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Welcome to the UBC Division of Neurology

The Division of Neurology is one of the largest divisions within the Department of Medicine, and spans many activities in clinical, research and educational spheres. The majority of these activities are conducted at Vancouver General Hospital, UBC Hospital, Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, BC Children Hospital, St. Paul’s Hospital and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health.

It is nationally and internationally recognized for its clinical and research programs in multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative disorders including dementias, motor neuronal disease, Parkinson’s disease and stroke.

The Division of Neurology is consistently successful in obtaining peer reviewed grant funding from agencies in Canada and internationally. Divisional members make important contributions to both basic neuroscience and clinical neurological literature; generated more than 200 publications with research funding over $20M in recent year.

Clinically, the division provides province-wide tertiary and quaternary care for a variety of neurological disorders. The Division has clinical outreach to many communities around the province, including Kitimat, Queen Charlotte, Masset & Whitehorse and Yukon.
Faculty members are actively involved in teaching and supervising all levels of students and trainees from undergraduate to postgraduate students, clinical and research fellows. The Residency Training Program in Neurology is the one of the largest in the country.

Kudos

• 2025 UBC DoM Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety – recipients Kristine Chapman and Hannah Briemberg
• 2025 UBC DoM Clinical Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence – recipient Esma Dilli
• The King Charles III Coronation Medal – recipient Thalia Field
• Strategic grant as co-investigator from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation (CHNF) for the project SCI-LLM: Augmenting Large Language Models for SCI Knowledge Translation of $550,000 – recipient Nader Fallah

Faculty Promotion

• Shannon Kolind, UBC appointment track changed to Tenure as from July 1, 2025
• Thalia Field, promoted to Professor as from July 1, 2024
• Laura Wilson, promoted to Clinical Associate Professor as from February 1, 2024
• Niall Davidson, promoted to Clinical Assistant Professor as from January 1, 2024

Welcome New Faculty Members

• Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad as Clinical Assistant Professor effective February 1, 2026
• Dvir Dori as Clinical Assistant Professor effective January 1, 2026
• Sina Marzoughi as Clinical Assistant Professor effective December 1, 2025
• Amokrane Chebini as Clinical Assistant Professor effective September 1, 2025
• Alexandra Sequeira as Clinical Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2025
• Diya Shi as Clinical Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2025
• Christina Zhang as Clinical Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2025
• Jason Chan appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor effective June 1, 2025
• Diana Kim appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor effective March 1, 2025

2025-2026