Dear MD Class of 2005,
We are holding our 20th Anniversary Reunion on July 5, 2025! We look forward to celebrating this incredible milestone with everyone in Vancouver, BC.
Morning CME Presentations (Classmates Only)
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: UBC Medical Student & Alumni Centre (MSAC) | 2750 Heather St, Vancouver, BC
Family BBQ
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm (Photobooth available at 12:00pm, food served at 12:30 pm)
Location: UBC Medical Student & Alumni Centre (MSAC) | 2750 Heather St, Vancouver, BC
*Photobooth, BBQ meal, and ice cream sandwiches included in registration cost
Evening Dinner (Adults Only)
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm - late
Location: BAE SIDE @Mahony’s False Creek | 601 Stamps Landing, Vancouver, BC
*Not included in registration cost
Adult Cost: $75
Children Cost: $40
Registration has closed.
Should you have any questions regarding registration, please contact courtney.cousineau@ubc.ca.
We are going to showing a slideshow of photos during the reunion! Please submit photos using the file upload buttons in the registration page. If you have more than 4 submissions or missed it in the registration process, you can email them to med.alumni@ubc.ca
| Session 1: | Dr. Renee Fernandez | "Move fast and fix things" |
Renee is a family physician and the Chief Medical Officer of BC Family Doctors. She has been a physician leader involved in healthcare reform for more than 15 years.
In 2018, Renee took the helm of BC Family Doctors as Executive Director. In 2022, amid an escalating crisis in family medicine, Renee led the community organizing and advocacy efforts for the #EveryoneDeservesAFamilyDoctor campaign in BC. She and other physician leaders negotiated the Longitudinal Family Physician (LFP) Payment Model. She then wrote the payment schedule and the billing codes that are currently used by more than 4000 family physicians every day.
She was a mediocre medical student, but it turns out that she took the DPAS lessons to heart. After all these years, she still believes in the power of relationships to achieve meaningful change – whether that’s in clinical practice, physician leadership, or healthcare transformation.
| Session 2: | Dr. Courtney Howard | "We Moved Too Slow and Things are Breaking: How to resuscitate the planet that health and health systems depend on" |
Courtney thought she was going to go into family practice – maybe eventually sports or dance medicine. You were there. It would've been great. However, line-of-credit-supported travels with Sarah, Ashley, and Julia exposed her somewhat belatedly to massive global health inequalities. Then – when she went north to prepare for work with Doctors Without Borders, she tripped over the health emergency of climate change – right after the Lancet raised the alarm in 2009. Fifteen years later, she spends the vast majority of her time leading work to stabilize health and health systems in the face of the climate crisis. She's been at this for so long that she's been part of the leadership of most of the national and international bodies working on the challenge.
Bottom line: It's bad, it's going to get worse, and health professionals can be the MVPs of planetary resuscitation.
Imagine – what we do now affects not only every person currently alive, but everyone yet to be born. There's no better way to spend a life.
And – in this revolution – we dance.
Pre-reading in case anyone is still a keener: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00022-0/fulltext
| Session 3: | Dr. Naila Makhani | TBA |
To be updated.
| Session 4: | Dr. Poupak Rahmani | "Wanderings in Thrombosis: From A-fib to the OR and Everything in Between" |
If you have any questions, please contact med.alumni@ubc.ca.
Athena Bennett, Yvette Lu, and Brian Yang
MD Class of 2005 Reunion Planning Committee