey campus on Saturday, 100 years of good stories in its pages. Class of 1957 won the best foursome score, followed by dinner at the Arbutus Club. A Hole-in-One! and the Class of 1970 entered a team for MD’71 also chose Alumni Weekend activi- UBC’s medical alumni excel in many fields, the first time this year. ties for their 35th Anniversary Reunion. and this year many of us excelled on the Organized by Drew Young, MD’59, and fairways at the 19th Annual Medical Alumni Ron Warneboldt, the tournament had MD’86 launched their 20th Anniversary Golf Tournament. post-noon tee-off times, allowing doctors Reunion with Alumni Weekend activities Grover Wong, MD’92,(11 above, left) to put in a half-day in the office before during the day and dinner at Cecil Green raised the bar for future tournaments by their afternoon of sport, relaxation and south Park House on Point Grey. shooting a hole-in-one on the seventh hole slope sun.The roast beef and salmon buffet Other Reunions at Fraserview Golf Course.“Where’s the in the clubhouse was excellent, and this year MD’81 spent their 25th Anniversary car?” everyone asked, expecting a fabulous everyone went home with a prize. Reunion at Brentwood Bay Lodge and Spa, prize for such an accomplishment. Grover The tournament has changed dates and October 13 to15. received a device for fishing golf balls out of locations over the years, but has now settled water hazards, suggesting that his good luck on June at the Fraserview Golf Course. MD’96 held their 10th Anniversary may not last forever. He also received cheers Fraserview is in East Vancouver and easy to Reunion on September 23 and 24. and congratulations from his colleagues reach for MDs in the Lower Mainland and Festivities began with an evening reception for a perfect tee shot. the Fraser Valley. All medical doctors at the Medical Student & Alumni Centre, Grover wasn’t the only outstanding golfer and their colleagues are welcome to attend, and included family brunch at Cecil Green at the tournament. Brad Fritz, MD’75, whether or not they are UBC alumni. Park House on Sunday, with games, a won the low net prize with a 72, adding Next year’s tournament is scheduled for bouncy castle, clowns, and more. his name once again to the trophy. Dave Thursday, June 14, 2007. Planning your reunion? For information Kester, MD’68, also a repeat winner, shot Reunions and assistance, please contact Marguerite the lowest gross score this year with a 76. Alumni Weekend 2006 Collins at [email protected], or call Against a competitive field, Jim Mason, Many of our friends and colleagues took her at 604-827-3294. MD’76, won the longest drive, and advantage of UBC’s newly launched annual

Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medical Alumni News 27 LAST words

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your new Graham Blackburn, Peter Loland, University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, colleagues and fellow alumni—the Class of 2006. Prince George, BC Prince George, BC Here’s where you’ll find them as they start their resi- Rorie Brown, Jelena Maric, University of University of British Columbia, British Columbia,Vancouver, BC dency programs at a university and in a hospital Chilliwack, BC Rachel McGhee, near you. Congratulations and best wishes to each Windy Brown, University of University of British Columbia, British Columbia,Victoria, BC Prince George, BC and every one of them! Jennifer Butler, Danica McKenzie, University of Calgary, University of British Columbia, Cardiac Surgery Calgary, AB Chilliwack, BC Gordon Samoukovic, McGill Patrick Chen, University of Sarah Merriman, University, Montreal, PQ Toronto,Toronto, ON University of British Columbia, Simon Chiu,University of Prince George, BC Community Medicine— Toronto,Toronto, ON Kraig Montalbetti, Family Medicine Suzanne Clutterham, University of British Columbia, Katie Longworth, University of British Columbia, Chilliwack, BC University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Alison Morris, Memorial Vancouver, BC Andrea Cullingham, University of Newfoundland, University of Calgary, St. John’s, NF Diagnostic Radiology Calgary, AB Anne Morrison, University of Aboriginal Peoples’ Annalise Becker, Adam Davidson, British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Health—Family Medicine University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Shauna Nast, University of Payam Puya Sazegar, Vancouver, BC Calgary, AB British Columbia,Victoria, BC University of British Columbia, Theo Blake, University of Amritpal Deep, University of Robert Saona, Queen’s Victoria, BC Western Ontario, London, ON British Columbia,Vancouver, BC University, Kingston, ON Dennis Lee, University of British Janine Hardial, University of Amy Sawchuk, Anesthesia Columbia,Vancouver, BC British Columbia,Vancouver, BC University of British Columbia, Steven Booth, University of David Manders, Cheryl Hau, University of Prince George, BC Manitoba,Winnipeg, MB University of British Columbia, Toronto,Toronto, ON Jacqueline Hudson, Vancouver, BC Brian Josephson, University of British Columbia, Karyn Martin, Dalhousie University of Calgary, Vancouver, BC University, Halifax, NS Calgary, AB Kyle Kirkham, University of Nancy Martin, Jodine Klippenstein, Toronto,Toronto, ON University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, Kalina Popova, Vancouver, BC University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC Emergency Medicine Jason Krowitz, Kenneth Ryan, University of Carolyn Kelly-Smith, University of British Columbia, Western Ontario, London, ON University of British Columbia, Prince George, BC Shelley Tweedle, Vancouver, BC Pamela Kryskow, University of University of British Columbia, Donna Lee, Queen’s University, British Columbia,Victoria, BC Vancouver, BC Kingston, ON Tania Kung, University of Michael Wong, Kevin Nemethy, University of Toronto,Toronto, ON University of British Columbia, Alberta, Edmonton, AB Jatina Lai, University of Toronto, Vancouver, BC Luke Terrett, University of Toronto, ON Stephen C.K. Wu, Manitoba,Winnipeg, MB Joyce Law, Dalhousie University, Kendra Struck, University of University of British Columbia, Halifax, NS British Columbia,Victoria, BC Vancouver, BC Family Medicine Ann Lee, University of Alberta, Blazej Szczygielski, McGill Sharon Aujlay, University of Edmonton, AB University, Montreal, PQ Alberta, Edmonton, AB Jessica Leung, University of Amy Weber, University of Toronto,Toronto, ON British Columbia,Vancouver, BC

28 UBC Medical Alumni News Fall/Winter 2006 Elaine Willman, Obstetrics & Gynaecology Karolina Ochnio, University of University of British Columbia, Innie Chen, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC Alberta, Edmonton, AB Helen Rosenauer, University of Lenny Woo, University of British Stephanie Johnson, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Columbia,Victoria, BC British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Tamara Salih, University of Teresa Wood, University of Laurren Rodgers, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC British Columbia,Victoria, BC British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Jennifer Wide, University of Gabriel Woollam, Memorial Ardelle Stauffer, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC University of Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK Jennifer Yeh, University of St. John’s, NF Cheryl Wilson, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Melinda Zeron-Mullins, British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Radiation Oncology University of British Columbia, Paul Yong, University of British Christina Campbell, Victoria, BC Columbia,Vancouver, BC Aron Zuidhof, Dalhousie University of British Columbia, Callum Reid, University, Fredericton, NB Ophthalmology Vancouver, BC University of British Columbia, Claire Sheldon, University of Adrian Ishkanian, University of General Surgery Vancouver, BC British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Toronto,Toronto, ON Courtney Babcock, Michael Tsang, George Yearsley, University of Rural Family Medicine University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC Sharon Chan-Yan, University Vanessa Fawcett, Aaron Young, Orthopedic Surgery of British Columbia, Prince University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, Stephen Kennedy, University of George, BC Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Timothy Doty, University of Jory Simpson, University of Shannon Samler, University of Calgary, Lethbridge, AB Toronto,Toronto, ON Pathology & Laboratory British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Dale Gatenby, University of Clara Tan, University of British Medicine Gerard Slobogean, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC Columbia,Vancouver, BC Corrie Messerer, British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Jonathan Hawkeswood, University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, Internal Medicine Vancouver, BC Otolaryngology Kelowna, BC Stephanie Au, Tyler Smith, University of British Clark Bartlett, Dalhousie Kristian Hecht, University of University of British Columbia, Columbia,Vancouver, BC University, Halifax, NS British Columbia, Kelowna, BC Vancouver, BC Pediatrics Randy Holmes, University of Erin Bergsma, University of Medical Genetics British Columbia, Kelowna, BC Cristina Bigg, University of Western Ontario, London, ON Margaret McKinnon, British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Margot Davis, University of British Columbia, Kelly Cox, Dalhousie University, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Halifax, NS Vancouver, BC MS Imaging Research Tommy Gerschman, University of Behzad Etemadi, Queen’s Jimmy Lee, University of British British Columbia,Vancouver, BC University,Windsor, ON Columbia,Vancouver, BC Gordon Soon, University of Tabassum Firoz, Toronto,Toronto, ON University of British Columbia, Neurology Kathy Wong, University of Vancouver, BC Maiya Geddes, McGill British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Samuel Kohen, University, Montreal, PQ University of Calgary, Claire Hinnell, Plastic Surgery Calgary,AB University of Calgary, David Tang, Dalhousie Kevin Levitt, University of Calgary, AB University, Halifax, NS Toronto,Toronto, ON Sharanpal Mann, Andrew Tung, University of Urology Anson Li, University of British University of British Columbia, British Columbia,Vancouver, BC William Carlson, Dalhousie Columbia,Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC University, Halifax, NS Jean-Paul Lim, Suzanne Plessis, University Psychiatry Kiara Hennessey, University of University of British Columbia, of British Columbia, Cameron Anderson, British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC University of British Columbia, Lee Jonat, University of British Marla McKnight, Vancouver, BC University of British Columbia, Neurosurgery Janel Casey, University of Columbia,Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC Ryan Janicki, British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Harpinder Nagi, University of British Columbia, Jessica Luckhurst, University of University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC British Columbia,Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC Fall/Winter 2006 UBC Medical Alumni News 29 THE UBC FACULTY OF MEDICINE Together we create knowledge and advance learning that will make a vital contribution to the health of individuals and communities locally, nationally and internationally.

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