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In the News! Health Matters: Innovations in orthopedic surgery at Burnaby Hospital
Dr. Tim Kostamo, UBC Department of Orthopedics Clinical Assistant Professor explains how innovations in hip surgery reduced patient stays and improved outcomes, reducing patients stays from 4 to 5 days to just 24 hours for most patients. Watch the Global News Morning BC interview.
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Congratulations to our 2021 Orthopaedic UGME Fall Research Forum Award Winners
UBC Orthopaedics hosted a virtual Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME) Fall Forum on November 26 to showcase the invaluable research conducted by UBC Orthopaedics students and trainees. Congratulations to our 2021 Orthopaedic UGME Fall Research Forum Award Winners: Emily Dunnion and Michael Frew, Genevieve Bonnor, and Adan Moallemi and Nadine Truter!
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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!
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