Alumni Profiles


Theresa McElroy, BScOT’98
Why did you choose your career? What made you specialize in this area of healthcare? These are questions regularly asked of our alumni in the Faculty of Medicine. And, in each case, there are interesting answers. Theresa McElroy, BSc Occupational Therapy ’98, has answers to these that are not only interesting but inspiring. Theresa’s interest […] Read More >


Shelagh Davies, MSc’75
Our voice should match the person we are inside.  If it doesn’t, we feel discomfort; distress. – Shelagh Davies Helping singers regain their voices and transgendered people find their voices are two of the job satisfactions for UBC Alumna Shelagh Davies. (MSc’75).  Shelagh is a Registered Speech-Language Pathologist, a Clinical Assistant Professor, and researcher in […] Read More >


Carol Herbert, MD’69
When Carol Herbert, MD ’69 looks back on her life as a child, she remembers that she didn’t always want to be a doctor, let alone a Dean.  At the young age of six, Herbert enjoyed writing and thought that she would be an author but instead, she almost became a first grade ‘drop out’.  […] Read More >