May 2022 CCMS Newsletter
Please use the link here for May 2022 CCMS Newsletter
Please use the link here for May 2022 CCMS Newsletter
All participants will have a chance to win a ticket (value of up to $200) to our annual dinner on August 5th, 2022
Thursday, May 26, 2022 (Invitation)
6:30 PST (BC)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: BigMarker Webinar
Presenter: Dawn Siciliano MSc, CCGC
LifeLabs® Genetic Counsellor
PERSISTENT CV RISK BEYOND LDL-C (Invitation click here)
Case examples from 2021 CCS Lipid Guidelines
Program Details and Registration
Speaker Name: Dr. John Mancini
Date: May 12, 2022
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Location: Red Star Seafood Restaurant (8298 Granville St, Vancouver)
RSVP for live the session: Michelle Wilson e-mail: m.wilson@histherapeutics.com
SPEAKER:
Two UBC Medical students have received the following scholarship for 2021 Winter Session:
Miss Simone Watts, a Year 2 student, received the CCMSBC Scholarship.
Mr. Ricky Tsang, a Year 3 student, received Dr. Jay Cheng Memorial Scholarship.
'Your awards give promising students access to a life-changing education, lessening their financial burden and recognizing students for their dedication and accomplishments. Awards like yours give students the confidence they need to succeed in their studies here at UBC and enables the university to recruit and retain talented scholars".
-Associate Director, Awards | Campus Initiatives
CME Event: the Management of Gastric Cancer by Dr. Adam Menegetti
6:30 pm, December 9, 2021 (via Zoom). Details and Registration below.
A piece of our history: a Chinese translation of the Hippocratic Oath from the late 1980s
We recently discovered a piece of art created by one of our society’s founding members – a beautiful artwork of Chinese calligraphy which signifies the representation of Chinese Canadian medical doctors in Canadian medical society of the late 1980s. We give our thanks to Gladys Tong, who has researched the events around the creation of this artwork and written an introduction as follows.
Here is the video link for Health Fair 2021
Virtual Health Fair in Cantonese and Mandarin. Details below.
Dr. Madeline Huang Chung, the first female Chinese Obstetrician in Canada, passed away peacefully at her home in Vancouver at the age of 96 on August 22nd, 2021. Dr. Chung was born in Shanghai China in 1925 and graduated from Yale in China in 1948. She received a 4 year residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and moved to Vancouver to practice in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Vancouver General Hospital and the old Grace Hospital. She was popular among medical students and residents because of her dedication to teaching, in spite of initially being denied an academic appointment. Over a long career from 1956-1992 she delivered 7,226 babies.