“Shattering Stones – Which Treatment is Best for Me?”

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We invite you to join us for the fourth annual Stone Centre Patient Engagement Event.

Date: Wednesday June 14, 2017

Time: 6:00pm – 8:30pm

*Registration is from 6:00pm-6:30pm (talks start exactly at 6:30pm so please arrive before then)*

Location: Vancouver General Hospital, Jim Pattison Pavilion, Paetzold Education Centre, 889 W 12 Avenue, Vancouver,  BC  V5Z 1M9

Important Info: Come join the Stone Centre Team for a night of interesting discussion and presentations about kidney stones and the various treatment options for kidney stones.

There will be time for questions as well as dieticians on hand to answer diet related inquiries. Light refreshments will be served. Guests are absolutely welcome!

RSVP: please RSVP by filling out the form below:

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Congratulations to the Stone Centre’s very our Dr. Elspeth McDougall for receiving the American Urological Association Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to education and innovative learning methods in Urology.

Dr. Ben Chew has been teaching undergraduate medical students in hands on clinical settings since he joined the Department of Urologic Sciences. He has been an integral part of the Department of Urologic Sciences and its teaching program. Dr. Chew’s enthusiasm for teaching has inspired and helped many students along their career path. This year we congratulate him for being recognized as the 2016 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year! An award that is decided upon by the medical students rotating through urology who have had the opportunity to learn from Dr. Chew.

The Stone Centre’s third annual patient engagement night – Kidney Stones: The Latest on Prevention, Treatment and Research was another successful educational event! The goal of our event was to pass on information to the kidney stone patient community through educational talks and presentations from the Stone Centre’s urologists, researchers and dietitians.

The night began with a presentation from Dr. Ben Chew regarding metabolic syndrome and kidney stones. Dr. Chew then discussed the various dietary options that have been clinically proven to reduce the risk of stone disease.

This presentation was followed by talks from dietitians Judith Andrews and Lynn Tomita. They continued with the theme of dietary advice and went into thorough recommendations for fluids, sodium, fruit and vegetables, protein oxalate and calcium.

Dr. Chew and the dietitians then had an engaging back and forth discussion regarding some of the finer points of dietary oxalate recommendations.

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Dr. Dirk Lange, the director of basic science research at the Stone Centre, was the final presenter for the night. He went over the ongoing and future research that is being conducted by the Stone Centre laboratory team. 

This event was made possible through contributions from many different people and organizations.

We would like to thank the Stone Centre laboratory research team for their outstanding efforts in research as well as for their help in setting up the event. If you saw them at the event, the lab team was busy answering your questions regarding research and stone prevention!

We would also like to thank the VGH Foundation; specifically Joey Cheung, Tim Staunton and Nathania Lo for their help in organizing and setting up the event.

A big thank you to the Stone Centre Advisory Group – who volunteered their time to ensure that we were answering questions and covering content that is relevant to patient needs. Their contributions played a huge part in the success of the night event.

Also, thank you to our charitable sponsors for providing food, refreshments and prizes!

Choices Market

Nesters Market

Kin’s Farm Market

Save on Foods

Happy Water

Cafe Ami

Vancouver Water Adventures

Davids Tea

Village VQA Wines

Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) is an organization of researchers that represent a multitude of health disciplines, research backgrounds and clinical occupations.

VHCRI supports and helps the Stone Centre research team move forward with our research. Recently, they have published a newsletter regarding our Preoperative Antibiotics Study. To view this article click here.

To learn more about the research going on at Vancouver General Hospital and how to participate you can visit http://www.vchri.ca or click here.

“Kidney Stones: The latest on Prevention, Treatment, & Research”

We invite you to join us for the third annual Stone Centre Patient Engagement Event.

Important Information:

Come join the Stone Centre Team for a night of interesting presentations. Hear from an interdisciplinary care team including a urology doctor, renal dietician, and researcher. They will be discussing kidney stone prevention, healthy diet choices, and ongoing research as well as recent discoveries.

There will be time for questions after the presentations as well as some light refreshments will be served. Guests are absolutely welcome!

Date: Tuesday September 13, 2016

Time: 6:00pm – 8:30pm

*Registration is from 6:00pm-6:30pm (talks start exactly at 6:30pm so please arrive before then)*

Location: Vancouver General Hospital, Jim Pattison Pavilion, Paetzold Education Centre, 889 W 12 Avenue, Vancouver,  BC   V5Z 1M9

RSVP: please RSVP by contacting the Stone Centre research team or signing up online.

Phone: 604-875-4111 x62421   
Email: kristina.pavlovic@ubc.ca

To RSVP online: click here

This is a free event that is open to the public. Please see the invitation card displayed below for more information.

SC Patient Engagement Event September 23, 2016

Our distinguished guest speakers:

Joey Lo has been with the Stone Centre for several years, initially as a co-op student and then later as a M.Sc. candidate. She has worked closely with Dr. Lange and Dr. Chew to complete her graduate degree under the UBC Experimental Medicine Program.  Her main research focuses on the use of antimicrobial coatings on urinary catheters to prevent bacterial attachment and subsequent infections, a project done in collaboration with several specialized laboratories at UBC located under the departments of Pathology,  Chemistry, and Materials Engineering.

Joey has been an integral part of the research team both as a student and now as a research assistant. The Stone Centre Team wants to extend its most sincere congratulations to Joey for finishing her M.Sc. degree and wishes her success in her future endeavors!