The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Dr. Silke Appel-Cresswell is a 2022/2023 recipient of the UBC Killam Teaching Prize.
The UBC Killam Teaching Prize is awarded annually to faculty nominated by students, colleagues and alumni in recognition of excellence in teaching. The Killam Teaching Prize is adjudicated within each Faculty, and at the Okanagan campus, within the Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic.
Dr. Silke Appel-Cresswell is a movement disorder neurologist trained in Germany, London (UK) and Vancouver, BC. She is an Associate Professor (grant tenure) for Medicine/Neurology at the University of British Columbia and holds the Marg Meikle Professorship for Research in Parkinson’s disease. Her research focuses on the role of the microbiome in Parkinson’s disease and other brain disorders, care delivery in Parkinson’s as well as coping strategies, resilience and neuropsychiatric features of Parkinson’s. She has established iCAPTURE PD, a large registry for Parkinson’s and related disorders, which serves as a resource to understand clinical patterns and clinic-genetic correlations. Dr. Appel-Cresswell is a founding director of the BC Brain Wellness Foundation to foster well-being in chronic brain disease and aging through exercise, arts, nutrition, mind care, and education. She is spearheading the use of ultrasound to guide botulinum toxin injections for dystonia in Canada.