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Dr. Christy Sutherland is the Education Physician Lead with the BCCSU and is a family doctor and diplomat of the American Board of Addiction Medicine who works in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side providing care to Canada’s most vulnerable population. Dr. Sutherland is is the Medical Director of the Portland Hotel Society where she leads a team of physicians and nurses who are embedded in low barrier, harm reduction projects, as well as a member of the St Paul’s Addiction Medicine Consult Service, and the lead physician for the Rapid Access to Consultative Expertise (RACE) line.
News Releases and Coverage

What Halifax can learn from Vancouver as overdose site prepares to open (Dr. Christy Sutherland, BCCSU)

August 15, 2019
News Releases and Coverage

Death from bat contact prompts flood of calls (SPH)

August 15, 2019
News Releases and Coverage

Third urgent primary healthcare centre in Metro Vancouver to open in North Vancouver (UPCC)

August 15, 2019
St. Paul's surgery invovles a 3D talus bone implant into a patient's foot
Ankle Pain • News Releases and Coverage

3D printed ankle bone helps White Rock man get back on his feet (Dr. Alastair Younger, SPH)

August 15, 2019
Simon Fraser University’s Dr. Ruth Joy: ‘In my career I have tried to show the power of statistics.’ Photo by Christopher Cheung.
News Releases and Coverage

How an SFU Prof Uses Statistics to Give Killer Whales a Chance (Dr. Ruth Joy, BC-CfE)

August 15, 2019
News Releases and Coverage • Opioids • Substance Use

Safe supply: The debate around prescribing opioids to people who use drugs (Crosstown, NAOMI, SALOME)

August 15, 2019
Kombucha is an ancient drink but is finding newfound popularity in North America. (Maggie MacPherson/CBC News)
News Releases and Coverage

Kombucha: 6 questions about the popular drink and how it affects your health (Tanya Choy, SPH)

August 15, 2019
Kyle Besaw, left, drug checking tech aid with Vancouver Coastal Health, and Trey Helten, right, supervisor at the Overdose Prevention Society safe injection site, check samples of heroin for fentanyl and other substances in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 11, 2019. (Photo Credit: RAFAL GERSZAK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
News Releases and Coverage

Drug checking takes on elevated role as illicit fentanyl sweeps country and fuels surge in overdose deaths (BCCSU)

August 12, 2019
The Village Langley is a community for people living with various forms of dementia. (Photo credit: www.theglobeandmail.com)
Alzheimer's Disease • Dementia • News Releases and Coverage • Seniors

Designing for dementia: Long-term memory care, from the ground up (Holy Family Hospital)

August 12, 2019
After decades of animal testing, we do have cures for stroke, heart failure, diabetes, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, cystic fibrosis, and most cancers — but only in mice. (Photo credit: KOICHI KAMOSHIDA / GETTY IMAGES)
News Releases and Coverage

Patricia Kendall: Ban animal testing at the new St. Paul’s Hospital (SPH)

August 12, 2019

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