Announcing an Acting Associate Dean, Academic and Faculty Development, and Special Advisor to the Provost
Dr. Maria Hubinette joins the team as acting associate dean, academic and faculty development, and special advisor to the Provost and VP Academic as of Tuesday, November 14, 2023. Dr. Hubinette served on the Curriculum Working Group, providing input to the SFU Medical School’s business case, and is a visiting professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
A practicing family physician, Dr. Hubinette is a clinical professor in the department of family practice at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she has been serving as the family medicine undergraduate programs director and is also an affiliate faculty member at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity. Additionally, she is a scholar at UBC Faculty of Medicine Centre for Health Education Scholarship.
In this new role, Dr. Hubinette will lead the development, implementation and coordination of the medical school’s undergraduate and postgraduate medical programs and the continuing professional education program, as well as provide senior oversight on all aspects of accreditation. She is well-equipped for this new challenge, having had extensive involvement in undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum development and renewal at UBC and related accreditation processes and standards. Dr. Hubinette also brings an equity, diversity and inclusion lens to this work, from her time as UBC Faculty of Medicine assistant dean, equity diversity inclusion, and extensive teaching, supervision and mentorship experience across the medical education continuum.
Before shifting to medical education, Dr. Hubinette worked for more than a dozen years with Vancouver Coastal Health as a youth clinic physician and with the Richmond Eating Disorder Program. Her current clinical work with Vancouver Coastal Health School and BC Women’s Hospital Sexual Assault Service continues to focus on youth and women, including outreach to youth with barriers to accessing care, community-based mental health support and specialized trauma-informed and equity-oriented care for sexual and gender-based violence survivors. She is an education researcher in areas of health advocacy and learner equity, and how health professionals conceptualize and operationalize social accountability.
Dr. Hubinette received her MD from UBC and her Master of Medical Education from the University of Dundee, Scotland. She also completed her rural family practice residency program at UBC, holds UBC’s Canfield Distinguished Scholar in Patient Partnerships and is a past award recipient of the Canadian Association for Medical Education’s Certificate of Merit.
Her passion for, and dedication to, advancing equity and community within medical education will serve the SFU Medical School well, as it commits to educating physicians in patient-centred and socially accountable ways through research-informed curriculum and teaching.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Hubinette on her new role with the SFU Medical School.