-
Marijuana as medicine for kids with cancer: An emerging field of desperately needed research
At least once or twice a month, Dr. Rod Rassekh gets asked by colleagues at BC Children’s Hospital to meet with a cancer patient and their family so he can advise them on using medical marijuana. Parents want to know how to help their kids manage symptoms from harsh cancer treatments, and sometimes they want…
-
Dr. Michael Kobor awarded the 2022 Geoffrey L. Hammond Lectureship
Dr. Michael Kobor has been awarded the 2022 Geoffrey L. Hammond Lectureship. The former, and inaugural, director of the Healthy Starts Research Theme at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), senior scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) and professor at The University of British Columbia (UBC) was nominated for his pioneering…
-
World-class scientists will educate teens about child and adolescent mental health at Mini Med School
Dr. Bob McMahon, an investigator at BC Children’s Hospital, co-dean of the upcoming Mini Med School, the LEEF B.C. Chair for the Reduction of Youth Violence at Simon Fraser University, and a psychologist, wishes he’d had the opportunity to attend a similar health science education program when he was a teenager in Richmond, Virginia.
