UPCOMING MEETING JULY 26, 2022
Santa J. Ono, President & Vice-Chancellor, UBC The Rotary Club and UBC -- Happy Warriors!
Prior to his appointment as the 15th President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC, Dr. Ono served as the 28th President of the University of Cincinnati and Senior Vice-Provost and Deputy to the Provost at Emory University. He also served as Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is the president-elect and will be the 15th President of the University of Michigan in October 2022, thus ending his 6 year tenure at UBC.
A molecular immunologist educated at the University of Chicago and McGill, Dr. Ono has taught at Johns Hopkins, Harvard University and University College London. He has advised national and regional governments on higher education and mental health. He has also advised companies such as GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Novartis on R&D, and served as Director and Chief Scientific Officer of iCo Therapeutics Inc.
Dr. Ono has served on a number of editorial boards, including Immunology, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Journal of Immunology and The Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.
He has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, USA and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. In 2022, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
He holds Honorary Doctorates from Chiba University and the Vancouver School of Theology and is a recipient of the Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award from the American Council on Education, the Professional Achievement Award from University of Chicago, a Grand Challenges Hero Award from UCLA and the NAAAP 100 Award from the National Association of Asian American Professionals. The list goes on...
UPCOMING MEETING AUGUST 2, 2022
Club Day! The 1st of the 2022-23 year - summer social
Due notice having been given; the following individual member has been declared elected as a member of the Club.
Melody Hu
Classification:
Artisan Chocolate Manufacturing & Sales
Proposer & Mentor:
Franz Gehriger
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Peter Clarke Jul 19
Ryan Crean Jul 21
at our Club
None this week
wedding
Graham Coleman & Lorrie Miller 23 years Jul 25
Fred & Eva West 52 years Jul 25
* come in person to celebrate with Purdy's chocolates!!
Last Meeting July 19, 2022
Kendall Jessiman, President, chaired the meeting and gave the invocation.
Sandra Lowe, Secretary, hosted the ZOOM portion of the meeting
Peter Clarke, Sergeant at Arms, introduced guests
Miya Otake played O Canada on the harp
President’s Announcements:
Thank you to all of you who came to Tuesday’s meeting. It is wonderful to see you all, both those increasing numbers in person and those decreasing numbers attending virtually. The returning normalcy is a joy to experience.
Secretary's announcements:
reminders of upcoming events/meetings (see above)
birthdays, member club anniversaries, wedding anniversaries (see above)
Special announcements and members' moments:
Deb Sankey was presented with her PHF+7 pin.
Phil Webber announced the winners of the Ride for Hearing trophy cups. See above for details.
Rene Abi-Rached, as Chair of the Community Service Committee, updated us on the donation for the young family on the eastside -- 4 brothers who have lost their family support. The Youth Service Committee, together with a personal donation from John Bathurst will be donating $900 in grocery gift cards to the boys.
The Odd Squad have ensured that the two younger boys will be sponsored to attend their summer camp. Note: if anyone knows of a youth aged between 12-15 that are at risk, consider contacting the Odd Squad for support and involvement in their youth risk prevention initiatives, e.g., summer camps, judo, etc.
Program:
Jamshed Colah, the Manager of Capital Philanthropy at St. Paul’s Foundation spoke about the new St. Paul’s Hospital & Providence Research Institute at the Jim Pattison Medical Campus.
The new hospital is really needed as anyone who has been to the existing St. Paul’s Hospital can observe. It is so exciting that after decades of talking it’s actually happening. They are moving to Station Street.
At a glance here are some numbers:
St. Paul’s Hospital cared for over 140,000 patients, accounting for 517,381 visits.
Mount Saint Joseph Hospital supported 5,303 patient visits at the Providence Breast Centre, and approximately 15% of BC’s breast cancer patients.
Holy Family Hospital’s 65 bed rehab treated 536 inpatients and more than 15,000 outpatients.
70% of patients treated by St. Paul’s mental health programs have both a mental health condition and a substance use disorder.
St. Vincent’s Brock Fahrni is home to 148 residents, many of whom are veterans.
The new St. Paul’s will help solve some of Canada’s biggest health challenges using their 125 years of leadership knowledge for the following areas involving surgery, ear nose & throat, emergency medicine, orthopedics, gastro enterology, obstetrics & gynecology, eating disorders, and radiology & imaging departments.
Cardiopulmonary
Renal
Seniors and their specialized needs
HIV/AIDS
Mental health
Urban health (including complex medical and social needs, addiction, and hepatitis)
It took some time for them to believe it’s going to actually happen, but it actually is now moving forward with the ground having been broken some time ago. It will be an acute care facility with multiple research towers. It will have 3rd party facilities interacting with the public sector. There will be 3 towers that include dry and wet research labs. This will be fabulous in helping, for example, when there’s a surgery happening and there’s critical research or blood work that needs to happen, it can be done on the fly.
The hospital building will be two-towers, 135,000 m2, incorporating inpatient care, outpatient care, surgical & interventional suites, lab, pharmacy, learning & education, and an all Nations Sacred Space Chapel. It will be connected via a sky bridge to the clinical support and research centre areas. Here will be three buildings, 80,000 m2, and will include medical offices, research labs, industry partner spaces, corporate services offices, childcare centre, and a conference centre. This part of the campus will be known as the Innovation Centre.
St. Paul’s currently has the largest animal (mouse) research facility. It will be moving with them to the new campus. The planned research space will be approximately 17,000 m2 and will include: a dry lab, 8,000 m2, where desk-based data analysis research is done; a wet lab, 5,000 m2, where wet specimens (tissues, liquids, etc.) are studied and researched. There will also incorporate shared research space with meeting rooms, phlebotomy rooms (drawing blood), data centre, biobank, waste management, etc.
The Providence Research Institute is an opportunity to rethink how we work. Some of the questions requiring tremendous consideration in drawing up the initial plans:
People – will there be a need to adjust roles and responsibilities of governance structure? How are we going to inform the research community of anticipated changes?
Process – What are the most important people and material flows within the new Health Campus? How will research activities be supported by other services?
Practice – Are there opportunities to standardize clinical procedures or operational policies? Will there be new research-related activities introduced?
Product – What is the procurement strategy for the CSRC? What equipment will be transferred, need to be replaced or acquired? Could the management of supplies be centralized?
Place – What policies need to be put in place to support how we will use the space? What level of access control will be needed for specific areas? How will we set up rooms?
Performance – How should performance be measured moving forward? Will there be a need to readjust operational budgets in preparation for the move to the CSRC?
Why is St. Paul’s so special? Why does research need to be embedded in acute care? We look to the cycle of research in action of Dr. Webb’s transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). This is the Bench to Bedside back to bench – the new research facility will pragmatically support the bench to bedside work with a new generation of researcher continuing to push the procedure forward (Dr. Stephanie Sellers). The vision of the Providence Research Institute is a purpose built space with collaborative design providing an innovation nucleus, all-in-one place designed to optimize outcomes.
The hospital will have 530 beds, all single rooms. This is revolutionary. Imagine if we had this during Covid? How would have the outcomes differed from what that have been? The capacity for research and acute care will be quite simply, massive.
The process began with the submission of the business plan in 2018. Now, in 2022, the building design has been completed. The current estimate is for both the hospital & outpatient care centre and the clinical support & research centre, to complete construction in the fall of 2026, with a move in in early 2027.
The new St. Paul’s Hospital is purpose built, people first.
Meeting adjourned with a toast to the new St. Paul's Hospital.
Prior to his appointment as the 15th President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC, Dr. Ono served as the 28th President of the University of Cincinnati and Senior Vice-Provost and Deputy to the Provost at Emory University. He also served as Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is the president-elect and will be the 15th President of the University of Michigan in October 2022, thus ending his 6 year tenure at UBC.
