To me, the data did not support this conclusion. In 1998, the world believed that advanced prostate cancer was independent of androgen and independent of the androgen receptor, a transcription factor that mediates the effects of androgen. It never occurred to me at the time that this path would lead to me starting a biotechnology company and taking my discoveries into clinical trials. It was the start of a 20 year journey of research to pursue that idea.
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This learning environment plus my background in biochemistry/molecular biology were the catalyst for an idea I had about why the current treatments for advanced prostate cancer failed. Two years of intense training with him and his staff provided me exposure to patients, basic scientists, pathologists, urologists, and medical and radiation oncologists. Nicolas Bruchovsky, was a clinician scientist treating prostate cancer patients. The most memorable day in my career was the day I was recruited to the BC Cancer Agency as a post-doctoral fellow to work on advanced prostate cancer.
We are fortunate to have traveled to Raja Ampat, Indonesia, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico and Kona, Hawaii this past winter. We snowboard in the winter, and spend as much time as possible traveling (and scuba diving) to avoid the cold. We especially enjoy the Okanagan summers mountain biking, hiking, boating, kayaking, stand up paddle boarding and swimming in the lake. It has been nice to be closer to family, many of whom still live in the Interior. My husband and I are enjoying the Okanagan lifestyle, and are lucky to be living right on the lake. Luckily, I do have a more experienced microbiologist available as a mentor. I have been recently appointed the discipline director for medical microbiology in Interior Health, which will allow me to develop my leadership skills going forth. It has been exciting to see our laboratory services expand, benefiting the population we serve. I will be supervising a UBC Okanagan microbiology Co-operative student this summer who will be working on PCR validations for our team. Since starting my position, I’ve been involved in developing laboratory procedures for Ebola virus disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, developing quality indicators and laboratory test stewardship initiatives, developing MALDI TOF MS procedures, as well as many regional bench procedures, supervising validation of commercial molecular tests, and now am working on opening a real time PCR laboratory at KGH. I find this work rewarding, since I grew up in a few of the small communities I now serve. Our medical microbiology team frequently travels to these smaller communities providing education to both physicians and our technologist staff. We have 4 laboratories, 2 of which we run remotely by mostly phone consultation. This has been a very interesting and challenging position, as the clinical service covers the entire Interior Health region, including many smaller remote communities. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to return to the Interior of British Columbia, as a medical microbiologist at the Larissa Yarr Medical Microbiology laboratory in Kelowna General Hospital (KGH), joining two lovely microbiologists working there already. I completed my medical microbiology residency in 2014. We got engaged while snorkeling in Panama, and married between medical and residency. During medical school I met my future husband, with whom I developed a love for outdoor activities, scuba diving and exotic travel. I completed a BSc in Pharmacy, and worked as a pharmacist at Vancouver General Hospital while attending medical school.
Subsequently, I moved to Vancouver and completed all of my formal education at UBC. Such a pity all those stars aligned before the dawn of smart phones and social media.I was born in Vancouver, but grew up in smaller places within BC, living in Squamish, Williams Lake, Kamloops and Grand Forks, before the age of 18. This was a memorable moment during a really special time in my life, with the greatest cast you’ve never heard of the greatest ‘Blast!’ cast of them all.
Later on, the engineer handed me a CD-R… Surprise! He recorded it!!! And I’m so grateful he did. It was just me, the sound engineer and a stage manager, on our lunch break, so I only played for a few minutes. Spontaneous art made of psychedelic, rhythmic trails on my every note? YES, PLEASE! That first time felt magical so much power and potential. There was an unaccompanied trumpet solo where I used the “Echo Chamber” effect, pumping through the theatre in surround sound! The first time I ever got to test out the effect was exhilarating! I tried out different shapes, tonalities, extended techniques, played rhythmic games, quoted Bill Chase, because and actually stumbled upon some pretty cool stuff. In 2003, I was in a ‘Blast!’ sequel called CyberJam in London.
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