15 Oct 2025 TI Blog Update: October 2025
We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2025 annual TI Course: Bringing Best Evidence to Clinicians, happening November 28-29, 2025. The course will be offered as a virtual/online event and features a keynote presentation on treatment of pain given by internationally renowned expert, Dr. David Juurlink, a general internist and clinical pharmacologist/toxicologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Hospital for Sick Children. Other distinguished invited speakers include Dr. Allyson Harrison from Queen’s University who will speak about ADHD, Dr. Jamie Falk from the University of Manitoba who will speak about heart attacks, and Dr. Iliana Lega from the University of Toronto who will speak about menopause. TI faculty Dr. Aaron Tejani, Dr. Guillaume Grenet, Dr. Colin Dormuth and Dr. Jessica Otte will also cover a wide range of topics: GLP-1RA/SGLT2 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes, enantiomers vs racemic drugs, the role of relative and absolute measures of efficacy in comparing treatment benefits and harms, drugs that cause edema, and highlights from the TI Portrait program. The scope of information is broad, practical, and often controversial, thus appealing to professionals in family practice, internal medicine, and pharmacy. This, like all TI events, does not receive any sponsorship from the device or pharmaceutical industry. The TI Annual Course meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 6.5 Mainpro+® Certified Activity credits. You can enjoy a significant discount on registration fees if you register before October 31.
Read more: https://ti.ubc.ca/annual-course-2025
Register: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/TzhapUTlRKmbC3pxFiOVlw
Following a very successful webinar comparing the use of oral vs IV antibiotics in early June, infectious diseases consultant Dr. Davie Wong presented another fascinating webinar on October 15th discussing how the duration and doses of antibiotic treatments are arbitrary – not based on scientific evidence. We will post the recording soon for those who were unable to attend the live session. I guarantee that Dr. Wong’s discussion will make you think – possibly about ideas that may have occurred to you too over the years.
And we are excited to announce that we will be re-launching the TI Deprescribing Webinar Series in January 2026. Presented by front-line clinicians drawing from their personal experience, these webinars were highly rated by the many hundreds (possibly thousands) of participants over the last couple of years.
The TI Portrait program was recently recognized with the UBC Innovation Award for CME/CPD. If you are a family physician or nurse practitioner in British Columbia we invite you to join over 1,000 of your colleagues who are already benefitting from this innovative quality improvement program. Twelve topics have already been released and more will be added in the coming months. Participants are receiving personalized, completely confidential information that can help improve their prescribing practice to serve patients better. In addition, participants in the Portrait program who attend a related 1-hour webinar can now claim both Mainpro+ Certified Activity credits, as well as much coveted Mainpro+ Certified Assessment Activity credits. Registration is simple and free: BC family physicians and nurse practitioners can sign up to access confidential prescribing Portraits via our convenient and secure online portal.
Log in to view your Portraits and/or related materials if you’re already registered, or sign up if you haven’t already.
Questions? Email the TI Portrait team at portrait@ti.ubc.ca We welcome your feedback.
I hope you can find something of interest among the various things we are offering. And we always welcome your comments and suggestions.
Thomas L. Perry MD, FRCPC
Editor, Therapeutics Letter
Therapeutics Initiative
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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