Kenneth Blocka
Clinical Professor
Rheumatology
University of British Columbia
Canada
Biography
Dr. Blocka is a Clinical Professor and former Head of the Division of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan Medical School where he also completed his subspecialty training in Internal Medicine as well as at the University of Toronto. He completed his subspecialty training in Rheumatology at the University of Saskatchewan and undertook a research fellowship specializing in Pharmacokinetics of Antirheumatic therapies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He then joined the Faculty of the Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology at the University of Saskatchewan rising to the rank of Professor and Head of the Division. Dr. Block relocated to Vancouver British Columbia in 1999 where he established a busy community based practice specializing in rheumatoid arthritis and complex connective tissue disease. He is on the active consultant staff at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver General Hospital and the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He heads the Rituxan Infusion Program at the Mary Pack Arthritis Centre and is one of three consultants in the UBC Lupus Clinic. Dr. Blocka has a major interest in medical education having served as Chair of Graduate and Postgraduate Training Committees, both at the University of Saskatchewan and UBC. He was also a former Chair of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons Fellowship Examination Committee in Rheumatology. Dr. Blocka has an ongoing interest in clinical research having been involved in numerous investigator as well as industry initiated clinical trials throughout his career. He is a member of the Arthritis Research Centre and past member of the Canadian Research Rheumatology Consortium. He has authored numerous articles in peered reviewed journals and continues to remain actively involved in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education teaching.
Research Interest
Rheumatology and Internal Medicine
