VANCOUVER – South Asian Orthodontist Dr. AlyKanani, along with his wife Aliya, and son Aaryan, were honored on the one year anniversary of the Kanani Conference Rooms at the prestigious University of British Columbia Dental school.
A significant six-figure dollar amount donation by Dr. Kanani to the dental facility allowed UBC to construct and open two conference rooms in the J.B. Macdonald building, where the research and clinical departments are housed. The two rooms are named the Drs. Aly and Aliya Kanani Conference Rooms after Dr. Kanani and his wife.
The state of the art facilities boast beautiful glass walls on one side of the room, and large flat screen televisions on the opposite wall. The room will provide an adequate area for researchers, dentists and student dentists to come together in their efforts to further the advancements of the dental profession for years to come.
Dean of the UBC Faculty of Dentistry, Dr. Charles Shuler, presented Dr. Kanani exactly one year ago with a plaque honoring him for his generous donations to the school.
“It’s a tremendous honor to be able to give back to the city, the community, and the profession that we each hold very closely,” said Dr. Kanani. The ribbon-cutting event and dedication ceremony had hosted nearly one hundred faculty, family and patients of Dr. Kanani.
“As younger doctors with a young family, it is our firm belief that earning a livelihood to support our immediate family in it of itself is not the only goal, but also a means to a much greater goal of giving back.” “
Dr. Kanani hopes that his gift to the dental school at the University of British Columbia will inspire others to give to worthy causes that they believe in. Not just educational foundations, but community, school, sports, social development and acts of charity in general. He holds fast to the idea of investing in not just his patients, but in the community as a whole.
“We greatly appreciate Dr. Kanani’s support of UBC Dentistry and the two new conference rooms,” says Dr. Charles Shuler, DMD, PhD., and Dean and Professor at UBC Faculty of Dentistry. “The spaces provide our students with interactive learning space, and is utilized daily for teaching and as an area for students to study and collaborate on patient cases.”
The two conference rooms are now booked Monday through Friday, around six hours a day for lectures, tutorial sessions and treatment planning sessions with students and faculty at maximum room capacity. When the rooms are not booked, they are used by students for independent study seven days a week with 24-hour access.
