The Department of Medicine is led by a diverse team of senior leaders, who are recognized for their national and international contributions to academic medicine.
Education and Research are the portfolios that drive the Department of Medicine’s strategic vision and mission – and each portfolio is led by our Associate Heads. Each of our 18 divisions is led by an appointed Division Head.
The leadership team meets monthly at the UBC Executive Committee Meeting where members share departmental and university business as well as engaging in strategic planning for the department. The team works together to create goals and objectives that continue to grow and strengthen the UBC Department of Medicine. Meeting minutes are taken and are distributed to all committee members and are filed in the DOM administration office/UBC Archives as an archival record of departmental business.
UBC Department of Medicine Executive Committee
Senior Executive
 Anita Palepu |
Eric W. Hamber Professor and Chair of Medicine |
 Andrea Townson |
Associate Head, Education |
 Teresa Tsang |
Associate Head, Research |
Division Heads
 Amin Kanani |
Allergy & Immunology |
 Jasmine Grewal |
Cardiology |
 Denise Jaworsky |
Community General Internal Medicine |
 Cheryl Holmes |
Critical Care Medicine |
 Marshall Dahl |
Endocrinology |
 Rob Enns |
Gastroenterology |
 Nadia Khan |
General Internal Medicine |
 Kenneth Madden |
Geriatric Medicine |
 Stephen Nantel |
Hematology |
 Ted Steiner |
Infectious Diseases |
 Stephen Chia |
Medical Oncology |
 Adeera Levin |
Nephrology |
 Martin McKeown |
Neurology |
 Fify Soeyonggo |
Palliative Care |
 Jennifer Yao |
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation |
 Christopher Carlsten |
Respiratory Medicine |
 Juan Antonio Aviña-Zubieta |
Rheumatology |
 Thomas Kerr |
Social Medicine |
Program Directors
 Mark Roberts |
Postgraduate Medical Education |
 Harpinder Nagi |
Undergraduate Medical Education |
 Kevin Eva |
Director, Educational Research & Scholarship |
 Dirk Lange (Interim) |
Experimental Medicine |
 Sharlene Gill |
Faculty Mentorship Program |
Hospital Department Heads
 Wee-Shian Chan |
BC Women’s Hospital |
 Gerald da Roza Mark Ballard |
Royal Columbian Hospital |
 Ken Gin |
Vancouver Acute |
Distributed Site Representatives
 Laura Farrell |
Island Medical Program |
 Sharla Rae Olsen |
Northern Medical Program |
 Jasmine Kerr |
Southern Medical Program |
Clinical Faculty Representative
| Emily Lai | Clinical Faculty Representative |
Senior Administration
 Mary Liu |
Director of Administration |
| Sharon Duguid | Senior Manager, Finance |
 Kathy Standeven |
Senior Manager, Education |
 Amanda Milord |
Manager, Human Resources |
 Anna Meredith |
Manager, Research |
 Donna Combs |
Administrative Coordinator to the Department Head |