Please join the First Nations Health Authority VP of Health Benefits John Mah for a UBC Learning Circle presentation on the First Nations Health Authority Benefits Program. Learn about how the First Nations Health Authority is preparing for transfer and what the next steps will be towards transforming health benefits for First Nations in British Columbia. The First Nations Health Authority assumes responsibility for Health Canada's Non-Insured Health Benefits program on July 2, 2013.

Where: Participate by video conference OR online via computer webinar
*Pre-registration is required to attend this free event*

Program and Curriculum Integration Committee meeting

Health and Safety Committee meeting

‘Models of maternity care in rural environments: Barriers and attributes of interprofessional collaboration with midwives’

Speaker: Sarah Munro, PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Studies

Agenda
1. Presentation
2. Conferences
3. Upcoming funding opportunities

Join us for this international round table devoted to issues in the provision of surgical care in low resource settings — the Annual Bethune Round Table. 30 speakers: Dr. Meena Cherian, WHO; Dr. Nag Rao, Founder of India’s LV Prasad Eye Institute; Dr. Nadine Caron, UBC, and surgical, anesthesia and nursing leaders from around the world including the UK, Rwanda, Tanzania, Haiti, Nigeria, Uganda, The Gambia, Nepal, Indonesia, Ethiopia and the USA & 12 poster presentations

May 10-11, 2013: Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
May 12, 2013: Post conference workshops

Registration

There are now more surgical care initiatives than ever before. But, a key challenge is better integration of surgical care initiatives within the provision of health services. It is this kind of challenge that can only be resolved by bringing together surgeons, academia, NGOs, health professionals and government health leaders to debate the issues and collaborate on practical solutions.

Themes for discussion:

• Underserved populations including aboriginal health


• NGOs


• Advocacy


• Academic Partnerships

Why join us?

1. Meet surgical and other health counterparts from around the world including low resource settings


2. Contribute your experiences and perspectives in a collaborative roundtable format


3. There will be ample opportunity to network with colleagues championing surgical care in some of the most challenging environments around the world


4. After the meeting, explore beautiful Vancouver, host of the 2010 Winter Olympics. See why so many love to call Vancouver home!

Topic: Development of a Maternal Resilience Index

Speakers: Tabassum Firoz, MD, FRCPC, Fellow, Clinical Investigator Program, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Laura Magee, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine


Learning objectives:
To provide participants with
Information on recent developments in the field
Multidisciplinary perspectives
Critical analysis of important topics from a substantive and methodologic perspective (through presentation and discussion of Journal articles, etc)
A forum for discussing research ideas and research in progress

Teaching Assignment Committee Meeting

Thesis Title: Changing Early Child Communities

Cory's thesis supervisor was Dr. Clyde Hertzman, with additional support from Dr. Jim Frankish and Dr. Kim McGrail.

The external examiner is Dr. Jeannie Shoveller.

Social anxiety disorder is a highly chronic disorder, usually beginning very early in life with little remission and impacts on relationships, career, and physical health. Psychological treatments have had moderate success, although the effects of treatment are the lowest among any of the anxiety disorders. Recent developments in research have pointed to several directions that hold promise for improved treatments. These include focusing intervention to underlying mechanisms, use of cognitive enhancers to increase effects, and reductions in automatic attention toward threat. Interest has also begun to focus on broader dissemination of treatments via the internet. Dr. Ronald M. Rapee, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and Director of the Centre for Emotional Health, will summarise what we know, what is promising, and where we might head.

Host Site: Life Sciences Centre, Lecture Theatre 1
UBC Point Gery Campus, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver

Lower Mainland: Diamond Health Care Centre, Lecture Theatre

Vancouver Island: UVic Medical Sciences Building (MSB) 150 LT

Northern: UNBC, Northern Health Science Centre (NHSC) 9-235 LT

Interior: Kelowna General Hospital, Clinical Academic Campus, Room 235

The UBC Learning Circle invites First Nations Health Directors to a special live presentation by public health physicians from First Nations and Inuit Health to discuss their current roles, the transition to the new First Nations Health Authority, and how they can best support you in your goals of achieving wellness in your communities.

Presenters:

• Naomi Dove, MD MPH FRCPC,
Director of Health Promotion and Prevention, First Nations and Inuit Health – BC Region


• Shannon Tania Waters, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, Director of Health Surveillance, First Nations and Inuit Health


• Isaac Sobol, MD, CCFP, MHSc, Acting Director of Health Protection, First Nations and Inuit Health – BC Region

Topics to be discussed include:

• What is the role of a Medical Health Officer?


• What is the vision for the transition of the Medical Health Officers to the FNHA?


• How can Health Directors best work with Medical Health Officers?

Where: Participate by video conference OR online via computer webinar

Registration: Click here to register. *Pre-registration is required to attend this free event*

Adjunct Professor Appointments Committee

Mentorship Committee Meeting

Communications and Technology Subcommittee meeting

Associate Professor Appointments Committee meeting

The microbiota (also known as the normal flora of the human body) is comprised of thousands of species of microbes. Only recently have we begun to appreciate the role of these organisms in health, impacting on diarrhea, obesity, various bowel diseases, type I diabetes, asthma, and even brain development. In this talk, "Bugs 'R Us: The Role of Microbes in Health, Disease and Society," Dr. B. Brett Finlay will explore new research on the role of the microbiota in health, mechanisms used by microbes to cause disease, and new approaches to counter infections, including potentially using the microbiota to prevent other diseases.

Dr. B Brett Finlay holds appointments at the Michael Smith Laboratories and in the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Immunology at UBC. In 2000, a strain of E.coli found in drinking water was responsible for the deaths of six people and the illness of thousands in Walker, Ontario. Dr. Finlay's research on how this strain of E. coli attaches to intestinal cells led to the development of a vaccine for cattle which will reduce the threat of future outbreaks.

Tickets are free but must be reserved

The UBC Learning Circle is pleased to welcome Elder Gerry Oleman as he presents a special Learning Circle on The Impacts of Colonization on Me, My Family, My Community and Healing the Impacts of Colonization. This Learning Circle will enable participants to engage in a dialogue about the impacts of colonization on health and provide a safe space to facilitate the process of healing. More info…

Where: Participate by video conference OR online via computer webinar ('Adobe Connect')

Registration: Free! Click here to register. *Pre-registration is required to attend this event electronically*

Congratulations to all our Spring 2013 Graduates!

Please join us for coffee/tea and cake.

OEH Theme Meeting

Chaired by Amanda Versteeg, HR Manager

Recognition, Communications and Culture Committee meeting

Guest Speaker
Dr. Peter Danielson
Mary & Maurice Young Professor of Applied Ethics
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
School of Population & Public Health

Abstract
Software introduces new kinds of agents: artificial software agents (ASA). To create them responsibility, engineers need an ethics of software agency. This pragmatic need for guidance and regulation conflicts with the weakness of moral science. We do not know much about how ethics informs interactions with and between artificial agents, most importantly, how people will regard ASA as agents: their agents (strictly speaking) and also their competitive and cooperative partners. Naturally, we want to deal with these new problems with our old ethical tools, but this conservative strategy may not work, and if not, may lead to catastrophic failure to anticipate the emerging moral landscape. (Just ask the creators of genetically modified foods.)

This lecture will look at the box or frame of traditional ethics and some ways to use experimental data to get outside it. We focus on three surprising features of human–ASA interaction that disturb received ethical paradigms:

1. Blame someone: the victim or the engineer (overactive deontology)


2. Stop acting: we demand perfection (utopian consequentialism)


3. Embracing mechanical exploitation (the Ultimatum Game)

We show how an experimental, cognitive and game theoretic approach to ethics can situate and explain these problems. However, it cannot solve them; for that we need new methods.

1. Anonymous input of moral and value data (clickers)


2. Democratic scale deliberation (N-Reasons)
   
   Both of which demand reformed research ethics.

As some of the data discussed comes from the Robot Ethics survey, you will be better informed and represented if before the lecture you visit: http://your-views.org/D7/Robot_Ethics_Welcome. The “class” for the conference is: CompArch

All faculty are invited to attend

The Cancer Prevention Centre is proud to present "Macronutrient intake, hormones, and cancer" with Michael Pollak, MD.

Dr. Michael Pollak holds the Alexander Goldfarb Research Chair in the Department of Oncology at McGill University. He is a clinical oncologist with multidisciplinary research interests related to cancer risk and cancer prevention. His work spans clinical research, population studies, and laboratory research. Currently, his active research topics include roles of insulin, insulin-like growth factors, and energy balance in cancer risk and prognosis. Dr. Pollak and his collaborators have published more than 300 research papers, which have been cited more than 16,000 times. He was awarded the Harold Warwick prize by the Canadian Cancer Society for 2012.

Bring your dancin' shoes and join us for the 2nd Jar and Jam! Celebrate the end of the academic year with some fun, music and good times.

Graduating class: Come for one last shindig with SPPH faculty, staff and students!
Beer: $4.00 /bottle, Wine: $4:00/glass.

The SPPH Jar and Jam Band is looking for musicians and singers! Please contact Kim McGrail at kmcgrail@chspr.ubc.ca to join.

Do you have pictures from this school year that you are willing to share? Please send them to Katherine Came (katherine.came@ubc.ca). She is putting together a 'one-night-only' montage.

The UBC Learning Circle is partnering with the Ktunaxa Nation Council, College of the Rockies and the Human Early Learning Partnership at the University of British Columbia to bring you a series of three video conference and computer webinar sessions that provide the opportunity for participants to gather, learn, and discuss social epigenetics and knowledge relationships through sharing emerging research and Ktunaxa and Indigenous perspectives.

Presenters include Joe Pierre Jr., Michele A. Sam, Gwen Phillips, Dr. Tom Boyce, Dr. Michael S. Kobor, and Dr. Michael Yellow Bird.

Where: Participate by video conference OR online via computer webinar ('Adobe Connect')

Registration: Free! Click here to register to attend as many of the sessions as you wish. *Pre-registration is required to attend this event electronically*

The UBC Learning Circle invites you to a special live presentation on two exciting initiatives:

• The UBC Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Group will first present on the proposed UBC Centre of Excellence in Indigenous Health with the goal of engaging Indigenous peoples in BC about the proposed Centre of Excellence in Indigenous Health. They would like your feedback on the working draft of the proposal to understand how they can best support you to achieve wellness in your communities. More info…


• The Cedar Project Partnership will also present on their multi-year community-based research project that will address the impact of historical trauma – specifically, parental attendance at residential schools – on the health of young Aboriginal people who are at risk for HIV and Hepatitis C. More info…

Presenters include: Dr. Linc Kesler, Chief Kukpi7 Wayne Christian, Leah May Walker, Margo Pearce, and Vicky Thomas

Registration: Free! Click here to register. *Pre-registration is required to attend this event electronically*