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
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!
UBC-O Students
Sarah Pinault
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
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 RK to use parts of their book which has a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license
