Stefan Grzybowski, FCFPC, is Canadian obstetrician and researcher in rural medicine. He is a professor of obstetrics at UBC Faculty of Medicine in British Columbia and a co-director of the Centre for Rural Health Research and director of the Rural Health Services Research Network of British Columbia.
Early life and education
editGrzybowski was born into a physician family; his father was a physician and clinical researcher, and his mother an obstetrician.[1] He earned his medical degree from the University of British Columbia and his Master's of Clinical Science from the University of Western Ontario.[1][2]
Career
editGrzybowski began his career as a family physician in Queen Charlotte on the Haida Gwaii islands of British Columbia, where he began to study safety issues in birthing and more broadly, medical outcomes in rural populations.[1] After twelve years[2] he moved to Vancouver, where he worked at Three Bridges Health Centre from 1994 to 2006;[3] while there he co-published a study of street prices for opioids, one of the earliest studies of pricing for resold prescription drugs.[4] As of January 2020[update] he is a professor in the Department of Family Practice at UBC Faculty of Medicine, co-director of the Centre for Rural Health Research,[2] and director of the Rural Health Services Research Network of British Columbia while occasionally continuing to practise as a locum in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.[3]
Honors
editThe Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine of the College of Family Physicians of Canada honored Grzybowski as a Family Physician of the Year (2002) and Family Medicine Researcher of the Year (2009), and in 2019 gave him a Lifetime Achievement in Family Medicine Research Award.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Dr. Stefan Grzybowski, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia". Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Stefan Grzybowski, Professor, Dep't of Family Practice, UBC". Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ a b "Stefan Grzybowski - Open Chapter Physician Lead". Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice, General Practice Services Committee, Physicians of BC. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ Kelly Crowe (June 2, 2018). "New questions about old Canadian study foreshadowing opioid crisis". CBC News. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
External links
edit- Stefan Grzybowski at UBC Faculty of Medicine
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