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Karla Bretherick
Dr. Bretherick is an Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a Molecular Genetics Fellow in the Division of Genome Diagnostics at BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals. She obtained a PhD from the UBC Department of Medical Genetics in 2008 and completed 4 years of postdoctoral training at Canada’s […]
Amelie Boutin
Amelie Boutin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research interests include systematic reviews and observational studies on maternal, fetal and neonatal health and perinatal health care organization.
Neal Boerkoel
Neal received his MD and PhD from Case Western Reserve University. He trained in Pediatrics at the University of Washington and in Clinical Genetics at the University of Toronto. He completed postdoctoral training at Baylor College of Medicine, where he also served as clinical and research faculty. In 2006, he joined the faculty of the […]
Sura Alwan
A birth defects epidemiologist and teratologist, interested in identifying exposures in pregnancy that may pose a risk to the developing fetus and contribute to causing birth defects and other adverse pregnancy outcomes. I am specifically interested in studying the effect of maternal chronic diseases and associated medications taken during pregnancy and while breastfeeding on baby’s […]
Leanne Dahlgren
Dr. Leanne Dahlgren has a MD and FRCSC in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of Saskatchewan. She completed her Maternal-Fetal-Medicine fellowship here at UBC as well as a Masters in Health Science (MHSc.) through the UBC Department of Health Care and Epidemiology. She is currently an Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics […]
Dr. Tim Oberlander
Dr. Tim Oberlander is a physician-scientist whose work “bridges” developmental neurosciences and community child health. As a clinician he is the medical lead for the Complex Pain Service at BC Children’s Hospital with a particular focus managing pain in children with developmental disabilities. As a researcher, Dr Oberlander’s work seeks to understand how early life experiences, related to in […]
Marisa Collins
In the role of Rural Scholar in the Department of Family Practice, Dr. Collins is funded through the Rural Doctors’ UBC Chair in Rural Health, with a 2017 Sue Harris Grant (WHRI) to study the experiences of rural clinicians providing care to people seeking abortions. She is also a member of research teams exploring anxiety […]
Blair Butler
Dr. Blair Butler obtained his medical degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1999 and completed his post graduate training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology there in 2004. During his residency he completed a Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology. Following his residency, he pursued a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Dalhousie University which he completed in 2006. […]
Stephanie Coen
I am a critical health geographer with an overarching concern for how everyday social and material contexts matter for health and health equity. I am particularly interested in how taken-for-granted — and often unquestioned — features of our day-to-day environments become implicated in the production of health outcomes, behaviours, and inequities. My research in health […]