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75 health care facilities including 22 large tertiary and medium regional hospitals provide clinical education opportunities for both undergraduate and post graduate medical students.
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Researchers and practicing clinicians interested in occupational and environmental medicine will meet for the annual meeting of the Occupational and Environmental Medical Association of Canada (OEMAC). The conference will highlight research and occupational health clinical best practices in several related themes, including environmental health, industrial medicine issues especially those relating to a maritime region (e.g. shipbuilding), disability management, medico legal evidence and causation work, sports medicine, hearing conservation, and mental health and addictions in the workplace.
Confirmed speakers include: Drs Michael Brauer and Mieke Koehoorn
The Centre for Health Education Scholarship will host the 2012 CHES Celebration of Scholarship on October 2, 2012 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. This event is an opportunity for the CHES community to showcase and share their work and to celebrate the accomplishments of the health professions education scholarship network.
2nd Annual Gordon Page Invited Lecturer:
Dr. Cees van der Vleuten
Cees van der Vleuten came to the University of Maastricht in 1982. He was appointed as a Professor of Education in 1996 at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences and chair of the Department of Educational Development and Research. In 2005 he was appointed as the Scientific Director of the School of Health Professions Education (www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/she). His area of expertise lies in evaluation and assessment. He has published widely on these topics, holds numerous academic awards for his work, including several career awards. He has frequently served as a consultant internationally. He is a mentor for many researchers in medical education and has supervised more than 50 doctoral graduate students in the past. In 2010 he received a Dutch royal decoration for the societal impact of his work.
Closing Plenary Speaker:
Dr. Claudia Ruitenberg
Claudia Ruitenberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Educational Studies at UBC. She makes use of philosophical perspectives in especially the areas of language, ethics, and politics to understand educational practices and phenomena such as censorship in education, professionalism in teaching, and citizenship education. She is editor of What Do Philosophers of Education Do? (And How Do They Do It?) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and co-editor (with D.C. Phillips) of Education, Culture and Epistemological Diversity: Mapping a Disputed Terrain (Springer, 2012). Her publications have appeared in, among others, the Journal of Philosophy of Education, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and the Philosophy of Education Yearbooks. From September to December 2012 she is “philosopher-of-education-in-residence” at CHES, with the purpose of examining what philosophical perspectives and questions might contribute to medical education, and what questions the particularities of medical education might raise for the field of philosophy of education.
Thesis title: "Examining the risk of cardiovascular disease associated with exposure to shift work and psychosocial stress among Paramedics."
Supervisory committee:
Dr. Hugh Davies, supervisor (SPPH), Dr. Paul Demers (Occupational Cancer Research Centre, ON), Dr. Aleck Ostry (Geography, UVic), Dr. Gregory Miller.
Final Doctoral Examinations are normally held in the Examination Rooms on the main floor of the Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road. Parking is available in the Rose Garden Parkade (underground), or outside the University Centre (previously the Faculty Club).
Examinations normally take 2 - 3 hours to complete. Exam room doors are locked once exams are in progress. Late entry is not permitted.
In an era of immense media change where audiences, platforms, and journalistic practices are in flux, engaging diverse publics with complex scientific issues presents an array of challenges. Much of the discussion around and about climate change assumes that more facts and reporting are required for heightening public engagement, ignoring the myriad of ways in which socialization, meaning-making, and ethical frameworks co-produce how facts come to matter for individuals and groups. Drawing on research that has looked at significant social movements as well as scientists’ and journalists’ efforts to communicate and report on climate change, this talk will offer insight into how the issue comes to be invested with particular meanings, ethics, and rationales to act.
Speaker: Candis Callison
Candis Callison is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC. She holds a Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies and a PhD in Science, Technology, and Society from MIT. Prior to becoming an academic, Candis’ work as a journalist and producer appeared on varied media platforms in Canada (CBC, CTV, APTN) and the United States (Lycos, Tech TV).
CULTURAL CAPITAL AND THE PRODUCTION OF HEALTH
Thomas Abel, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
This presentation starts from an understanding of health as a societal resource to be produced in everyday life based on the (unequally distributed) resources people have individually and collectively available. For such resources, economic and social capital have been studied extensively with the effects of cultural capital much less understood. Thomas Abel will argue that particularly in societies with comprehensive social security systems in place, people’s cultural capital may occupy a central role in the production on health. He will present examples of measures of cultural and social capital currently tested in an ongoing health survey in Switzerland and address questions on measurement and/or issues on theoretical-conceptual challenges around cultural capital and health.
Speaker Bio:
Thomas Abel is a visiting Professor in the UBC Department of Sociology. He is a Medical Sociologist and Full Professor for Health Research at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland (http://www.ispm.ch). In Bern, Dr. Abel is Chair of the Division of Social and Behavioural Health Research (http://www.ispm.ch/index.php?id=796). Applying a structure-agency perspective, his major research program addresses issues of social stratification and inequalities in health and health behaviours
'Social inequalities in health - Exploring life-course and Intergenerational mechanisms'
Presenter: Amal Khanolkar
The Maternal-Child Health seminars are a bi-monthly non-credit seminar for trainees. Students present their work for feedback, students and faculty present journal articles of interest, discuss submissions for conferences, explore sources of funding, or present guest speakers.
Topic: Pharmacoepidemiologic Research of Two Hormonal Emergency Contraceptive Regimens in British Columbia
Speaker: Vivian Leung, BSc (Pharm), Pharm D (PhD candidate), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC
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
Abstract: Experiences and exposures in early childhood have been found to have life-long impacts on children’s subsequent health and development. The provincial government has invested in population and public health programs tailored for children under six years old, with the overall objective to promote healthy development. This talk will feature three distinct yet intersecting universal programs for supporting early vision, dental, and hearing problem detection for BC’s children, with particular focus on population-level database development initiatives that aim to optimize capture of child health information for surveillance and outcome monitoring purposes.
Speaker: Brenda Poon is an Assistant Professor with the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. She leads HELP’s Early Childhood Screening Research Unit. Brenda completed her doctoral studies in Special Education at UBC and postdoctoral fellowship with HELP through CADRE (Capacity for Applied and Developmental Research and Evaluation in Health Services and Nursing), a joint program of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
This presentation offers an introduction into the sociological concept of cultural capital and its application to health inequalities. Propositions derived from Bourdieu’s theory on capital interplay and the reproduction of social inequality are introduced and linked to current issues on the production and re-production of health inequalities. The discussion will also examine ways to operationalize cultural capital within empirical health research and potential applications of the approach for health promotion interventions.
Speaker:
Thomas Abel is a Medical Sociologist and Professor for Health Research at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is chair of the division of Social and Behavioural Health Research. Applying a structure-agency perspective, his major research program addresses issues of social stratification and inequalities in health and health behaviours. His academic degrees include a Habilitiation at the Philipps-University (Dept. of Medicine, 1993), a PhD from the University of Illinois (Dept. of Sociology) in 1989, a Master’s (1980) and a Dr.Philosophy (1984) degree from the Justus Liebig-University (Dept. of Sports Science). He has been a Visiting Professor at Université de Montréal in 2005 (Dépt. de médecine sociale et préventive) and is currently a Visiting Professor at UBC Vancouver (Dept. of Sociology).
This presentation will focus on Stem Cell & Marrow Network.
The Canadian Blood Services is a program dedicated to recruiting healthy, committed volunteer donors for patients in need of stem cells. There is a FN Shortage of Donors, find out more information and how you can help!
Marcus Lem, co-lead of SPPH's Public Health Emerging Threats and Rapid Response theme, says, "public health practitioners are the only people who would call this movie a comedy."
CONTAGION
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet
Popcorn will be provided, but please also bring your own snacks, and some to share!
This talk will present the results of a multi-center case-crossover study of the influence of route design on cycling injuries. It will describe how the study design controls for both exposure to risk and personal and trip characteristics, to allow the focus to be on infrastructure. Cycling injuries in British Columbia will be put in context, by comparing them to injuries incurred via other modes of travel, to cycling injuries in other countries, and to the health benefits of cycling.
Speaker: Dr. Kay Teschke
Kay Teschke is Professor in the School of Population and Public Health, in the Occupational and Environmental Health Theme. For the last 9 years, she has led the Cycling in Cities Research Program, a multi-university program of research investigating factors that encourage or discourage bicycling & that increase or decrease cycling safety.
Last year’s Expo connected the dots, illustrating how HELP’s cell to society perspective has significantly contributed to our understanding of the importance of the early years over the last eleven years. This year’s event will focus on the future.
Our full day event promises opportunities to examine HELP research streams in more depth, exchange ideas and build skills.
When: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM.
Where:
Speaker: Dr. David Patrick
Dr. David Patrick is an Infectious Disease Physician and Epidemiologist, Professor and Director at the UBC School of Population and Public Health, and Medical Epidemiology Lead for Antimicrobial Resistance at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. His interest is in fostering interdisciplinary approaches to the study of infectious diseases and public health. Current expressions of this are found in efforts to track and control antimicrobial resistance at population level and the establishment of efforts to study the role of microorganisms in idiopathic chronic diseases.
Six MScOEH students will be presenting oral papers and posters on their practicum co-op placements:
Harmony Hemmelgarn, Sheila Kalenge, Haley Kuppers, Adam Norris, Gaelan Pope and Jackie Thompson.
Emergency Response in humanitarian disasters globally - coordination not chaos
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Hossam Elsharkawi, PhD, Director, Emergencies and Recovery, International operations, Canadian Red Cross
At age 4, Hossam was medevaced out of war-torn Gaza by the Red Cross. As soon as he was old enough, he began volunteering in disaster zones. A public health specialist, Hossam brings over 20 years experience responding to some of the world's worst disasters in over 30 countries.
He is in charge of establishing the Red Cross' rapid deployment field hospital, an Emergency Response Unit (ERU) which he helped develop, and it was deployed to Haiti for the first time. Hossam and his medical team were on the ground just four days after the quake, but logistical problems delayed surgery. A damaged airport, blocked roads and downed communications are the recurring challenges in the early days of the operation.
Thesis Title: Bringing Physician Assistants to Canadian Pediatric Emergency Departments
Quynh's thesis supervisor is Dr. Joel Singer.
Final Doctoral Examinations are normally held in the Examination Rooms on the main floor of the Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road. Parking is available in the Rose Garden Parkade (underground), or outside the University Centre (previously the Faculty Club).
Examinations normally take 2 - 3 hours to complete. Exam room doors are locked once exams are in progress - Late entry is not permitted.
