International Women’s Day 2023: Recognizing WOW (Wonderful Orthopaedic Women)
By Jolie Leung In celebration of International Women’s Day (March 8, 2023), the Department would like to recognize WOW: Wonderful Orthopaedic Women. Conceived by Orthopaedic surgeons Drs. Lane Dielwart and Lee-Anne Laverty in September 2020 as a digital network of support for women in Orthopaedics in BC, it has provided a safe and supportive space […]
UBC Orthopaedics Launches New Strategic Plan: Mobility for All, 2023-2028
On February 27, 2023, the UBC Department of Orthopaedics officially launched a new strategic plan: Mobility for All, 2023-2028. With our vision of “pain free mobility for all” at the core, this plan outlines our new strategic framework supported by our ‘stronger together’ values and ‘local to global’ commitments in three distinct areas: Exemplary Educational Experience, Insightful Discovery, and Engaged Practitioners.
Registration Now Open! Orthopaedic Update & BCOA Annual Meeting
Register now for the upcoming Orthopaedic Update & BCOA Annual Meeting taking place May 4-5, 2023.
UBC Orthopaedics Resident Dr. Mikaela Peters Shares Two New Publications
We are delighted to share Drs. Tom Goetz (PI) and Mikaela Peters’ two new publications, on pisiform excision for pisotriquetral instability or arthritis, and a technical description of an extensile surgical approach to anteromedial coronoid fractures.
Hippy Lab Researchers Awarded Over $1M Funding for Hip Dysplasia Non-Inferiority Randomized Control Trial
By Jolie Leung We are proud to announce that Drs. Kishore Mulpuri (PI), Emily Schaeffer, Bryn Zomar and Simon Kelley, as well as Jeffrey Bone, were successful in their Canadian Institutes of Health Research funding application. $1,086,298 was granted for their clinical investigation project “Comparing observation vs. bracing in radiologically dysplastic, stable hips in infants […]