Jacob Stubbs, BKin, PhD
I am currently a medical student in the Class of 2027 at the University of British Columbia with interests in surgery, trauma, and critical care medicine.stubbs.jacobliam (at) gmail (dot) com
About
Following a Bachelor's in Kinesiology at UBC, I completed a PhD in Experimental Medicine with the support of the Vanier and Killam Scholarships. In 2022, I was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University with Dr. Michael Fox and the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics.Outside of medicine and academia I can generally be found on a bike, in the mountains, or making something (furniture, beer, shoes, etc).
Research
Most of my work has been on traumatic brain injury, though my interests have broadened to encompass topics in surgery, trauma, and critical care medicine. I have specific expertise in quantitative neuroimaging methods and meta-analysis. My thesis work included the first meta-analysis on TBI among people living in homelessness1 and my working in Boston focused on lesion and neuroimaging-derived brain circuits underlying addiction.2Currently I am working on projects looking at rural trauma care and the utility of whole blood resuscitation in traumatic hemorrhage.
1 Stubbs et al. (2020). Lancet Public Health, 5(1), 19-32.
2 Stubbs et al. (2023). Nature Mental Health, 1, 772–781.
Background image: Ama Dablam and surrounding mountains as seen down the Khumbu Valley, taken by me on a Himalayas climbing expedition in 2025.