Dr. Faisal Khosa, an incredible, renowned mentor for students and associate professor at UBC will give a keynote speech of “Success made Ridiculously Simple”. Dr. Khosa has been recognized for his excellent mentoring by the AFMC- May Cohen Award in Equity, Diversity and Gender award (2020) and will share his wisdom with attendees through advice and a Q&A session.

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Dr. Jana Davidson, a Clinical Professor and highly experienced psychiatric consultant will be providing a speech about her experiences. As the co-founder of the National Institute of Families for Child and Youth Mental Health (2009), Dr. Davidson has been highly involved with youth mental health services and strives for equitable access to child and adolescent psychiatry, receiving the Premier’s Award in 2016 for implementing a Telemental Health service in NorthWestern BC.

Dr. Alec Ritchie is an emergency physician at Lions Gate Hospital and medical consultant for BCEHS. Using two disparate real-life cases that occurred on the same shift, Dr. Ritchie will present a case study to give insight into how physicians approach the diagnosis and treatment of patients in the emergency department. He will engage attendees with how to manage these situations, as well as how theory links to medical practice.

Dr. Amin Javer serves as the Director of research in the division of Otolaryngology at UBC, and Director/Head of the St. Paul’s Sinus Centre. Dr. Javer has varied research interests with over 120 peer-reviewed research publications and has a special interest in advanced FESS (functional endoscopic sinus surgery). Fluent in five languages, he presents internationally and started the sinus fellowship-training program at the St. Paul’s Sinus Centre in 2001, which has graduated 15 subspecialized surgeons from seven different countries.