UBC 2010 Experts

Journalists from around the world regularly turn to UBC professors for insight and commentary on a wide range of topics related to the upcoming 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, including:

• Olympic and Paralympic history and experience
• Sport medicine and injuries
• Sports science, technology and doping
• Weather and Snow Forecasting
• Security and law
• Business, economics, marketing and real estate
• Transportation
• Sustainable cities
• Social issues (including Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside)
• Aboriginal issues and Canada’s First Nations
• Vancouver, British Columbia and Canada
• Russia and Sochi Games
• Disaster and emergency response
• Paralympic Games

Business, economics, marketing and real estate

James Brander, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8483; james.brander@sauder.ubc.ca

• Economic impacts of 2010, business, trade, resources and sustainability

Tsur Somerville, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8343; tsur.somerville@sauder.ubc.ca

• Impacts on real estate, urban economics

Rob VanWynsberghe, Human Kinetics
604.822.6397; 2010.media@ubc.ca

• Olympic Games Impact Research Project

Paul Cubbon, Sauder School of Business
604.827.3199; paul.cubbon@sauder.ubc.ca

• Marketing, sports marketing, branding and advertising

Mira Sundara Rajan, Faculty of Law
604.827.5339, sundararajan@law.ubc.ca

• Guerilla marketing, censorship, copyright, law

Stan Hamilton, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8558; stanley.hamilton@sauder.ubc.ca

• Impacts on real estate

Kin Lo, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8430; kin.lo@sauder.ubc.ca

• Games finances, budgeting

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Transportation

Patrick Condon, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
604.822.9291/604.737.4209; patrick.condon@ubc.ca

• Transportation, Urban Design, Sustainable Communities

David Gillen, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8352; david.gillen@sauder.ubc.ca

• Transportation, transport economics, logistics and gateway issues

Micheal Brauer, School of Environmental Health
604.822.9585; brauer@interchange.ubc.ca

• 2010 traffic restrictions, transportation, cycling, air quality, health effects of air pollution

Lawrence Frank, School of Community and Regional Planning
604.822.5387, 604.738.1588; ldfrank@interchange.ubc.ca

• Environment, Transportation, Urban Planning

Tae Oum, Sauder School of Business (also speaks Korean and Japanese)
604.822.8320; tae.oum@sauder.ubc.ca

• Transport economics, airlines and airports, container ports, logistics, policy, security

Garland Chow, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8328; garland.chow@sauder.ubc.ca

• Freight security, smart transportation

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Security & Law

Michael Byers, Global Politics & International Law
604.822.3049, michael.byers@ubc.ca

• Games security, civil liberties, human rights, global politics and law

Richard Price, Political science
604.822.3021; rprice@politics.ubc.ca

• Chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, arms control and international politics and law

Allen Sens, Political Science
822.604.6127; asens@politics@ubc.ca

• International security

Mira Sundara Rajan, Faculty of Law
604.827.5339, sundararajan@law.ubc.ca

• Censorship, copyright, law, appropriation of Aboriginal culture

Margot Young, Faculty of Law
604.822.9685, myoung@law.ubc.ca

• Women’s ski-jumping legal challenge, homelessness, poverty, sustainability, civil liberties and social impacts in 2010

Benjamin Goold, Faculty of Law
604.822.3752; goold@law.ubc.ca

• Privacy and surveillance, civil liberties and security

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Social Issues (including Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside)

Rob VanWynsberghe, Human Kinetics
604.822.6397; 2010.media@ubc.ca

• Olympic Games Impact Research Project

Margo Fryer, UBC Learning Exchange
604.822.1602, margo.fryer@ubc.ca

• Downtown Eastside, community service learning

Jim Frankish, Centre for Population Health Promotion Research
604.822.9205; frankish@interchange.ubc.ca

• Population health, homelessness, health disparities, healthy communities

Martin Schechter, Population & Public Health
604.822.3910, martin.schechter@ubc.ca

• Vancouver safe-injection programs, Insite

Margot Leigh Butler, Arts
604.822.0028; hum101@interchange.ubc.ca

• Downtown Eastside, community education, poverty, homelessness and addictions

Michael Krausz, Addictions Research
604.806.9113, michael.krausz@ubc.ca

• Mental illness and drug addiction

Julio Montaner, B.C. Centre for HIV/AIDS, President of the International AIDS Society
Contact via: Stephen Burega, 604.623.3007 (x. 228)

• HIV/AIDS, population health

Margot Young, Faculty of Law
604.822.9685, myoung@law.ubc.ca

• Women’s ski-jumping legal challenge, homelessness, pverty, civil liberties and social impacts in 2010

Thomas Kerr, Department of Medicine
604.806.9116

• Insite, harm reduction, injection drug users, HIV / AIDS, addiction

Chris Shaw, Neuroscience
604.875.4111 ext. 68373, csshawlab@gmail.com

• Olympic critiques, protest

Joseph Jones, Librarian Emeritus
604.433.2764; jjones@interchange.ubc.ca

• Olympic resistance in Vancouver, protest

Ben Perrin, Faculty of Law
604.822.1208, perrin@law.ubc.ca

• The increased risk of human-trafficking and sex tourism around mega-events

Patti Janssen, Health Care and Epidemioloogy
604-875-2424 ext 5415 ; pjanssen@interchange.ubc.ca

• Sex trade and marginalized women

Graham Riches, Social Work
604.738.9644, 604.822.0782, graham.riches@ubc.ca

• Social impacts, poverty, hunger

Jennifer Matthews, Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth
604.822.7498, jennifer.matthews@nursing.ubc.ca

• Gender, risk and sexuality, masculinities, intoxicated sex and Whistler

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Sports medicine and injuries

Doug Clement, Human Kinetics
604.261.6220, 604.837.1933, dclement007@mac.com

• Sports medicine, coaching, the Olympic experience, (participated in nine Games)

Peter A. Cripton, Mechanical Engineering (speaks German)
604.822.6629, cripton@mech.ubc.ca

• Biomechanics of major injuries

Karim Khan, Medicine
604.827.4190, kkhan@interchange.ubc.ca

• Sports injuries, bones, tendons

Andrie Krassioukov, ICORD
604.675.8819, 604.675.8826 (lab), krassioukov@icord.org

• Paralympian performance-enhancement, spinal cord injuries

Michael Koehle, Human Kinetics
604.822.6397; michael.koehle@ubc.ca

• Sports medicine and injuries and exercise in the cold or at altitude

Andrea Reid, Physiotherapist, Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre
604.880.7342, a_reid_@hotmail.com

• Orthopedic and sport-related conditions

Babak Shadgan, Muscle and Mobility Research
604.875.4111 #66055

• Olympic injury surveillance project, sports injuries, sports medicine, physiology, muscle and mobility research

Bob McCormack, Dept. of Orthopedics, Team Canada Chief Medical Officer
604.526.7885; mccormac@interchange.ubc.ca

• Medical issues related to Canadian athletes

Jack Taunton, Sports Medicine, Chief Medical Officer for 2010
604.822.4122, jack.taunton@ubc.ca

• 2010 medical programs, doping, emergency care and sports medicine

Chris Zed, Dentistry
604.822.8043, czed@interchange.ubc.ca

• Director of dental care at 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Sports Science, technology and doping

Mark Beauchamp, Human Kinetics
604.822.4864; mark.beauchamp@ubc.ca

• Sport, psychology, coach-athlete relationships

Peter Crocker, Human Kinetics
604.822.5580; pcrocker@interchange.ubc.ca

• Sports psychology, stress and coping in sport and exercise

Savvas Hatzikiriakos, Chemical and Biological Engineering
604.822.3107; hatzikir@interchange.ubc.ca

• Ski/skate performance, snow/ice friction, Own The Podium

Sheldon Green, Mechanical Engineering
604.822.0497; green@mech.ubc.ca

• Ski/skate performance, snow/ice friction, Own The Podium

Leo Stocco, Electrical and Computer Engineering
604.822.0166, 604.727.6541; leos@ece.ubc.ca

• Motion, force, velocity

Jim Rupert, Human Kinetics
604.822.8462; rupertj@interchange.ubc.ca

• Future trends in doping, gene doping

Michael Koehle, Human Kinetics
604.822.6397; michael.koehle@ubc.ca

• Exercise physiology, doping and exercise in the cold or at altitude

Michael Brauer, School of Environmental Health
brauer@interchange.ubc.ca

• Health effects of air pollution, indoor air quality and the measurement of particulate matter

Nadine Nembhard, Dept. of Physical Therapy, Athletics Canada
n_nembhard@shaw.ca

• Physiotherapy and sports related injuries

Jessica Tracy, Psychology
604.822.2718, jltracy@psych.ubc.ca

• emotion, nonverbal expression, self-conscious emotions (pride, shame), the self, self-esteem, narcissism, trends in psychological science

Shannon Bredin, Human Kinetics
604.822.8257, shannon.bredin@ubc.ca

• Human motor learning, physical education, Getting Games Fit program for 2010 Games volunteers

Jack Taunton, Sports Medicine, Chief Medical Officer for 2010
604.822.4122, jack.taunton@ubc.ca

• 2010 medical programs, doping, emergency care and sports medicine

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Weather and Snow Forecasting

Douw Steyn,  Earth and Ocean Sciences
604.827.5517, dsteyn@eos.ubc.ca

• Weather and air pollution

Johannes Jenkner, Earth and Ocean Sciences
604.822.5691, jjenkner@eos.ubc.ca

• Mountain meteorology and precipitation forecasts

William Hsieh, Earth and Ocean Sciences
604.822.2821, whsieh@eos.ubc.ca

• Seasonal climate variability

Andreas Christen, Geography
604.822.6620, andreas.christen@ubc.ca

• Meteorology

Dave McClung, Geography
604.822.9127, dave.mcclung@geog.ubc.ca

• Snow and avalanche forecasting

Jordan Dawe, Earth and Ocean Sciences
604.822.3911, jdawe@eos.ubc.ca

• Computer modeling and El Nino

Simon Donner, Geography
604.822.6959, 604.561.7284, simon.donner@geog.ubc.ca

• Climate change and environmental policy

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Olympic and Paralympic history and experience

Jennifer Krempien, MSc candidate in human nutrition
Contact UBC Public Affairs: 604.822.3131; 2010.media@ubc.ca

• Participated in five Paralympic Summer Games

Donovan Tildesley, UBC aumnus, insurance broker and part-owner of two radio stations
Contact UBC Public Affairs: 604.822.3131; 2010.media@ubc.ca

• Participated in three Paralympic Summer Games, flag bearer at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics

Joe Weiler, UBC Olympic Studies Research Team
604.822.4246, 604.209.3904; weiler@law.ubc.ca

• The Olympic bid process, Aboriginal inclusion, Games laws and legacies, trademarks and broadcasting sponsorship, employment impacts and sustainability (economic, social, environmental)

Robert Hindmarch, School of Human Kinetics (Prof. Emeritus)
604.786.9304; drbobh@interchange.ubc.ca

• General manager of Canada’s UBC-based 1964 Olympic hockey team, former vice-president of Canadian Olympic Association

David Anderson, Curriculum and Pedagogy
604.822.2086; andersdm@interchange.ubc.ca

• Visitor experiences, long-term memories as legacies of events, visitor memories World Expositions

Doug Clement, Human Kinetics
604.261.6220, 604.837.1933, dclement007@mac.com

• Sports medicine, coaching, the Olympic experience, (participated in nine Games)

Ira Nadel, UBC English Dept.
604.822.4254, 604.512.4867; nadel@interchange.ubc.ca

• Origins of the Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Berlin Games

Richard Menkis, UBC Faculty of Arts
604.822.1374, menkis@interchange.ubc.ca

• Origin of the Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Berlin Games, Jewish archeologist Alfred Schiff, “forgotten father of the torch relay”

Scott Watson, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
604.822.1655; scott.watson@ubc.ca

• Olympic history and arts, the 1936 Olympic Games, Leni Riefenstahl, the 2010 Vancouver Cultural Olympiad and its use of 1936 imagery

Rob VanWynsberghe, Human Kinetics
Contact UBC Public Affairs: 604.822.6397; 2010.media@ubc.ca

• Olympic Games Impact study

Fred Hume, UBC Athletics
604.687.2381; fred_hume@hotmail.com

• UBC athletic history

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Sustainable Cities

James Tansey, Sauder School of Business
604.827.4443, 604.822, 8625, james.tansey@ubc.ca

• Measuring the carbon footprint of the 2010 Games, sustainability, carbon offsets

John Robinson, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
604.307.7374, 604.822.9188, johnr@ires.ubc.ca

• Sustainability, UBC’s greenest building in North America

Patrick Condon, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
604.822.9291/604.737.4209; patrick.condon@ubc.ca

• Transportation, Urban Design, Sustainable Communities

William Rees, Community Planning
wrees@interchange.ubc.ca

• Ecological footprint, sustainability

Rob VanWynsberghe, Human Kinetics
604.822.6397; 2010.media@ubc.caOlympic

• Games Impact Research Project

Penny Gurstein, School of Regional and Community Planning
604.822.6065; gurstein@interchange.ubc.ca

• Urban planning

Stephen Sheppard, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning
604.822.6582, shep@interchg.ubc.ca (copy adelle.airey@ubc.ca)

• Sustainable communities, visualizing climate change in B.C. communities, urban planning, public engagement, renewable energy solutions

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Vancouver, British Columbia and Canada

Jean Barman, History
604.224.3983, jean.barman@ubc.ca

• B.C. history, including Aboriginal history and Vancouver history

David Edgington, Geography/Institute of Asian Research (also speaks Japanese)
604.822.5612; edgingtn@geog.ubc.ca

• Multiculturalism in Vancouver, urban planning, Asian affairs, Japan-Canada trade, Pacific Rim

Henry Yu, History
604.822.2561; henryyu@interchange.ubc.ca

• History of Canada, B.C. and Vancouver, Asian migration, China, multiculturalism, sports and race, racism, immigration, head tax

Penny Gurstein, School of Regional and Community Planning
604.822.6065; gurstein@interchange.ubc.ca

• Urban planning

Tsur Somerville, Sauder School of Business
604.822.8343; tsur.somerville@sauder.ubc.ca

• Impacts on real estate, urban economics

Fred Hume, UBC Athletics
604.687.2381; fred_hume@hotmail.com

• UBC athletic history

George Hoberg, Forest Resource Management
604-822-3728; george.hoberg@ubc.ca

• Forest and energy policy , trade, the environment and  Aboriginal issues

Daniel Pauly, Fisheries Centre
604.822.1201; d.pauly@fisheries.ubc.ca

• Fisheries and climate change

John Meech, Environmental Research in Minerals, Metals and Materials
604.822.3984; jam@dccnet.com

• Mining, pollution control and robotics

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Aboriginal issues and Canada’s First Nations

Sheryl Lightfoot, First Nations Studies Program, Political Science
604.827.5178, sheryl.lightfoot@ubc.ca

• First Nations, international relations

Charles Menzies, Anthropology and Sociology
604.822.2240/604.822.2878; charles.menzies@ubc.ca

• Aboriginal issues, First Nations, land claims, racism/race relations, fisheries, forestry, natural resources, the environment, anthropology and sociology

Linc Kesler, Director, First Nations House of Learning; Senior Advisor to the President on Aboriginal Affairs
604.827.5176, linc.kesler@ubc.ca

• First Nations university initiatives

Jo-Ann Archibald, Educational Studies
604.822.5286, jo-ann.archibald@ubc.ca

• Indigenous knowledge and Aboriginal health, oral tradition and storytelling, Indigenous teacher education

Jean Barman, History
604.224.3983, jean.barman@ubc.ca

• B.C. history, including Aboriginal history and Vancouver history

Gordon Christie, Law
604.822.9872, christie@law.ubc.ca

• First Nations legal issues

Glen Coulthard, First Nations Studies Program, Political Science
604.822.2880, gsc@interchange.ubc.ca

• First Nations politics – national; political theory

Jan Hare, Language and Literacy Education
604.822.9239, jan.hare@ubc.ca

• Aboriginal youth mobility, Aboriginal family and community perspectives on early literacy, literature, identity construction and urban Aboriginal youth

David Close, Zoology
604.822.0226, d.close@fisheries.ubc.ca

• First Nations, fisheries issues

George Hoberg, Forest Resources Management
604-822-3728, george.hoberg@ubc.ca

• Aboriginal issues (land rights), forest policy, energy policy, environmental policy, trade and environment, softwood lumber,

Darlene Johnston, Law
djohnston@law.ubc.ca

• First Nations legal issues

Bruce Miller, Anthropology
604.822.6336; bgmiller@interchange.ubc.ca

• Aboriginal peoples of North America, Coast Salish peoples, aboriginal law, aboriginal politics, concepts of indignity

Patrick Moore, Anthropology
604.822.6359; pjmoore@interchange.ubc.ca

• Languages of North America, anthropological linguistics, sub-Arctic ethnography, ethno-history, gender

Cynthia Nicol, Curriculum and Pedagogy
604.822.5246, cynthia.nicol@ubc.ca

• Aboriginal education, mathematics teacher education, culturally responsive pedagogy, care-based and problem-based learning

Mira Sundara Rajan, Faculty of Law
604.827.5339, sundararajan@law.ubc.ca

• Appropriation of Aboriginal culture, censorship, copyright, law

Richard Vedan, School of Social Work
604.822.3520, richard.vedan@ubc.ca

• First Nations social issues, local political history

Joe Weiler, UBC Olympic Studies Research Team
604.822.4246, 604.209.3904; weiler@law.ubc.ca

• Aboriginal inclusion in the Olympics, the bid process, legacies, trademarks and broadcasting sponsorship, employment impacts and sustainability (economic, social, environmental)

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UBC and the Olympics

Sid Katz, UBC Community Relations
604.822.1947, 604.822.5675, sid.katz@ubc.ca

• UBC 2010 education programs

Bob Philip, Athletics and Recreation
Contact through Ben Shach at 604.822.9115, varsity@interchange.ubc.ca

• UBC varsity athletes, UBC Thunderbird Arena

Kavie Toor, Athletics and Recreation
604.822.1688, ktoor@interchange.ubc.ca

• UBC Thunderbird Arena

UBC Public Affairs
604.822.6397, 2010.media@ubc.ca

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Russia and Sochi Games

Anne Gorsuch, History
604.822.5073, gorsuch@interchange.ubc.ca

• History of Russia and Sochi, Sochi’s place in the Soviet Union and travel

Mira Sundara Rajan, Faculty of Law
604.827.5339, sundararajan@law.ubc.ca

• Russian culture and law, post-socialist reforms, and history

Lisa Sunstrom, Liu Institute and Political Science
604.822.6331, lisasun@politics.ubc.ca

• Political and social trends in Russia, democracy, human rights, civil society and political and economic decision making related to Olympic hosting.

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Disaster and emergency response

Jose Marti, Electrical & Computer Engineering
604.822.2364, jrms@ece.ubc.ca

• Emergency response in Vancouver

Dave McClung, Geography
604.822.9127, dave.mcclung@geog.ubc.ca

• Snow and avalanche forecasting

Carlos Ventura, Earthquake Engineering Research Facility
604.822.6946, 604.822.2637, ventura@civil.ubc.ca

• Earthquakes and structural engineering

Oldrich Hungr, Earth and Ocean Sciences
604.822.8471, 604.822.2449, ohungr@eos.ubc.ca

• Landslides, rock falls and natural hazards

Nemkumar (Nemy) Banthia, Civil Engineering
604.822.9541; banthia@civil.ubc.ca

• Bridges, blast and impact resistance of structures, structural rehabilitation and sustainable construction materials

Michael Byers, Global Politics & International Law
604.822.3049, michael.byers@ubc.ca

• Games security, civil liberties, human rights, global politics and law

Benjamin Goold, Faculty of Law
604.822.3752; goold@law.ubc.ca

• Privacy and surveillance, civil liberties and security
  

Richard Price, Political science
604.822.3021; rprice@politics.ubc.ca

• Chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, arms control and international politics and law

 

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Paralympic Games

Rob VanWynsberghe, Human Kinetics
604.822.6397; 2010.media@ubc.ca

• Impact of the Paralympic Games, lead researcher of the Olympic Games Impact study

Andrei Krassioukov, ICORD (International Collaboration on Repair and Discoveries)
604.822.6397; krassioukov@icord.org

• Leader of research team studying boosting at the Paralympic Games; spinal cord injury researcher

Bonnie Sawatzky, Faculty of Medicine
604. 675.8806; bonitas@interchange.ubc.ca

• Biomechanics of wheelchair movement, wheelchair function, design and technology

Tim Stainton, Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship and School of Social Work
604.822.9674 ; timst@interchange.ubc.ca

• Public policy and disability,  attitudinal issues and social issues

Jennifer Krempien, MSc candidate in human nutrition
604.822.6397; 2010.media@ubc.ca

• Participated in five Paralympic Summer Games in wheelchair basketball

Donovan Tildesley, UBC alumnus, insurance broker and part-owner of two radio stations
Contact UBC Public Affairs: 604.822.6397; 2010.media@ubc.ca

• Participated in three Paralympic summer Games, flag bearer at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics

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