Interdisciplinary Student Health Conference (ISHC)

The UBC Okanagan Interdisciplinary Student Health Conference (ISHC) brings together students from across UBC Okanagan to showcase their health science research and public health experiences through engaging presentations.
This student-led conference is centred on showcasing undergraduate and graduate student researchers. Students are invited to submit abstracts for poster or oral presentations. Exemplary presentations will be recognized at the end of the conference.
Thank you to all our student presenters, adjudicators, volunteers, and the planning committee for making the 2026 Interdisciplinary Student Health Conference such a tremendous success. Your dedication, expertise, and enthusiasm brought this year’s event to life. Details for next year’s conference will be announced October 2026.
Clinical and Emergency Care: Christine Ashenhurst
Resolution of retinal folds in nanophthalmos over 15 years
Predictors of Health & Health Technologies: Sage Wiebe
The power of peer support: a longitudinal study of online peer support, health, and wellbeing
Biomedicine and Pharmaceuticals: Nicole Bushfield
Cytokine secretion and circulating immune cell counts in response to a 48-hour fast with and without aerobic exercise
Community and Social Health: Raza Noor
Pain in context: sociodemographic influences in fibromyalgia
QI Research and Health Systems Change: Reegan Forsyth
Building confidence to act: an inclusive and affordable, peer-led approach to basic life support training
Foundational Science & Health Technologies: Christine Ashenhurst
Enhancing hypertension awareness and health promotion through community outreach events
QI Research and Health Systems Change: Lakoda Thomas
Indigenous cultural safety in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
Biomedicine and Pharmaceuticals: Janaeya Baher
Rethinking chronic lung disease through three-dimensional alveolar models
Foundational Science & Health Technology: Roderick Sandilands
Determining the acute effects of exercise snacks on blood sugar control and physical activity in type 2 diabetes: a randomized crossover study
Clinical and Emergency Care & Research: Dinithi Mudalige
The associations between enlarged perivascular spaces and neuropsychiatric symptoms in older adults with α-synucleinopathies: a cross-sectional study
Medical Education: Meghan Perri
Electrocardiographic adaptations over 12 months of long-distance triathlon training in untrained males and females
Community and Social Health: Dinithi Mudalige
Early-life adversity attenuates the protective effect of cortical thickness on dementia risk in older adults
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