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This event is part of 2022 National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Click here for a list of all NPAW events!
In celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, hear from a panel of former UBC postdocs about life as a full-time faculty member and the process of preparing for the tenure track.
Moderated by Associate Dean, Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Mary De Vera (Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Medication Adherence, Utilization, and Outcomes), this panel features:
- Dr. Tara Cookson - Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Gender, Development, and Global Public Policy; UBC
- Dr. Paula Duarte-Guterman - Assistant Professor, Social Sciences and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Behavioural Neuroscience; Brock University
- Dr. Gareth Lim - Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Adipocyte Development; Université de Montréal
- Dr. Dylan Robinson - Associate Professor, School of Music and Advisor to the Dean on Indigenous Arts; UBC
MODERATOR
Dr. Mary De Vera
Associate Dean, Postdoctoral Fellows
Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Medication Adherence, Utilization, and Outcomes
Dr. De Vera is a pharmacoepidemiologist and assistant professor in medication adherence in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC. She completed a BSc degree in biochemistry at UBC and MSc and PhD degrees in health care and epidemiology from the UBC School of Population and Public Health. She also completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Montreal's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and UBC's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
The theme of Dr. De Vera's research is "Medication Matters" and her goal is to improve outcomes of medication taking in different patient populations.
Her current research interests are examining how eHealth technologies can support new and existing models of care to improve care delivery and patient outcomes; exploring patients' perspectives and experiences with medication taking and adherence; and evaluating the use and impacts of medications among pregnant women, particularly with inflammatory conditions.
Dr. De Vera is an expert in patient outcomes studies, particularly in arthritis. She is also an expert in population studies using administrative databases, with cross-Canada experiences in British Columbia (Population Data BC, formerly BC Linked Health Database) and Quebec (Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec).
PANELISTS
Dr. Tara Patricia Cookson is Assistant Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Gender, Development, and Global Public Policy at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at the University of British Columbia. Tara is also an Associate Member of UBC’s Geography Department. She uses ethnographic and quantitative methods to study how power operates in development policy, with a focus on gender data, social protection, and care work. Her approach to public scholarship integrates academic research, practice-oriented publications, and direct engagement with international policy processes.
Dr. Cookson is the author of Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs (University of California Press, Open Access), winner of the Globe Book Award (American Association of Geographers), the Sarah A. Whaley Prize (National Women’s Studies Association), and a Development Studies Book Award Honorable Mention (International Studies Association). Her research has been published in Antipode, Gender Place & Culture, the International Journal of Feminist Politics, and Global Public Health. She regularly contributes commentary and analysis to outlets such as Devex, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the Toronto Star.
Dr. Cookson co-founded Ladysmith, a feminist research collective that connects academic scholarship to practitioner problem solving by helping international organizations collect, analyze and take action on gender data. She has collaborated with global development institutions such as UN Women, the International Labour Organization, UNICEF, Global Affairs Canada, USAID, Action Against Hunger, and the OECD-DAC Governance Network.
Dr. Paula Duarte-Guterman completed her PhD at the University of Ottawa with Dr. Vance Trudeau investigating the interactions of thyroid and sex steroid hormones during frog development. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Ulm, Germany with Prof. Guenter Ehret probing the neuroendocrine mechanisms of paternal care in mice. At the University of British Columbia, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Liisa Galea where she investigated the regulation of adult neurogenesis by hormones and motherhood experience in rodents. Dr. Duarte-Guterman is currently an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Neuroscience at Brock University. Her lab investigates how life experiences and aging remodel the brain and the impact on behaviour.
Dr. Gareth Lim holds a BSc (Hons) in Biology and Pharmacology from McMaster University and a PhD in Physiology from the University of Toronto. He completed postdoctoral training under Dr. Jim Johnson in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at UBC and started lab his in 2016 at Université de Montréal/ CRCHUM (University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre). Dr. Lim was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021 and holds the Canada Research Chair in Adipocyte Development. His lab focuses on understanding the roles of scaffold proteins belonging to the 14-3-3 protein family in metabolism and their potential contributions to the development of diabetes and obesity.
Biography and photo coming soon!
REGISTRATION
Registration in this session is required and is now open. Those successfully registered will receive an email within a week of the session date.
NO-SHOW PENALTY: If you register and do not attend or cancel after 3pm on the day before the event, it may affect your eligibility to join future events. To avoid this no-show penalty, please cancel by at least 3pm the day before the event by e-mailing postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca.
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DELIVERY FORMAT
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