Above photo: Long-standing physicians from the Department of Family Practice were among the 199 VGH physicians marking career milestones during the recent Vancouver Medical Staff Awards.
Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)-Vancouver is home to talented and world-renowned physicians who have dedicated their careers to patient care and medical advancement. Nearly 200 of our esteemed physicians reached career milestones in 2018 and were recently celebrated at the annual Vancouver Medical Staff Awards on June 18.
Hosted by Dr. Simon Rabkin, president of the Vancouver Medical, Dental & Allied Staff Association, celebrants, family members and colleagues filled VGH Paetzold Auditorium close to capacity for a lively occasion honouring the contributions and commitment of our long-service physicians.
Congratulations to our colleagues and VCH-Vancouver Acute and Community 2018 Years of Service Award recipients.

Honourees:
Dr. Henry Sung
| 35 years
|
Dr. Penelope Osborne
| 30 years
|
Dr. Himat Vaghadia
| 30 years
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Dr. Isabella Martin
| 25 years
|
Dr. Kelly Mayson
| 25 years
|
Dr. Daryl Giffin | 20 years
|
Dr. Bjorn Bitter-Suermann | 15 years
|
Dr. Peter Choi | 15 years
|
Dr. Michael Negraeff | 15 years
|
Dr. Juliet Atherstone | 10 years
|
Dr. Baljinder Dhaliwal | 10 years
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Honourees:
Dr. Christine Eckel
| 40 years
|
Dr. Kenneth Chow
| 20 years
|
Dr. David Sowden
| 10 years
|


Honourees:
Dr. Monte Glanzberg
| 45 years
|
Dr. Victor Bergson
| 40 years
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Dr. Frank Hou
| 40 years
|
Dr. Keith Hatlelid
| 35 years
|
Dr. Anthony Wilson
| 35 years
|
Dr. Margaret Coburn
| 30 years
|
Dr. Thomas Ho
| 30 years
|
Dr. Gloaria Huang
| 30 years
|
Dr. Jennifer Morwen-Smith
| 30 years
|
Dr. Margo Sweeny
| 30 years
|
Dr. Susie Turgeon
| 30 years
|
Dr. Wendy Yeomans
| 30 years
|
Dr. Gisele Comeau
| 25 years
|
Dr. Duncan Etches
| 25 years
|
Dr. Mary Hinchliffe
| 25 years
|
Dr. Laurie Logan
| 25 years
|
Dr. Lise Loubert
| 25 years
|
Dr. Viktor Neumann
| 25 years
|
Dr. Sheilagh Phillips
| 25 years
|
Dr. Margaret Wood
| 25 years
|
Dr. Joanne Young
| 25 years
|
Dr. Margery Zapf-Gilje
| 25 years
|
Dr. Faye Chow
| 20 years
|
Dr. Heather Jenkins
| 20 years
|
Dr. Timothy Kam
| 20 years
|
Dr. Kathryn Barbour
| 15 years
|
Dr. Ann Hansson
| 15 years
|
Dr. Howard James
| 15 years
|
Dr. Peter Krykorka
| 15 years
|
Dr. Donald Lee
| 15 years
|
Dr. Thomas Mayson
| 15 years
|
Dr. John Ridley
| 15 years |
Dr. Kumar Shivdasani
| 15 years
|
Dr. David Tsung
| 15 years
|
Dr. Alexander Vastardis
| 15 years
|
Dr. Wei-Ting Chen
| 10 years
|
Dr. Renee Fernandez
| 10 years
|
Dr. Sara Forsyth
| 10 years
|
Dr. Valerie Imperial
| 10 years
|
Dr. Saad Jabbour
| 10 years
|
Dr. David Li
| 10 years
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Dr. Daphne Lobb
| 10 years
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Dr. Nori MacGowan
| 10 years
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Dr. Mark McLean
| 10 years
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Dr. Roderick Tukker
| 10 years
|
Dr. Nataliya Vostretsova
| 10 years
|

Honourees:
Dr. Victor Huckell
| 40 years
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Dr. Donald Ricci
| 40 years
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Dr. H.C. George Wong
| 40 years
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Dr. Neil Reiner
| 35 years
|
Dr. Michael Hayden
| 35 years
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Dr. Gillian Gibson
| 35 years
|
Dr. Johnny Jue
| 30 years
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Dr. Wing Kwan
| 30 years
|
Dr. Larry Dian
| 30 years
|
Dr. Graydon Meneilly
| 30 years
|
Dr. Paul Hoskins
| 30 years
|
Dr. George Moore
| 30 years
|
Dr. John Wade
| 30 years
|
Dr. Amanda Hill
| 25 years
|
Dr. Andrew Travlos
| 25 years
|
Dr. Sammy Chan
| 20 years
|
Dr. Sandra Sirrs
| 20 years
|
Dr. Baljinder Salh
| 20 years
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Dr. Vinay Dhingra
| 20 years
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Dr. Jacek Jastrzebski
| 20 years
|
Dr. Rajinder Singh
| 20 years
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Dr. Andrew Woolfenden
| 20 years
|
Dr. Simon Huang
| 20 years
|
Dr. Eve Aymong
| 15 years
|
Dr. Graham Wong
| 15 years
|
Dr. Michael Byrne
| 15 years
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Dr. Isabella Tai
| 15 years
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Dr. Maria Chung
| 15 years
|
Dr. Janet Kushner-Kow
| 15 years
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Dr. Raewyn Broady
| 15 years
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Dr. William Henderson
| 15 years
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Dr. Steven Sutcliffe
| 15 years
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Dr. Sharlene Gill
| 15 years
|
Dr. Janessa Laskin
| 15 years
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Dr. Kerry Savage
| 15 years
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Dr. Beverly Jung
| 15 years
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Dr. Peter Neufeld
| 15 years
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Dr. Kristine Chapman
| 15 years
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Dr. Martin McKeown
| 15 years
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Dr. Colleen Murphy
| 15 years
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Dr. Jolanda Cibere
| 15 years
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Dr. Luke Chen
| 10 years
|
Dr. Agnes Lee
| 10 years
|
Dr. David Chandler
| 10 years
|
Dr. Nasim Mahmoudi
| 10 years
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Dr. Olwyn Johnston
| 10 years
|
Dr. Samuel Yip
| 10 years
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Dr. Sami Youakim
| 10 years
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Dr. Lisa Caillier
| 10 years
|
Dr. Daniel DeForge
| 10 years
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Dr. Adriana-Ioana Mereu
| 10 years
|

Honourees:
Dr. David Butler
| 35 years
|
Dr. Lydia Chen
| 30 years
|
Dr. Katherine Paton
| 30 years
|
Dr. Valerie White
| 30 years
|
Dr. Jeffrey Blicker
| 25 years
|
Dr. Simon Holland
| 25 years
|
Dr. Michael Potter
| 25 years
|
Dr. Vincent Wong
| 15 years
|
Dr. David Albiani
| 10 years
|
Dr. Paul Mackenzie
| 10 years
|
Dr. Andrew Merkur
| 10 years
|
Dr. David Rossman
| 10 years
|

Honourees:
Dr. Richard Crawford
| 15 years
|
Dr. Andre Mattman
| 15 years
|
Dr. Katherine Chipperfield
| 15 years
|
Dr. Carol Lee
| 10 years
|
Dr. Kristine Roland
| 10 years
|

Honourees:
Dr. Max Ohnona
| 35 years
|
Dr. Joseph Stern
| 30 years
|
Dr. Howard Green
| 25 years
|
Dr. Timothy Kalla
| 25 years
|

Honourees:
Dr. Anthony Sehon
| 35 years
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Dr. Soma Ganesan
| 30 years
|
Dr. Raymond Lam
| 30 years
|
Dr. Kathleen McGarvey
| 25 years
|
Dr. Sheila Nolan
| 25 years
|
Dr. Lakshmi Yatham
| 25 years
|
Dr. Siemion Altman
| 20 years
|
Dr. Chinnapalli Manjunath
| 15 years
|
Dr. Chun Tham
| 15 years
|
Dr. Astrid Vik
| 15 years
|
Dr. Muzumel Birlik
| 10 years
|
Dr. Jason Coupland
| 10 years
|
Dr. Alexander Gubanov
| 10 years
|
Dr. George Hadjipavlou
| 10 years
|
Dr. Magdalena Ilcewicz-Klimek
| 10 years
|
Dr. Susan More
| 10 years
|

Honourees:
Dr. Michael Janusz
| 35 years
|
Dr. Charles Scudamore
| 35 years
|
Dr. Richard Warren
| 35 years
|
Dr. Virginia Gudas
| 30 years
|
Dr. R. Mark Meloche
| 30 years
|
Dr. Graeme Duncan
| 30 years
|
Dr. York Hsiang
| 30 years
|
Dr. Gary Redekop
| 25 years
|
Dr. Thomas Zwimpfer
| 25 years
|
Dr. Linda Rammage
| 25 years
|
Dr. Alex Russell
| 15 years
|
Dr. Peter Skarsgard
| 15 years
|
Dr. Charles Haw
| 15 years
|
Dr. John Bartlett
| 15 years
|
Dr. David Wong
| 15 years
|
Dr. Arko Demianczuk
| 15 years
|
Dr. John Yee
| 15 years
|
Dr. Sheina Macadam
| 10 years
|
Dr. Peter Lim
| 10 years
|
Honourees:
Dr. Clifford Kitson
| 30 years
|
Dr. Sheila Au
| 15 years
|
Dr. Chih-Ho Hong
| 15 years
|
Honourees:
Dr. Douglas McKnight
| 25 years
|
Dr. Anna-Maria Carvalho
| 10 years
|
Dr. Anthony Chahal
| 10 years
|
Dr. Ka Cheung
| 10 years
|
Dr. Eric Grafstein
| 10 years
|
Dr. Erik Vu
| 10 years
|
Honourees:
Dr. Ellen Giesbrecht
| 20 years
|
Dr. Alain Gagnon
| 20 years
|
Dr. Nancy Kent
| 20 years
|
Dr. Kenneth Lim
| 20 years
|
Dr. Francine Tessier
| 20 years
|
Dr. Gavin Stuart
| 15 years
|
Dr. Mark Carey
| 10 years
|
Dr. Chantal Mayer
| 10 years
|
Honourees:
Dr. Charles Fisher
| 25 years
|
Dr. Brain Kwon
| 15 years
|
Dr. Kelly Lefaivre
| 10 years
|
Honourees:
Dr. Anne Buckley
| 30 years
|
Dr. Gerald Legiehn
| 20 years
|
Dr. Luck Louis
| 15 years
|
Dr. Manraj Heran
| 15 years
|
Dr. David Liu
| 10 years
|
Dr. Jason Chew
| 10 years
|
Honourees:
Dr. S. Larry Goldenberg
| 25 years
|
Dr. William Gourlay
| 20 years
|
Dr. Ryan Paterson
| 15 years
|
Dr. Kenneth Poon
| 15 years
|
Dr. Joel Teichman
| 15 years
|
Dr. Peter Black
| 10 years
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