It is with mixed emotions that I announce that Dr. Adam Peets has accepted the position of Assistant Dean, Clinical Education, MD Undergraduate Program, and will step down from his current role of Associate Head, Education in the Department of Medicine at the end of February.
Since joining UBC in 2009, Dr. Peets has been actively involved in teaching, educational scholarship and educationally-related administrative roles including Program Director for the Critical Care Medicine Residency Program, co-chair of the Curriculum Renewal clerkship working group and member of three additional working groups. He has also held appointments
Dr. Adam Peets
as a Junior Scholar at the Centre for Health Education Scholarship and a Research Scientist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences. In 2012 he was appointed as the first Associate Head, Education in the Department of Medicine. In this role he has done an exceptional job of providing leadership and direction to the department with respect to the support and advancement of learning, education scholarship and innovation across the Department of Medicine.
In his new role of Assistant Dean, Clinical Education, MD Undergraduate Program, Dr. Peets will provide global academic leadership for clinical education across all distributed sites of the UBC MD Undergraduate Program, reporting to the Regional Associate Dean, Vancouver Fraser. He will also advise on the development and planning of clinical education in the renewed curriculum.
Personally and on behalf of the department I would like to express heartfelt thanks to Adam for all of his hard work and the outstanding contributions he has made to the education programs in the Department of Medicine. While he will be greatly missed in the department, I know that he will continue this tradition of excellence in his new position.
The DOM will begin an internal search for the new Associate Head, Education presently.
Please join me in congratulating Adam and wishing him the very best in his new role.
Graydon S. Meneilly, MD, FRCPC, FACP
Professor and Eric W. Hamber Chair
Head, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Physician-in-Chief and Head, Department of Medicine, Vancouver Hospital