Contact & People

Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
Faculty of Medicine
Reichwald Health Sciences Centre
1088 Discovery Avenue
Kelowna, BC, Canada
V1V 1V7
Tel 250-807-9187
Fax 855-378-7711
Email: ccdpm.med@ubc.ca

Faculty and Staff Directory

Femke Hoekstra | Assistant Professor, CCDPM | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Community Engagement, Social Change, Equity, Southern Medical Program | femke.hoekstra@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Dr. Hoekstra’s implementation science research program focuses on improving (virtual) health services and care for equity-deserving groups in rural, remote and other isolated communities. Her research involves studying implementation processes of health innovations in real-world settings from different perspectives. To maximize the quality and impact of her work, she meaningfully engages research users as partners throughout the research process.

Courses & Teaching: Graduate Student Supervision “Experimental Medicine”, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Graduate Student Supervision “Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies”, UBC Okanagan FLEX Student Supervision, MD Undergraduate Program, UBC MEDD 421 Case-Based Learning, MD Undergraduate Program, Southern Medical Program, UBC MEDI 504A Introduction in Implementation Science and Practice, Graduate Course in Experimental Medicine program, UBC

Ryan Hoiland | Assistant Professor, CCDPM | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Southern Medical Program | ryan.hoiland@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. For graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Please email CV to Dr. Hoiland.

Research Interests: To determine neuroprotective strategies to improve outcomes for patients suffering an acute central nervous system injury. We conduct studies across the translational continuum in pre-clinical disease models, healthy human studies, and clinical patient studies to characterize the pathophysiology of acute traumatic and/or ischemic central nervous system injury. This includes a focus on determining how we can optimize oxygen delivery to the brain and spinal cord following an acute injury.

Courses & Teaching: FLEX Student Supervision, MD Undergraduate Program, UBC Directed Studies Supervisor

Hashim Islam, PhD | Assistant Professor | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | hashim.islam@ubc.ca | ART 154, 1147 Research Road

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Islam’s research program focuses on how exercise, nutrition, and cardiometabolic disease impact mitochondrial function in different cells and tissues within the human body.

Courses & Teaching: HES 355 - Clinical Exercise Physiology Applications in Chronic Conditions: Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders

Jonathan Little | Professor | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | jonathan.little@ubc.ca | 250.807.9876

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Little's research is focused on understanding how the metabolic disruptions that characterize type 2 diabetes affect cellular inflammation and explore how different exercise and nutritional strategies can be used to reduce inflammation and improve overall cardiometabolic health.

Kathleen Martin Ginis | Chair Preventive Medicine, Director Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Southern Medical Program | kathleen_martin.ginis@ubc.ca | 250.807.9187 | Reichwald Health Sciences Centre

Research Interests: Dr. Martin Ginis focuses on understanding and changing physical activity behaviour. She has a particular interest in physical activity among people with spinal cord injury and other types of physical disabilities.

Courses & Teaching: HES 491 Honour's Thesis Seminar HES 490 Project in Health and Exercise Sciences MED 419 Year 1 FLEX MED 429 Year 2 FLEX MED 449 Year 4 FLEX

Sarah Purcell | Assistant Professor, CCDPM | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Southern Medical Program | sarah.purcell@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Energy metabolism; dietary energy requirements; body composition; obesity; women’s health.

Courses & Teaching: HES 490 – Directed studies in Health and Exercise Sciences FLEX student supervision, MD Undergraduate Program, UBC MEDD 412, 419, 421, 422, 449: Case-Based Learning, MD Undergraduate Program, Southern Medical Program, UBC BIOL420M - Special Topics in Biology: Endocrinology.

Graduate student supervisor

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: The overall goals of my research are to investigate how physical activity behaviours relate to current and long-term health outcomes in children in both clinical and community-based settings, and to identify strategies to improve physical activity participation in children. I collaborate with Interior Health on projects relating to pediatric diabetes and BC Children's Hospital Research Institute to address physical activity behaviours in children and youth with congenital heart disease.

Courses & Teaching: Graduate Student Supervision, 'Experimental Medicine' and 'Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences (WACH)' Graduate Programs, Faculty of Medicine, UBC FLEX Student Supervision, MD Undergraduate Program, UBC MEDD 412 and MEDD 421 Case-Based Learning, MD Undergraduate Program, Southern Medical Program, UBC R1 Academic Half Day Research Course, General Pediatrics Residency Program, Department of Pediatrics, BC Children’s Hospital, UBC WACH 501: Advanced topics in women+’s and children’s health; Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences (WACH) Graduate Program, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Former Site Director FLEX (MEDD 419, MEDD 429, MEDD 449), MD Undergraduate Program, Southern Medical Program, UBC (2020-2021)

Graduate student supervisor

Daryl Wile | Clinical Investigator, CCDPM | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Southern Medical Program | daryl.wile@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. Co-supervises students in movement disorders research, focusing on Parkinson's disease.

Research Interests: Parkinson's disease; movement disorders; exercise interventions; telehealth in neurology

Courses & Teaching: Clinical teaching, UBC Faculty of Medicine (PGME, UME)

Jill Williamson | Clinical Research Coordinator | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management | jill.williamson@ubc.ca

Affiliate Investigators

Dr. Jennifer Davis, Associate Professor, Faculty of Management

Dr. Neil Eves, Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Development,

Dr. Devin Harris, Director, Health Systems, UBC Health

Dr. Mary Jung, Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Development

Dr. Deanne Taylor, Executive Director, Jim Pattison Centre for Health Systems Learning + Innovation

Dr. Paul van Donkelaar, Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Development

Affiliate Clinicians

Dr. Janet Evans, Clinical Instructor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Practice

Dr. Ilona Hale, Clinical Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Practice

Dr. Gayle Klammer, Clinical Instructor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Practice

Dr. Jennifer Locke, Clinical Instructor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Urologic Sciences

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