Joanne Jia, MD and PhD, FRCPC, is the Regional Director for
Asia Pacific, Royal College International of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada. She develops international medical education
initiatives and collaborations with China. This includes the planning and
delivery of the China Conference on Residency Education. Her portfolio includes
standardization of residency training and evidence-based medicine. Her local
medical education responsibilities include working as the Discipline Specific
Site Leader at Surrey Memorial Hospital in the Pediatric Department at the
University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. She is a teacher and examiner of
OSCE assessments as part of the pediatric training program at the Children's
Hospital of British Columbia and a pediatrician in UBC affiliated Surrey
Memorial Hospital. She graduated from Dalian Medical University in China. She
completed her pediatric residency training at both Albany Medical Centre in New
York and BC Children’s Hospital in Canada.
Dr. Jia received her Doctorate in Physiology at UBC, Canada.
She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Microbiology and Immunology
Department at UBC. Dr. Jia owns two US patents in antimicrobial peptides. She
has published several papers in peer-reviewed international academic journals
in her area of research. Dr. Jia was the previous acting director of the
Western Research Laboratory of Health Canada and, representing Health Canada,
participated in policy-making at an international level at WHO.