University of British Columbia

An audit of professional standards for sport science

Sport is a global industry with athletes supported by sport scientists who have gained the necessary education and experience. However, there is still great variety in the training and career development opportunities for novice and trainee sport scientists to develop their pract...

Development of an ethical resolution process and education resources: supporting equity-focused public health ethics education through community-engaged research

Healthcare ethics education is essential for supporting trainees and health professionals to build ethical reasoning skills necessary to resolve complex ethical issues, support equitable health outcomes, and promote just healthcare systems. Traditional ethical decision-making fra...

Therapeutic Target Mapping to Advance Drug Repurposing for Cardiovascular Disease: A Perspective from an Explanted Heart Biobank

Background: Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) significantly impacts the quality of life of millions of patients worldwide, the high costs of developing new drugs and conducting clinical trials for CVD hinder therapeutic development in this field. Repurposing approved drugs, o...

Needing others to know you’re good: Narcissists’ pride in success is contingent on peer reactions.

= 3,463), participants recalled a real-life success or failure and reported their feelings of pride in response (Studies 1, 2, and 4) or experienced success in a controlled, laboratory experiment and reported pride in the success after receiving either positive or negative social...

Education in a World of Broken Feedback Loops Haynes’ Keynote, PESA 2025

This essay uses “feedback” in the ecosystem sense of a flow of information, energy, or matter from a system’s output that, in a closed system, affects the input. Most of the systems in which we liv...

Shielding against interpersonal threat in later life: The regulatory function of nostalgia among older adults.

= 189, age 21-78 years), older adults reported greater nostalgic engagement in response to social exclusion induced by the Cyberball game than younger adults. Furthermore, after experiencing nostalgia, compared to younger adults, older adults reported increased social engagement...

Frozen Brain-MRI Foundation Models Are Site Fingerprints

Frozen foundation-model (FM) embeddings are increasingly used as off-the-shelf brain-MRI representations, on theassumption that they capture anatomy. We audit what they actually encode and find that acquisition site is a large,intrinsic component of the representation. Across two...

Frozen Brain-MRI Foundation Models Are Site Fingerprints

Frozen foundation-model (FM) embeddings are increasingly used as off-the-shelf brain-MRI representations, on theassumption that they capture anatomy. We audit what they actually encode and find that acquisition site is a large,intrinsic component of the representation. Across two...

Frozen Brain-MRI Foundation Models Are Site Fingerprints

Frozen foundation-model (FM) embeddings are increasingly used as off-the-shelf brain-MRI representations, on theassumption that they capture anatomy. We audit what they actually encode and find that acquisition site is a large,intrinsic component of the representation. Across two...

A Multi-Scale Computational Analysis of Bucillamine Neuroprotection Against Soman Toxicity

This computational framework evaluates the neuroprotective mechanism of the dithiol antioxidant Bucillamine (and its active metabolite SA981) against Soman-induced oxidative damage. By integrating quantum chemical calculations, classical molecular dynamics, and systems-level ordi...

A Multi-Scale Computational Analysis of Bucillamine Neuroprotection Against Soman Toxicity

This computational framework evaluates the neuroprotective mechanism of the dithiol antioxidant Bucillamine (and its active metabolite SA981) against Soman-induced oxidative damage. By integrating quantum chemical calculations, classical molecular dynamics, and systems-level ordi...

Identifying a Gap in Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Testing in Young Patients with Thrombotic and Obstetric Events

Objectives Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by thrombosis and/or certain obstetric complications in the presence of persistent antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). In previous studies, 17% of patients <50 years old who experienced a...

Performance of the 2025 ASAS-Spartan Revised Classification Criteria for Axial Spondyloarthritis in a Canadian Multicenter Inception Cohort with Psoriasis, Uveitis, or Colitis Presenting with Undiagnosed Back Pain

Objectives To test the performance of the 2025 ASAS-SPARTAN Revised Classification Criteria for Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA)[1] in a multicenter inception cohort of patients with undiagnosed chronic back pain attending dermatology, ophthalmology, and gastroenterology clinics w...

Moving Equity into Practice: Evaluation of an Online Asynchronous Continuing Medical Education Program for Rheumatology Care

Objectives Persistent health inequities exist in the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of rheumatologic diseases among at-risk populations in Canada. Prior research identified barriers and facilitators experienced by at-risk populations in Canada when accessing rheumatology care...

Telephone versus in-person administration of the Early Childhood Development Index 2030: a crossover study, Brazil, Canada, India and Malawi.

Objective: To examine agreement between telephone and in-person administration of the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) survey. Methods: -tests and intraclass correlation coefficients. Findings: : -0.36), regardless of modality. However, pooled and stratified intr...

Dog ownership and healthy brain aging: a pilot study

Background Dog ownership may benefit brain and cognitive health by supporting physical activity and social connectedness, among other mechanisms. Studies that include brain health outcomes ( e.g. , neuroimaging outcomes) are lacking. As the population ages, studies investigating...

Protocol for induction and quantification of injury-primed axon outgrowth in adult mouse DRG neurons

Adult dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons provide a powerful model to study axon growth. Dissociated lumbar L3-L5 DRG neurons extend axons de novo in culture, enabling the measurement of baseline outgrowth. Here, we present a protocol for inducing and quantifying injury-primed axo...