Program Members

The British Columbia Oral Cancer Prevention Program is focused on a common vision of the prevention of oral cancer through the development of a Province-wide strategy for BC.

Led by Dr. Miriam Rosin, the British Columbia Oral Cancer Prevention Program is a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and scientists with a broad range of skills, experience and expertise.

Funding agencies

(Funding agencies are listed alphabetically)

British Columbia Cancer Foundation

Genome British Columbia

Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Central Management Committee

Director: Miriam Rosin
Oral Medicine Leader: Michele Williams
Chief Pathologist: Lewei Zhang
Outreach Program Leader: Catherine Poh
Physicist, Head of Cancer Imaging Department: Calum MacAulay

Advisors

(External advisors are listed alphabetically by last name)

Gotay, Carolyn (Social Psychologist)
Lippman, Scott (MD Anderson Hospital, Texas)
O'Keefe, John (Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the Canadian Dental Association)
Shuler, Charles (Dean, UBC Faculty of Dentistry)
Sutcliffe, Simon (Oncologist)

Participating scientists & clinicians

(Participating scientists & clinicians are listed alphabetically by last name)

Anderson, Don (ENT Surgeon)
Berean, Ken (Head and Neck Pathologist)
Bottorff, Joan (Qualitative Health Research)
Coldman, Andrew (Biostatistician/Quantitative Epidemiology)
Corbett, Kitty (Medical Anthropologist)
Durham, Scott (ENT Surgeon)
Elwood, Mark (Epidemiologist)
Gallagher, Richard (Leader of Cancer Control Research)
Gardner, Pam (Oral Oncologist)
Gotay, Carolyn (Social Psychologist)
Guillaud, Martial (Biomedical Engineer/Quantitative Pathology)
Hay, John (Head and Neck Radiation Oncologist)
Hislop, Gregory (Epidemiologist/Community Medicine)
Jung, Lina (Consultant Dentist, BC Cancer Centre for the Southern Interior)
Lam, Wan (Cancer Geneticist)
Lane, Pierre (Electrical and Computer Engineer, Biomedical Optics)
Laronde, Denise (Registered Dental Hygienist)
Laskin, Janessa (Head and Neck Medical Oncologist)
Le, Nhu (Biostatistician)
Lee, Jack (Biostatistician)
Loeb, Peter (Oral Oncologist)
McBride, Mary (Epidemiologist/Survivorship)
Moores, Meredith (Community Dentist)
Ng, Samson (Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology)
Pada, Hilary (Consultant Dentist, BC Cancer Centre for the Southern Interior)
Peacock, Stuart (Health Economist)
Poole, Barbara (Health Services Policy & Research Analyst)
Shupe, Ron (Consultant Dentist, BC Cancer Centre for the Southern Interior)
Sutcliffe, Simon (Former President and CEO of BC Cancer)
Zed, Chris (Associate Dean, Strategic and External Affairs, UBS Faculty of Dentistry; Head, VGH Oral Health Centre)

Administrative & research assistants

(Administrative & research assistants are listed alphabetically by last name)

Chiu, Helen (Project Coordinator)
Fang, Anita (Research Project Coordinator)
Giles, Kara (Research Assistant)
Jiang, Huijun (Lead Clinical Risk Analyst)
Kami, Alisa (Clinical Coordinator)
Lee, Lorna (Administrative Assistant)
Morgan, Emily (Laboratory Technician)
Rasquinha, Nikhil (Laboratory Assistant)
Yoon, Stephanie (Clinical Assistant)
Yuan, Cindy (Laboratory Technician)
Zhu, Sarah (Laboratory Technician)

BC OCPP offers opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to be inspired and involved. Many of our trainees have come through the program gaining invaluable experiences, and bringing these experiences to their career in health professions and research.

Students are listed alphabetically by last name. Current (as of 2011)

Danjoy, Alana (SFU Undergraduate)
Grewal, Sukhi (Toronto - Acupuncture)
Hau, Keith (SFU Graduate - UBC MSc Program)
Heer, Manjot (UBC Undergraduate)
Kim, Jeff (Dentistry Applicant)
Park, Jay (SFU Graduate - SFU MSc Program)
Rasquinha, Nikhil (SFU Graduate)
Ryu, Jennifer (Medicine Applicant)
Schimdt, Laura (UBC Dentistry [Class 2015])
Tang, Dorothy (UBC Undergraduate)
Warwas, Mark (Medicine Applicant)
Wong, Matthew (UBC Graduate)
Wu, Fanny (Student)
Zhu, Shawn (UBC Undergraduate)
Zou, Anna (UBC Undergraduate)

Past students/trainees