The UBC Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Academic Day is an annual event where trainees present completed research projects along with an invited guest speaker who presents their own research. All divisions within our department take turns hosting the event and choosing the guest speaker. It is attended by trainees and faculty within our department. Eligible trainees include Ob/Gyn residents, sub-speciality fellows within our department and graduate students in the RDS program. We also accept medical students and other types of trainees provided at least one of their supervisors is a faculty member in the UBC Dept of Ob/Gyn.
2026 OBGYN Academic Day
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Hybrid event: Chan Auditorium at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute and Zoom Meeting ID: 95272 854360 (Passcode: 328761)
Program: Academic Day Program
Our keynote speaker Dr. Anna Dare (MBChB PhD FRCSC) is a GI Surgical Oncologist at St Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She leads the Department of Surgery’s Global Surgery initiatives. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, she completed medical school there and earned her PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Cambridge. She subsequently completed general surgery residency at the University of Toronto and surgical oncology fellowships at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the University of Toronto. Dr. Dare’s clinical, research, and policy work focuses on inequities in access, quality, and outcomes for surgical and cancer care in Canada and globally. Her interdisciplinary work spans epidemiology, health services research, health economics, political science, and health policy. She holds a CIHR Health Systems Impact Early Career Fellowship and has served on the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and the Lancet Oncology Commission on Cancer in the Commonwealth. She sits on the International Advisory Board of The Lancet Global Health.