Regional Faculty Development Sites
Meet our Regional Faculty Development Site Directors
Island Medical Program
Dr. Chris Morrow
Physician Education Director, Island Medical Program
Dr. Morrow oversees physician education across Vancouver Island including Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Faculty Development (FD) for local physicians and teaching faculty. He is also the IMP Portfolio Program Site Lead.
Dr. Morrow is a Clinical Teacher in Emergency Medicine, a full-time attending Emergency Physician at both the Victoria General and Royal Jubilee Hospitals and a Trauma Team Leader and on-call trauma team clinician at a tertiary care level II trauma centre since 2006.
Dr. Morrow is currently the Business Lead (Chair) for the Victoria Emergency Physician Associates. He has also served as the Division Head for the Department of Emergency Medicine VIHA South Island (2015-2018), and as the Clinical Lead (Site Chief) for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Royal Jubilee Hospital (2012-2018).
Northern Medical Program
Dr. Julia Wimmers-Klick
Regional Co-Director, Northern Medical Program
Dr. Julia Wimmers-Klick, born in Austria and raised in Germany, completed her medical studies at the University Innsbruck, Austria and acquired her Doctor Medicinae Universae in 1995. She continued her training as a Head and Neck surgeon and ENT physician, and practiced in Otorhinolaryngology (adult & pediatric) at the University Hospital in Innsbruck for over a decade. In 2015, she joined the academic faculty in the Northern Medical Program, focusing on teaching Year 1, 2 medical students across the curriculum combined with her research emphasis on inter-professional health care pedagogy. In her role as the regional Director of Faculty Development, she is responsible for the team building, planning and implementation of faculty development within the NMP and will work closely with physicians across Northern BC as well as with the NMP’s site faculty and administration to build and support the program’s faculty development network and activities across the North.
Southern Medical Program
Dr. Tara Gill
Regional Faculty Development Director, Southern Medical Program
Dr. Tara Gill is an emergency medicine physician at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) and a Clinical Instructor with the UBC Department of Family Practice. Dr. Gill has led the Trail Integrated Community Clerkship (ICC) program and serves as the Lead for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Working Group at KBRH.
As the new Faculty Development Director, Dr. Gill will foster a culture of teaching excellence and leverage resources to advance faculty development and leadership in the Interior Health region.
Vancouver-Fraser Medical Program
Dr. Linlea Armstrong
Regional Faculty Development Co-Director, Vancouver Fraser Medical Program
Dr. Linlea Armstrong is a Clinical Geneticist who dedicates part of her time to the MD Undergraduate Program. As a Clinical Geneticist, she sees patients for genetic concerns such as hereditary cancer, congenital malformations, and intellectual disability at BC Women’s and Children’s Hospitals. Within the MDUP, she is Faculty Development Director, Vancouver-Fraser Medical Program.
Dr. Patrick Chen
Regional Faculty Development Co-Director, Vancouver Fraser Medical Program
Dr. Chen received his medical degree from UBC in 2006 and completed training in Family Medicine-Emergency Medicine. He is a Clinical Associate Professor within the Department of Emergency Medicine. He works as an emergency physician at the Richmond Hospital and is the Business Lead for the Richmond Emergency Physicians group. In the past few years, he has supported students and faculty in VFMP in his role as a VFMP Faculty Development Associate and the VFMP OSCE Lead. As the Co-Director for VFMP Faculty Development, he will be working closely with the faculty development team to plan, implement, and evaluate effective and flexible educational activities that meet the needs of the teaching faculty.
Department of Family Practice
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