Recent Engagements
UBC Medical School
- Musculoskeletal teaching skills; 1st year medical students {2021, 2022}
UBC Medical School
- Musculoskeletal teaching skills; 2nd year medical students {2011-2019}
UBC Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Academic Half Day Teaching; residents (November 30, 2022; December 2, 2020; September 28, 2016, November 4, 2015; November 6, 2013; March 7, 2012; November 9, 2011)
- CARMS interviewer; 2013
- Provincial Rounds:
- Malalignment Syndrome; May 18, 2016
- Sacroiliac Joint Pain; October 8, 2014
- Lumbosacral Pain Disorders; April 6, 2011
- Radiofrequency Ablation; November 5, 2008
- Discogenic Low Back Pain; April 23, 2008
B.C. Medical Legal Society
- Invited guest speaker (November 22, 2018)
- Topic: The utilization of interventional spine procedures in the diagnosis and treatment of persistent neck pain, following MVC.
Canadian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (CAPMR)
- Annual Meeting (2017)
- Abstract reviewer
- Annual Meeting (May 21, 2015)
- Invited Speaker: Advances in Interventional Spine Pain Management – Discogenic Low Back Pain
Medical Council of Canada: Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination Part 2 (LMCC 2)
- Physician Examiner; October 30, 2016
Medical Council of Canada: National Assessment Collaboration (NAC)
- Physician Examiner; September 11, 2016
Spine Intervention Society (SIS)
- Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC (September 15-18, 2022)
- Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL (August 15-18, 2018)
- Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (July 19-22, 2017)
- Ultrasound-guided intervention; Pre-course (July 18, 2017)
- Advanced Cervical Spine Skills Lab – Chicago, Illinois (May 6 & 7, 2016)
- Advanced Anatomy Lab – Biddeford, Maine (May 29 & 30, 2015)
- Advanced Lumbar Skills Lab – Montreal, Quebec (January 30 & 31, 2015)
- Annual Assembly – Las Vegas, Nevada (July 17-21, 2012)
- Cervical Injection Lab – Aurora, Co (October 21 & 22, 2011)
- Lumbar Discography Lab – New Orleans, LA (August 27 & 28, 2011)
- Cervical Spine Radiofrequency Lab – New Orleans, LA (July 9 & 10, 2011)
McMaster University: Canadian Interventional Pain Course
- Invited Course Speaker/Instructor – McGill University online conference (April 2, 2022)
- Lecture: Intradiscal PRP for Discogenic Low Back Pain
- Invited Course Instructor – Toronto, ON (April 13 & 14, 2018)
- Lumbar medial branch blocks & intra-articular facet joint injections
- Invited Course Speaker/Instructor – Toronto, ON (April 7 & 8, 2017)
- Fluoroscopy vs. Ultrasound in Pain Intervention
- Lumbar medial branch radiofrequency neurotomy
- Course Director & Instructor– Vancouver, BC (April 1 & 2, 2016)
Canadian Pain Society: Canadian Interventional Pain Course
- Course Director & Instructor– Vancouver, BC (March 27 & 28, 2015)
- Course Director, Speaker & Instructor– Vancouver, BC (April 4 & 5, 2014)
- Invited Course Instructor – Hamilton, ON (April 5 & 6, 2013)
- Lumbar medial branch radiofrequency neurotomy
- Sacro-iliac joint injection & Sacro-iliac joint radiofrequency neurotomy
- Invited Course Instructor – Hamilton, ON (March 30 & 31, 2012)
- Cervical medial branch nerve blockade
- Invited Course Speaker & Instructor – Hamilton, ON (April 1 & 2, 2011)
- Lumbar medial branch radiofrequency neurotomy
2021 Western Canadian Regenerative Rehabilitation Summit
- Invited Speaker/Academic Member
- Vancouver, British Columbia (November 19-20, 2021)
- Lecture: Intradiscal Regenerative Therapies
LifeMark Sport Medicine Center at the Richmond Olympic Oval: Clinical Best Practice Day
- Invited Speaker – Vancouver, BC (September 26, 2015)
- How to choose the best candidates for interventional spine pain treatment?
St. Paul’s Hospital
- Invited Speaker
- CME Conference for Primary Care Physicians: Sacroiliac joint dysfunction (Nov. 6, 2014)
- Invited Speaker – Vancouver, BC (March 26, 2014)
- Video Pain Rounds: Lumbar Zygapophyseal Joint Pain
American Association of Pain Management in Ultrasound
- Attendee – Las Vegas Nevada (October 17 & 18, 2014)
- Attendee – Dallas, TX (April 26-28, 2014)
- Level 1 & 2- Introduction & Advanced Ultrasound Procedural Techniques in Pain Medicine
Canadian Defense Lawyer: Law for Doctors/Medicine for Lawyers Conference
- Invited Speaker – Vancouver, BC (March 7, 2013)
- Diagnosis of common back pain conditions
Interventional Pain Cadaver Workshop
- Rosenthal Workshop: Invited Attendee – Salt Lake City, Utah (June 16 & 17, 2012)
- Advanced Procedure Course
- American Society of Pain Physicians (ASIPP): Invited Attendee – Las Vegas, Nevada (April 12 & 13, 2012)
- Vertebral Augmentation Course
Vancouver Acute
- Grand Rounds: An Approach to Back Pain (October 6, 2011)