Faculty of Medicine confers Distinguished Achievement Awards

UBC’s Faculty of Medicine has conferred Distinguished Achievement Awards on three SPPH faculty members whose performance during an assessment period (January 1 to December 31, 2014) was particularly commendable.

Award for Excellence in Education

Recognizing significant contributions to health education in the areas of leadership, innovation, and/or scholarship of education.
An educational leader, Michael Marin consistently scores exceptionally high teaching evaluation marks, and has made large contributions to statistical education. In 2011, his first year as a faculty member with UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, he won the CJG Mackenzie Teaching Excellence Award. Mike received his BSc in Statistics and Economics from York University and MSc in Statistics from UBC. He served as a Sessional Instructor and Lecturer before becoming an Instructor 1.
 
 

Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research

For basic science research and scholarly contributions in the areas of health and life sciences.
Dr. Jennifer Gardy is Assistant Professor, and holds a Canada Research Chair in Public Health Genomics. A Senior Scientist at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, she is responsible for the genomics/molecular epidemiology portfolio in Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Services. A passionate science communicator, Dr. Gardy regularly appears on CBC’s The Nature of Things and Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. She released a children’s book, “It’s Catching: the Infectious World of Germs and Microbes” in 2014.
 
 
 

Award for Service to the University and Community

Recognizing significant contributions to local, national, or international communities, aimed at improved health outcomes of the population.
Dr. Craig Mitton is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH). An internationally renowned expert on health economics and priority setting, Dr. Mitton developed of the Health Economics concentration in SPPH, and led a curriculum refinement project as Director of UBC’s Master of Health Administration (MHA) Program. He is also the Head of SPPH’s Health Services and Policy Division, and Head of the Health Economics Program at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation (C2E2). Dr. Mitton recently won the 2014/15 UBC Killam Teaching Prize.