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Riyad Abu-Laban

Professor
VCH Clinical Title(s)
Emergency Physician
Degrees / Designations

BSc, MD, MHSc, ABEM, FRCPC

Contact Info
https://emergency.med.ubc.ca/
abulaban@mail.ubc.ca
604-875-4111 ext.23079

Biography

Dr. Riyad B. Abu-Laban is an emergency physician at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Hospital, professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and interim scientific director of Emergency Care BC. He holds a Masters of Health Science in epidemiology from UBC, and has a wide range of publications including first authorship on randomized trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet, and authorship of three emergency medicine textbook chapters. Dr. Abu-Laban has a longstanding commitment to the advancement of emergency medicine as an academic discipline in Canada and internationally. His professional contributions include previous research directorship of the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine, previous scientific directorship of the BC Emergency Medicine Network, 10 years as senior associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, eight years as a member of the Royal College Emergency Medicine Specialty Committee, participation as one of seven members on the Collaborative Working Group on the Future of Emergency Medicine in Canada, and ongoing membership as Vice Chair on the Specialty Implementation Committees of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine.

Publications

  • Cureus -

    The British Columbia Emergency Medicine Network: A Paradigm Shift in a Provincial System of Emergency Care.

    Abu-Laban RB, Drebit S, Lindstrom RR, Archibald C, Eggers K, Ho K, Khazei A, Lund A, MacKinnon C, Markham R, Marsden J, Martin E, Christenson J
  • Canadian medical education journal -

    Relationship between Canadian medical school student career interest in emergency medicine and postgraduate training disposition.

    Abu-Laban RB, Scott IM, Gowans MC
  • CJEM -

    Implementation and evaluation of a novel research education rotation for Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons emergency medicine residents.

    Abu-Laban RB, Jarvis-Selinger S, Newton L, Chung B
  • Lancet (London, England) -

    Aminophylline in bradyasystolic cardiac arrest: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.

    Abu-Laban RB, McIntyre CM, Christenson JM, van Beek CA, Innes GD, O'Brien RK, Wanger KP, McKnight RD, Gin KG, Zed PJ, Watts J, Puskaric J, MacPhail IA, Berringer RG, Milner RA
  • The New England journal of medicine -

    Tissue plasminogen activator in cardiac arrest with pulseless electrical activity.

    Abu-Laban RB, Christenson JM, Innes GD, van Beek CA, Wanger KP, McKnight RD, MacPhail IA, Puskaric J, Sadowski RP, Singer J, Schechter MT, Wood VM
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