A message from Gage Averill, Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver.
Further to my previous memo, dated October 15, 2024, inviting your input to help in creating a candidate profile, I am pleased to advise that the President’s Advisory Committee for the selection of a new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President Health has been established with the following membership, consisting of elected, Board and Senate selected, and appointed members, per UBC Policy AP5 and UBC Policy AP12:
- Nabil Ali-Mohamad, undergraduate student
- Aslam Anis, professor and Director, School of Population and Public Health
- Lara Boyd, professor, Department of Physical Therapy
- Natalie Chan, Board of Governors member
- Darren Dahl, Dean, Sauder School of Business
- Susan Forwell, professor, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
- Leonard Foster, professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Michael Smith Laboratories
- Grant Guo, UBC Vancouver Student Senator
- Sandy Hilton, Board of Governors member
- Shanda Jordan Gaetz, Managing Director, Faculty of Medicine
- Faisal Khosa, associate professor, Department of Radiology
- Anjana Rajendran, graduate student
- Manuela Reekie, UBC Okanagan senator
- Eugenia Socías, assistant professor, Department of Medicine
- Victoria Wood, Managing Director, UBC Health
- Gage Averill, Provost and Vice-President Academic, UBC Vancouver (Chair)
- Kate Carr, Executive Assistant to the Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President Faculty Planning (Secretary)
The committee’s task is to consider and advise the President on the candidates, before the President makes a recommendation to the Board of Governors for approval.
The committee has begun its task, with the development of a candidate profile, which was informed by your feedback received through consultations and the online survey. This document will be used throughout the recruitment process.
The advertisement will be posted on the Academic + Provost website and the Medicine and UBC Health websites, as well as distributed widely through web-based media nationally and internationally. The search is international in scope, and open to internal and external candidates.
Over the next few months, the search consultants at Boyden will be following up on your suggestions of individuals and using their extensive networks to source nominations and potential candidates. The Advisory Committee will then reconvene to review the candidate list and will invite a number of candidates to meet with the committee for confidential interviews. When the committee has narrowed the list to a small number of outstanding individuals, those candidates will each be invited to a second phase of interviews. We will provide information on that final stage of the search later.
In the meantime, the search consultants still welcome any suggestions of individuals to be the next Dean of Medicine and VP Health. Please send any names to ubcdeanmedicine@boyden.com.
We look forward to your continued participation in the search process. I will continue to provide updates as the search progresses. If you have any questions about this search, please contact Kate Carr at kate.carr@ubc.ca.
This message was sent to all faculty, staff and learners in the Faculty of Medicine & UBC Health.
