A Lifetime Commitment to Social Justice and Health Care Access.
Carol Herbert is Professor Emerita of Family Medicine at Western University (London, Canada), and Professor Emerita of Family Practice at UBC (Vancouver, Canada). Past Chair of the University Board of Trustees for the American University of the Caribbean and a member of the Board of Governors of Simon Fraser University.
She served as Dean, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario (1999-2010) and was Royal Canadian Legion Professor and Head of the UBC Department of Family Practice (1988-98). At UBC, she was founding Head of the Division of Behavioural Medicine and a co-founder of the UBC Institute of Health Promotion Research. She is former Editor of the international journal, Patient Education and Counseling. Dr. Herbert is a UBC graduate in Honours Biochemistry and in Medicine. She was a full-service community-based family physician and clinical instructor at the REACH community health centre, a UBC teaching facility in Vancouver, from 1971 until 1982 when she joined the full-time faculty in the UBC Department of Family Practice.