More than 20 UBC experts are available to comment on the Sochi Winter Games. Follow @UBCNews for more Games-related experts, Q&As and feature stories.
Athlete health, sport medicine and doping
Bob McCormack (Chief Medical Officer for Canadian Olympic team)
Faculty of Medicine
Tel: 604.526.7886
Email: rmccormack@olympic.ca
- Medical director for Canadian Olympic Committee
- Athlete health issues and injuries
- Doping issues
James Tansey
Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.827.4443
Email: james.tansey@sauder.ubc.ca
- Travelling to Sochi to discuss how he helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the 2014 Games
- Evolving sustainability of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Sustainable business issues
Andrei Krassioukov
ICORD, Faculty of Medicine
Tel: 604.675.8819
Email: krassioukov@icord.org
- Travelling to Paralympics to study athletes’ dangerous practice of boosting blood pressure to enhance athletic performance
- Athletes and spinal cord injuries
Margot Young
Faculty of Law
Tel: 604.822.9685
Email: myoung@law.ubc.ca
- LGBT issues and the role of the Olympics in shining a spotlight on human rights abuses
- Social justice, human rights, gender and sports
Lisa Sundstrom
Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604.822.6331
Email: lisa.sundstrom@ubc.ca
- Russia and politics
Anne Gorsuch
Dept. of History
Tel: 604.827.3560
Email: gorsuch@mail.ubc.ca
- History of Sochi and Russia
Becki Ross
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Tel: 604.822.4389 ; 604.822.9487
Email: becki.ross@ubc.ca
- LGBT issues and the Games
- Transgender participation in sport
ATHLETE HEALTH, SPORT MEDICINE AND DOPING
Bob McCormack (Chief Medical Officer for Canadian Olympic team)
Faculty of Medicine
Tel: 604.526.7886
Cell: 778.239.4606
Email: rmccormack@olympic.ca
- Medical director for Canadian Olympic Committee
- Athlete health issues and injuries
- Doping issues
Jack Taunton
Cell: 604.454.7694
Email: jack.taunton@ubc.ca
- Sport medicine, Olympic athlete health
- Concussions
- Doping and doping education for athletes
- Chief Medical Officer for 2010 Winter Olympic Games
Andrei Krassioukov
ICORD, Faculty of Medicine
Tel: 604.675.8819
Email: krassioukov@icord.org
- Travelling to Sochi Paralympics to study dangerous practice of boosting blood pressure to enhance athletic performance
- Athletes and spinal cord injuries
Peter Cripton
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; ICORD
Tel: 604.822.6629
Email: cripton@mech.ubc.ca
- Neck and spinal cord injury
- Helmet design; Conducted a helmet review for Speed Skating Canada and Alpine Canada
Peter Crocker
School of Kinesiology
Tel: 604.822.5580
Email: peter.crocker@ubc.ca
- Stress/pressure, coping and emotion in elite athletes
- Confidence
- Body image issues
Francesco Duina
Dept. of Sociology
Tel: 604.822.2660
Email: francesco.duina@ubc.ca
- Our cultural obsession with winning
- The effects of winning and losing on athletes
- Author of Winning, Reflections on an American obsession
James Tansey
Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.827.4443
Email:james.tansey@sauder.ubc.ca
- Travelling to Sochi to discuss how he helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the 2014 Games
- Evolving sustainability of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Sustainable business issues
Matt Dolf
School of Kinesiology, Centre for Sport and Sustainability
Tel: 778.322.9556
Email: matt.dolf@ubc.ca
- Carbon footprint and environmental assessment of sport mega-events
- Developed the Sustainable Sport and Event Toolkit (SSET) supported by VANOC and the IOC to provide sustainability guidance to sporting organizations
Robert VanWynsberghe
Centre for Sport and Sustainability
Tel: 604.822.3580
Email: robert.vanwynsberghe@ubc.ca
- Conducted the Olympic Games Impact study for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Found that locals enjoy the biggest benefits of hosting the Games including improved transit and facilities
- Canada and sport
Tsur Somerville
Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.822.8343
Email: Tsur.Somerville@sauder.ubc.ca
- Economic impact of Games – jobs and housing
- Found that real estate prices do not increase or decrease in host cities
Robert Hindmarch
School of Kinesiology
Email: bob.hindmarch@ubc.ca
- Olympic history and Canadian participation in the Olympics
- Attended every Olympics from 1960 to 1998
- General manager of Canada’s UBC-based 1964 Olympic hockey team, former vice-president of Canadian Olympic Association
Timothy Stainton
Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship, Dept. of Social Work
Tel: 604.822.0782
Email: timothy.stainton@ubc.ca
- How the Games influence our view of people with disabilities
Allen Sens
Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 822.604.6127
Email: asens@politics.ubc.ca
- International security
Margot Young
Faculty of Law
Tel: 604.822.9685
Email: myoung@law.ubc.ca
- LGBT issues and the role of the Olympics in shining a spotlight on human rights abuses
- Social justice, human rights, gender and sports
Joe Weiler
Faculty of Law
Tel: 604.822.4246, 604.209.3904
Email: weiler@law.ubc.ca
- Sports law and law of Olympic Games
- UBC Olympic Studies Research Team
Andrei Krassioukov
ICORD, Faculty of Medicine
Tel: 604.675.8819
Email: krassioukov@icord.org
- Travelling to Sochi to study dangerous practice of boosting blood pressure to enhance athletic performance
- Athletes and spinal cord injuries
Timothy Stainton
Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship, Dept. of Social Work
Tel: 604.822.0782
Email: timothy.stainton@ubc.ca
- How the Paralympics impact attitudes towards people with disabilities
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