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Minister announces addictions research chair
December 13, 2007
The Province is investing $2.25 million in a new B.C. Leadership Chair who will research new and effective treatment approaches to addiction. The Providence Health Care B.C. Leadership Chair in Addiction Research will support leading-edge research and the development of innovative treatment approaches by a world authority on addictions. From left: Stephen Shapiro, CEO, St. Paul's Hospital Foundation ; Dr. Trevor Young, Head, UBC Department of Psychiatry; Dr. Gavin Stuart, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, UBC; Aslam Anis, Director, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences; Yvonne Lefebvre, President, Providence Health Care Research Institute; Honourable Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education; Dr. Michael Krausz, Providence Health Care BC Leadership Chair in Addiction Research; Lorne Mayencourt, MLA Vancouver-Burrard; Dr. Martha Salcudean, Chair, Leading Edge Endowment Fund Board; David Farrar, Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC; Dianne Doyle, CEO, Providence Health Care; Dr. Julio Montaner, Director, Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS .
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