The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mypinder Sekhon as Head, Division of Critical Care Medicine, for a five-year term effective July 1, 2025.
Dr. Sekhon is a Clinical Associate Professor and Intensivist at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Sekhon completed medical school, internal medicine residency and critical care medicine fellowship at UBC before completing a Neurocritical Care fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD under Prof. Philip Ainslie in cerebrovascular sciences. Dr. Sekhon was the UBC Critical Care Program Director for 7 years. He has received research funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Weston Brain Institute, VCHRI and Health Research BC. He has over 200 peer review publications and was recently awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal. His research interests include translational cerebrovascular sciences and resuscitation medicine. He hopes to bring a collaborative provincial approach to the Division of Critical Care Medicine in BC with emphasis on cross-disciplinary and health authority academic endeavours.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Sekhon on his appointment and wishing him all the best in his new role.
I also want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Cheryl Holmes for her outstanding leadership and stewardship of the Division of Critical Care from September 2015 until the present.
Sincerely,
Anita Palepu, MD, MPH, FRCPC, MACP, FCAHS
Professor and Eric W. Hamber Chair
Head, Department of Medicine
University of British Columbia