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Division of Geriatric Medicine
Geriatric Medicine is the branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion for seniors and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. A Geriatrician is an expert in how medical conditions impact one another, in how each medication interacts with others and how both medical conditions and medications uniquely affect you as you age.
The PHC Division of Geriatric Medicine has a wide range of services spanning all of the acute sites within Providence Health Care. We continue to innovate and build our services, striving to provide the very best in wrap around multi-disciplinary care for seniors. Our services support patients and families as they transition from the emergency department, to acute medical wards, to specialized rehabilitation units and finally back to the community with outpatient follow up and community outreach services. We continue to recruit division members that have expertise in trainee education, research and clinical subspecialties including dementia care, falls, perioperative medicine, continence care and clinical ethics.
Dr. Spencer is a clinician at SPH who practices acute internal medicine and geriatric medicine. She is completing a masters of education with an interest in assessment and competency by design. She is currently leading quantitive and qualitative research about the diagnosis of “failure to thrive” given to older patients on acute hospital admissions. She also runs a multidisciplinary continence clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital and has also done some quality improvement research in this area.
Jocelyn Chase is a staff Geriatrician at St. Paul's Hospital and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. She completed medical school at the University of Alberta and her residency and fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Jocelyn also holds a Masters in Science in Bioethics from Columbia University in New York. Her academic interests include promoting improved substituted decision making for those with dementia.
Jocelyn holds medical resident and student teaching roles with in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine on the Clinical Teaching Unit at St. Paul's Hospital. Jocelyn also leads the coordination and delivery of medical ethics education to medical trainees and Staff Physicians at PHC.
Dr. Mark Fok is a specialist in Internal Medicine and sub-specialist in Geriatric Medicine. He graduated from the UBC Internal Medicine Program and subsequently completed two years of fellowship at the UBC Geriatric Medicine program, where he served as chief resident of both programs. He will be completing his Masters in Patient Safety and Quality Care at Johns Hopkins University in 2022. His interests include drug therapy in the elderly, medication appropriateness, osteoporosis, dementia and patient safety & quality. He is a staff consultant at Vancouver General, Mt. St. Joseph's and St. Paul's Hospitals.
Dr. Lai completed his Internal Medicine residency and Geriatric Medicine fellowship at the University of British Columbia. He enjoys advocating for better care for older adults, particularly in the area of falls and fracture prevention. He works at the Geriatric Assessment Program in Richmond and at the osteoporosis clinics in Vancouver.
Dr. Lee is a member of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and an Associate member of the Division of Neurology with UBC’s Department of Medicine. He completed his fellowship in Geriatric medicine at the University of British Columbia. He also completed a behavioural neurology fellowship at the University of Toronto. His clinical and research interests focus on Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.
Dr. Lupton completed her Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine training at the University of British Columbia. She works primarily at St. Paul’s Hospital doing inpatient and outpatient geriatric medicine, as well as working on the Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU).
Dr. Sy is a Geriatrician and Geriatric Diabetologist at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. She completed medical school training at The Cumming School of Medicine (University of Calgary), and Internal Medicine Residency and Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Dr. Sy also completed a Geriatric Diabetes Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, USA. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at UBC and has a special interest in diabetes technology and management in older adults.
Dr. Zhang is a Geriatrician practicing at Providence Health Care. She graduated from medical school at University of Alberta, then moved to Vancouver to complete her Internal Medicine Residency and Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Zhang enjoys a mixed practice of caring for older adults in hospital and in an outpatient setting. She has a special interest in dementia care, frailty, and cancer care in older adults.
Division of Geriatric Medicine
9B - 1081 Burrard Street
Vancouver, B.C., V6Z 1Y6
Telephone:604-806-8069
Fax: 604-806-8390
Email: wyee1@providencehealth.bc.ca
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Dr. Martha Spencer, Clinical Assistant Professor
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