Members of the CHES community, Andrea Townson, Kyla Hildebrand, and Maggie Watt, were the recipients of the 2022 CAME Certificate of Merit Awards.
Glenn Regehr, CHES Scientist and Associate Director of Research, was awarded the 2022 AFMC President’s Award for Exemplary National Leadership in Academic Medicine.
Kerry Wilbur, CHES Member and Associate Professor & Executive Director, Entry-to-Practice Education, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences was the recipient of the 2021 UBC Health Award for Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching and Learning.
Ian Scott, CHES Director and Scientist, was awarded the 2021 Teaching Excellence Award, from the UBC Medical Undergraduate Society (MUS).
Laura Farrell, CHES Scholar, was appointed as Associate Dean, Student Affairs in the Faculty of Medicine effective to November 30, 2026.
Maria Hubinette, CHES Scholar, was awarded the 2021 Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional-Investigator Award.
CHES is pleased to welcome Heather Buckley as a CHES Scholar. Dr. Buckley is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine.
Katrina Dutkiewicz, CHES Fellow was awarded the 2022 CAME Wooster Family Grant in Medical Education. Katrina is being co-supervised on this project by Dr. Kevin Eva, Associate Director of CHES, as part of her thesis in the MHPE-Canada Program.
Kevin Eva, CHES Senior Scientist was awarded the 2022 Faculty Health Professions Education Grant from CAME. Kevin is conducting this work with Helen Hsu, PhD candidate (Maastricht University) and Evaluation Specialist in the Evaluation Studies Unit (ESU) at UBC.
Michelle Huebert, CHES Administrative Manager, is the recipient of the 2021 Applegarth Staff Service Award – Management and Professional category from the UBC Faculty of Medicine. This award recognizes excellence in personal achievements and outstanding contributions to the Faculty of Medicine.
Laura Nimmon, CHES Scientist, is the recipient of the 2021 Award for Excellence in Mentoring Early Career Faculty from the UBC Faculty of Medicine. This award recognizes faculty who exemplify a deep commitment to fostering the professional and personal development of faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers.
Kevin Eva, CHES Senior Scientist and Associate Director, is the recipient of the 2021 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Education from the UBC Faculty of Medicine. This award recognizes significant contributions to health education in the areas of leadership, innovation, and scholarship of education.
Paris-Ann Ingledew, CHES Fellowship Alumnus, is a recipient of the 2021 Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching from the UBC Faculty of Medicine, for the mid-career stream. This award recognizes excellence in clinical teaching by clinical faculty members.
CHES sends congratulations to all of its members who received special acknowledgement of their contributions in this year's Faculty of Medicine Awards, with particular mention to CHES Members, Michael Lee, Olusegun Oyedele, Karen Pinder and Tandi Wilkinson.
Tristen Gilchrist, CHES Fellowship Alumnus, is the recipient of the AMEE 2021 Research Paper Award for the paper ‘A collective case study of supervision and competence judgments on the inpatient internal medicine ward’.
Neera Jain, incoming CHES Postdoctoral Fellow, is the recipient of the 2021 AMEE Doctoral Report Award.
Bruce Wright, CHES Member and CHES Advisory Committee Member, was elected President of the Medical Council of Canada (MCC).
Cary Cuncic, CHES Fellowship Alumnus, was recently appointed as the Regional Associate Dean, Vancouver Fraser, effective August 1, 2021.
Anique Atherley has successfully defended her thesis, Beyond the struggles: Using social-developmental lenses on the transition to clinical training.
Congratulations to Edwin Betinol, CHES Clinical Educator Fellow, who was awarded the 2021 Award of Excellence for Leadership from the Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia (PABC).
Congratulations to Sue Murphy, CHES Scholar & Associate Director of Cross-Professions Initiatives, who was awarded the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia (PABC).
CHES Clinical Educator Fellowship Alumnus, Farhana Shariff, has been awarded with the Zane Cohen Clinical Fellowship Achievement Award from the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto.
Kerry Wilbur successfully defended her thesis, No Where | Now Here: Context and Competency Expectations in Workplace-Based Training at Maastricht University.
Congratulations to Roger Wong who has been reappointed as the Vice-Dean of Education in the UBC Faculty of Medicine for another term.
Laura Farrell, CHES Scholar, has been appointed to the role of Interim Associate Dean, Student Affairs in the Faculty of Medicine effective July 1, 2021. Congratulations!
Congratulations to all the MHPE-Canada students who presented their theses this spring, and successfully completed their Master’s in Health Professions Education!
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