Alumni UBC Achievement Awards honour members of school of medication neighborhood

The 2022 recipients of the alumni UBC Achievement Awards. Photograph by Edward Chang.

Drs. Elaine Carty, Pieter Cullis, Ruth Elwood Martin and John Spouge are amongst seven inspiring members of the UBC neighborhood who’re being honoured for serving to to create an distinctive college and a greater world.

Recipients had been honoured at a ceremony on Nov. 14.

College of medication recipients and their awards:

• Dr. Elaine A. Carty, CM, OBC, BN, MSN, CNM
  Professor Emerita, Midwifery Program, Division of Household Follow
  Award: Honorary Alumni Award

  Nurse and midwife Elaine Carty helped introduce midwifery into the Canadian well being care system and spent 50 years lobbying for its recognition. She is a brave advocate for girls’s well being and a pioneering practitioner and researcher.

• Dr. Pieter R. Cullis, OC, BSc’67, MSc’70, PhD’72
  Professor, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  Award: Alumni Award of Distinction

  Dr. Pieter Cullis is a world chief in creating and making use of lipid nanoparticle drug supply programs to deal with breast most cancers, acute lymphocytic leukemia, uncommon genetic ailments, and extra. He earned worldwide popularity of his revolutionary work that made the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines attainable.

• Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin, MD’79
  Medical Professor, College of Inhabitants and Public Well being
  Award: College Group Service Award

  Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin is a famend researcher, doctor, and advocate for people in jail, each throughout their incarceration and after launch. She has helped to enhance the psychological, bodily, emotional, and religious well being of those people and their households.

• Dr. John L. Spouge, BSc’75, MD’79
  MD Program Alumnus
  Award: Analysis and Innovation Award

  Dr. John Spouge’s particular curiosity is formulating and fixing troublesome mathematical issues which have vital organic functions. His contributions vary from the analysis of potential AIDS therapies to his participation within the cataloguing of all plant species throughout the planet.