ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Liam Brunham, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a Canada Research Chair in Precision Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. He completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at UBC, followed by the Clinician Investigator Program in Singapore. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, and is certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Clinical Lipidology. He is a Principal Investigator at the UBC Centre for Heart and Lung Innovation. His research focuses on the role of genetics in metabolic and cardiovascular disease and the response to medications. He has been recognized with a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar award, a Heart & Stroke Foundation National New Investigator award, and in 2017 was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40.