As the one-year countdown to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games approaches on Feb. 12, UBC experts are ready to comment on a wide variety of Games-related topics.
UBC has also created a 2010 website (www.ubc.ca/2010) with experts, media services and news on Games-related UBC research, learning and facilities. New stories include: one doctor’s efforts to end a potentially deadly technique used by some Paralympians; the new UBC Thunderbird Arena, a 2010 competition venue located at the birthplace of Canada’s national hockey program, and; the Olympic Games Impacts (OGI) Research Project being conducted for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by UBC researchers.
Games Economics
James Brander, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8483; james.brander@sauder.ubc.ca
- Economic impacts
Tsur Sommerville, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8343; tsur.somerville@sauder.ubc.ca
- Impacts on real estate, urban economics
Kin Lo, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8430; kin.lo@sauder.ubc.ca
- Games finances, budgeting
David Gillen, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8352; david.gillen@sauder.ubc.ca
- Pacific Gateway Initiative, transport economics, urban transportation
Paul Cubbon, Sauder School of Business
604.827.3199; paul.cubbon@sauder.ubc.ca
- Sports marketing
Stan Hamilton, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8558; stanley.hamilton@sauder.ubc.ca
- Impacts on real estate
Community Impacts & Sustainability
Margot Young, Faculty of Law
604.822.9685, myoung@law.ubc.ca
- Women’s ski-jumping legal challenge, homelessness, poverty, sustainability, civil liberties and social impacts in 2010
Martin Schechter, Population & Public Health
604.822.3910, martin.schechter@ubc.ca
- Vancouver safe-injection programs
Michael Krausz, Addictions Research
604.806.9113, michael.krausz@ubc.ca
- Mental illness and drug addiction
Julio Montaner, B.C. Centre for HIV/AIDS, President of the International AIDS Society
Contact via: Stephen Burega, 604.623.3007 (x. 228)
- HIV/AIDS, population health
Margo Fryer, Community & Regional Planning
604.822.1602, margo.fryer@ubc.ca
- UBC Learning Exchange, Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Jim Frankish, Healthcare & Epidemiology
604.822.9205, 604.822.2258, frankish@interchange.ubc.ca
- Population health, homelessness, health disparities, healthy communities
Bob Sparks, Human Kinetics
604.822.9050, res@interchange.ubc.ca
- Olympic Games Impact Research Project
Graham Riches, Social Work
604.738.9644, 604.822.0782, graham.riches@ubc.ca
- Social impacts, poverty, hunger
Ben Perrin, Faculty of Law
604.822.1208, perrin@law.ubc.ca
- The increased risk of human-trafficking and sex tourism around mega-events
Penny Gurstein, School of Regional and Community Planning
604.822.6065; gurstein@interchange.ubc.ca
- Urban planning
Security & Law
Michael Byers, Global Politics & International Law
604.822.3049, michael.byers@ubc.ca
- Games security, civil liberties
Allen Sens, Political Science
822.604.6127, asens@politics@ubc.ca
- International security
Mira Sundara Rajan
822.827.5339, sundararajan@law.ubc.ca
- Censorship, copyright, law, appropriation of Aboriginal culture
Sustainability
Peter Nemetz, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8443; peter.nemetz@sauder.ubc.ca
- Sustainability and business, environmental economics, transportation and environmental policies
James Tansey, Sauder School of Business
604.827.4443, 604.822, 8625, james.tansey@ubc.ca
- Sustainability, carbon offsets, applied ethics
Hisham Zerriffi, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability
604.827.4468, hisham.zerriffi@ubc.ca
William Rees, Community Planning
wrees@interchange.ubc.ca
- Ecological footprint, sustainability
Olympic History and Experience
Jean Barman, History
604.224.3983, jean.barman@ubc.ca
- B.C. history, including Aboriginal history and Vancouver history
Fred Hume, UBC Athletics
604.687.2381; fred_hume@hotmail.com
- UBC athletic history
Robert Hindmarch, School of Human Kinetics (Prof. Emeritus)
604.786.9304; drbobh@interchange.ubc.ca
- General manager of Canada’s UBC-based 1964 Olympic hockey team, former vice-president of Canadian Olympic Association
Health and Performance
Andrie Krassioukov, ICORD
604.675.8819, 604.675.8826 (lab), krassioukov@icord.org
- Paralympian performance-enhancement, spinal cord injuries
Doug Clement, Human Kinetics
604.261.6220, 604.837.1933, dclement007@mac.com
- Sports medicine, coaching, the Olympic experience, (participated in nine Games)
Jack Taunton, Sports Medicine, Chief Medical Officer for 2010
604.822.4122, jack.taunton@ubc.ca
- 2010 medical programs, doping, sports medicine
Nadine Nembhard, Dept. of Physical Therapy, Athletics Canada
n_nembhard@shaw.ca
- How athletes are preparing for 2010 Games
Bob McCormack, Dept. of Orthopedics, Team Canada Chief Medical Officer
Contact through Catherine Loiacano, UBC Public Affairs 604.822.2644, 604.209.3048 (cell); catherine.loiacano@ubc.ca
- Medical issues related to Canadian athletes
Michael Brauer, School of Environmental Health
brauer@interchange.ubc.ca
- Health effects of air pollution, indoor air quality and the measurement of particulate matter
Andrea Reid, Physiotherapist, Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre
604.880.7342, a_reid_@hotmail.com
- Orthopedic and sport related conditions
UBC and the Olympics
Stephen Owen, Vice-President, External, Legal and Community Relations
604.822.6330, stephen.owen@ubc.ca
- UBC’s Games-related learning, research and facilities
Geoff Atkins, Assoc. Vice President, Land & Building Services
604.822.4167, 604.219-5690 (cell), geoff.atkins@ubc.ca
- UBC impacts, sustainability, transportation, infrastructure
Bob Philip, Athletics and Recreation
Contact through Ben Shach at 604.822.9115, varsity@interchange.ubc.ca
- UBC varsity athletes, UBC Thunderbird Arena
Kavie Toor, Athletics and Recreation
604.822.1688, ktoor@interchange.ubc.ca
- UBC Thunderbird Arena
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