UBC is gearing up to welcome a new dean to the Faculty of Medicine.
As of September 2015, Dermot Kelleher will replace Gavin Stuart as the new Dean of Medicine.
Kelleher, who is currently the vice-president health and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, first began his journey in Dental School at Trinity College in Dublin, where he first discovered his niche and attained specialist training in gastroenterology.
In this field, Kelleher earned numerous scholarships and awards, including a Fogarty scholarship at University of California -- San Diego and Wellcome Senior Fellowship back at Trinity College Dublin.
On March 6, Kelleher hosted a lecture and Q&A segment at the Djavad Mowafaghian Center for Brain Health, where he was greeted by faculty members, experts and students on 10 broadcast streams across campus.
At the lecture, Kelleher’s resume touched on the current state of civilization and emphasized the implementation of personalized medicine, which, according to Kelleher, “revolutionizes the challenges of Precision Medicine and spans from early discovery through to implementation in the community, which UBC is actively and enthusiastically taking on.”
Kelleher also expressed his desire to modernize healthcare research and the curriculum at UBC.
“At this point, we must think carefully about how we educate our students in Medicine and in other professions to face challenges of the future in Healthcare innovation and the development of new approaches in patient management," said Kelleher.
Kelleher further stressed the importance of collaboration among faculty members and students alike.
According to Kelleher, multidisciplinarity across numerous streams of Science and Medicine force the industry “to be open to the fact that things that influence our understanding come from many different sources”.
After the lecture, Kelleher held a Q&A session, where an outpouring of questions ranged from science communication strategies to patents and funding to the shift towards translational vs general science to greater recognition of females in the industry.
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