Tania Bubela
Tania Bubela | |
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Born | Canberra, Australia |
Spouse | David S. Hik |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Education | BS.c., 1988, Australian National University PhD, University of Sydney JD., 2003, University of Alberta |
Thesis | Social effects of sterilising free-ranging Vixens (Vulpes vulpes L.) in subalpine Australia (1995) |
Academic advisors | Timothy Caulfield |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Biological sciences |
Institutions | University of Toronto University of Alberta Simon Fraser University |
Tania Marjorie Bubela FRSC is a professor and dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.
Education
[edit]Born and raised in Australia, Bubela earned her bachelor's degree in 1988 from the Australian National University and her PhD from the University of Sydney.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1995, Bubela moved to Canada to teach in the Department of Zoology at the University of Toronto. She later moved to Alberta in 1999 to attend the University of Alberta as a grad student.[2] After earning her law degree, Bubela clerked for Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada.[3]
After passing the Law Society of Alberta, Bubela earned a position with the University of Alberta School of Business and later in their School of Public Health.[2] Beginning in 2008, Bubela became a Principal Investigator with the Canadian Stem Cell Network.[1]
She later collaborated with Christopher McCabe to co-lead the PACEOMICS program on the development of cost-effective personalized medicine.[4][5] In 2012, Bubela co-edited "Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Case Studies and Conflicting Interests" with E. Richard Gold, which was published through the Cambridge University Press.[6]
In 2014, Bubela was promoted to Full Professor[7] and named Associate Dean of Research. She held this position for two years before Kim Raine replaced her.[8] During the 2014–15 academic year, Bubela was the recipient of a McCalla Professorship, an award given to "outstanding academics who have made significant contributions to their field of research, teaching and learning."[9] The next year, Bubela was appointed to the inaugural Steering Committee by the Council of Canadian Academies[10] and sat on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Peer Review Committee.[11] In 2017, Bubela was named Dean of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU).[12]
While at SFU, Bubela helped establish the Indigenous Pathways Planning Group.[13] She was also elected a member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2018.[14]
In 2019, Bubela was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[15] On March 5, 2019, Bubela was elected a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Health System Transformation and Sustainability.[16] During the 2019–20 academic year, Bubela sat on the 2019–2020 Clinical Trials BC Advisory Council.[17]
Selected publications
[edit]The following is a list of selected publications:[18]
- Genetic resources and traditional knowledge: case studies and conflicting interests. Cheltenham: Elgar. 2012. ISBN 9781848442238.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Tania Bubela". cca-reports.ca. 9 March 2017. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ a b Freeland, Ben (13 December 2017). "Alumna Scales New Heights as SFU's New Dean of Health Sciences". ualberta.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "Tania Bubela". cafe-genetic-testing-ab.mcgill-cihr-ig.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ Brown, Michael (19 December 2014). "Taking health discoveries from cutting edge to clinic". folio.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "PACE'Omics: Personalized, Accessible, Cost-Effective Applications of 'Omics Technologies". genomecanada.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ Hodgkin, Toby (January 2013). T. Bubela; E. R. Gold. Cheltenham (eds.). "Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Case Studies and Conflicting Interests. Edited by T. Bubela and E. R. Gold. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (2012), pp. xiv + 373. £97.00. ISBN 978-1-84844-223-8". Experimental Agriculture. 49 (1): 152. doi:10.1017/S0014479712000877. ISSN 0014-4797. S2CID 86031818.
- ^ "October to December 2014". ualberta.ca. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "July to September 2016". ualberta.ca. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "McCalla Abstracts 2014-2015". ualberta.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "CCA Launches New Project on Regenerative Medicine". cca-reports.ca. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "2015-2016 Peer Review Committee – Foundation Program – Stage 1". cihr-irsc.gc.ca. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "SFU welcomes Tania Bubela as new Dean of Health Sciences". sfu.ca. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "Implementing 34 calls to action for reconciliation at SFU". sfu.ca. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "Congratulations & Welcome to our 2018 Fellows!" (PDF). cahs-acss.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "FHS dean named to Royal Society of Canada". sfu.ca. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "News and Updates". ihsts.ca. Archived from the original on 16 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "ADVISORY COUNCIL". clinicaltrialsbc.ca. Archived from the original on 16 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "Bubela, Tania". worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
External links
[edit]- Living people
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
- 21st-century Canadian women scientists
- Academic staff of the University of Toronto
- Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
- University of Alberta alumni
- Australian National University alumni
- Australian women scientists