DR. Faisal Khosa, Dr. Jeffrey Ding and Dr. Sabeen Tiwana of the University of British Columbia have published the first book that compares and contrasts equity, diversity and inclusion across all healthcare professions – Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Healthcare: From Knowledge to Practice.
Ding is a resident physician in the Department of Family Medicine at the UBC. He is an avid EDI researcher with a specific focus on gender, racial, and ethnic disparities in medicine. Ding has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, with a focus on increasing awareness of workforce disparities and advocating for institutional action within medical schools, medical specialities, professional societies, journal editorial boards, clinical trials, and Canadian health authorities.
Tiwana is the owner of a family dental practice in Vancouver and a clinical instructor at the Faculty of Dentistry, UBC. She has a keen interest in advocacy and mentoring of students from underrepresented groups, including minorities and refugees. Tiwana is a workplace advisor for several schools, has published extensively on demographic disparities in healthcare professions, and offers courses on bias and harassment.
Khosa strives to attain inclusive and equitable societies that address the overlapping dimensions of discrimination and oppression. His relentless pursuits have resulted in tangible improvements through policy change, resulting in increased access for minorities in academic disciplines. The more important yet intangible benefits of his work include the provision of culturally competent care through increasing diversity in the healthcare workforce.
In the last 25 years, Dr Khosa has pioneered, championed and supported many philanthropic initiatives, including schools and free healthcare clinics in support of minorities and indigent populations in the developing world. Dr Khosa has delivered more than 200 invited lectures at institutions across the globe, mentored more than 1,000 students and authored 303 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
Khosa has contracts for a series of books with the publishers Bloomsbury, Elsevier, and Palgrave Macmillan. The Bloomsbury series is on styles of Leadership (Autocratic, Affiliative, Bureaucratic, Coaching, Democratic, Dynastic, Populist, Servant, Strategic, Situational, Transactional, Transformational & Visionary). The first book in the leadership series was published in 2021, “Making of Martyrs in India, Pakistan & Bangladesh: Indira, Bhutto & Mujib,” which was published by Bloomsbury and has been included in the curriculum of South Asian schools: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-of-martyrs-in-india-pakistan-bangladesh-9789388630863/.
Awards and Honours
Khosa is the recipient of numerous awards, including:
- Vancouver Medical, Dental and Allied Staff Association – Scientific Achievement Award
- Michael Smith Foundation Health Professional Investigator Award
- Michael Smith Foundation Patient, Public and Community Engagement Fund Award
- Don Rix Physician Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award
- Radiology Department Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award
- NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics third place in the competition for Best Article of the Year 2023
- Vancouver Medical, Dental & Allied Staff Association – Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award
- UBC Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Distinguished Achievement Award
- BC Achievement Foundation – Mitchell Award of Distinction
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada – McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professor
- Global Humanitarian Award – American College of Radiology
- Outstanding Academic Performance Award (2020 & 2021)
- Dudley Pennell Award of Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
- May Cohen Equity, Diversity, and Gender Award – Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
- The Humanitarian Award – Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America
- Rising Star Exchange Program Award – French Society of Radiology
- Young Investigator Award – Canadian Association of Radiologists
- Vancouver Coastal Health – Healthcare Hero Award
- Education & Mentoring Award by Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America
- People First Leadership Award by Vancouver Coastal Health
- Canadian Association of Radiology/Canadian Radiology Foundation Leadership Scholarship
- American Roentgen Ray Society Scholarship
- The One in One Hundred Mentoring Award and the Outstanding Young Investigator Award in USA
- Medal of Excellence (Tamgha-i-Imtiaz) from the government of Pakistan
- The College of Physicians and Surgeons Award for 15 years of “Outstanding Service to Medicine” in Pakistan.
- Outstanding Support Award – Vancouver General Hospital Trauma Program.
- Mentoring Awards from The Middle East including UAE and Bahrain.
