James Andrew, BSc’96

James Andrew, BSc’96 is a 2023 recipient of the UBC Medical Alumni Association Honorary Medical Alumni Award.

James Andrew, a member of Lil’wat Nation’s Mount Currie Band, has been with the University of British Columbia for more than 25 years. Twenty-one of those years has been with the Faculty of Medicine as the Indigenous Student Initiatives Manager where his role was to recruit and support the Indigenous medical students through the Indigenous Pathway. The Indigenous Pathway program recently celebrated its 20-year anniversary in November 2022. To date, UBC Faculty of Medicine’s MD program has graduated more than 130 Indigenous physicians. He is currently the Associate Director of Indigenous Initiatives, Office of the Vice Dean, Education, Faculty of Medicine.