Dr. Roger Wong - UBC Library-IKBLC Presents Health Information Series in Richmond, BC

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Woodward Library. The Health Information Series is an ongoing public lecture series that take place in the Lower Mainland community. Dr. Roger Wong is Clinical Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia (UBC), Assistant Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education of the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and Associate Program Director of the UBC Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Wong is also Consultant Physician and Head of the Geriatric Consultation Program, Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Wong is President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society. He founded the state-of-the-art Acute Care for Elders Units (ACE) in Vancouver, which has been implemented nationally and internationally. His clinical research focuses on hospital medicine in vulnerable older adults, including quality improvement in acute care geriatrics. He has received numerous awards of appreciation from the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia to recognize his advocacy work in the community. Dr. Wong received his MD degree in 1992 and completed postgraduate and fellowship training at the University of Alberta. He joined UBC as a Clinical Instructor in 1997, was promoted to Clinical Professor in 2010, and has taken on a variety of educational leadership roles within the Faculty of Medicine. He has received numerous teaching awards in recognition of his teaching excellence in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, including the UBC Killam Teaching Prize in 2007, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Donald Richards Wilson award in 2007. Nationally he is a member of the Royal College Geriatric Medicine and Internal Medicine Examination Boards, and internationally he was elected to the Fellowship of the American College of Physicians in 2005. Dr. Wong has published and lectured extensively on geriatric medicine and medical education, and has been invited as Visiting Professor by national and international centers. Dr. Wong is an invited member of multiple peer-review boards for scientific publications in the fields of geriatric medicine, internal medicine, and medical education.