{"id":993,"date":"2015-03-24T20:19:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T04:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/?page_id=993"},"modified":"2015-03-24T21:29:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T05:29:22","slug":"miranda-kirby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/miranda-kirby\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-989\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/files\/2015\/03\/Miranda-180-px.jpg\" alt=\"Miranda \" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/>Hi everyone!\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t met me at a PDA event or at the PDA orientation, my name\u2019s Miranda.\u00a0 I am a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, and my research interest is to use multi-modality medical imaging as a tool for earlier diagnosis and better treatment stratification for patients with respiratory disease.\u00a0 Shortly after I began my studies here at UBC, I joined the PDA executive committee where I served for 5 months before being elected co-VP-Social.\u00a0 Over the last year, together with the PDA, I have planned, advertised and executed research and academic events (3min Postdoc Slam, Postdoc Research Day), and also organized networking events (Whislter ski trip, Christmas Party, BBQs, etc.) to foster interaction and collaboration among UBC postdocs.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, I would like to continue our previous President\u2019s initiative to extend the reach of the PDA to postdocs in the arts and humanities, engineering, and other non-life science departments.\u00a0 As an extension of this goal, my goal is to also extend the reach of the PDA to other off-campus UBC postdocs, and the broader postdoc community in Vancouver.\u00a0 As an off-campus postdoc at a hospital site, I recognize the importance of being part of the postdoc community for peer support, and would like to provide the opportunity for other postdocs to be part of our community.<\/p>\n<p>I will also continue to expand professional development seminars, workshops and networking opportunities for postdocs.\u00a0 Our previous President started an important initiative to introduce postdocs to alternative non-academic career paths, and I will continue to support this initiative with panel discussions and workshops.\u00a0 Other issues, such as the challenges facing international posdocs and women in STEM fields, are of interest to our community, and creating opportunity for discussion will be an important interest of mine this year as well.\u00a0 Furthermore, I believe all postdocs would benefit from more opportunities to present their research and network at UBC and in the community, and together with the PDA exec team I would love to create more opportunities to do that in the upcoming year.\u00a0 I look forward meeting you all at our next PDA event!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone!\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t met me at a PDA event or at the PDA orientation, my name\u2019s Miranda.\u00a0 I am a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, and my research interest is to use multi-modality medical imaging as a tool for earlier diagnosis and better treatment stratification for patients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22083,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-993","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}