May 30, 2024: Are Hospitals Making Us Sick?

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“For some of the most vulnerable patients, the air in the hospital can be deadlier than the diagnosis that brought them in.”

Join Protect our Province BC's Dr. Susan Kuo and Drs. Susan Lee, Jean Warneboldt, and Victor Leung to hear about their advocacy, their struggles and successes in improving the air quality in different BC Health Authorities.

SARS-CoV-2 is spread through aerosols in the air that we share. Why does one Health Authority clean the indoor air, while the other refuses?

Dr. Susan Lee is an anaesthesiologist, and Anesthesia Department Research and Quality Improvement lead at Royal Columbian and Eagle Ridge Hospitals and a Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Dr. Jean Warneboldt is a hospitalist and palliative care physician at Eagle Ridge Hospital and a Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Family Medicine

Dr. Victor Leung is the Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control and the Physician Lead of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Providence Health Care

Archived Briefings from Protect Our Province BC

Dec 11, 2025: Science as a Candle in the Dark: A Discussion about Measles, HIV and COVID 19

Join us for this discussion about how we are experiencing Carl Sagan's predicted "rejection of the enlightenment of science and return to superstition and darkness" - featuring these three remarkable physicians: Dr. Lyne Filiatrault, Dr. Victor Leung and Dr. Julio Montaner.

March 29, 2025: Long is Real in Kids Too!

Join us for an interview with Dr. Peter Rowe, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Children's Centre Chronic Fatigue Clinic at Johns Hopkins University as he gives us new hope for the treatment of Long COVID in Children. He explains that because of the parallels between ME/CFS and Long COVID in children, his 30 years of researched treatments for ME/CFS can be used to help children with Long COVID now while we are waiting for RCT ( randomized clinical trials) to occur.

Oct 30, 2024: Long Covid – A Mass Disabling Event

Please join us for the POP BC live briefing on Long COVID: A Mass Disabling Event on Wednesday, October 30th at 1 pm as we discuss the important topic of Long COVID with Kayli Jamieson and Connie Chan, Long COVID survivors, and Dr. Ric Arseneau, Internal Medicine Specialist and Long COVID Physician and Director of one of the clinics treating Long COVID in BC.

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