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Spotlight on a Specialist – Dr Tommy Gerschman

Oct 29, 2021

Dr Tommy Gerschman considers leadership to be an integral part of his life. Working as a pediatric rheumatologist out of North Vancouver he has been forging his own leadership path since he graduated from UBC. He sat on several Doctors of BC committees on health policy and was a member of its board from 2016-19, followed by serving as the Specialists of BC President until 2020. Through the years, Dr Gerschman’s voice has grown into being one of the leading advocates for BC’s community-based specialists (CBS): those specialists who choose to establish their own clinics and not pursue hospital or health authority privileges.

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SPOC improves surgical outcomes and experiences

Oct 21, 2021

More than 100 specialists and health care partners celebrated the success of the SSC's Surgical Patient Optimization Collaborative (SPOC) at

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Specialists and family doctors sponsored to virtually attend IHI forum

Sep 28, 2021

 

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SSC spoken interpretation services

Opening the lines of communication to better serve patients

Sep 15, 2021

In the last couple of years, SSC has been learning about the unique concerns of community-based specialists to help identify ways to better support their work.

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Enhancing Access Initiative

Enhancing Access Initiative decreases patient wait times by an average of 75 days

Aug 31, 2021

Specialists and family physicians alike have long advocated for a more timely referral process for patients waiting to access speciality consult and care.

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Save the Date: Specialists Symposium 2022

Save the Date: Specialists Symposium 2022

Aug 10, 2021

Specialist physicians are invited to join their colleagues and health care partners for an in-person, full-day symposium to collaborate on how to improve specialty care in a post-pandemic world.

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Sponsorship Available: Finding and Creating Joy in Work course 

Aug 9, 2021

Specialists are invited to participate in the next cohort of the Finding and Creating Joy in Work course

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Register Now: Webinar – BC Surgical Rehabilitation Outcomes Session

Jul 15, 2021

BC family and specialist physicians are invited to learn how the Surgical Patient Optimization Collaborative (

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Spotlight on a Specialist – Dr Nazira Chatur

Jul 5, 2021

Dr Nazira Chatur, a Vancouver gastroenterologist credits her mentors for inspiring her to pursue her chosen specialty.

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A new care space for reproductive infectious diseases

May 25, 2021

BC Children’s hospital and BC Women’s Hospital & Health Center have many available experts and resources to address reproductive infectious diseases (RID), affecting mothers and their infants. However, up until now these services were siloed in their respective hospitals. Mothers with RID delivered at BC Women’s and their infants born with congenital infections received their care at BC Children’s. Lead by Dr Chelse Elwood and with the help of the Joint Collaborative Committees (JCC)’s Health System Redesign (HSR) project, both the RID and Pediatric Infectious Disease programs are transitioning into one space – the Oak Tree Clinic (OTC).

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Passion project saves lives of those in respiratory crisis

May 10, 2021

When Dr Hussein Kanji decided to develop expertise in the Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation machine -- or ECMO -- as his “passion project”, he had no way of knowing that it could be a lifeline d

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Spotlight on a Specialist: Dr Andrew Krahn

Feb 25, 2021

Dr Andrew Krahn, Head of UBC Cardiology and a cardiologist at St Paul’s and Vancouver General hospitals, is a leader in genetically related heart disease. His journey to his current position started by following his own heart. Originally, leaning towards studying engineering, he veered at the last minute to taking undergraduate sciences that eventually led to a career in medicine.

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BC doctors join the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s annual forum virtually

Feb 12, 2021

Over the last five years, the Specialist Services Committee (SSC) and Shared Care Committee (SCC) has funded BC doctors to attend the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) annual forum in Orlando, the world’s premier healthcare event that attracts thousands of health care participants from across the globe, providing them with inspiration, networking, and knowledge sharing opportunities. Adapting to the travel and gathering restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was hosted virtually last December (6-9) with 128 participants from BC sponsored by SSC and SCC.

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Introducing the new SSC Co-Chair, Dr Ahmer Karimuddin

Feb 11, 2021

Representing Doctors of BC on the Specialist Services Committee (SSC) as the new Co-Chair, Dr Ahmer Karimuddin, a general and colorectal surgeon, is a familiar face on SSC, the Joint Collaborative Committees (JCCs), and Doctors of BC.

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Registration open for online course on Finding and Creating Joy in Work

Feb 9, 2021

Given the popularity of the course on Finding and Creating Joy in Work among the participa

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Physician project cuts patient wait times by half

Jan 29, 2021

Patients who are getting bloodwork done at the outpatient lab in the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre are no longer facing lengthy wait times, with the introduction of  new online booking system that allows appointments to be made ahead of time. The project is another example of advancements supported by the Physician Quality Improvement (PQI) initiative, to improve the quality of health care for British Columbians. 

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Helping to change the paradigm of treatment for alcohol use disorder in BC

Jan 28, 2021

When Dr Jeff Harries first read in a 2003 Lancet article about a pharmacotherapy that helped some patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), it began a change in how he understood AUD.

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Funding support available for BC doctors to attend Quality Forum

Jan 19, 2021

BC doctors are invited to join the annual Quality Forum on February 25 and 26, 2021.

 

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Leveling the playing field for osteoporosis care

Dec 11, 2020

A Canadian study conducted in 2014 found that more than 320,000 hip fractures occur in North America each year and the death rate within a year of surgery ranges from 14 to 36 per cent -- fractures

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Specialist Services Committee Backs Expansive Strategy For Improving Cystic Fibrosis Patient Care

Nov 4, 2020

This article was first published in the BC Medical Journal's November 2020 edition. 

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