Andrea Jones
Andrea completed her Bachelor’s degree specializing in neuroscience at Queen’s University. Her passion for inner city health and advocacy led her to complete her MD/PhD at the University of British Columbia in the field of psychiatric epidemiology in the Graduate Program of Neuroscience. Her dissertation focused on the risk factors and dynamics of psychosis and substance use among adults living in urban precarious housing or homelessness. Her current research aims to improve brain health among precariously housed communities, by examining the complex relationships between social networks, brain structure, and functional outcomes. Andrea is currently a resident physician in Neurology and postdoctoral fellow in the Distributive Curriculum Training Pathway of the UBC Clinician Investigator Program. Andrea is pursuing a multifaceted career as a clinician scientist in Neurology to advance the prevention and management of neurological conditions among historically, socially, and economically marginalized communities. In her free time, she enjoys kayaking, hiking, and skiing in the local inlets and mountains.
Edgcumbe, Philip
Dr. Philip Edgcumbe (BASC, MD, PhD) is a UBC radiology resident. His area of research interest is augmented reality for navigation in surgery and interventional radiology procedures. His undergraduate degree was in Engineering Physics and his PhD was in biomedical engineering.
His previous experience includes inventing, patenting, and licensing an augmented-reality navigational aid for surgical navigations and co-founding two biomedical start-up companies. In 2017, he worked for the XPRIZE Foundation in Los Angeles where he led the development of the Alzheimer’s XPRIZE, a global, crowd-sourcing competition to end Alzheimer’s. In 2018-2019 he served as the Innovator-in-Residence for the Canadian Medical Association Innovation Lab.