2024 Kerston Award Recipients Announced: Vikram Bubber & John Dub

The UBC Health Awards Committee has announced the recipients of the 2024 R. Paul Kerston award for outstanding community educators who have expanded student learning beyond traditional professional boundaries and made a difference to student learning in health and human service programs at UBC.

Vikram Bubber has been a Health Mentor since 2020, mentoring 18 students from 7 health professional programs. He also co-facilitated the first-ever interprofessional activity for 47 students at the UBC Fraser site in Surrey. He has created educational videos and co-authored a scholarly publication about how patient stories can cultivate deeper understandings of patient experiences. Congratulations Vikram!

John Dub has been a Health Mentor since 2020, mentoring 16 students from 7 different disciplines. He has also been a facilitator for an interprofessional collaborative decision making workshop and taught hundreds of pharmacy and medical students. John presented the outcomes of some of his teaching in pharmacy at the 14th UBC Celebration of Scholarship Day in 2024. Congratulations John!

Vikram and John will be honoured at the annual UBC Health Awards reception in June. Watch for the next call for nominations in the Fall!