Faculty
Derry Dance
Dr. Derry Dance works as a physiatrist in the acquired brain injury rehabilitation program at GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre, and was previously the medical manager of the same program. He is also the head of the division of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Vancouver Coastal Health and a clinical assistant professor at the University of …
Brodie Sakakibara
My research focuses on chronic disease self-management and prevention, health-behaviour change, and virtual health/rehab in people with stroke, cardiovascular disease, and multiple chronic conditions: – My clinical research focuses on chronic disease self-management, and empowering individuals with chronic conditions to better manage their long-term health and well-being, beginning at the hospital/ rehabilitation-to-community transition of care. …
Molly Cairncross
Dr. Molly Cairncross is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Associate Member of the Rehabilitation Research Program (VCHRI), and Affiliate Investigator at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Cairncross earned her doctorated in Clinical Psychology (Neuropsychology) at the University of Windsor in 2019. In 2019-2021, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at …
Kathleen Martin Ginis
Dr. Martin Ginis focuses on understanding and changing physical activity behaviour. She has a particular interest in physical activity among people with spinal cord injury and other types of physical disabilities.
Lillian Hung
Dr. Lillian Hung is Canada Research Chair in Senior care, the founder and head of IDEA lab (Innovation in Dementia & Aging). Her research examines how technology and environment impact the care experiences of persons with dementia. She has expertise in patient-oriented research and knowledge translation. She is committed to facilitating connectivity between academia and …
Roger Tam
My main research focus is the development and evaluation of machine learning methods for analyzing health data, particularly medical images, with application to early diagnosis, prognostication of clinical outcomes, and biomarker discovery. I work in several different disease domains, including neurodegeneration, atrial fibrillation and heart failure, obstructive lung disease and lung cancer. Most of these …
David Stockton
David is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at UBC and an Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital. He completed medical training at the University of Toronto followed by residency at UBC. While in residency, David completed a Master of Applied Science degree through the UBC Clinician Investigator Program. He traveled …
Kenneth Madden
Dr. Ken Madden is a Professor of Medicine and holds the Allan M. McGavin Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is the President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society and the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal. His lab has examined the effect of exercise interventions in older adults with Type …
Christiane Hoppmann
Dr. Hoppmann’s research examines how key psychological factors such as social relationships and goals contribute to the successful mastery of challenges and foster healthy aging. Her projects involve in-depth investigations of everyday processes using novel daily life assessments (‘time-sampling’) and track how such everyday life processes accumulate over time to manifest in long-term health outcomes.