From 2000 to 2010 he was the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth and the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at UBC. He has won an excellence in teaching award from SFU and a 3M Teaching Fellowship. At UBC he has received two teaching awards, plus a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for contributions to Higher Education and Lifetime Achievement Award from STLHE. His research interests include medical education research and health psychology.