31st UBC Medicine Spring Gala
The UBC Medicine Spring Gala is an annual charity event organized by and featuring UBC medical students. Now in its 31st year, the gala brings together students from all four years of the UBC medical program to showcase their artistic talents outside the medical realm, through performance and visual artworks.
Faculty and staff, alumni, family and members of the community are all welcome to attend. Tickets start at $20, with all profits donated to Covenant House Vancouver.
- Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025 from 7 pm
- Location: Chan Centre for Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Road, UBC Vancouver
Physical Therapy & Research Clinic at UBCV
The UBC Physical Therapy & Research Clinic is accepting new patients.
Located in the Friedman building on UBC Vancouver campus (next to UBC Hospital), the clinic serves UBC faculty, staff and students as well as the broader Vancouver community. Services include manual therapy, sports injury, pre- and post-surgery and neurological rehabilitation.
Appointments are available with one of the clinic’s six fully-licensed physiotherapists, or with rotating Master of Physical Therapy students supervised by preceptors. An initial appointment is $70 with a student physiotherapist or $85 with a licensed physiotherapist. Up to 80% of this cost can be covered under UBC extended health benefits.
Search for a new Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Vice-President, Health — Update
A message from Gage Averill, Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver.
Further to my previous memo, dated December 16, 2024, confirming the membership of the President’s Advisory Committee (PAC) and describing the search process, I’d like to provide this update on activity since then.
The search consultants began their recruitment efforts this past winter and presented the PAC with a slate of candidates from which the committee recently chose individuals with whom they conducted confidential first-round interviews. The committee has narrowed down to a short list, and these candidates have accepted the committee’s invitation to return for the semi-finalist stage of the search. To ensure we retain the strongest pool of candidates possible, the Committee decided to invite these candidates for confidential in-person meetings with a limited number of representatives of the Faculty, UBC Health, the University’s senior administration, and external stakeholders.
The PAC will solicit feedback from participants in these meetings for consideration in the next stage of the search.
It is anticipated that the finalist candidate(s) will then be invited back to meet with a broader audience and present at a Faculty forum, to which all members of the Faculty and UBC Health will be invited, in accordance with UBC Policy AP5, Deans Appointment Policy.
If you have any question or concerns, please feel free to contact me at provost.vpa@ubc.ca. We look forward to your participation as the search progresses.
This message was sent to all faculty, staff and learners in the Faculty of Medicine & UBC Health.
Solutions Summit: Working Towards Climate Solutions
Join the Climate Solutions Research Collective for this in-person event exploring Solutions Scholars projects from four interdisciplinary research cohorts. Each project team will present on the progress of their projects, followed by an opportunity to gather in small tables to dive deeper into individual projects as well as broader related research questions.
In September 2024, these four interdisciplinary research cohorts began working together on Solutions Scholars projects. Supported by faculty from across campus, fourteen graduate students have contributed to projects related to heatwave forecasting and communication, evaluating carbon offset programs, using Large Language Models to ‘chat’ with IPCC reports, and advancing climate mitigation and adaptation in agroecological landscapes.
- Date: Wednesday, April 16, 1–3 pm
- Location: The Nest, UBC Vancouver, Room 2306 and 2309
Faculty of Medicine Awards: Call for nominations
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Faculty of Medicine Awards.
The awards acknowledge outstanding faculty and staff members who demonstrate exceptional contributions to the Faculty of Medicine, and who are dedicated to advancing the Faculty’s values and vision of transforming health for everyone.
Please review the awards and nomination guidelines carefully and submit your nominations by Friday, June 13, 2025.
Recipients will be announced this summer, and the awards will be presented at the annual reception in the fall.
Award categories
Click through to view additional information on each award and to download a nomination form.
Lifetime Achievement
- Bill and Marilyn Webber Lifetime Achievement Award: Recognizes extraordinary members of the Faculty of Medicine who have had sustained distinguished careers at UBC in the areas of research, teaching and/or service.
Mentoring
- Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Early Career Faculty: For faculty who exemplify a deep commitment to fostering the development of faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers.
Staff
- Applegarth Staff Service Awards: For outstanding contributions by UBC staff members to the Faculty of Medicine.
- Dean’s Staff Awards: For exceptional staff contributions in: Leadership; Respectful Environment, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion; Creativity/Innovation.
Clinical Faculty
- Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching: For demonstrated excellence in clinical teaching.
- Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership/Service: For demonstrated excellence in leadership or service with the Faculty of Medicine.
- Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentorship: For demonstrated excellence in mentorship within their position with the Faculty of Medicine.
- Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Research: For demonstrated excellence in clinical or applied research within their clinical faculty position with the Faculty of Medicine.
- Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness: For demonstrated excellence in the area of EDI through research, teaching or service with the Faculty of Medicine.
Continuing Professional Development
- Innovation in CME-CPD Award: To any individual, group or organization for outstanding innovation and/or creativity with original work in the area of CME/CPD programming.
- Distinguished Service to CME-CPD Award: For substantial long-term contributions to Continuing Professional Development/Continuing Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine.
This call for nominations was sent to all faculty and staff in the Faculty of Medicine.