Please note: The speaker has asked that all participants please bring everyone to bring a device capable of web access or SMS messaging

Speaker:
Dr. Larry Lynd received his undergraduate degree in pharmacy from the University of Saskatchewan in 1986 and PhD in epidemiology from the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia in 2002. He then completed a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship in health economics with Dr. Bernie O'Brien at McMaster University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, an Associate of the School of Population and Public Health, and he has an adjunct appointment to Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is the Associate Director of the Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) at UBC. He is a Scientist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences (CHEOS) at Providence Health, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar, and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator.

Outside of the university setting, Dr. Lynd has served on the National Drug Scheduling Advisory Committee, and he currently sits on the Health Canada Special Advisory Committee for Non-prescription drugs, and the BC Ministry of Health’s Expensive Drugs for Rare Diseases Advisory Committee.

Join us to celebrate the School of Population and Public Health students who graduated in UBC 2012 Fall convocation ceremonies.

Cake and tea/coffee will be served.

Drew Ross, MSc, Manager, Health and Safety, City of Vancouver