UBC Professor Dr. Bob McCormack Receives the Canadian Football League Bob Ackles Award
We are proud to announce that Dr. Bob McCormack, UBC Department of Orthopaedics Professor, has been presented the CFL Bob Ackles Award.
A Flexible Approach to Fixing Pelvic Fractures
The pelvis plays the critical role of supporting the spinal column and protecting abdominal organs. Ordinarily is it an elegant, butterfly-shaped grouping of bones and ligaments which includes the sacrum (base of the spine); however, an internet search of pelvis fractures delivers jarring images of long and large surgical pins, screws and plates being used […]
University of Victoria: Orthopaedic Surgeons Collaborate with Biomechanics Lab Researchers
By Jolie Leung On September 23, 2022, Dr. David Saliken was joined in the Victoria General Hospital operating room (OR) by Dr. Josh Giles, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UVic along with Dr. Giles’s Post-Doctorate Fellow, Pavlos Silvestros. This was the first time that Dr. Giles and his associate were able to join Dr. Saliken in […]
Congratulations to Dr. Brian Day for his Honorary Membership to the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons!
We are extending our warmest congratulations to Dr. Brian Day, UBC Honorary Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, for his Honorary Membership to the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons (CSPS)!
Dr. Mikaela Peters Awarded the COA’s Diversity in Leadership Scholarship
We are proud to announce that UBC Orthopaedics Resident, Dr. Mikaela Peters, was awarded the 2022 COA Diversity in Leadership Scholarship!