Vote for Julio as One of Canada’s Coolest!
Dr. Julio Montaner, Director of British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and President of the International AIDS Society, was recently featured in an online poll by the Globe and Mail asking readers to vote for what made Canada cool last decade.

The list is made up of seven cool Canadian people (including Governor General Michaëlle Jean and actor Michael Cera), things, and Canadian issues (such as same-sex marriage). Dr. Montaner is currently tied for first place in the poll with Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. We can’t let the BlackBerry beat PHC’s Dr. Montaner!

To vote on the Globe and Mail’s website, click here: http://bit.ly/julioiscool

Dr. Montaner has been making HIV & AIDS research cool for over 20 years. Currently, he is implementing a revolutionary strategy to STOP HIV/AIDS that will propel Canada to the forefront of the global HIV & AIDS response.

 

Dr. Clifford Chan-Yan has been selected as one of two Olympic torchbearers for Providence Health Care.

Over 50 staff, physicians, researchers and volunteers submitted heartfelt and impassioned answers to the question: What makes Providence Health Care the unique, value-based organization it is?

Dr. Clifford Chan-Yan’s winning entry:  

AIDS in the early 1980s was an emotionally, socially and politically charged epidemic, presumed by too many a life style affliction of homosexual males. AIDS was a lethal disease and fearsome for health care workers. A patient with AIDS was quarantined in another city hospital ER and was denied admission because of his potentially lethal infectivity. Without hesitation, he was accepted in transfer for care in St. Paul’s Hospital, following which a multidisciplinary AIDS Care Team was formed and which coordinated heroic, confidential and compassionate care for almost all of British Columbia’s AIDS patients for several years. The rest is history - the HIV Centre for Excellence at Providence Health has become an internationally renowned leader in HIV care and research. The founding Sisters of Providence had pledged Compassionate Care for all. Respect is one of our five values: “We respect the diversity, dignity and interdependence of all persons.”