Ricardo Rivera-Acevedo
Job Title
Chief Scientific Officer. Cannabinologist
Employer
Ecovita Health Corp, Evitrade Health Systems
Overview
The Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics has a long-standing reputation of excellence in the field of drug research that goes back to 1951. Faculty members in the Department are engaged in research in areas of neural, cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine and clinical pharmacology, pharmacoepidemiology, acute and chronic pain management, cardio-pulmonary sciences, clinical outcomes and patient safety, equity in medicine, evidence-based medicine and knowledge translation, intensive care, transplant and transfusion medicine, neurosciences and anesthesiology, obstetric anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, perioperative technology and integration, pharmacoepidemiology, regional anesthesiology, as well as drug development. Exceptional students with an undergraduate degree may be admitted directly into the PhD program. Some students do a combined MD/PhD program for which a separate admission into the MD program, by the Faculty of Medicine, is required. Students pursuing a PhD will have the opportunity to interact with basic as well as clinical scientists.
What makes the program unique?
The shared research interests in anesthesiology, pharmacology, drug development and therapeutics allow students to gain broad-based exposure to fundamental as well as medically-related aspects of drug research. Research projects in the department are funded by operating grants from CIHR, NSERC, The Heart Foundation, etc. In addition, many of our students receive the highly competitive CIHR and NSRC studentship awards.
Quick Facts
Program Components Dissertation
Career Outcomes
23 students graduated between 2005 and 2013. Of these, career information was obtained for 19 alumni (based on research conducted between Feb-May 2016):
RI (Research-Intensive) Faculty: typically tenure-track faculty positions (equivalent of the North American Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor positions) in PhD-granting institutions
TI (Teaching-Intensive) Faculty: typically full-time faculty positions in colleges or in institutions not granting PhDs, and teaching faculty at PhD-granting institutions
Term Faculty: faculty in term appointments (e.g. sessional lecturers, visiting assistant professors, etc.)
Sample Employers in Higher Education
University of British Columbia (5)
University of Calgary
Cardiff University
Simon Fraser University
Cairo University
University of Saskatchewan
Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia
University of California - San Francisco
Sample Employers Outside Higher Education
Cannevert
Cedars-Sinai
Everest Clinical Research Services, Inc.
Health Canada
Gilead Sciences
Pharmasave
Sample Job Titles Outside Higher Education
Senior Scientist
Consultant
Associate Director
Scientific Evaluator
Senior Manager
Pharmacy Manager
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Career Outcome Survey
You may view the full report on career outcomes of UBC PhD graduates on outcomes.grad.ubc.ca.
Disclaimer
These data represent historical employment information and do not guarantee future employment prospects for graduates of this program. They are for informational purposes only. Data were collected through either alumni surveys or internet research.
Career Options
Alumni on Success
Research Supervisors
Supervision
Students in research-based programs usually require a faculty member to function as their thesis supervisor. Please follow the instructions provided by each program whether applicants should contact faculty members.
Instructions regarding thesis supervisor contact for this program
Applicants should browse faculty profiles and indicate in their application who they are interested in working with. No commitment from a supervisor prior to applying is necessary, but contacting faculty members is encouraged.
As the PCTH PhD program is research-based, students will need to find a faculty member who will supervise their research project. As faculty can supervise a limited number of students, we strongly encourage students to contact and confirm a supervisor before submitting their application.
Advice and insights from UBC Faculty on reaching out to supervisors
These videos contain some general advice from faculty across UBC on finding and reaching out to a supervisor. They are not program specific.
This list shows faculty members with full supervisory privileges who are affiliated with this program. It is not a comprehensive list of all potential supervisors as faculty from other programs or faculty members without full supervisory privileges can request approvals to supervise graduate students in this program.
- Abdelrahman, Khaled (G protein-coupled receptor pharmacology; Neuropharmacology; Molecular Neuroscience; Molecular Neuroscience; G protein-coupled receptor pharmacology, Neuropharmacology, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience)
- Ambasta, Anshula (Reduction of low-value services in health systems; Reduction of low-value services in health systems)
- Ansermino, John Mark (Other clinical medicine; Sepsis in children; Health information systems; Physiological Monitoring; Technological Innovations; Artificial Intellegence; Automation in healthcare; Global Health; Mobile Health; Outcome prediction; Sepsis in children, Health Information Systems, Physiological Monitoring, Technological Innovations, Artificial Intellegence, Automation in healthcare, Global Health, Mobile Health, Outcome prediction)
- Barr, Alasdair (Mental health and addictions, with a particular emphasis on psychosis and the medications used in its treatment, Anesthesiology)
- Bassett, Ken (Gender and Blindness: testing gender specific community interventions in Upper Egypt, an assessment of community ophthalmology projects in Central India, as well as community ophthalmology projects in Nepal and Tanzania.)
- Bernatchez, Pascal (Cardiovascular diseases; Cardiovascular System; Genetic Diseases; Hypertension; atherosclerosis; angiogenesis; Muscular Diseases; Neuromuscular Diseases; Lipid/Lipoprotein analysis; Lipid Disorders; Pharmacokinetics; Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; angiogenesis; atherosclerosis; endothelial dysfunction; endothelium; Inflammation; lipoproteins; Marfan syndrome; muscular dystrophy; nitric oxide; vascular disease; Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular System, Genetic Diseases, Hypertension, Atherosclerosis, Angiogenesis, Muscular Diseases, Neuromuscular Diseases, Lipid/Lipoprotein analysis, Lipid Disorders, Pharmacokinetics, Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases, Angiogenesis, Atherosclerosis, Endothelial dysfunction, Endothelium, Inflammation, Lipoproteins, Marfan syndrome, Muscular dystrophy, Nitric oxide, Vascular disease)
- Bhagavatula, Sastry (Age-related research, Anesthesiology, plasticity of synaptic transmission, mammalian central nervous system)
- Choi, Peter Tsz Lung (Anesthesiology, peroperative medicine, randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, research education)
- Dormuth, Colin (Clinical Outcomes and Patient Safety)
- Fedida, David (How the heart generates, maintains and regulates electrical activity, Anesthesiology)
- Goerges, Matthias (Electronic health (e-Health); Health information systems (including surveillance); Expert systems technologies in artificial intelligence; Anesthesiology; Medical devices; Human-computer systems and interface; Bio-signal processing and analysis; Digital health; predictive analytics; Anesthesiology; decision support systems; Critical Care Medicine; Biomedical Technologies; Health Care Technologies; Human Computer Interaction and Design; Medical informatics; Software Development; patient-oriented research; Data sharing / open data; Digital Health, Predictive analytics, Anesthesiology, Decision support systems, Critical Care Medicine, Biomedical Technologies, Health Care Technologies, Human Computer Interaction and Design, Medical informatics, Software Development, Patient-oriented research, Data sharing / open data)
- Griesdale, Donald E (Neurocritical care, traumatic brain injury, invasive neuromonitoring, airway management)
- Grocott, Hilary
- Hackett, Tillie-Louise (Molecular determinants of COPD, small airway obstruction, angiotensin signalling, defective airway epithelial differentiation in asthma, human lung cell repository)
- Knight, Darryl (Airway Disease; Lung and airway remodelling; Respiratory diseases; Airway Disease, Lung and airway remodelling, Respiratory diseases)
- Kramer, John (Neuromechanical, Systems Biology, Exercise & Health)
- Laher, Ismail (Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Cardiovascular diseases; animal models of sleep apnea; Diabetes; exercise; oxidative stress; regulation of small artery tone, mechanisms of pressuce-induced vasomotor responses, exercise, sleep; Cardiovascular Diseases, Animal models of sleep apnea, Diabetes, Exercise, Oxidative stress, Regulation of small artery tone, mechanisms of pressuce-induced vasomotor responses, exercise, sleep)
- Loucks, Catrina (Medical, health and life sciences; Pharmacogenomics; Pain management; Medical Genetics; Model organism genetics; Drug reactions; Pharmacogenomics, Pain management, Medical genetics, Model organism genetics, Drug reactions)
- Pang, Catherine C (Cardiovascular pharmacology, education, hypertension)
- Preston, Roanne (obstetric anesthesia)
- Schwarz, Stephan (Medical, health and life sciences; Anesthesiology; Anesthesiology)
- Singh, Amritpal (Other basic medicine and life sciences; single cell multiomics; single cell spatial multiomics; data integration; Machine Learning; Biomarkers; data integration; heart and lung disease; High dimensional data analysis; Bioinformatics; single cell multiomics, single cell spatial multiomics, data integration, machine learning, biomarkers, data integration, heart and lung disease, High dimensional data analysis, Bioinformatics)
- Thompson, Wade (ensuring older persons are taking medications that are a good fit; deprescribing; polypharmacy; ensuring older persons are taking medications that are a good fit, deprescribing, polypharmacy)
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