Human Resources Team

HR Manager, Annie Lai

• Responsible for managing HR operations and the HR team within the Department of Medicine
• Provides support and advice on matters related to collective agreements and handbooks, performance management, contractor versus employee determinations, not for cause terminations, accommodations, and leaves
• Reviews and approves offer letters and HR transaction
• Oversees departmental FIOPPA requests and file retention and management
• Supports HR related training and HR initiatives related to the strategic plan

HR Coordinator, Chloe Kim

• Responsible for Workday, other HRIS support, and corresponding training within the Department of Medicine
• Provides support and advice on recruitment and hiring, job descriptions and classification, compensation, and attendance management
• Oversees term faculty positions (adjunct, affiliate, honorary)
• Coordinates the recruitment and hiring of faculty administrative positions
• Supports HR related training and HR initiatives related to the strategic plan

Faculty HR Coordinator, Parvin Bolourani

• Responsible for implementing and maintaining documentation and processes relating to academic and clinical faculty appointments, reappointments, promotion and tenure
• Provides support and advice on UBC, Faculty of Medicine, and Departmental academic and clinical faculty recruitment, appointment, reappointment, and promotion policies and procedures
• Coordinates the Department’s Academic Appointments, Reappointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee (AARPT), the Recruitment and Resources Committee, and the Faculty Merit Committee
• Coordinates the appointment and reappointment of honorifics
• Supports HR related training and HR initiatives related to the strategic plan

Faculty HR Assistant, Lyndsie Plowman

• Responsible for coordinating clinical faculty appointments and promotions in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and General Internal Medicine – Community
• Provides information on UBC, Faculty of Medicine, and Department of Medicine clinical faculty appointment, reappointment, and promotion policies and procedures
• Provides administrative support to the Mentorship Committee
• Coordinates academic certification/academic registration documentation
• Provides administrative support to the Faculty HR Coordinator

For all Clinical Faculty inquiries (New Appointment, Reappointments, Promotions and TTPS Inquiries), please email  clinicalfaculty.medi@ubc.ca 

Human Resources Assistants

• Responsible for administrative tasks regarding human resources and personnel management relating to faculty, staff, and students
• Maintains, generates and processes all documentation including hiring, reappointments, leaves, terminations, costing allocation changes, and pay increases
• Provides information on the policies related to leave entitlements, types of salary increases, years of service, and types of job families for the different employment groups at UBC
• Responsible for communicating with UBC Payroll, UBC HR, Faculty Relations, the Faculty of Medicine, and the divisions within the Department of Medicine to investigate and resolve general payroll and personnel inquiries