Doctors Making a Difference

Dr Laura Arbour – blazing the trail in the field of genetics

November 13, 2018

Most people may not have heard of Dr Laura Arbour. She is a BC physician who also happens to be one of Canada’s leading medical geneticists specializing in Indigenous populations, making a real difference for patients and communities throughout the province.

Two formative...

Providing hands on clinical care, while leading large systems change

September 14, 2018

As an obstetrician/gynecologist, Dr Stephanie Rhone is highly respected by her colleagues and patients as a top-notch clinician, especially with early pregnancy complications, pregnancy loss, gynecologic surgery and reproductive imaging.

Had she decided to simply focus on her clinical ...

specialist

A champion for mindfulness, parenting and mind-body connections

July 26, 2018

Dr Linda Uyeda first learned about the impact of stress, and how mindfulness practices could help reduce it and improve health and wellbeing, when two life events collided.

She was a busy GP, a few months out of residency, living in Vancouver, when she developed muscle stiffness,...

stress, mindfulness, ACEs

A life in medicine well lived, well left

July 10, 2018

Since April, in the series "Doctors Making a Difference, "Doctors of BC has been profiling BC physicians going above and beyond to create better patient care or improve the medical system.

We've asked doctors to nominate their colleagues, a number of whom this spring...

mentorship, medical aid in dying (MAID), physician assisted death, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), general practice