Authors & Contributors

Jennifer Kong: BCIT (Basic Health Sciences)  & UBC (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)

Helen Dyck: UBC (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)

Jonathan Bush: UBC (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)

Simon Duffy

Zoë Soon: UBC-O (Biology, IKB Faculty of Science)

UBC-V Students

Frances (Lyz) Boyd (Undergraduate Medical Program)

Annabelle Liao – Annabelle is a fourth year student majoring in English with a Language and Literature emphasis with two main passions: writing and sustainability. Her passion for sustainability stems from leading marine conservation youth camps at the Vancouver Aquarium in high school, and her diversified experience has led her to develop and manage various projects relating to capacity-building, waste reduction, and greenhouse gas management on campus at UBC. As for writing, Annabelle believes that effective communication is one of the greatest assets in catalyzing high quality education, and continues to seek out various avenues of collaboration in creating digestible educational content for a diversity of audiences.

Tetiana Povshedna – Tetiana is a PhD student in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC who contributed to the content of the “Atherosclerosis and Angina” chapter. She believes that integrated educational resources that highlight all the aspects of a certain condition at once (including a very important patient lens!) are the key to a genuine holistic understanding of health by everyone working in healthcare. A chance to work on such a resource has been an amazing opportunity to contribute to this idea.

Noah Stewart – Noah is a graduate from the Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science program at UBC. He is interested in the pathophysiology of different diseases and how they relate to what can be seen under the microscope. He has contributed to the writing of the chapters on pneumonia, the filming of the normal histology/histopathology videos of the lung, and has created practice exercises for the pneumonia and emphysema chapters. For Noah, playing a part in the Pressbook has been a great opportunity to learn, and he hopes it will be equally as valuable as a resource for other learners!

Eva M. Su – Eva is a student at UBC studying Medical Laboratory Science. The topics in this textbook that she has helped out with are the topics of metastatic melanoma, acute kidney injury, and diabetes. Eva loves to explore and learn about the different diseases and how it affects different organs. She believes that by promoting a better understanding of the different diseases and making this knowledge more accessible, we are one step closer to finding new treatments to help patients. Perhaps the next person to find a treatment for one of these diseases is you, a reader of our textbook. Eva is extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to be part of a supportive team that encourages lifelong learning and curiosity. 

Yimei Qin – Yimei is a graduate from the Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science program at UBC. She has contributed to adding closed captions and practice questions to the instructional videos throughout the textbook, as well as the writing and filming of the normal liver and cirrhosis histology videos. Helping to create a resource that will make learning about various diseases more accessible and interactive has been a rewarding and fulfilling task!

Ghazal Sokhanran – Ghazal is an undergraduate student in the Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science program at UBC. She is interested in understanding and learning more about the pathophysiology of many different diseases and how they affect the body as a whole each and every day. She has contributed to writing the chapter on “Blood, Anemia, Leukemia, and Blood Tests” and appendix section on “Additional exercises for critical thinking and clinical reasoning”. Furthermore, she was also involved in creating critical thinking questions for the “Acute Kidney Injury” and “Heart Failure” chapters. She is extremely grateful to have been part of a great team of individuals with different backgrounds, coming together to create an amazing resource for other learners.

Samuel Lam – Sam is an undergraduate student in the Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science Program in UBC. He has profound interest in studying the mechanism of which diseases affect individuals, especially cancer. He has contributed to writing the chapters on Metastatic Melanoma, Diabetes, Leukemia as a well as creating critical thinking questions and related guides. Sam is extremely grateful to have the opportunity to be part of this amazing team with talented individuals, he has learnt a lot throughout the process and glad that his effort will benefit many learners in the future.

Lucy Ogoke – Lucy is a Nigerian Canadian Undergraduate student studying Medical Laboratory Science at the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus coming from Calgary, Alberta. Lucy enjoys singing and various athletics including rugby and powerbuilding. Lucy and her family immigrated to Canada when she was 5 years old. As a result of growing up in a first generation immigrant, Nigerian household and attending predominantly white, Canadian institutions her whole life, Lucy was able to find herself immersed in both cultures and grew to love both. However in attending these institutions Lucy had experienced and witnessed first hand the inequalities that are still ingrained in many aspects of our society and their affects on BIPOC individuals in her community: some systematically perpetuated while others stemming from people projecting biases onto others. Once she had discovered her passion for healthcare, Lucy saw how these same biases are built into our healthcare systems. Through volunteering and personal experience, she saw evidence of these biases significantly affecting the  quality of care these individuals receive.

Mena Burr – Mena is a Doctor of Medicine student at UBC with a undergraduate background in neuroscience from the University of Alberta. She created the multiple sclerosis subchapter and contributed to the clinical reasoning exercises for the diabetes chapter. She has a strong interest in neurological diseases. In particular, she is fascinated by how clearly the underlying neuropathology translates into the clinical picture of many neurological conditions. She is also passionate about medical education, and hopes to continue to find ways to communicate medical concepts in clear and accessible ways.

UBC-O Students

Kate Amaral

Mona Huang

Leahmarie Jaca

Neet Kaur

Rina Kim

Vienna Leclerc-Sorensen

Logan Mazza

Disha Mehandiratta

Adithi Menon

Diane Nguyen

Sarah Pinault (née Perkins)

Satveer Sangha

Ronald White

Bardia Yasari  – Bardia is currently a 4th year Biology student at UBC Okanagan. As a contributing author for an open-source biology textbook, he simplified complex research papers for first-year students and gained amazing experiences along the way. Bardia is good at working in a team and independently, which is showcased through his past experiences. He is a fast learner and a critical thinker. Bardia is adaptable and open to rapidly changing environments. In his free time, he enjoys outdoor activities, reading, writing, and traveling.

UBC-V Volunteers

Adrian Marcuzzi (Yr 1 Undergraduate Medical Program in 2020):  video recording and editing for Introduction and Preface

Sebastian Swic (Yr 3 Undergraduate Medical Program in 2020):  video editing for Introduction and Preface

Theodore Lam (Pathology, Graduate Studies): acting and script development for Introduction and Preface

BCIT volunteers

Michelle Beauchamp, Medical Radiography, School of Health Sciences

Heather Bourke, Diagnostic Sonography, School of Health Sciences

Andrea Glew, Cardiac Sciences, School of Health Sciences

Sarah Ho, Medical Radiography, School of Health Sciences

Rob Kruger, Specialty Nursing, School of Health Sciences

Kenneth Marken, Diagnostic Sonography, School of Health Sciences

Marion Reagan, Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Health Sciences

Interviewees

Bill, Katie, & Sally McKinstry

Videoproducers

Lindsay Belloc, Video & Digital Media Producer, BCIT

Ian Whittlesey, Video & Digital Media Producer, BCIT

Chris Cambon, Video & Digital Media Producer, BCIT

Other Open Education Resources used in this text

Health Case Studies by Glynda Rees, Rob Kruger, & Janet Morrison:  Permission was received by author Rob Kruger to use parts of their book which has a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license