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VGH Orthopaedic Trauma Service ranks among world’s best
Ranked as one of the top 30 orthopaedic trauma hospitals in the world, Vancouver General Hospital’s Level-1 Trauma Centre is home to a multidisciplinary team of physicians, surgeons, nurses and allied healthcare workers dedicated to trauma. Orthopaedic surgeons and trainees from the Trauma Division at the UBC Department of Orthopaedics are key team members, and the Division has a reputation around the world for delivering excellence in education and providing the best in evidence-based orthopaedic trauma care.
UBC Orthopaedics Residency Program Online Info Night – December 9, 2021
Join us for an online info session and discussion of the UBC Orthopaedics Residency Program and our CaRMS application process from the perspective of faculty and residents.
Trainee Spotlight – Sirat Khan
Meet Dr. Sirat Khan! He is an Upper Extremity Clinical Fellow with the UBC Department of Orthopaedics, Division of Distal Extremities at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. Dr. Khan grew up on the South East England and completed his medical training in London. As he nears the end of his clinical fellowship, he share his experience of the program in this Department Spotlight.
Masoud Malakoutian Received the Dean’s Graduate Thesis Award
Congratulates to Dr. Masoud Malakoutian on receiving the Dean’s Graduate Thesis Award for his PhD thesis that examines the biomechanical properties of the paraspinal muscles (the muscles that move the spine) in adults with spinal deformities to identify which biomechanical properties might lead to week back muscles and spinal deformities in older adults.
Dr. Anthony Cooper Recognized for Excellence in Research
We are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Anthony Cooper, UBC Orthopaedics Clinical Associate Professor and pediatrics orthopaedics surgeon at BC Children’s Hospital, on being a recognized with the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Research!