Faculty Advisors
DR. ARMAN ABDALKHANI -- DONE
Dr. Abdalkhani is a Royal College Board Certified Otolaryngologist, specializing in ear, throat and nose. Prior to arriving in Vancouver and joining UBC faculty, Dr. Adbalkhani served as a physician in the department of otolaryngology at Palo Alto Medical Foundation and an Adjunct Faculty of Otolaryngology at Stanford University.
Dr. Adbalkhani received his Doctor of Medicine from Indiana University. During his time here, Dr. Adbalkhani received the William & Groves Hardiman Scholarship for Outstanding Medical Research. He completed his internship in General Surgery at Tulane University in 2004 and Residency in Otolaryngology at Stanford University in 2008. He is certified by, the American Board of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, and an active member of the American Rhinologic Society. Dr. Adbalkhani has 8 peer-reviewed publications, and enjoys resident teaching, hoping to continue to be involved in resident education. He is fluent in both Spanish and Farsi. When not working, Dr. Adbalkhani enjoys cycling, playing soccer and taking hikes with his family |
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DR. CHERYL HOLMES -- doneDr. Holmes is a Clinical Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine. She has practiced medicine for 34 years, first as a full-care family physician and then as an intensivist/critical care physician. Dr. Holmes has extensive administrative and leadership experience. She was the Medical Director, Critical Care, at Kelowna General Hospital from 2006 to 2014. In 2007, She founded and served as the first President of the BC Society of Critical Care Medicine. She has been the Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine since 2017. Previously, she served as Interim Assistant Dean, Curriculum and before that Site Director for the Year 3 Clerkship at the Southern Medical Program in Kelowna.
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DR. ANDREA JONES. - waitingDr. Jones was inspired by IHI's vision and teamed up with UBC alumni Jacqueline Singer and Gregory Marr to start IHI UBC in order to create awareness and competency among students about quality improvement in healthcare. Andrea is passionate about providing equitable, efficient, and evidence-based care and bringing together leaders of all disciplines to develop creative solutions. Andrea is a graduate student in the Neuroscience program at UBC and BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Institute. Her research interests involve the integration of basic science and public health perspectives toward better care for those suffering from addiction and mental illness. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring the coast mountains, painting, and hot yoga.
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DR. CURT SMECHER. -- doneDr. Curt Smecher is an Anesthesiologist at Abbotsford Regional Hospital, but his students also know him as “Papa QI.” Dr. Schmecher is a Lead for the Doctors of BC Provincial PQI program, and trained at IHI in Boston in their Improvement Advisor Program. He is also the founder and driving force behind Fraser Health’s Physician Quality Improvement Program, which has had a huge impact on the quality of care across Fraser Health. In collaboration with Doctors of BC, the Ministry of Health, physician groups, nurses and allied health professionals, Dr. Smecher developed a world-class quality education program for quality improvement initiatives that has become the standard for all such programs across the province. Students have been coached on how to take ideas for improving patient care and turn them into practical and workable initiatives. Quality improvement team members say the program has left them reinvigorated, reminding them of why they chose health care as a profession.
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CAROLYN CANFIELD -- no emialCarolyn Canfield works as a citizen-patient across Canada and internationally to expand opportunities for patients, carers and communities to partner with healthcare professionals to transform health systems. Following personal tragedy from care failures in 2008, her full-time volunteering has earned her recognition as Canada’s first Patient Safety Champion in 2014, and faculty appointment at UBC with the Department of Family Practice, first as Honorary Lecturer and now as Adjunct Professor.
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DR. . MALCOLM MACLURE. -- DONEDr. Malcolm Maclure, ScD is BC Academic Chair in Patient Safety and Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics at UBC.
Raised in Victoria in the 1960s, he studied biochemistry at Oxford and epidemiology at Harvard in the 1970s. While teaching research methods at Harvard in the 1980s, he invented the case-crossover study design, now a standard tool of epidemiology that has recently been used to investigate triggers of patient-safety incidents. As Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, he taught a course on Epidemiologic Methods for Patient Safety and Quality, 2014-2017. He is Co-Lead of the Patient Safety and Quality Theme and the Health System Leadership Theme in the UBC Medical Undergraduate Program. He serves as ex-officio member of the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council. Recently he was Research Scholar-in-Residence in the BC Ministry of Health, 2018-2020, directing a Surgical Quality Outcome Reports study |