Staff Spotlights

Perfusion Week recognizes and brings awareness to the perfusionist’s crucial role within cardiovascular surgical teams and in providing high-quality patient care. Join us in showing appreciation to all perfusionists for their ongoing efforts over the…

Continuing our highlight of Psychology Month, we are excited to shine a light on Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) Psychology Residency Program, one of Canada’s longest-running psychology residency programs.

Meet Charlene Willerton, Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) working at the Outpatient Swallowing Clinic at UBC Hospital. The clinic provides assessment, education and treatment for feeding and swallowing problems.

Eighteen years is certainly a long time, but Vivian is passionate about working as a physiotherapist PT.

​Work with a variety of clients, enjoy flexibility, and build rewarding relationships – these are just a few of the benefits Tony enjoys while working in the Community.

Today we are pleased to shine a light on Matthew Zhiss, a social worker on the Acute Care for Elders unit who also holds a permanent line on the Hospitalist Medicine program at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH).

First up on our highlight of Physiotherapy Month is Taylor Wilson, a physiotherapist (PT) working with acute in-patient and out-patients at Squamish General Hospital with Vancouver Coastal Health.

Continuing our celebration of occupational therapy month, we are excited to highlight Jill Wong and Melissa Clippingdale.

Up next on our highlight of Occupational Therapy month is Caleigh Goulding, who started with Vancouver Coastal Health in 2019 as an Occupational Therapist (OT) at the BC Psychosis Program (BCPP) at UBC Hospital.

We are pleased to feature Karen Tran, a Nuclear Medicine Technologist working in Richmond Hospital.

Sarah always knew she wanted to work in health care and was drawn to sonography because of the degree of knowledge of anatomy and physiology that’s required, and the fact that you spend a lot of time with patients.

Meet Jerique Arqueza, a clinical dietitian with the renal program at Vancouver General Hospital. Jerique works with the interdisciplinary team to care for the in-centre hemodialysis patients, nocturnal hemodialysis and home hemodialysis patients.