Dr. Andrew Ivsins
Andrew Ivsins, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is an investigator with the Qualitative and Community Based Research Program, and employs innovative qualitative and ethnographic approaches to understand how
Dr. Hudson Reddon
Hudson Reddon, PhD is a Research Scientist at the BCCSU and Assistant Professor at the UBC Faculty of Medicine. At the BCCSU, Dr. Reddon’s research focus is to conduct innovative longitudinal research to elucidate the risks, as well as the potential benefits, of evolving cannabis use/access patterns among people at
Dr. Brittany Dennis
Dr. Brittany Dennis MBBS, PhD is a clinician scientist with training in general internal medicine and an area of focused competency in addiction medicine. She currently holds academic appointments as a full-time Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Social Medicine at the University of British Columbia and part-time
Mona Kwong
Mona Kwong, BSc(Pharm), PharmD, MSc is the Director for the BCCSU Clinical Addiction Pharmacy Fellowship and is the Pharmacy Advisor at the BCCSU. She is a community based primary care pharmacist. Dr. Kwong works at an urban community neighbourhood pharmacy and as a pharmacist consultant at Infinity Medical Specialists Clinic,
Steve Kain
Steve Kain, BSN(c), RN, is the Senior Nursing Coordinator at the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU). He oversees and coordinates the nursing staff at all the frontline BCCSU studies, which include the Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study, the AIDS Care Cohort to Evaluate Exposure to Survival Services, and the
Cristy Zonneveld
Cristy Zonneveld, BA, CCRP, is the Senior Cohort Research Coordinator at the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU). She oversees and coordinates the staff at the frontline BCCSU research office at 439 East Hastings St. in Vancouver. Cristy has been with the Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study since 2005, and previous
Dr. Nadia Fairbairn
Nadia Fairbairn, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, cISAM, is an Assistant Professor and holder of the Philip Owen Professorship in Addiction Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Fairbairn is a board-certified General Internal Medicine specialist and addiction medicine specialist, and practicing physician
Dr. Ramm Hering
Ramm Hering MD MSc CCFP (AM) Dip PH Dip ABAM CCSAM FASAM is the Victoria Site Director for the BCCSU Clinical Addiction Medicine Fellowship and works as a clinical consultant on various projects for the BCCSU. He is the Medical Director, Addiction Medicine for Island Health. He is the founding
Dr. Geoff Bardwell
Dr. Geoff Bardwell‘s research seeks to understand how social, structural, political, and environmental contexts shape substance use and related public health interventions. He is a social scientist with training and expertise in both qualitative and community-based participatory research. He has conducted research across Canada in various settings, including community health
Dr. Danya Fast
Dr. Danya Fast, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the BC Centre on Substance Use and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Since 2008, her work has focused on tracing the evolving substance use and care trajectories of adolescents and young adults,