Funded Projects

Encouraging Collaboration and Peer Learning through Assisted Study Partnerships

Lead: James Enns, Professor, Department of Psychology
Eden Fussner-Dupas, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Summary: Improve academic performance, social support and collaboration by enhancing and facilitating student peer learning and support networks. This project will investigate and develop a sustainable and secure platform for automating the formation of student study partnerships.

Co-Creating Indigenous Knowledge in Faculty of Medicine Graduate Education

Lead: Miriam Spering, Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Education Office, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Summary: Enhance cultural sensitivity in Faculty of Medicine graduate students by increasing their understanding of Indigenous health, health inequities, and Indigenous research approaches, fostering their ability to conduct culturally respectful research and build capacity for a new landscape of research. This project will co-create a new course module and extensive online learning content by and with Indigenous Peoples and incorporate Indigenous knowledges into the graduate curriculum.

Actualizing Indigenous Data Sovereignty Principles

Leads: Mariana Brussoni, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and School of Population and Public Health; Director, Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)
Kinwa Bluesky, Senior Manager, Indigenous Initiatives, Human Early Learning Partnership
Summary: Bring equity to HELP’s data and knowledge sharing processes and support research and evidence-based decision-making to improve the health and well-being of First Nations, Inuit and Metis children by developing a data platform and data access framework that respect Indigenous data sovereignty.

RecoverNet BC: Development of a Data Platform to Support Substance Use Care

Leads: Brittany Dennis, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Clinician Scientist, BC Centre on Substance Use
Seonaid Nolan, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Head, Division of Addiction, Providence Health Care
Summary: Enable surveillance of substance use trends, promote consistency in healthcare measures, and engender sustainable opportunities for continuous quality improvement and research evaluation across BC. This project will assess, pilot, and test the feasibility of a provincial data capture and storage system of substance use care for real-time tracking of evolving substance use trends and treatment capacity.

Developing a Geospatial Economic Outcomes Framework for Equity (GEOFFE)

Leads: Kendall Ho, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Sonya Cressman, Evaluation Lead, Department of Emergency Medicine
Summary: Deconstruct colonial knowledge structures on healthcare costs and provide foundational researchers with cost estimates to support product development and innovation. The project will build a robust, user-friendly geospatial framework that can be used to estimate patient-borne costs for accessing care and the resulting CO2 footprint of new and incumbent digital health technologies. The framework will aim to address healthcare disparities and inequities, particularly those affecting Indigenous communities.

seed2STEM: Summer Research Program for Indigenous Youth

Leads: Cornelia Laule, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Vice Chair, Research (Radiology)
Cheryl Niamath, Communications and Administrative Manager, International Collaboration on repair Discoveries
Summary: Promote health-related STEM fields among Indigenous students, normalize Indigenous participation within research teams, and foster greater awareness of barriers faced by Indigenous peoples pursuing careers in STEM. This project will expand the seed2STEM program across Faculty of Medicine laboratories to host paid research internships for Indigenous high school students.

Implementing a Pre-departure Training Program through an Equity Lens

Leads: Marla McKnight, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Assistant Program Director, Global Health Equity, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program, Director, UBC-Rwanda Partnership Program
Marianne Vidler, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Summary: Equip participants with the skills and knowledge to meaningfully engage in global health placements that promote equity and improve health and ensure a high level of preparedness for global health experiences. This project will develop, implement, and evaluate a pre-departure training program for UBC members undertaking global health activities.

Drone Transport Initiative (DTI) Phase 2

Leads: John Pawlovich, Rural Chair, Department of Family Practice
Terri-Leigh Aldred, Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice; Site Director, UBC Indigenous Family Medicine Program
Summary: Enhance and extend reach in communicating approaches about the UBC Drone Transport Initiative (DTI) to diverse audiences and partner communities to help others establish respectful, culturally-safe and mutually beneficial relationships with Indigenous partners in implementing technological solutions in their communities, and to showcase the project to potential donors and collaborators. This project will co-create with Indigenous partners knowledge exchange materials about the DTI in an accessible and user-friendly format.

BC Climate Health and Knowledge Community (BC CHKC)

Leads: Adrian Yee, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Derek Thompson, Director, Indigenous Engagement, Faculty of Medicine
Emily Brigham, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Summary: Build enduring relationships and community between Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge holders, rooted in respect and aligned with the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan. Establish reciprocal knowledge exchange pathways with Indigenous communities, to inform the educational strategy of the FoM in the face of escalating climate health concerns, empowering faculty and trainees to best care for themselves, their patients, and their communities. This project will develop top priorities and best strategies for climate and health advancement endorsed by diverse climate and health experts in BC.

Peer Coaching in the UBC Family Medicine Program

Lead: Maria Anderson, Site Faculty, Assessments and Evaluations Lead and Clinical Instructor, UBC Surrey South Fraser Family Medicine Residency Program
Summary: Improve educational, wellness, and cultural sensitivity outcomes of resident physicians in family medicine by creating an online support platform for peer-to-peer residency coaching.

Building Resilience into Primary Care Preceptorship

Lead: Morgan Price, Associate Professor, Department of Family Practice and Primary Care Innovation Support Unit
Summary: Improve retention of our community-based family medicine preceptors and sustain community preceptor engagement in post-pandemic times. This project will develop two tools at the residency site and clinical team level throughout 3 phases that includes developing two mapping methods, training partner facilitators, running mapping sessions, scaling the tools and sharing the mapping method learnings.

Growth and Expansion of MAPcore: A Translational Research Core Platform

Lead: David Huntsman, Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and BC Cancer Research Institute
Summary: Expand and accelerate the transition of MAPcore from an investigator-driven lab to a fully-functional core facility available to our province’s translational research community. This will involve hiring research personnel to offer core services to support the most advanced molecular pathology research and develop MAPcore as a functional business unit.

Data Science and Health (DASH): Building a Unified Health Data Ecosystem in BC

Lead: Anita Palepu, Professor and Head, Department of Medicine
Summary: Enhance the data asset platform by increasing research visibility, communication, and health research data sharing through UBC FoM’s Metadata Commons platform, streamline data access through research approval and data acquisition, and enhance data literacy through improved knowledge of appropriate application of computational methods on health data within the UBC FoM community. This project will pilot the FoM Metadata Commons platform, complete a landscape analysis for regional health authorities and document datasets in PopData BC and Ministry of Health, deliver undergraduate and graduate course curricula for DSCI 100 and MEDI 504, and develop continuing education offerings for DASH CPD 2023.

Needs Assessment for an Interactive Online Data Dashboard

Leads: Eva Oberle, Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health and Human Early Learning Partnership
Mariana Brussoni, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Population and Public Health; Director, Human Early Learning Partnership
Summary: Guide the development of an interactive online data dashboard for child health and wellbeing surveillance in BC by conducting consultations and a needs assessment with stakeholders and developing a detailed roadmap for building the data platform.

Community Engagement and Capacity Building for Clinical Research in Northern BC

Lead: Paul Winwood, Regional Associate Dean, UBC Northern Medical Program
Summary: Capacity for researcher, patient, and community awareness on clinical and biomedical research opportunities in northern BC that will foster collaborative research activities, greater participation, and more equitable access to research and clinical trial opportunities for northerners. This will involve facilitating community engagement sessions and reporting on the key learnings, which will be shared back with the communities for ongoing dialogue and shape ongoing engagement. The project will also develop a 5-year strategic plan document that will be shared on the Northern Centre for Clinical Research (NCCR) website as well as develop a Training Plan for the NCCR that will include multiple pathways into clinical and biomedical research.

Building a Community of Palliative Care Providers Within BC

Lead: Nicola Macpherson, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Division of Palliative Care
Summary: Build a diverse, inclusive and well-represented community of faculty members united under the UBC Division of Palliative Care. This project will create a database of all CFPC and RCPSC physicians providing palliative care around BC, identify them as either primary or specialist palliative care providers and connect faculty members throughout the province.

Re-Purposing the Ordering of Routine Laboratory Testing in Health Care Systems

Lead: Anshula Ambasta, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Summary: Optimize laboratory testing in clinical medicine provincially that will benefit patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare systems and create sustainable partnerships and processes. This project will develop a laboratory testing collaborative, identify laboratory testing priorities beginning with thyroid testing, and co-design system re-design and personalized knowledge exchange tools for clinicians and patient education tools.

Enhancing Attitudes of FoM Faculty, Staff, and Students Toward People with Disabilities in the Workplace and Classroom

Lead: Susan Forwell, Professor and Head, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Summary: Develop, pilot, and validate an online disability awareness training program for faculty, staff, and students in order to enhance understanding of people with disabilities in the workplace and improve information and strategies that addresses unintended discriminatory behaviours within the FoM and patient services.

Improving Justice, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Pediatric Research by Assessing and Addressing Language Barriers

Lead: Quynh Doan, Director, Clinical Research, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Summary: Transform research culture at BC Children’s Hospital to be more diverse, inclusive and equitable in pediatric health research by creating generalizable and pertinent research outputs and improving representative distribution of reported primary language among study participants. This involves facilitating a process by which investigators can provide opportunities for individuals of diverse language and ethnic backgrounds to participate in research.

Healthy Environments in Academic Research Teams (HEART) Program

Lead: Michael Hunt, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
Summary: Enhance respectful and productive research team environments in the FoM by creating a Healthy Environments in Academic Research Teams (HEART) certification program in order to increase faculty, staff, and trainee participation in professional development related to health and well-being, respect, equity, diversity, and inclusion issues relevant to research environments.

Creating Structures for Meaningful Indigenous Community-UBC Health Partnerships

Lead: Nadine Caron, Co-Director, Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health;
Martin Guhn, Associate Professor, Human Early Learning Partnership; Namaste Marsden, Director, Indigenous Engagement
Summary: Improve structures at the community and instructional level for meaningful and sustainable Indigenous Community and UBC partnerships in health and wellness research and learning. This involves creating a blueprint for meaningful and sustainable health research collaborations by learning from existing Indigenous community partnerships, establishing reciprocal and sustained co-learning, and fostering Indigenous undergraduate and graduate learning and work-experience opportunities within Indigenous community organizations, Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) and the Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health (CEIH).

Mini Entrepreneurship-portfolio to Kick-start a Translational Medicine Education Platform

Lead: Poul Sorensen, Director, Academy of Translational Medicine
Summary: Advance translational medicine education and support FoM learners and faculty in meeting evolving career requirements through a pilot of a new entrepreneurship education mini-platform. This involves creating five micro-courses for FoM members, identifying success criteria for the pilot program, and developing a report describing course details and evaluating the pilot against success criteria.

Canadian Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Network for Preclinical Studies

Lead: Chris Maxwell, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Summary: Drive biology-informed early phase clinical trials in pediatric hematology and oncology and provide access for FoM clinical and preclinical researchers to partner with researchers across Canada through creation of a national Canadian Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Network (PHONe) registry of preclinical researchers, models, and experimental systems for preclinical studies.

A Human Organoid “Gut-on-a Chip” Platform to Advance Precision Medicine and Screen Therapeutic Drugs

Lead: Bruce Vallance, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Summary: Expand and improve microbiome-host studies by enabling functional assessment and drug testing of patient-derived gut microbiome samples as well as promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration between microbiome experts and human gut organoid pioneers to advance precision medicine. This involves creating capacity to develop a Human Organoid “Gut-on-a Chip” platform using “gut on a chip technology” and patient-derived intestinal organoids for the Gut4Health Microbiome Core at BCCHRI. The Faculty of Medicine is grateful to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute for also contributing to this project.

Translational Gnotobiotic Research Mouse Facility at BCCHR-CMMT

Lead: Bruce Verchere, Professor, Department of Surgery and Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Director, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
Summary: Build research capacity in gut microbiome research by supporting translational microbiome studies in mouse models of human disease and enhancing translation of discovery to benefit human health. This involves establishing an operational and sustainable core gnotobiotic mouse facility for UBC FoM researchers using pre-clinical models located at BCCHR and the CMMT animal unit. The Faculty of Medicine is grateful to the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics for also contributing to this project.

Development of the UBC Global Surgery Lab and Its Activities

Lead: Emilie Joos, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery; Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon and Associate Medical Director, UBC Branch for International Surgical Care
Summary: Improve knowledge of and access to surgical care in underserved communities. This will involve adapting the UBC Global Surgery Lab (GSL) terms of reference and completing the GSL strategic plan. This project will also update the essential surgical skills curriculum to improve usability and relevance to rural, remote, and Indigenous communities, develop and launch the sixth module for the Safe Surgical Care Strategies During Pandemic course, and disseminate global surgery education for students, GSL members, and the global community. The project will attempt to integrate the UBC 23/24 curriculum with the ESS curriculum in close collaboration with the Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health.

Teaching and Assessing Professionalism in the Clinical Setting

Lead: Sue Murphy, Head, Department of Physical Therapy
Summary: Improve support for clinical faculty members to develop professionalism in students and ensure the successful teaching, and assessment of professionalism as well as the formation of professional identity during clinical training. This project will create ten short online modules based on various aspects of teaching and assessing professionalism that will be applicable to those supervising both undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety of health care professions.

Welcoming New Clinical Faculty: A pilot of resources to build clarity and connection

Lead: Kiran Veerapen, Assistant Dean, Faculty Development, Office of Faculty Development
Summary: Improve support for clinical faculty through creation of a set of resources hosted by the Office of Faculty Development. This project will create introductory modules of teacher training and essential administrative information for clinical faculty, and online engagement tools for peer-to-peer interaction.

Integrating Musculoskeletal, Sport & Exercise Medicine Education Pathways at UBC

Lead: Robert Petrella, Head, Department of Family Practice and Division of Sports Medicine
Summary: Improve understanding of team-based musculoskeletal and exercise medicine education and training by conducting an environmental scan to assess the level of demand for potential new educational offerings and associated financial viability.

COVID-19 Consent to Contact Registry Database (CCRD)

Lead: David Patrick, Director of Research, BC Centre for Disease Control and Professor, School of Population and Public Health
Summary: Maintain and transition the current, temporary provincial registry of individuals tested positive for COVID-19 who consent to contact for future research into a long-term asset. This will involve stabilizing support for the current registry by supporting researchers in their COVID-19 study efforts and providing opportunities for the public to participate in COVID-19 research, developing a long-term funding model based on user-pay and other sources, and creating a template to facilitate rapid response research in the face of other future public health emergencies. Through SIF, the Faculty of Medicine is making a contribution to this effort, acknowledging that funding from other sources is vital to success of the project and to longer term sustainability.

BC COVID-19 Biobank Network (BCCBN)

Lead: Michael Chen, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Summary: Improve provincial biobank infrastructure for the research community to access biospecimens and data and to conduct collaborative population-based research projects in real-time. This will involve expanding reach of the BCCBN by onboarding interior and northern BC sites to implement a biobank program; establishing a quality control program; receiving buy-in with public health laboratories; and receiving biobank certification. Through SIF, the Faculty of Medicine is making a contribution to this effort, acknowledging that funding from other sources is vital to success of the project and to longer term sustainability.

Drone Transport Initiative

Lead: John Pawlovich, Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice and Rural Doctor’s UBC Chair in Rural Health;
Dr. Terri-Leigh Aldred, Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice, Site Director, UBC Indigenous Family Medicine Program, and Medical Director, Primary Care, FNHA
Summary: Enhance the impact of the Drone Transport Initiative by expanding the evaluation and feasibility assessment of using drone technology to address inequities in access to health care supplies and services experienced by rural and remote First Nations communities. This project will develop a comprehensive evaluation framework, a cost-benefit analysis, and a playbook to document learnings.

Tips, Tricks, and Beyond: An online teaching course for community physicians

Lead: Meera Anand, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice and Y1&2 Family Practice Co-Director; Heather Buckley, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice and VFMP Faculty Development Faculty Coordinator
Summary: Equip community-based family physician clinical faculty to train medical learners, support them through enhancement of network support systems, and motivate them to teach regularly for the program by creating a new online curriculum to better reach geographically dispersed clinical faculty.

Midwifery Curriculum Renewal 2021

Lead: Cecilia Jevitt, Associate Professor and Director, Midwifery Program, Department of Family Practice
Summary: Improve education for Midwifery students so that they enter practice equipped to meet the needs of the populations they serve by updating the Midwifery Program curriculum to include the most recent core competencies from the Canadian Midwifery Regulators Council; an anti-racism, inclusivity, and equity lens; Indigenous midwifery knowledge about health, pregnancy, and birth; and an accelerated midwifery admission plan for registered nurses.

Teaching Antibiotics through Visual Media and Storytelling

Lead: Mary Kestler, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Summary: Improve retention of antibiotic concepts that are important in clinical practice throughout clerkship, residency, and beyond, and enhance engagement, increase enjoyment, and reduce anxiety while learning antibiotics by developing and delivering a 4-episode video series that uses common and clinically significant antibiotics anthropomorphized as the characters for year 1 and year 2 medical students.

Integrating Gender Equity and Addressing Cisnormativity

Lead: Mei-ling Wiedmeyer, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice; Director of Clinical Practice, Center for Gender and Sexual Health Equity
Summary: Equip future generations of doctors with the language, skills, values, and knowledge to better serve the needs of all patients, especially trans and/or non-binary patients, and improve curriculum renewal efforts that maintain UBC's cutting edge leadership in equity-oriented care and education. This project will deliver audit tools, measures, and a framework that can be used to ameliorate the UBC MD program curriculum; a report outlining a defined action plan for integrating gender equity in medical education at UBC; and a report on the outcomes of the staff and student engagement activities.

A Genetic, Epigenetic, and Physiologic Research Platform for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Lead: Najib Ayas, Associate Professor, Division of Critical Care, Department of Medicine
Summary: Create an obstructive sleep apnea research platform that incorporates clinical, physiologic, genetic, epigenetic, and outcome information to enable research studies and successful grant applications to study the predictive value of physiologic and molecular biomarkers in obstructive sleep apnea.

Integrated Mouse Modelling Services for UBC

Lead: Pamela Hoodless, Professor, Department of Medical Genetics and School of Biomedical Engineering; Director and Distinguished Scientist, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Institute
Summary: Expand and improve capacity to generate and preserve mouse models resulting in consistent services for the UBC Research community. This involves consolidating current capacity of mouse genetic modelling at UBC by expanding operations within the Animal Resource Centre at the BC Cancer Research Institute, integrating scientifically with the new CRISPR core at LSI, and building staff capacity.

Molecular and Advanced Pathology Core (MAPcore): A translational research core platform

Lead: David Huntsman, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Vancouver Costal Health Research Institute; BC Cancer Research Institute
Summary: Create a core platform that further fuels the success of 'omics and other discovery research by translating these findings to clinical utility. This project will produce capacity to develop and deliver core services that support advanced molecular pathology research and establish the MAPcore as a functional business unit.

Development of a UBC Planetary Health Action Lab

Lead: Andrea MacNeill, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery; Surgical Oncologist, Vancouver General Hospital and BC Cancer Agency
Summary: Establish the Planetary Health Action Lab as a research platform for knowledge creation and translation that will generate evidence-based best practices for minimizing environmental impact of health care. The platform will create research capacity around the environmental impacts and public health damages of healthcare delivery in BC, standards for sustainable healthcare systems and a trajectory to decarbonize healthcare, and increase education and knowledge translation for medical trainees and physicians around the environmental impacts of their clinical decisions.

Creating a New Shared Research Platform for Upright Open MR Imaging at UBC

Lead: David Wilson, Professor, Department of Orthopaedics; Co-director, Centre for Hip Health and Mobility
Summary: Create a shared research platform in upright open MR imaging to increase the amount, quality, and impact of UBC FoM research by providing the technical expertise required to develop new research areas and expand the user base for this unique instrument.

Clinical Skills Digital Solution

Leads: Robin Stone, Medical Student, IMP & 2021 Student Rep UGME Committee; 2023 Student Rep COVID-19 Task Force;
Laura Farrell, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Summary: Enable continued success of UBC UGME students by supporting them to develop and maintain clinical skills proficiency during COVID-19 and beyond by implementing an interactive web-based product leveraging IBM Watson with multimedia outputs capable of teaching many key components of clinical skills without a patient.

Interactive Online Education Modules for FLEX

Lead: Alice Mui, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery; FLEX Course Co-Director and Vancouver Fraser Medical Program (VFMP) Site Director
Summary: Improve delivery and access to course content of the Flexible Enhanced Learning (FLEX) course during COVID-19 physical distancing policies by engaging medical students to design and deliver 12 interactive online modules for MEDD 419.

Optimization of Practice for Medical Trainees through Simulation

Lead: Vi Ean Tan, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Summary: Enhance medical training and practice for medical students, residents, and fellows by implementing quality simulation equipment (TruBaby X and TruMonitor App) and increasing the use of simulation in pediatric critical care training.

BC Children’s Knowledge Centre-COVID-19 Rapid Response

Lead: Wyeth Wasserman, VP Research, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Summary: Improve connections about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 among researchers, care providers, and children, youth, women, and families across BC by leveraging the Child Sized Knowledge Translation Platform and creating COVID-19 knowledge resources through engagement with families.

COVID-19 Immunology Consortium-BC (CIC-BC)

Lead: Manish Sadarangani, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Director, Vaccine Evaluation Centre, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Summary: Enable a coordinated approach to COVID-19 immunology research across UBC, including a highly networked training environment, by identifying the landscape of active COVID-19 immunology research across UBC, determining capacity for new COVID-19 immunology projects at UBC, and developing research collaborations and projects.

Development of a Strategic Mental Health Research Youth and Family Advisory Council

Lead: Skye Barbic, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Summary: Enable increased engagement with youth and family members to inform the development and mobilization of knowledge to address gaps in the current infrastructure for youth mental health and substance use services and support by creating a Mental Health Research Youth and Family Advisory Council that can advise and provide recommendations to help plan, develop, implement, improve, and refine efforts towards meaningful patient-centered youth mental health research.

Enabling FINDER for SARS-CoV-2 Research

Lead: Support the FINDER (Facility for Infectious Disease and Epidemic Research) core facility to enable COVID-19 related research by adding research management capacity. Through SIF, the Faculty of Medicine is making a contribution to this effort, acknowledging that funding from other sources is vital to success of the project and to longer term sustainability.

Integrated Platform for Bio-Psycho-Social Response to COVID-19

Lead: Sophia Frangou, Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Summary: Build capacity to support immediate and long-term strategic projects related to understanding and addressing the bio-psycho-social effects of the pandemic, and to facilitate a higher-level of coordination among researchers by creating a virtual platform for assessing and treating COVID-19 related psychosocial dysfunction and delivery of intervention, and a digital COVID-19 resource hub or bio-psychosocial research.

Rapid Response Maternal-Infant Clinical and Biospecimen Access Platform

Lead: Deborah Money, Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Summary: Build capacity to enable research with the maternal-infant population and collaboration across departments and institutes by creating a physical and virtual platform of metadata and biorepository of maternal-placental-infant samples, paired with clinical data from maternal-infant samples, and permission to re-contact for research.

Pandemic Preparedness for COVID Wave 2

Lead: Teresa Tsang, Professor and Associate Head, Research, Department of Medicine
Summary: Increase organizational resilience through a comprehensive remote work strategy for research staff in the Department of Medicine. This involves delivering a report on transition to work from home impact, a report mapping key research processes and how roles interact, a classification of current research roles and their appropriateness for degree of work from home, a work from home plan that can be adjusted in response to pandemic response guidelines, a business continuity work from home plan, a longer term work from home plan, research adaptations for remote work, and an AI application to facilitate working from home.

Wellbeing Convene during COVID-19

Lead: Bob Woollard, Professor, Department of Family Practice
Summary: Enhanced individual wellbeing and heighten sense of resilience through improved connections and relationships across UBC by developing and delivering 20 wellbeing webinars for FoM students, residents, staff, and faculty at all sites.

A Virtual Learning Platform

Lead: Marla McKnight, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Summary: Continue supporting professional development and capacity-building among medical trainees in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, and enhance formerly in-person educational programming and partnership between the Faculties of Medicine at UBC and the University of Rwanda. This involves establishing a network of medical professionals, implementing a virtual learning platform, developing core content, and evaluating feasibility, accessibility, and efficacy of the pilot program.

Sonnie MD - An Interactive Webcomic Approach to Point-of-care Ultrasound Education

Lead: Laura Beamish, Senior Manager, Rural Program, UBC Continuing Professional Development
Summary: Create six virtual case studies for UBC CPD Hands-On Ultrasound Education (HOUSE) course participants, in order to increase engagement and consolidation of skills of UBC's point-of-care ultrasound learners.

SimBrainVR

Lead: Claudia Krebs, Professor of Teaching, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences; the HIVE
Summary: Create a high-fidelity virtual reality app that allows for dynamic patient interactions, clinical reasoning, and links between basic science content and clinical signs and symptoms, in order to enable synchronized educational experiences for all students that will prepare them for in-person clinical skills sessions in the field of neurology.

BC Translational Digital Pathology and Artificial Intelligence Initiative

Lead: Ali Bashashati, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Director of AI and Bioinformatics Research, OVCARE
Summary: Build capacity to support fundraising for high-impact research that combines multimodal imaging and 'omics through artificial intelligence, and an AI in Medicine Talk Series by international leaders in order to create a world-class, multi-disciplinary collaborative research network combining medicine and AI with strong emphasis on clinical questions and impact.

V-Brain - A Dynamic Brain Imaging Bank

Lead: Sophia Frangou, Professor, Department of Psychiatry; UBC President's Excellence Chair in Brain Health
Summary: Facilitate collaborative research activities and elevate the international standing of UBC in the field of precision brain health by creating V-Brain core common acquisition sequences, core analyses pipelines, data sharing policies and database format, operational procedures, a governance ethics framework, a scalable prototype, scientific priorities, and a fundraising plan.

Reimaging Sport and Exercise Medicine at UBC

Lead: Rob Petrella, Professor and Head, Department of Family Practice
Summary: Create a fully integrated and leading-edge sport and exercise medicine program network within the Department of Family Practice that engages strengths across the Faculty of Medicine and associated UBC facilities and partners. This involves establishing a sport and exercise medicine team, establishing an advisory group, developing an environmental scan of sport and exercise medicine, creating an online community of practice, developing a process evaluation framework, engaging the Innovation Support Unit to conduct a scan and role mapping, implementing a hub-and-spoke pilot and process evaluation, and translating the sport and exercise medicine model for further scalability.

Instrumentation to Support Single-Cell and Spatial Multi-Omics Next Gen Sequencing Services at UBC

Lead: T. Michael Underhill, Professor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Summary: Build on existing excellence in single cell omics within the BRC-seq core by increasing capacity, improving price structures, and increasing access. This involves purchasing and operationalizing the Nextseq2000, which will increase sequencing capacity by 2.5 fold along with a 21-67% reduction in sequencing reagent costs.

Pediatric Sepsis Data CoLaboratory

Lead: Niranjan Kissoon, Professor, Department of Pediatrics; VP Medical Affairs, BC Children's Hospital
Summary: Create a network of health care workers, policy makers, researchers, and advocacy partners focused on addressing pediatric sepsis mortality and morbidity globally, and a platform for high-quality data collection and sharing. The intended result is better modelling and analytics, quality improvement in clinical care, and the ability to share best practices for advocacy globally.

Virtual Surgical Education Using Wearable Technology

Lead: Arman Abdalkhani, Associate Director, Surgical Undergraduate Education Electives, VFMP
Summary: Maintain and enhance high-quality surgical education for UBC medical students by live broadcasting surgeries and creating a library of foundational videos for ongoing use.

Translating Research into Online Laboratory Teaching Modules

Lead: Leonard Foster, Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Summary: Facilitate ongoing and enhanced laboratory teaching and learning by developing online modules to support undergraduate biochemistry lab courses.

Effective Team Building, Communication, and Professional Identity Formation for First Year Health Professional Students in an Online and Remote Setting

Lead: Claudia Krebs, Professor of Teaching, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences; Faculty Lead, HIVE
Summary: Build foundations of person-centered communication, empathy, and trust in online and remote interactions for first-year health professional students in the FoM by developing and delivering a health professional ImprovBot and team-based online interventions.

Virtual Health Pediatric Residency Engagement Initiative

Lead: James Lee, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Summary: Advance inclusion of pediatric residents at BC Children's Hospital and affiliated sites in virtual health by providing clinical exposure that is lacking due to COVID-19 restrictions, while also building proficiency in virtual health that will benefit future practice.

Synchronous and Asynchronous Virtual Classroom Teaching

Lead: Ian Scott, Director, Centre for Health Education Scholarship; Associate Professor, Department of Family Practice
Summary: Support FoM programs and educators in applying best practices for synchronous and asynchronous virtual classroom teaching and learning by developing a compendium of pedagogical best practices, providing pedagogical support, creating venues for students and educators to reflect, and developing a plan for a teaching academy comprised of leaders in this field.

COVID-19: Tools for Data Cataloging and Discovery

Lead: Kim McGrail, Professor, School of Population and Public Health; Scientific Director, Population Data BC
Summary: Support coordination and collaboration of COVID-19 related research by enabling researchers to find and access COVID-19 research data through a process and set of tools for collecting and cataloging of provenance and metadata information on COVID-19 data sets.

COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network and Research Platform

Leads:

• Chris Carlsten, Professor and Head, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine
• James Johnston, Head, Respiratory Medicine Division, Vancouver General Hospital; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
• Darryl Knight, Vice-President, Research, Providence Health Care; Associate Dean, Research, Providence Health Care Research Institute
• Anita Palepu, Professor and Head, Department of Medicine
• Chris Ryerson, Head, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Providence Health Care; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
• Peter Watson, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Director, UBC Pathology Office of Biobank Education and Research

Summary: Enable integrated COVID-19 research and clinical care across the continuum of patient contact with the health care system by establishing an efficient COVID-19 enrollment platform, creating a formal biobank structure, obtaining broad follow-up consent, and providing a collaborative platform with a unified governance.

Deepening Our Collective Roots through Intentional WellBEing

Lead: Michelle Man, Communications Coordinator, Department of Pediatrics
Summary: Mitigate the psychological, social, and health impacts of COVID-19 through transformative programming that cultivates wellness and leadership.

Data Science and Health-Mapping an Educational Trajectory and Building a Collaborative Framework for the Department of Medicine

Lead: Anita Palepu, Professor and Head, Department of Medicine
Summary: Increase capacity to deliver education and expand research capacity in Data Science and Health by conducting a needs assessment for a new program and developing the curriculum.

Omics Training Cluster at BCCHRI

Lead: Alison Elliott, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics
Summary: Build capacity to train genetic counselling trainees, genetics and pediatric residents, pediatric subspecialty fellows, and medical genetics/research institute trainees in analysis of emerging omics datasets. This involves purchasing and deploying computer servers, developing introductory training materials, and deploying education and training materials via workshops.

Department of Family Practice Clinical Education Transformation Project - Phase 2

Lead: Christie Newton, Associate Professor, Department of Family Practice
Summary: Develop sustainable clinical education models that are integrated within the evolving team-based family practice models of service delivery by engaging stakeholders to co-create these education models and leveraging the primary care innovation support unit's approach to team mapping.

Graduate Student Wellness and Support

Lead: Michael Hunt, Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
Summary: Improve wellbeing outcomes for Faculty of Medicine research graduate students by creating and launching a research graduate student support model.

PRevention of Infections in the MatErnal-Infant Dyad (PRIMED)

Lead: Manish Sadarangani, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Director, Vaccine Evaluation Centre, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Summary: Develop clear direction for research into immunization in pregnancy by designing and delivering a full-day workshop, identifying and prioritizing knowledge gaps, and developing a roadmap for future research at UBC.

Discovery to Commercialization

Lead: David Granville, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Summary: Improve awareness and knowledge of commercialization processes at UBC by developing and delivering a speaker series for faculty and industry partners with commercialization experience to share lessons learned and provide information on non-academic career pathways for faculty and learners.

Outreach Ambassador and Mentorship Program for MD Admissions

Lead: Shahin Shirzad, Assistant Dean, MD Admissions
Summary: Increase application rates to the MD program from populations that have typically been underrepresented in medicine by developing an outreach ambassador and mentorship program that delivers outreach, education, and support for future MD program applicants with lower socioeconomic backgrounds, from northern and rural areas, and of Indigenous ancestry.

Recognizing the responsibility of understanding what we mean by decolonizing health professional education

Leads: Tal Jarus, Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy; Courtney Smith, UBC 23 24 Curriculum Manager, School of Population and Public Health; Ashley Quinn, Assistant Professor, Social Work
Summary: Develop an understanding of the current landscape of FoM education programs as it relates to Indigenous Peoples and an understanding of what curriculum renewal may be required, by conducting an environmental scan of individuals and organizations that contribute to the cultural, pedagogical, and/or research of Indigenous-related activity at the FoM.

Digital Pathology: Creation of a 3D Library of Pathological Gross Specimens for Easy Access at All Teaching Sites in BC

Lead: Claudia Krebs, Professor of Teaching, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Summary: Create a virtual pathology lab by capturing 3D images of pathology specimens to enable equity of access to resources that are tied to one geographical location, and to improve learning outcomes and experiences for students at all sites.

Mixed Reality Critical Care Simulation

Lead: Kevin Shi, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Summary: Create 3D virtual objects that can be overlaid on simulation mannequins to enable mixed-reality simulation, thereby improving preparation of learners for real-life critical situations and reducing simulation costs.

Obstetric Crisis Management for Single or Multidiscipline Collaborative Care Providers Using Innovative Virtual Reality Simulation Scenarios for Teaching and Assessment of Performance during Immersive Obstetric Emergency Situations

Lead: Simon Massey, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics
Summary: Create 3D virtual reality simulation models of a delivery room, operating room, care providers, and patients in order to improve learning outcomes for obstetrics residents, midwifery students, and anesthesia residents through virtual reality crisis training on obstetric emergencies.

Accreditation for Public Health Training at UBC

Lead: Peter Berman, Professor and Director, School of Population and Public Health
Summary: Select an appropriate accreditation model, develop a curriculum redesign proposal, and develop an accreditation application. Accreditation is intended to increase alignment of programs with student needs, enhance our international reputation, and increase student recruitment.

BC Children's Hospital Mental Health Patient Registry

Lead: Evelyn Stewart, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Summary: Establish a BC Children's Hospital Mental Health Patient Registry as a research platform in order to increase researchers ability to use the data for studies and to enable early detection, evaluation, and treatment of mental health disorders in children and youth.

Supporting and Developing Clinical Faculty

Lead: Linlea Armstrong, Director, VFMP Faculty Development / Heather Buckley, Coordinator, VFMP Faculty Development
Summary: Engage clinical faculty members through an environmental scan and workshops, and recommend interventions that could provide relevant support to clinical educators and increase clinical faculty engagement.

Disruptive Business Model Innovations for General Surgery

Lead: Morad Hameed, Associate Professor and Head, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery
Summary: Engage Division of General Surgery members to reorganize the Division into Integrated Practice Units made up of networks of surgeons supported by an online engagement platform. This new organizational structure for the Division is intended to result in improved organizational performance.

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: An Appreciative Inquiry and Action Plan for Gender Equity and Inclusivity in the UBC Faculty of Medicine

Lead: Maria Hubinette, Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice
Summary: Develop and action plan for improved gender equity and inclusivity within the leadership of the Faculty of Medicine, including an evaluation strategy.

Indigenous MD Applicant Structured Interview (MMI) Preparation Workshop

Lead: Shahin Shirzad, Assistant Dean, MD Admissions
Summary: Develop and deliver MMI preparation workshops for Indigenous MD program applicants in order to address potential inequities and thereby improve performance of Indigenous applicants on the MMI. The intention is to increase the number of qualified Indigenous medical students, which will eventually increase the number of Indigenous physicians in BC, which could ultimately improve health care and outcomes for Indigenous people in BC.

Career Development Initiative: Preparing the next generation of heart and lung health researchers for careers beyond academia

Lead: Scott Tebbutt, Professor, Department of Medicine
Summary: Build relationships with non-academic organizations to develop new collaborative research projects and internship opportunities for graduate and postdoctoral trainees as part of a robust and sustainable career development and mentorship program that prepares them for careers beyond academia.

Helping Students Identify and Manage Mental Health Issus in the Post-secondary Setting

Lead: Quynh Doan, Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Summary: Modify the existing clinical psychosocial evaluation tool for children and adolescents into an eHealth version for use by young adults at UBC to validate its ability to enable early self-detection of mental health issues among UBC students and facilitate their connection with appropriate health resources. This will be a platform for future research into how self-assessment influences students' help-seeking behaviours and their beliefs and attitudes about healthcare seeking.

Embedding Patient-oriented Research Training within the Faculty of Medicine: Building capacity in tomorrow's clinician scientists

Lead: Dan Goldowitz, Professor, Department of Medical Genetics
Summary: Create a patient-oriented research project repository that enables match-making for students interested in participating in patient-oriented research projects as part of their training in order to build capacity among graduate and undergraduate students to engage patients and the public in health research.

Enhancing 3D and 4D Fluorescent Imaging Capability in the LSI

Lead: Ivan Robert Nabi, Professor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Summary: Operationalize new technology to enhance time-lapse 4D imaging, super-resolution, and image analysis capability in the LSI enabling cutting edge image science which will lead to innovative research, new discoveries, and high-impact publications.

Biospecimen Navigator Platform

Lead: Peter Watson, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Director, UBC Office of Biobank Education and Research
Summary: Reduce time, effort, and operational burden for researchers to find the right biospecimens to fuel their health research, maximize use of existing platforms, increase research output, and optimize research funding by creating a Biospecimen Navigator Platform that includes an online biospecimen decision tool, online education modules, enhanced online biobank locator, a consultation and advice desk, and an implementation toolkit.

Sleep Lab at Home

Lead: David Wensley, Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Summary: Create the ability to conduct accessible and comfortable at-home sleep assessment of children for research and care by creating an innovative platform and validating/evaluating the selected devices' acceptance, application, and appropriateness.

Telemedicine Proof-of-Concept Model for a Rural and Remote Dermatology Service

Lead: Jan Dutz, Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science
Summary: Build partnerships and relationships with rural and remote doctors and communities to develop, test, and evaluate a model of dermatology telemedicine, and create a plan for a sustainable service.

Provider Awareness and Cultural Dexterity Toolkit for Surgeons

Lead: Ahmer Karimuddin and Tracy Scott, Co-Program Directors, General Surgery Residency Program
Summary: Improve patient-centered surgical care and reduce health care disparities resulting from improved ability of surgeons to provide cross-cultural care by delivering, evaluating, and further disseminating a cultural dexterity curriculum to surgical residents.

Cellular and Physiological Sciences Undergraduate Teaching Lab

Lead: Edwin Moore, Interim Head, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Summary: Equip a modern human physiology laboratory suitable for undergraduate teaching to enable parallel capture of multiple biological variables in real time with extensive visualization and analysis capabilities. This equipment, in new laboratories, will also allow the department to add a Majors option.

Enhancing Practical Pharmacology Skills through Computer Simulation

Lead: Andrew Horne, Senior Instructor, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics
Summary: Enhance training in pharmacology through increased exposure to experimental analysis and data collection with computer simulations and an augmented "wet lab" curriculum, both of which will afford students a more well-rounded educational experience to better prepare them for careers in science and industry. Additional benefits include increasing student enrollment by leveraging this technology to facilitate a minors program, and reducing reliance on animals for undergraduate students to learn required techniques.

Developing an Interdisciplinary Umbrella Program for Graduate Student Training in Maternal and Child Health

Lead: Allison Eddy, Head, Department of Pediatrics
Summary: Improve and expand graduate student learning opportunities in maternal and child health by enabling the creation of an umbrella graduate program.

Note: This project is funded out of the 2018/19 SIF budget.

Professionalism across the Continuum – Education and Remediation

Lead: Gurdeep Parhar, Executive Associate Dean, Clinical Partnerships and Professionalism
Summary: Bring together faculty from multiple health disciplines to develop an interprofessional professionalism curriculum, in collaboration with UBC Health. The curriculum will include a competency framework and remediation guidelines, will enable creation of relationships and alignment of health professionals through protected time in interprofessional cohorts, and will cross the continuum of learning, including pre-licensure, practice-based learning, continuing professional development, and faculty development. The resulting curriculum will ensure our learners and faculty meet the highest standards of professionalism.

Program for Excellence in Telerehabilitation Education and Research

Lead: Alex Scott, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
Summary: Create an initiative for excellence in telerehabilitation education and research to serve as a platform for distance rehabilitation training and clinician support, and facilitate research and networking by building on areas of strength within the FoM. The initiative will allow HP students (PT, OT, SLP, AUD) to develop competence in delivering telehealth, and facilitate development of research teams to study the delivery, efficacy, and cost effectiveness of telerehabilitation for chronic disease populations.

Clinical Practice Placement Transformation in Family Practice - Phase 1

Lead: Christie Newton, Associate Professor; Interim Co-Head, Department of Family Practice
Summary: Identify and recommend new clinical placement models for family practice, which can be piloted in phase 2, to advance the ultimate goal of transforming the practice placement system in a way that addresses critical issues of sustainability, engagement, and capacity of BC's community-based primary care preceptors.

Note: This project is funded out of the 2018/19 SIF budget.

Understanding the Learning Environment with FoM Graduate Students

Lead: Cheryl Holmes, Associate Dean, UGME
Summary: Identify ways to improve the learning experience of the FoM's 1600 graduate learners by adapting and deploying the Health Education Learning Environment Survey to better understand the concerns and issues embedded within their learning environment and analysing the results.

A Cross-Campus Platform for Excellence in Metabolomics

Lead: Wyeth Wasserman, Executive Director, BCCHRI; Associate Dean, Research; Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics; Professor, Department of Medical Genetics
Summary: Build our excellence in metabolomics collectively at UBC by uniting metabolomics expertise across multiple sites: BCCHRI Analytical Core for Metabolomics and Nutrition (ACMaN), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems. The project is focused on increasing accessibility to tools and resources for metabolomics for biomedical researchers.

Tissue and Disease Modelling Core Service Expansion

Lead: Francis Lynn, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery; BCCHRI
Summary: Double the capacity of the Tissue and Disease Modelling Core by adding equipment and personnel in order to enable researchers across the FoM to access powerful induced pluripotent cell (iPSC) and genome editing technology, so they can determine the biological mechanisms of disease in patients, and use disease models built from patient cells to inform diagnosis and therapeutic strategies at all hospital sites within the FoM.

Child-Sized Knowledge Translation

Lead: Shazhan Amed, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, BCCH; BCCHRI
Summary: Develop a robust interactive knowledge translation platform that will enable meaningful and sustainable engagement of children, youth, and their families, as well as practitioners and decision-makers in child health research in BC. This will provide capacity, training, and support for patient engagement in identifying research priorities, planning studies, disseminating knowledge, and applying evidence for optimal health care of children and youth, all while catalyzing active collaboration among researchers, patients, and healthcare practitioners.

Clinical Research Development Laboratory

Lead: Soren Gantt, Associate Professor, Pediatrics; Director, Clinical Research, BCCHRI
Summary: Foster the next generation of clinician-scientists with the competencies to conduct research to provide personalized and precision medicine. By establishing a clinical research development laboratory at the Oak Street Campus that enables our clinical faculty members to engage in research inspired by the needs of their patients, this initiative will strengthen the FoM's capacity for patient-oriented research and have an immediate impact on patient health and clinical practice.

Combining Single Cell Transcriptomics and Proteomics to Maintain UBC's Dominant Position in Genomics Research

Lead: Fabio Rossi, Professor, Department of Medical Genetics; Biomedical Research Centre
Summary: Create a service for FoM and UBC researchers to allow for cutting-edge research in the single cell genomics field, which will help maintain UBC's dominance in genomics and open novel paths to the implementation of precision medicine. The service will make available a library of reagents enabling the concomitant determination of transcriptomes and surface proteomes on thousands of single cells.

Note: This project is funded out of the 2018/19 SIF budget.

Family Practice Leadership Development Initiative – Needs Assessment

Lead: Mark MacKenzie, Director, Family Medicine Postgraduate Program
Summary: Enable the Family Practice Residency Program to better understand the challenges experienced by program leaders that restrict their effectiveness and efficiency in their roles. That understanding will allow for development of recommended interventions, which may prompt a subsequent project application.

Creating Tools for a Sustainable Clinical Faculty Mentoring Program

Lead: Gurdeep Parhar, Executive Associate Dean, Clinical Partnerships and Professionalism
Summary: Expand and ensure sustainability of the Clinical Faculty Mentoring Program, the goal of which is to enhance clinical faculty connections and to support the career goals of clinical faculty by providing a formal mentoring program that recognizes and supports them.

Strengthening Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduates' Candidacy for Employment and Graduate Study Positions

Lead: Leonard Foster, Head, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Summary: Strengthen our students' candidacy for employment and for graduate study positions by integrating new technology and equipment to biochemistry and molecular biology laboratory courses.

The Hive – An Interdisciplinary Maker Space for Anatomy Excellence

Lead: Claudia Krebs, Professor of Teaching, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Summary: Promote competency-based anatomy learning for all health professional programs at UBC (Medicine, Dentistry, Midwifery, Physiotherapy, Nursing…) by creating an anatomy learning space that seamlessly integrates traditional and technologically advanced learning methods. The physical space will allow for experiential learning and be a natural extension of the online and virtual environment.

Interprofessional Certificate in Primary Health Care

Lead: Susan Forwell, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Summary: Develop a UBC FoM online interprofessional certificate in primary health care in order to support health care professionals in applying and thriving within team-based primary care practice in their local communities.

Physical Therapy Entry Level Modules

Lead: Sue Murphy, Head, Department of Physical Therapy
Summary: Develop a suite of 30 short interactive online modules which will focus on the most commonly used PT techniques for objective evaluation and assessment of clients in the core areas of practice. These interactive, self-directed learning modules will be aimed at entry-level clinical practice based on milestones identified in the new essential competency profile for PTs in Canada. The purpose of these modules is to help current students, clinical faculty, and internationally educated PTs prepare for obtaining or maintaining licensure, and thereby maximize the number of licensed physical therapists in BC.

Healer's Art

Lead: Janette McMillan, Associate Dean, Student Affairs, MD Undergraduate Program
Summary: Support medical students in building resiliency, professionalism, and empathy through the MD program by building capacity of faculty to implement the Healer's Art Curriculum, a proven method of preparing students for the rigours of the clinical years of their undergraduate program. The program has been found to be effective in creating a firm foundation for meeting the challenging demands of contemporary medical training and practice.

Educational Neuroscience and Healthy Child Development Research: Interdisciplinarity to Improve Child Health and Well-being Outcomes

Lead: Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, Director, Human Early Learning Partnership, School of Population and Public Health
Summary: Improve the systems that determine healthy child development, most notably the health and education systems, through building capacity for unique, cutting-edge applied research that brings together investigators across multiple disciplines. Work will focus on applied research that engages and enhances the effectiveness of professionals and communities, creating new training opportunities for emerging scholars, using UBC’s extensive child development data, and mobilizing knowledge created.

Family Practice Primary Care Innovation Support Unit

Lead: Morgan Price, Interim co-Head, Department of Family Practice
Summary: Develop a Primary Care Innovation Support Unit (ISU) to build on existing relationships and develop a collaborative community with BC team-based care initiatives to share knowledge and evidence, and to work with two active team-based care projects to embed scholarship and iterative evaluation into those projects. The ISU will act as a provincial resource to collate and mobilize knowledge in the community and support the integration of applied research with partners who are developing new models for team-based care and assist in the iterative evaluation of these projects.

Increasing Availability of scRNA-seq Capabilities

Lead: T. Michael Underhill, Professor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Summary: Enhance research capacity in multiple fields by increasing the availability of a research core that enables development and dissemination of new analytical tools for single cell (sc) RNA-seq. This involves optimizing current methods and infrastructure, transferring newly developed bioinformatics tools to a highly accessible bioinformatics platform, reducing the barriers to scRNA-seq experiments, and developing and implementing new applications utilizing these technologies.

Physician Wellness Pilot

Lead: Geoffrey Cundiff, Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Summary: Build capacity to prevent and address physician burnout by designing a comprehensive Physician Wellness pilot program as a collaborative effort between UBC FoM and local Health Authorities that is proven to be effective in this environment and scalable to a provincial workforce.

Improving Patient Outcomes in BC's Indigenous Communities: Assessing Local Needs through Dialogue, Engagement, and Community Partnerships

Lead: Jim Christenson, Head, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC; Executive Lead, BC Emergency Medicine Network
Summary: Understand emergency care needs and priorities across BC's Indigenous communities through appropriate partnership development and culturally-informed approaches to dialogue, so as to identify opportunities where collaboration with the Emergency Medicine Network and its partners can improve patient care to reduce inequities in Indigenous health care and outcomes.