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.