Dr. Andrei Krassioukov awarded CIHR Team Grant in Chronic Disease Risk and Intervention Strategies for his work on cardiovascular health in people with spinal cord injuries
February 28, 2014Dr. Andrei Krassioukov, Professor in the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and researcher at ICORD, is heading a team that has been awarded a CIHR Team Grant to study cardiovascular health in patients with spinal cord injuries. The team Dr. Krassioukov has created will study the impact of exercise and targeted education on cardiovascular […] Read More >
Dr. Kate Shannon Named Canada’s Premier Young Researcher
February 28, 2014Dr. Kate Shannon, a researcher in the Division of AIDS and a member of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, has been awarded the prestigious Peter Lougheed/CIHR New Investigator Canada’s Premier Young Researcher Award in the September 2011 CIHR competition. Her project, titled “The social and structural contexts of HIV/STIs among women and youth […] Read More >
Graydon S. Meneilly Appointed B.C. Governor of American College of Physicians
February 28, 2014Dr. Graydon Meneilly, professor and head of UBC Dept. of Medicine, has been elected Governor of the British Columbia Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty organization. His term began during Internal Medicine 2011, ACP’s annual scientific meeting in San Diego on April 7-9. Meneilly has been a member […] Read More >
