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Outstanding Achievement Award by a Master’s Student: Dr. Kristen Favel
With a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical and Biological Engineering (BASc) degree and a Doctor of Medicine (MD), Dr. Favel has recently completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) and the highly competitive Clinician Investigator program at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her supervisors at BC Children’s are Childhood Diseases investigator Dr. Dina…
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Video games can trigger deadly heart rhythms in at-risk kids
Video games can cause life-threatening irregular heart rhythms in susceptible children, according to a new study published last week in the journal Heart Rhythm, believed to be the first research into this subject. Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani, head of cardiology and researcher at BC Children’s Hospital, says the findings uncovered an uncommon, but distinct pattern among…
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Outstanding Achievement Award by a Doctoral Student: Punit Virk
When Punit Virk was an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta, one of the biggest difficulties he found was knowing where to go for mental health support.
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