Council 2020-2021

Gail Bellward - Member at Large (2020-2023) and member of Finance Committee (2021 - )

Dr. Gail Bellward is a Professor Emerita of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.  Her undergraduate teaching areas were cardiovascular and renal pharmacology, and general toxicology. Gail’s focus as a research scientist was the study of drug metabolism and drug interactions. She was Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty for a number of years, and served on many UBC committees, as well as on Senate.

Gail was a Killam Senior Fellow; won the YWCA Woman of Distinction award; and senior awards from the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada and the Society of Toxicology of Canada. Gail was a Director of the Science Council of BC; and served on many national and international science boards, including the Medical Research Council of Canada, and the International Union of Pharmacology. Of note, she was the first woman president of two learned societies, the Pharmacological Society of Canada and the Society of Toxicology of Canada. After her retirement, Gail served as the Chair of the UBC Clinical Research Ethics Board for four years, followed by six years as a lay member for the Law Society of BC.

Sandra Bressler - Member at Large (2021-2023 and 2019-2021), Member Programs Committee (2019-), Member Transitions to Retirement Committee (2019-)

Sandra was recently awarded Clinical Associate Professor Emerita status. She is recognized for her contributions to education, coordinating numerous students in clinical placements, directly supervising  students, and supporting supervisory staff. Sandra also taught multiple courses for the Online Master of Rehabilitation Science Program and the Master of Occupational Therapy, in addition to helping develop a postgraduate program for clinicians in British Columbia.

Sandra’s many contributions to her profession include an instrumental role in supporting the development of the College of Occupational Therapists of BC, where she served as a board member from its inception from 2000 to 2004 and member of the Inquiry Committee from 2001-2016. She served as President of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists and the President of the Canadian Occupational Therapy Foundation. After serving as CAOT Delegate to the World Federation of Occupational Therapists for nine years, she joined the Executive Management Team of the WFOT as Program Coordinator, Practice Development. Recognizing her long-standing contributions to the profession, Sandra was bestowed with the prestigious Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists Fellowship Award and received the Karen Goldenberg Award for outstanding volunteer achievement from the Canadian Occupational Foundation.

Margery Fee - Co-Chair of Communications Committee and Newsletter Editor (2019-2022)

Margery Fee, PhD (Toronto), FRSC, Professor Emerita of English, specializes in Canadian, post-colonial and Indigenous literatures and Canadian English. She held the David and Brenda McLean Chair in Canadian Studies (2015-2017) to work on early Indigenous oral and literary production. In 2008, as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence, she worked on racialization and genetics at the UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. She edited the UBC journal Canadian Literature from 2007 to 2015.

With Jan McAlpine, she co-authored The Guide to Canadian English Usage (Oxford, 2nd ed., 2011), and, with chief editor Stefan Dollinger, edited DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (2nd ed., online, 2017). Recent publications are Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015), Tekahionwake: E. Pauline Johnson’s Writings on Native North America (Broadview, 2016) co-edited with Dory Nason; Polar Bear (Reaktion, 2019) and an edited collection of Jean Barman’s essays, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia (Harbour, 2020). With Daniel Heath Justice, she is co-investigator on the SSHRC-funded project, The People and the Text, led by Deanna Reder (thepeopleandthetext.ca). 

Anne Junker - Member at Large (2019-2020 and 2020-2021), Co-Chair Membership Committee (2019-2021), Member Continuing Scholarly Committee (2019-2021)

Anne Junker, Associate Professor Emerita of Paediatrics, is an Associate Professor and Associate Director, Faculty Affairs, UBC Department of Pediatrics. She is based at BC Children’s Hospital as a clinical immunologist specializing in genetic immunodeficiency disorders. She is Scientific Director of the Canadian national Maternal Infant Child & Youth Research Network (MICYRN), which connects 20 health research organizations based at teaching hospitals across the country.

Linda Leonard - Members at Large (2019-2021), Co-Chair Transitions to Retirement Committee (2019-) and Member Membership Committee (2015-)

Linda Leonard is Associate Professor Emerita of Nursing. Prior to taking early retirement from the School of Nursing in 2003, her academic work centered on parent-infant and community/public health nursing. After retiring, she continued to practice nursing within the UBC Multiple-Births Support Program, a one-of-a-kind program which she developed in  the 1980’s. The program addressed the unique and unmet needs of expectant and new families with twins, triplets and more.This work involved intensive contacts with families in hospital and community settings, online consultations and engagement in scholarly and policy initiatives with Canadian and international organizations. She continues to publish an online resource guide www.nursing.ubc.ca/pdfs/twinstripletsandmore.pdf.

Michael MacEntee - Member at Large (2019-2022), Chair Finance Committee (2019-2021) and Member Finance Committee (2021- 2022)

Professor Emeritus MacEntee is past-president of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada, the Geriatric Oral Research Group of the International Association of Dental Research, the International College of Prosthodontists, the Association of Prosthodontists of Canada, and the Vancouver Institute. He received in 2009 the Distinguished Scientist Award for his research in dental geriatrics, and in 2015 became an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. From 2012-2018 he was editor-in-chief of Gerodontology (the international journal of dental geriatrics).  

Herbert Rosengarten - Member at Large (2019-2021) and Co-Chair Communications Committee (2019-2020)

Herbert Rosengarten is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts and former Head of the English Department at UBC. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, he joined the UBC English Department in 1965, and taught there until 1997, when he joined Dr. Martha Piper as executive director of the President’s Office. He held this position again 2015-17, first under Dr. Piper and then under Dr. Santa Ono. Since 2010 he has coordinated external Faculty reviews for the Provost.
Rosengarten’s record of service includes five years on the executive of the Faculty Association, including periods as Secretary and President (1987). He was a member of the UBC Vancouver Senate and chaired several Senate committees, including the Library Committee. From 1977 to 1984 he occupied the position of Associate Editor of the journal Canadian Literature. He sits on the President’s Advisory Committee on Campus Enhancement, and is the Past President of the Vancouver Institute. He also chairs the Legacy Project, which is striving to create an informal history of UBC through videotaped interviews, a print collection, and other memorabilia. In 2016 he received the Honorary Alumnus Award from the UBC Alumni Association.
His research interests lie in the literature of the Victorian period in Britain, and focus on the writings of the Brontë family.

Richard Unger - Member at Large (2020-2022), Chair Finance Committee (2021-2022) and Member Finance Committee (2020-)

Richard W Unger is professor emeritus of history.  He joined the department in 1969 and was its head from 1986 to 1991.  While teaching concentrated on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance research included economic history and history of technology down to the twentieth century in the New World and Asia as well as in Europe.  He has worked on the design and construction of ships in the Netherlands and throughout the world in the age of sail, on the economics of the production and consumption of beer from its origins some 5,000 years ago, on medieval and Renaissance cartography, on energy consumption in Canada since 1800 and on works of art as sources for the study of technology.  He has been a fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study. All Souls College, University of Oxford, The National Humanities Center in the United States and of the UBC Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Study.  He is the former chair of the Committee for Medieval Studies in the Faculty of Arts and former president of the Medieval Academy of America.  Recent publications include (with John Thistle) Energy Consumption in Canada in the 19th and 20th Centuries  A Statistical Outline, 2013; Ships on Maps: Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe, 2010;“English Energy Consumption, Beer and the Impact of the Black Death,” European Review of Economic History, 24 (2020), 134–156, “Channelling violence at sea: States, international trade and the transformation of naval forces from the high Middle Ages to the age of steam,” The International Journal of Maritime History 31 (2019), 202–221 and “Shifting Energy Sources in Canada: An International Comparison, 1870-2000,” Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes D’Histoire, 53 (2018), 480-514.

Marvin Westwood - Member at Large (2020-2023)

Marv Westwood is a Professor Emeritus in the Counselling Psychology Program, and recipient of the Royal Canadian Legion Professorship in Education. His major areas of teaching and research are focused on program development, teaching and delivery of group-based approaches to help clients make effective life transitions. Prior to coming to UBC, he taught at McGill  University (1973-80). and prior to that St. Francis Xavier University (1971-73).  Over the past 25 years he has led the development of the UBC Veterans Transition Program to help promote recovery from war related stress injuries for which he received both the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals in 2005 and 2013. In 2012 he established the Centre for Group Counselling and Trauma (CGCT) for teaching and research in the area of group work. He is advisor to the President’s initiative for the development of UBC Veteran Friendly Campus.  Currently, he is Senior Advisor for the Institute of Veteran Education Transition (IVET).