Stories From a Medical Life
JSA-Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundation Empowerment Series:
Stories From a Medical Life
Wednesday, April 23rd at 11:00 AM on Zoom
Join Stan Lubin as he shares stories from his memoir, 123 Very Short Stories from a Long Life of Medicine, an engaging and emotional journey through his 50 year career as a physician in Canada, the UK, the US, and more.
Dr. Stan Lubin’s Biography:
Stan Lubin graduated with a B.A. from McGill University in 1966. He received a Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics in 1969, and graduated in Medicine from McGill University in 1973. He did his rotating internship at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC in 1973-1974. From 1975-1987, apart from two years spent doing extra training, he worked as a general practitioner in the rural community of Sechelt, BC. In 1978-79 he did a year of extra training in anesthesia and obstetrics in the United Kingdom. From 1983 to1984 he studied epidemiology at the University of Hawaii and was awarded a Masters of Public Health Degree. From 1987-1992 he was Head of the Department of Family Practice, University Hospital, Shaughnessy Site. From 1993-1997 he was the Program Director of the UBC Family Practice Residency Program. He is also a Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine at UBC and has continued to work as a general practitioner in Vancouver.
In 1981 Lubin became a certificant of the College of Family Physicians and in 1991 he became a Fellow of the College. In 2012, he retired from full time practice but continued to do locums in walk in clinics, Vancouver office practices and in the Northwest Territories. Two weeks after he retired, the COVID epidemic began, and he resumed working. Until 2024 he worked supporting Vancouver physicians who had COVID infections and vaccinated people in clinics and in their homes.
