Tania Bubela

Tania Marjorie Bubela FRSC is a professor and dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.

Tania Bubela
in 2019
Born
Canberra, Australia
SpouseDavid S. Hik
Children2
Academic background
EducationBS.c., 1988, Australian National University
PhD, University of Sydney
JD., 2003, University of Alberta
ThesisSocial effects of sterilising free-ranging Vixens (Vulpes vulpes L.) in subalpine Australia (1995)
Academic advisorsTimothy Caulfield
Academic work
DisciplineBiological sciences
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
University of Alberta
Simon Fraser University

Education

Born and raised in Australia, Bubela earned her bachelor's degree in 1988 from the Australian National University and her PhD from the University of Sydney.[1]

Career

In 1995, Bubela moved to Canada to teach in the Department of Zoology at the University of Toronto. She later moved to Alberta in 1999 to attend the University of Alberta as a grad student.[2] After earning her law degree, Bubela clerked for Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada.[3]

After passing the Law Society of Alberta, Bubela earned a position with the University of Alberta School of Business and later in their School of Public Health.[2] Beginning in 2008, Bubela became a Principal Investigator with the Canadian Stem Cell Network.[1]

She later collaborated with Christopher McCabe to co-lead the PACEOMICS program on the development of cost-effective personalized medicine.[4][5] In 2012, Bubela co-edited "Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Case Studies and Conflicting Interests" with E. Richard Gold, which was published through the Cambridge University Press.[6]

In 2014, Bubela was promoted to Full Professor[7] and named Associate Dean of Research. She held this position for two years before Kim Raine replaced her.[8] During the 2014–15 academic year, Bubela was the recipient of a McCalla Professorship, an award given to "outstanding academics who have made significant contributions to their field of research, teaching and learning."[9] The next year, Bubela was appointed to the inaugural Steering Committee by the Council of Canadian Academies[10] and sat on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Peer Review Committee.[11] In 2017, Bubela was named Dean of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU).[12]

While at SFU, Bubela helped establish the Indigenous Pathways Planning Group.[13] She was also elected a member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2018.[14]

In 2019, Bubela was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[15] On March 5, 2019, Bubela was elected a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Health System Transformation and Sustainability.[16] During the 2019–20 academic year, Bubela sat on the 2019–2020 Clinical Trials BC Advisory Council.[17]

Selected publications

The following is a list of selected publications:[18]

  • Genetic resources and traditional knowledge: case studies and conflicting interests. Cheltenham: Elgar. 2012. ISBN 9781848442238.

See also

References
  1. "Tania Bubela". cca-reports.ca. 9 March 2017. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  2. Freeland, Ben (13 December 2017). "Alumna Scales New Heights as SFU's New Dean of Health Sciences". ualberta.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  3. "Tania Bubela". cafe-genetic-testing-ab.mcgill-cihr-ig.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  4. Brown, Michael (19 December 2014). "Taking health discoveries from cutting edge to clinic". folio.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  5. "PACE'Omics: Personalized, Accessible, Cost-Effective Applications of 'Omics Technologies". genomecanada.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  6. Hodgkin, Toby (January 2013). T. Bubela; E. R. Gold. Cheltenham (eds.). "Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Case Studies and Conflicting Interests. Edited by T. Bubela and E. R. Gold. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (2012), pp. xiv + 373. £97.00. ISBN 978-1-84844-223-8". Experimental Agriculture. 49 (1): 152. doi:10.1017/S0014479712000877. ISSN 0014-4797. S2CID 86031818.
  7. "October to December 2014". ualberta.ca. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  8. "July to September 2016". ualberta.ca. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  9. "McCalla Abstracts 2014-2015". ualberta.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  10. "CCA Launches New Project on Regenerative Medicine". cca-reports.ca. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  11. "2015-2016 Peer Review Committee – Foundation Program – Stage 1". cihr-irsc.gc.ca. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  12. "SFU welcomes Tania Bubela as new Dean of Health Sciences". sfu.ca. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  13. "Implementing 34 calls to action for reconciliation at SFU". sfu.ca. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  14. "Congratulations & Welcome to our 2018 Fellows!" (PDF). cahs-acss.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  15. "FHS dean named to Royal Society of Canada". sfu.ca. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  16. "News and Updates". ihsts.ca. Archived from the original on 16 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  17. "ADVISORY COUNCIL". clinicaltrialsbc.ca. Archived from the original on 16 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  18. "Bubela, Tania". worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
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