Core Medical Team Bolstered At Cancer Centre
Medical Oncologist, Dr Christian Fibich and Medical Physicist, Piotr Dubrowski
Prince George, B.C. – The BC Cancer Agency Centre for the North has filled another two key positions in its core medical team with the hirings of a medical oncologist and medical physicist.
Dr. Christian Fibich joins Dr. Suresh Katakkar as the centre’s second medical oncologist. Dr. Fibich was trained in Germany and has spent the past six years working at the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency.
Medical physicist, Piotr Dubrowski, is BC-trained. He worked at the BC Cancer Agency for his clinical training and did his post-graduate work in cancer research at UBC. Dubrowski will work under the Centre for the North’s medical physics leader, Dr. Narinder Sidhu.
The BC Cancer Agency’s COO, Karim Karmali, says the pair are very important additions to the regional oncology team in the North. "We look forward to providing enhanced cancer services for Northern Cancer patients when the Centre for the North opens."
"One of the major successes of the Northern Cancer Control Strategy has been the recruitment plan," says local MLA Shirley Bond. "The ability to staff the centre was originally a concern and I am very grateful that professionals like Dr. Fibich and physicist Piotr Dubrowski have recognized that Northern British Columbia is a great place to work and live. We welcome them to our cancer care team."
The $100-million dollar cancer treatment facility is expected to open in late 2012 and will employ approximately 100 full- and part-time staff.
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“The ability to staff the centre was originally a concern”
I can certainly recall that the concern seemed to put the whole project into jeopardy before it got off the ground.
It seems to be a concern with other projects as well every now and then. I would love it if someone could provide the details of how the success was achieved. How many different organizations were involved and who were they?
In the meantime, whoever they are, congrats for a job well done. We ll need to learn from this.
A very big thank-you for this Cancer Centre and all the new Oncologists.
My main concern is that there is still an urgent need for a particular imaging machine and that is a P.E.T. Scanner. Positron Emission Tomography, this machine provides a 3d image in which can find cancer hiding behind any organs which in turn will help with the recurrence of cancer.Which also helps the surgeon to pinpoint where this cancer is and not have to perform a second costly operation. This machine would help the oncologist to determine just exactly how to treat one’s cancer. Therefore giving our young people a better chance of surviving this hellish beast and in turn returning to work and being a productive taxpayer and not a burden. Right now cancer patients still have to go to Vancouver to have this simple 2hr. imaging performed. This can be very costly for an individual who doesn’t have the coverage or safety net of insurance with one’s company.
Again thank-you Prince George for the nice attempt, but this clinic still has a long way to go.
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