Contact

For information on making a gift or on recognition opportunities, please contact:

 

Fatima Hassam      Jim O'Hara
Development Office, UBC Faculty of Medicine     VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation

fatima.hassam@ubc.ca 

jim.ohara@worldclasshealthcare.ca

604.218.0508     604.875.5100

 

The Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health is a partnership of the UBC Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver Coastal Health, and their world class research program, the Brain Research Centre.

 

The Brain Research Centre comprises more than 225 investigators with multidisciplinary expertise in neuroscience research ranging from the test tube, to the bedside, to industrial spin-offs. The Brain Research Centre is a partnership of the UBC Faculty of Medicine and the research arm of Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. For more information, please contact communications@brain.ubc.ca or 604.827.3396.

 

The UBC Faculty of Medicine provides innovative programs in the health and life sciences, teaching students at the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels, and generates more than $200 million in research funding each year. For more information, please contact brian.kladko@ubc.ca or 604.827.3301.

 

Vancouver Coastal Health provides a full range of of health care services, ranging from hospital treatment to community-based residential, home health, mental health, and public health services, to residents of Vancouver, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Richmond, and in the coastal mountain communities. Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is the research body of Vancouver Coastal Health. In academic partnership with the University of British Columbia, VCHRI brings innovation and discovery to patient care. For more information, please contact lisa.carver@vch.ca or 604.875.4111 extension 61777.

BRAIN HEALTH & FACILITY NEWS

 

Groundbreaking for Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health celebrated [read more]

 

Researchers' discovery may revolutionize treatment of ALS [read more]  

 

 
A genetic abnormality is believed to cause both frontotemporal dementia and ALS [read more]



Newly discovered spinal stem cell may help regenerate central nervous system damage in disease and trauma [read more]    

 

 


Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation donates $15 million to Centre for Brain Health [read more]