BSc. Pharm, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Assistant Professor
Location
Royal Columbian Hospital
Bio
Dr. Emily Lai practices as a General Internal Medicine specialist at Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) on the Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU), the inpatient perioperative medicine consultation service, and in the outpatient RCH Thrombosis Clinic. She also works at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) on CTU and the inpatient Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant service. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor with the UBC Department of Medicine.
Dr. Lai completed her MD undergraduate degree, core internal medicine residency, and her Internal Medicine fellowship at UBC. She also did additional training in Thrombosis with the VGH Hematology group. Dr. Lai started the RCH PeRiOperative Acute Care Team (PROACT) Internal Medicine consultation service in 2022 and has been the PROACT Physician Lead since then.
She is the Internal Medicine representative on the UBC Clinical Faculty Advisory Council, and the specialist representative on the Doctors of BC Clinical Faculty working group. She is the Internal Medicine representative on the RCH MOCAP committee and the RCH Facility Engagement working group.
Dr. Lai’s current research interest relates to gathering data on the impact of the PROACT service on the provision of surgical care at RCH. She hopes to publish her findings in the near future.
When she isn’t working, she enjoys travelling with her family.