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Trans youth want virtual appointments to continue after COVID-19 pandemic
New research indicates that the majority of trans youth want to continue virtual health care visits after the COVID-19 pandemic ends. Virtual care can increase feelings of safety, reduce travel-related costs and time taken off work or school, and facilitate connections with physicians and multidisciplinary health-care teams.
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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…
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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.
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