Joanne Jia, MD and PhD, FRCPC, is the Regional Director for Asia Pacific, Royal College International of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She develops international medical education initiatives and collaborations with China. This includes the planning and delivery of the China Conference on Residency Education. Her portfolio includes standardization of residency training and evidence-based medicine. Her local medical education responsibilities include working as the Discipline Specific Site Leader at Surrey Memorial Hospital in the Pediatric Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. She is a teacher and examiner of OSCE assessments as part of the pediatric training program at the Children's Hospital of British Columbia and a pediatrician in UBC affiliated Surrey Memorial Hospital. She graduated from Dalian Medical University in China. She completed her pediatric residency training at both Albany Medical Centre in New York and BC Children’s Hospital in Canada.
Dr. Jia received her Doctorate in Physiology at UBC, Canada. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Microbiology and Immunology Department at UBC. Dr. Jia owns two US patents in antimicrobial peptides. She has published several papers in peer-reviewed international academic journals in her area of research. Dr. Jia was the previous acting director of the Western Research Laboratory of Health Canada and, representing Health Canada, participated in policy-making at an international level at WHO.