If you are a UBC faculty member who is interested in joining the WACH faculty, please contact wach.program@ubc.ca.
Ali Amid
https://www.bcchr.ca/aamid
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Hematology, red blood cells disorders, bleeding disorders, clotting disorders, iron metabolism
Email: ali.amid@cw.bc.ca
Michael Anglesio
https://www.vchri.ca/researchers/michael-anglesio
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Gynecological cancer, endometriosis, microenvironment, model systems, genomic pathology, molecular biology, cancer prevention
Email: m.anglesio@ubc.ca
Shelina Babul
https://bcchr.ca/sbabul
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Concussions, mild traumatic brain injuries, injury prevention, knowledge translation, mental health
Email: sbabul@bcchr.ca
Hamideh Bayrampour
https://bcchr.ca/hbayrampour
Department of Family Practice
Research interests: Maternal mental health, anxiety, and pregnancy outcomes
Email: hamideh.bayrampour@ubc.ca
Mohamed Bedaiwy
https://whri.org/staff/mohamedbedaiwy/
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Endometriosis, recurrent pregnancy loss, fertility preservation in cancer patients, infertility, laparoscopy
Email: mohamed.bedaiwy@cw.bc.ca
Alexander Beristain
https://bcchr.ca/our-research/researchers/results/Details/alexander-g-beristain
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Trophoblast biology and human placentation
Email: aberista@mail.ubc.ca
Julie Bettinger
https://www.bcchr.ca/jbettinger; https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/julie-bettinger/
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Vaccines, immunization, vaccine safety, infectious diseases, vaccine preventable disease, epidemiology, vaccine hesitancy, behavioral science
Email: jbettinger@bcchr.ubc.ca
Tom Blydt-Hansen
https://www.bcchr.ca/tblydt-hansen; https://www.bcchr.ca/SOT
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Kidney transplantation, biomarkers, multiomic profiling, mental health outcomes
Email: tom.blydthansen@cw.bc.ca
Katrina Bouchard
https://phaselab.med.ubc.ca/research-team-2/; https://www.vchri.ca/researchers/katrina-bouchard
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Women’s sexual health, couples’ sexual health, vulvar health, psychological interventions, sexual response
Email: katrina.bouchard@ubc.ca
Lori Brotto
https://www.vchri.ca/researchers/lori-brotto; https://brottolab.med.ubc.ca/
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Women’s sexual health; mindfulness-based treatments; sexual desire; sexual psychophysiology; psychosocial oncology; asexuality
Email: lori.brotto@vch.ca
Kelly Brown
http://www.kbrownlab.ca/
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Inflammation, immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, childhood vasculitis, neutrophils, biomarkers
Email: kbrown@bcchr.ca
Mariana Brussoni
https://brussonilab.ca/
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Child development, outdoor play, risky play, injury prevention
Email: mbrussoni@bcchr.ubc.ca
Jonathan Bush
https://pathology.ubc.ca/2022/12/01/jonathan-bush/
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research interests: Pathology, childhood cancer, gastrointestinal pathology, placenta pathology, stillbirth, autopsy
Email: jonathan.bush@cw.bc.ca
Tamara Cohen
https://nutritioneatingbehaviour.landfood.ubc.ca/
Department of Food, Nutrition and Health
Research interests: Nutrition and diet, childhood obesity, lifestyle behaviour interventions, gestational weight gain, dietetics
Email: tamara.cohen@ubc.ca
Anita Coté
https://www.twu.ca/profile/anita-cot%25C3%25A9
School of Human Kinetics, Trinity Western University; Affiliate Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Research interests: Cardiovascular function, exercise, women’s cardiovascular health, young athlete’s heart, ventricular-vascular interactions
Email: anita.cote@bcchr.ca
Geoffrey Cundiff*
https://obgyn.ubc.ca/person/geoffrey-cundiff/; https://whri.org/staff/geoffrey-cundiff/; https://www.cheos.ubc.ca/team-member/geoffrey-william-cundiff/?teamCat=55
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Research interests: Prevention of maternal obstetrical trauma, patient centered outcomes, outcomes research for pelvic floor disorders, surgical education, and epidemiology of pelvic floor disorders
Email: geoff.cundiff@ubc.ca
*Dr. Cundiff is not currently recruiting graduate students.
Rubee Dev
https://nursing.ubc.ca/our-people/rubee-dev
School of Nursing
Research interests: Women's health, global health, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, sex and gender science, primary health care, noncommunicable diseases prevention and management
Email: rubee.dev@ubc.ca
Angela Devlin
https://bcchr.ca/adevlin
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Nutrition, developmental programming, childhood diabetes, vascular disease
Email: adevlin@bcchr.ubc.ca
Quynh Doan
https://www.bcchr.ca/qdoan
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Health services research, pediatric emergency medicine, child and youth mental health, health systems and operations, point of care testing/screening
Email: qdoan@cw.bc.ca
Rajavel Elango
https://bcchr.ca/relango
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Nutrition, protein and amino acid requirements, and metabolism during pregnancy
Email: relango@bcchr.ubc.ca
Nichole Fairbrother
https://parlab.med.ubc.ca/our-team/
Department of Family Practice
Research interests: Perinatal mental health, perinatal anxiety disorders, new mothers’ thoughts of infant-related harm, perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder, fear of childbirth
Email: nichole.fairbrother@ubc.ca
Roxana Geoffrion
https://obgyn.ubc.ca/person/roxana-geoffrion/
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Email: rgeoffrion@providencehealth.bc.ca
Research interests: Surgical optimization, patient outcomes following pelvic floor surgeries, pelvic pain, surgical education, patient education
Ruth Grunau
https://bcchr.ca/rgrunau
Department of Pediatrics
Email: rgrunau@bcchr.ca
Research interests: Preterm infants, developmental programming, pain, stress, cognition, behavior
Gillian Hanley
https://www.bcchr.ca/ghanley
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Research interests: Ovarian cancer research, gynecologic cancer research, prescription drug use during pregnancy
Email: gillian.hanley@vch.ca
Kevin Harris
https://www.bcchr.ca/kcharris
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Congenital heart disease, preventive cardiology, vascular health, cardiac catheterization
Email: kharris2@cw.bc.ca
David Huntsman
https://www.bccrc.ca/dept/mo/labs/huntsman-lab
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research interests: Diagnostics, biologically informed prevention, cell context specific treatment strategies for ovarian cancers
Email: dhuntsma@bccancer.bc.ca
Jennifer Hutcheon
https://www.bcchr.ca/jhutcheon
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Perinatal epidemiology, maternal and child health, epidemiologic methods, health policy, health services
Email: jhutcheon@bcchr.ca
Patricia Janssen
https://www.bcchr.ca/pjanssen
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, School of Population and Public Health
Research interests: Perinatal epidemiology, maternal child health, population health, randomized controlled trials, midwifery, labour management, mobile health for parenting education, perinatal outcomes of Indigenous women
Email: patti.janssen@ubc.ca
K.S. Joseph
https://bcchr.ca/kjoseph
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, School of Population and Public Health
Research interests: Maternal, fetal, and infant health services research
Email: kjoseph@cw.bc.ca
Emily Kieran
https://www.bcchr.ca/ekieran
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Preterm and newborn infants, complex medical needs, community transition, enhanced communication
Email: emily.kieran@cw.bc.ca
Yvonne Lamers
https://vitamins.landfood.ubc.ca/
Department of Food, Nutrition and Health
Research interests: Maternal nutrition from preconception to postpartum, toddler nutrition, neurodevelopmental outcomes, nutritional biomarker assessment, nutrition-gut microbiome-brain axis
Email: yvonne.lamers@ubc.ca
Pascal Lavoie
https://www.bcchr.ca/plavoie
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Infant and newborn development, immune ontogeny and infections, COVID-19 vaccine and transmission in schools
Email: plavoie@bcchr.ca
Peter Leung*
https://www.bcchr.ca/pcleung
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Reproductive and placental endocrinology
Email: peter.leung@ubc.ca
*Dr. Leung is not currently recruiting graduate students.
James Lim
https://bcchr.ca/jlim
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Childhood cancer, molecular and cellular biology, cell signaling, cell adhesion and migration in disease
Email: c.james.lim@ubc.ca
Sarka Lisonkova
https://www.bcchr.ca/slisonkova
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Severe maternal morbidity, preterm birth, perinatal health
Email: slisonkova@bcchr.ca
Catrina Loucks
https://www.bcchr.ca/cloucks
Department of Pediatrics & Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Research interests: Pharmacogenomics, pain management, childhood cancer treatment, drug-related toxicities, genetic testing
Email: cloucks@popi.ubc.ca
Genelle Lunken
https://www.bcchr.ca/glunken
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Nutrition, dietary fibre, gut microbiome, dietary assessment, inflammatory bowel disease, digital health
Email: genelle.lunken@bcchr.ca
Christopher Maxwell
https://bcchr.ca/maxwell-lab
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Childhood cancer, cell division, hereditary breast cancer, cell migration
Email: cmaxwell@bcchr.ubc.ca
Steven Miller*
https://www.bcchr.ca/spmiller
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Neonatal neurology, brain injury, white matter, preterm birth, congenital heart disease
Email: steven.miller@cw.bc.ca
*Dr. Miller is not currently recruiting graduate students.
Souvik Mitra
https://bcchr.ca/smitra
Research interests: Neonatal intensive care, premature babies, clinical trials, evidence-based medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Email: souvik.mitra@cw.bc.ca
Deborah Money*
https://ridprogram.med.ubc.ca/
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Pregnancy, women's health, infectious disease, microbiome
Email: deborah.money@ubc.ca
*Dr. Money is not currently recruiting graduate students.
Kimberly Morishita
https://www.bcchr.ca/kmorishita
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Childhood rheumatic diseases, vasculitis, juvenile arthritis, uveitis, outcomes
Email: KMorishita@cw.bc.ca
Sarah Munro
http://www.sarahmunro.ca/
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Knowledge translation, implementation science, shared decision making, family planning, access to care, Indigenous health
Email: sarah.munro@ubc.ca
Srinivas Murthy
https://bcchr.ca/smurthy
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Infectious Diseases, clinical trials, critical care, epidemiology
Email: srinivas.murthy@cw.bc.ca
Wendy Norman
https://cart-grac.ubc.ca/; https://research.familymed.ubc.ca/wendy-norman/
Department of Family Practice
Research interests: Family planning health services and policy research, sexual health and preconception surveillance and indicator development, continuing professional development and support tools for providers of abortion and contraception
Email: wendy.norman@ubc.ca
Tim Oberlander
https://www.bcchr.ca/toberlander
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Developmental effects of prenatal psychotropic medication exposure, pharmacoepidemiology and child development, pain and children with developmental disabilities
Email: toberlander@bcchr.ca
Ian Pike
https://www.bcchr.ca/ipike
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Injury prevention, child and youth, indigenous, road safety, injury indicators, social marketing
Email: ipike@bcchr.ca
Manon Ranger, she/her/elle
https://www.bcchr.ca/mranger
School of Nursing, and Department of Pediatrics
Investigator, Healthy Starts, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Research interests: Brain development, prematurity, early-stress, pain, translational research
Email: Manon.Ranger@ubc.ca
Alexander Rauscher*
https://www.bcchr.ca/arauscher
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Neuroimaging, quantitative MRI, brain mapping, machine learning
Email: rauscher@physics.ubc.ca
*Dr. Rauscher is interested in serving as a co-supervisor for students whose projects have a neuroimaging component, and/or may consider students with an interest in imaging and undergraduate training in physics or related field.
Jonathan Rayment*
https://www.bcchr.ca/jrayment
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Technical development and clinical implementation of advanced diagnostic tools for measuring lung health in children, translational medicine, pediatric respiratory medicine
Email: jonathan.rayment@bcchr.ca
*Dr. Rayment is currently recruiting graduate students in his lab for work on a variety of technical and translational projects. Interested postdoctoral fellows are also encouraged to contact Dr. Rayment for potential opportunities. His clinical focus is on the treatment of children with CF and rare lung disease and he is constantly using this clinical practice as a springboard for the development of new, impactful clinical studies to help this patient population. The main tools used in his lab are multiple breath nitrogen washout and functional pulmonary MRI.
Gregor Reid
https://www.bcchr.ca/greid
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Childhood cancer, leukemia, immunology, mouse models, personalized medicine
Email: grogreid@mail.ubc.ca
Wendy Robinson
http://robinsonresearch.ca/
Department of Medical Genetics
Research interests: Genetics, epigenetics, placenta, fetal development, sex
Email: wrobinson@bcchr.ca
Manish Sadarangani
https://www.bcchr.ca/msadarangani; https://www.bcchr.ca/vec
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Childhood immunization, clinical trials, ear infections, meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis
Email: msadarangani@bcchr.ubc.ca
Shubhayan Sanatani*
https://www.bcchr.ca/ssanatani
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Pediatric and inherited arrhythmias, autonomic nervous system, sudden cardiac death
Email: ssanatani@cw.bc.ca
*Dr. Sanatani is not currently recruiting graduate students.
Laura Schummers*
https://www.bcchr.ca/lschummers
https://pharmsci.ubc.ca/directory/laura-schummers
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research interests: Reproductive epidemiology, perinatal epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, health services and policy research
Email: laura.schummers@ubc.ca
*Dr. Schummers accepts students in the WACH program, and in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. In addition to the courses required by the program, Dr. Schummers's students will be required to take a set of at least 6 methodological courses.
Harold Siden
https://bcchr.ca/hsiden
https://www.paindetectives.org/
https://pediatricpalliative.com/
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Pediatric palliative care, biomedical investigations of symptoms, psychosocial care of families, health services research, children with health complexity, cannabinoid medicine in children
Email: hsiden@bcchr.ca
Laura Sly
https://www.bcchr.ca/lsly
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Inflammatory bowel disease, inflammation, macrophages, macrophage activation, cell signaling (PI3K and SHIP)
Email: laura.sly@ubc.ca
Ted Steiner
https://www.bcchr.ca/tsteiner
Department of Medicine
Research interests: Infectious diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, T cells, intestinal immunology
Email: tsteiner@mail.ubc.ca
Aline Talhouk
https://bmiai.ubc.ca/people/aline-talhouk
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Epidemiology, prevention, gynecological cancer, machine learning, digital health
Email: a.talhouk@ubc.ca
Mandeep Tamber
https://www.bcchr.ca/mtamber
Department of Surgery
Research interests: Pediatric neurosurgery, hydrocephalus, epilepsy surgery, clinical epidemiology, biostatistics
Email: mandeep.tamber@cw.bc.ca
Bruce Vallance
https://www.bcchr.ca/vallance-lab
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Inflammatory bowel disease, enteric infections, microbiology, microbiome, organoids, mucus, nutrition
Email: bvallance@cw.bc.ca
Bruce Verchere
https://www.bcchr.ca/bverchere
Twitter: @bruceverchere
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Surgery
Research interests: Childhood diabetes
Email: bverchere@bcchr.ca
Marianne Vidler
https://whri.org/staff/marianne-vidler/
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Global health, postpartum care, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, severe maternal morbidity, patient-oriented research
Email: marianne.vidler@cw.bc.ca
Dzung Vo
https://www.bcchr.ca/dvo
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Adolescents, resilience, mindfulness, coping, chronic illness, eating disorders, substance use disorders, chronic pain, somatization
Email: dvo@cw.bc.ca
Christine Voss*
https://smp.med.ubc.ca/about/contact/christine-voss/; https://www.bcchr.ca/cvoss
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests:Physical activity, wearables, chronic disease management, congenital heart disease, rural/remote health
Email: christine.voss@ubc.ca
*Dr. Voss is based at the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Kelowna BC.
Alexander Weber
https://www.bcchr.ca/aweber; https://weberlab.github.io/
Department of Pediatrics
Research interests: Magnetic resonance imaging, neuroimaging, brain, neonatal health
Email: aweber@bcchr.ca
Matthew Wiens
https://www.bcchr.ca/mwiens
Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Research interests: Pediatric sepsis, global health, prediction modelling, epidemiology, post-discharge outcomes research
Email: matthew.wiens@bcchr.ca
David Wright
https://www.bcchr.ca/dwright
School of Kinesiology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Research interests:Exercise, obesity, metabolic side effects of antipsychotics, energy expenditure, nutrition
Email: david.wright@ubc.ca
Paul Yong
https://yonglab.med.ubc.ca/
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Research interests: Endometriosis, pelvic pain, reproduction, dyspareunia, sexual medicine
Email: pyong@cw.bc.ca