Dr. Christine Voss has received a 2021 Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) in partnership with Interior Health (IH) and the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management (CCDPM).

The CCDPM has partnered with IH and the MSFHR, as part of a new funding venture, to help advance clinical health science collaborations between IH and UBC Okanagan.

Dr. Voss’s work will focus on physical activity and the clinical management of chronic diseases in children living in rural and remote communities across the Interior Health region.

Ellen had never really spoken with anyone about her alcohol use. She credits the day treatment program for providing the safe place she needed to begin sharing, where she realized that she wasn’t alone.

Sheila West has worked as a Patient Ambassador at Gillis House in Merritt for the last six months, but her history with the long-term care facility reaches back much further. 

She started at Gillis House as a cook three-and-a-half years ago, and both her father and mother spent their final years there. 

“Positive body image isn’t believing your body LOOKS good.
It’s knowing that it IS good, regardless of how it looks.”
– Dr. Lindsay Kite

University of British Columbia doctorate student Kaylee Misener is an expert in positive body image. Her research focuses on clarifying what it means to have a positive body image, and how to get it.

5 tips to a positive body image

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As a kid growing up in Ontario, Tarryl Hartling had a dream of living and working in the country.

She chased her dream, first to Whitehorse and onto Kamloops before accepting a position to work at the Chase Health Centre. The people and the community grounded her. Fourteen years later, she continues to work at the health centre as a registered technologist of radiology.

“I live in Chase and I'm invested in the people who live there,
because I know them on a personal level,” ~ Tarryl

Photo by Billie Jean Gabriel

Chris Bose’s artistic fingerprints are all over Kamloops.  

Take a stroll and you will likely run into one of his murals. Maybe it’s the one at the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society … or the one behind Immigrant Services … or the one at the Interior Health building downtown. 

Summerland residents are advised the Summerland Health Centre Outpatient Laboratory, located at 12815 Atkinson Road, will be reopening this week.

Beginning Feb. 3, 2022, the laboratory will be open two-days per week, on Mondays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. for walk-in service only. Laboratory service at the Health Centre is prioritized for vulnerable patients, people who are unable to travel, or for urgent collections at this time.

Walk-in service and appointments are also available at nearby locations in Penticton and Peachland.

In partnership with the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, the Secwépemc Health Caucus, the Two Rivers Métis Society and the RIH Foundation, Interior Health is pleased to announce Indigenous artist Chris Bose as the lead artist to design the ‘cultural wall’ in the new Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower at Royal Inland Hospital.

After fifteen years in working in the travel industry, Maureen felt is was time for a career change. She returned to college in 2002 to take Health Information Management. 

She completed her student practicum at Vernon Jubilee Hospital and has been with IH for 17 years now. 

“During my practicum, I was offered a position in Health Information Management, so my husband and I packed our two cats and moved from New Westminster to Vernon.”