Dr. Oscar Casiro: Appointed
Dr. Oscar Casiro, head of the Division of Medical Sciences, has been appointed regional associate dean, Vancouver Island, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. He has been associate dean of the Island Medical Program (IMP) based at the University of Victoria since January 2004 and helped to pioneer the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s distributed undergraduate medical education system on Vancouver Island, in collaboration with the University of Victoria and the Vancouver Island Health Authority. As regional associate dean, Casiro will assume strategic leadership of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education on Vancouver Island, including development and implementation of initiatives and policies that support continued integration of medical education opportunities.