A message from Dermot Kelleher, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health.
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Corinne Hohl has been appointed Head, Department of Emergency Medicine, effective to June 30, 2029.
Dr. Hohl is a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and an associate member of the School of Population and Public Health. She is also a scientist at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation and an emergency physician at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Hohl’s research focuses on emergency medicine, patient safety, health systems innovation and trial design. In 2020, she became the Chair of the Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network, which informed the pandemic response and became the largest active research network in the history of emergency medicine in Canada.
In recognition of her research work, Dr. Hohl has received a UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award, a Michael Smith Foundation Health Research Health Professional-Investigator Award, and the Dr. Ian Stiell Researcher of the Year Award from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. She has also received the Teacher of the Year Award from the UBC Royal College Emergency Medicine Training Program, and the Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Mentoring Early Career Faculty.
In her role as Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Hohl will engage with emergency physicians, practicing clinicians, trainees, patient partners and healthcare leaders from across British Columbia to strengthen the emergency medicine community, and the department’s education, research and innovation programs. She will build upon existing collaborations and partnerships while fostering new opportunities to implement a learning health system and facilitate impactful inclusive patient-oriented research and quality improvement to accelerate knowledge translation and innovation.
Dr. Hohl’s appointment follows the interim co-leadership of Drs. Roy Purssell and John Tallon. I wish to thank Drs. Purssell and Tallon for their significant contributions and dedication to supporting the Department over the past three years.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Hohl on her appointment.
