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August 21st, 2009

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  1. Memo from Dr. Donald Wasylenki, Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto:
    Awards and Honours
     
  2. Dept. of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto:
    Neuroscience Day 2009: Photos from the event
     
  3. Memo from Prof. Paul Young, Vice President, Research, Univ. of Toronto:
    Call for Proposals and SciNet User Accounts
     
  4. CIHR University Delegate Webpage, Univ. of Toronto:
    E-Alert – Issue 75
     
  5. Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Toronto:
    2008-2009 CE Awards, Fall 2009 Research & Development Grants
     
  6. REMINDER: Deadline is fast approaching.
    Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN) and the Univ. of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics:
    Needs Assessment Survey
    (Deadline: August 31, 2009)
     
  7. Flyer is now posted.
    Dept. of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto:
    Paul Garfinkel Lecture: Topic: Leadership
    Guest Speaker: Professor Ron Daniels, President, The Johns Hopkins University
    (Event: September 16, 2009)
     

    8. Newest Course and Event Announcements

  8. An Exhibit Presented by the CNE Archives:
    CNE After Dark & Other Haunting Tales from the Garrison Reserve
    (Event: August 21 - September 7, 2009)
     

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    M E M O:

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    All Faculty Members, Residents and Fellows, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
     

    From:

    Donald Wasylenki, Professor and Chair
     

    Re:

    Awards and Honours
     

     
    I am pleased to announce the following awards and honours achieved by faculty members recently:

    David Conn, Nathan Herrmann and Joel Sadavoy received Distinguished Service Awards from the International Psychogeriatric Association.

    Robin Green received a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair.

    Brian Hodges has been appointed as the Richard and Elizabeth Currie Chair in Health Professions Education Research for a five year term, starting July 1, 2009. The Chair’s home base is the Wilson Centre for Research in Education.

    Jim Kennedy has won the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award in recognition of his research contributions.
    This was the first alumnus award focused on research achievements.

    Sean Rourke received a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association for contributions to the science and practice of Psychology.

    I am sure that everyone will join me in congratulating these distinguished faculty members and in thanking them for their contributions to the Department of Psychiatry.

    Donald Wasylenki, MD, FRCPC
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Psychiatry
    University of Toronto
     

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    PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL PROFESSORS IN YOUR DEPARTMENT - THANKS.
     

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    PDAD&C
     

    From:

    Professor Paul Young, Vice President, Research
     

    Re:

    Call for Proposals and SciNet User Accounts
     

     
    The SciNet High Performance Computing (HPC) consortium is pleased to announce that a call for proposals has been issued by Compute/Calcul Canada, whereby qualified faculty from Canadian Universities may apply for time allocations on the HPC systems available on the National Platform for HPC.

    The call for proposals is posted on the Compute/Calcul Canada website:

    https://computecanada.org/

    This is a call from the National Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC), which will handle very large projects, and it contains links to calls from the individual consortium-based Local Resource Allocation Committees (LRACs).

    The SciNet consortium, which is comprised  the University of Toronto and its affiliated research hospitals, runs the two fastest supercomputer systems in Canada:  the TCS (Tightly Coupled System), which is geared for highly parallel and tightly coupled codes such as climate simulations and magnetohydrodynamics; and the GPC (General Purpose Cluster) which ranks as the 16th fastest system in the world. There are only 3 other universities world-wide which are running comparable systems.

    If your research would benefit from access to such HPC resources then please note that SciNet has issued its LRAC proposal, with a deadline for submission by 31 August, 2009.  You may download the proposal at:

    https://portal.scinet.utoronto.ca/docs/SciNet-LRAC-call-July2009.pdf

    We expect our systems to become available for testing in early August, so as to enable prospective users to qualify their codes and then to formally apply for time allocations in full knowledge of the functionality of their programmes.

    In order to obtain an account on the SciNet systems (and any other system of the National Platform), all prospective users, faculty and their students, postdoctoral fellows and research staff, must first register with the Compute Canada DataBase (CCDB):

    https://ccdb.computecanada.org/

    Faculty members must be the first to register and obtain their Compute Canada Role Identifier (CCRI), as their students and postdoctoral fellows will require their supervisor's approval and sponsorship in order for them to successfully register with the CCDB.  After registration with the CCDB, prospective users may apply for accounts on the SciNet systems (or link to existing accounts):

    http://www.scinet.utoronto.ca/resources/Account_Allocations.htm

    Please be aware that, according to the policy set forward by Compute Canada and CFI, any significant usage of the SciNet systems after approximately mid-October will be restricted to only those groups who were successful in their NRAC/LRAC applications.

    For more information please contact either:

    Chris Loken, Chief Technical Officer, SciNet, cloken@scinet.utoronto.ca or
    Daniel Gruner, Chief Technical Officer, Software, SciNet, daniel.gruner@utoronto.ca

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    CIHR University of Toronto University Delegate

    Updates to the CIHR University Delegate Webpage
    Definition of “Equipment” at CIHR

    The following updates to the CIHR Delegates webpage have been posted on the Faculty of Medicine Research Office web site at http://www.medresearch.utoronto.ca/chir.html

    E-Alert – Issue 75

    Contents

    1) Funding Opportunity News
    a) Funding opportunities posted between August 1 and August 14, 2009 by CIHR and its partners

    2) Application and Funding Policy News
    a) Update within the Common CV

     E-alert – Subscription Information
    Subscribe to your own electronic subscription of E-Alert on CIHR’s web site.
    Click here for instructions:  http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/26626.html

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    Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development

    Please see below for information concerning
    1. Faculty of Medicine CE Awards (2008-2009)
    2. Office of CEPD Research & Development Internal Grants - Fall 2009 cycle

    1.  Faculty of Medicine Continuing Education Awards 2008-2009
    Nominations are now being requested for the Faculty's Continuing Education Awards for 2008-2009:

     Colin R. Woolf Award - Three awards are available annually: one for excellence in course coordination, one for excellence in teaching at Continuing Education events, and one for long-term contribution to Continuing Education activities.

     David Fear Fellowship in Continuing Education – The objective of the fellowship is to promote scholarship and professional development in continuing education.
     
    Fred Fallis Award in Online Learning     – The award is in recognition of University of Toronto-sponsored Continuing Education events.
     
    Dave Davis Continuing Education and Professional Development Research Award     – The objective of this new award is to recognize an outstanding completed research project in continuing education and professional development in the Faculty of Medicine.

    For further details on terms and criteria, please visit http://www.cepd.utoronto.ca/?page_id=222 or contact Vashty Hawkins at (416) 946-7903 or vashty.hawkins@utoronto.ca

    Deadline for nominations is Friday, October 30, 2009 at 5:00pm

    2.  Office of Continuing Education Research and Development Internal Grants - Fall 2009 Cycle
    Just a reminder that we are now soliciting nominations for the Fall 2009 Office of Continuing Education Research and Development Awards. These grants have been offered three times per year since 1997, and are intended to support projects (up to $5,000.00) that directly relate to the planning, implementation, delivery and evaluation of continuing education for health professionals.

    Examples might include a needs assessment and methods of evaluation to measure the impact of continuing education activities on health professional competence or behaviour.

    For further information and details, please go to http://www.cepd.utoronto.ca/?page_id=212 or contact Vashty Hawkins at vashty.hawkins@utoronto.ca. A downloadable application form and deadlines/criteria are available at the above link along with a list of past successful applicants.  The deadline for fall nominations is Monday, September 21, 2009 at 5:00pm. Should you require an extension, please contact Ms. Hawkins directly.

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    Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN) and the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

    To: Researchers involved in human subjects research, REB members, coordinators and administrators:

    I would like to thank those of you who completed the TAHSN needs assessment survey.  For those who have yet to complete the online survey, you have less than two weeks to do so.  The survey will close on August 31, 2009. Initiated by the Research and Education in Research Ethics Working Group (called (RE)2), a committee established within the Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) and supported by the Vice-Presidents, Research of TAHSN, the assessment aims to identify the educational needs of researchers, REB members, coordinators, and administrators in research ethics within the TAHSN institutions.

    This quality assurance initiative will help us to better understand your involvement with research ethics, current opportunities for education in the field and your needs for future materials and programs.  The survey should take less than 10 minutes of your time.  More information about the survey and the survey itself can be found at the following link:
    http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=RjwDFj2KnMX4hMapo7EuFA_3d_3d

    The results we collect will help us in developing educational initiatives that will be useful and interesting to you and will help us to design a research ethics e-commons (an online repository of multi-institutional research ethics educational resources), which will serve as a valuable resource for knowledge and resource sharing within the discipline.

    Please feel free to circulate this email to other TAHSN research ethics community members who would be interested in participating.

    We thank you for your time in completing the survey and your commitment to continuing excellence in research ethics.

    Sincere best wishes,

    Ross E.G. Upshur, BA(Hons), MA, MD, MSc, CCFP, FRCPC
    Director, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
    Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine and
       Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
    Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research
    Director, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics

    P. N. Lewis, Ph.D.
    Vice Dean, Research and International Relations
    Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
    1 King's College Circle
    Toronto, ON M5S 1A8

    Lorraine E. Ferris, PhD., C.Psych., LL.M. (ADR); LL.M. (Admin Law)
    Associate Vice Provost, Relations with Health Care Institutions
    Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
    University of Toronto
    500 University Ave, Suite 390
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G IV7

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    • Newest Course and Event Announcements

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    CNE Historical Photo Exhibit:
    The 19th-century Garrison Reserve

    The enclosed notice announces a special exhibit of photos and graphics with which we are collaborating for this year's Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), concerning the 19th-century "Garrison Reserve" institutions.  Those include today's Old Fort York, CNE, CAMH Queen Street site, and several early public facilities that no longer exist.  The exhibit is being mounted by our professional archivist and curator colleagues based at the CNE Archives.

    An informative, illustrated blend of folklore – relating to the other institutions – and fact, vis-à-vis CAMH's former 19th-century asylum, this exhibit bears the attention-catching title, "CNE After Dark and Other Haunting Tales from the Garrison Reserve."  In terms of "haunting," however, the exhibit makes clear that, rather than by any paranormal phenomena, the Queen Street asylum and its clients were shadowed (haunted) from early days by the persistent stigma against mental illness.

    Drawing on a range of our own archival images, the exhibit will offer an introductory window on the 19th-century asylum's historic role and significance in its local neighbourhood and the City, while offering perspectives toward counteracting stigma and linking to the current Site Redevelopment program. 

    It will be on display throughout this year's CNE, from Friday, August 21st through Labour Day – Monday, September 7th.

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    UPCOMING SSHRC COMPETITIONS

    Application forms and updated program descriptions for the following SSHRC competitions are now available on the SSHRC website.
    For these programs, the applicant will submit to SSHRC the original hard copy of the proposal which must bear all necessary signatures, including the institutional signature. To request institutional approval, please submit your full original proposal (with attachments and CVs) to UTRS by the internal deadline; submitted proposals must already have been signed by the applicant and by the appropriate divisional authorities, and must be accompanied by a completed, signed RIS Application Attachment (form available at http://www.research.utoronto.ca/funding/pdf/ris_blue.pdf).

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    Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program
    The ITST program assists researchers to integrate digital media technologies into humanities and social sciences research, to bring together experts from different disciplines to advance research in this area, and to facilitate the development of national and international partnerships. The program is broadly applicable to many areas of research in connection with the application of new digital technologies.

    ITST Research Grants
    http://www.sshrc.ca/site/apply-demande/program_descriptions-descriptions_de_ programmes/itst/research_grants-subventions_recherche-eng.aspx

    Value: Up to $50,000 over two years.

    ITST Summer Institutes, Workshop and Conference Grants http://www.sshrc.ca/site/apply-demande/program_descriptions-descriptions_de_programmes/itst/workshops-ateliers-eng.aspx

    Value: Up to $50,000 over one year.

    UTRS deadline: September 10, 2009     SSHRC postmark deadline: September 15,
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    Aboriginal Research Pilot Program
    http://www.sshrc.ca/site/apply-demande/program_descriptions-descriptions_de_programmes/aboriginal-autochtone-eng.aspx

    SSHRC has announced a new competition in its Aboriginal Research Pilot Program. This is the first funding offered under this program since 2007 and revisions to the program description reflect the evaluation conducted by SSHRC in 2008.

    The program objectives are:
    a) to facilitate research by and with Aboriginal scholars and communities on issues relevant to Canada's Aboriginal peoples; and
    b) to build the capacity of the humanities and social sciences community to operate within and benefit from traditional Aboriginal and other knowledge approaches to these issues.

    Two types of grant are available:

    Development Grants:
    Up to $25,000 over up to two years.

    Research Grants
    Up to $250,000 over up to three years (annual maximum $100,000).

    UTRS deadline:  September 24, 2009   SSHRC postmark deadline:  September 30,
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    Metropolis Project
    http://www.sshrc.ca/site/apply-demande/program_descriptions-descriptions_de_programmes/metropolis-eng.aspx

    This program will fund a major national-level policy research project in the field of immigration and diversity. For this year’s competition, the policy research question to be investigated is:  From the point of view of governments and of newcomers and minorities, are government-NGO partnerships the most effective model for delivering services for integration and inclusion in Canada?
     Up to $125,000 is available over a period of 12-18 months.
    UTRS deadline: September 24, 2009     SSHRC postmark deadline: September 30,
    2009 

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    Research Development Initiatives
    http://www.sshrc.ca/site/apply-demande/program_descriptions-descriptions_de_programmes/rdi-idr-eng.aspx

    This program supports the development and analysis of new directions in research in their early stages. Grants are for up to $40,000 over two years.

    UTRS deadline: October 1, 2009     SSHRC postmark deadline: October 7, 2009
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    Thank you, and please let me know if you need further information about any of the above programs,

    Sarah

    Sarah Scott
    Research Funding Officer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Services University of Toronto McMurrich Building, 3rd floor
    12 Queen's Park Crescent West
    Toronto, ON M5S 1S8

    T: 416-978-7324  F: 416-971-2010  E: sja.scott@utoronto.ca www.research.utoronto.ca

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    • Other Courses and Events

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    Mount Sinai Hospital
    Psychotherapy Institute

     
    COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM OF PSYCHOTHERAPY (CBASP): HOPE FOR CHRONIC DEPRESSION. 

    An interactive workshop using standardized patients; co-taught by Sian Rawkins MD FRCPC and Molyn Leszcz MD FRCPC.
    (June 19 and 20, 2009 & September 11 and 12, 2009)
    Learn to recognize and modify maladaptive interpersonal behaviours of chronically depressed patients with the techniques of CBASP.  For further information and registration details: http://tinyurl.com/ctscwx

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    PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA: AN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP USING STANDARDIZED PATIENTS

    Co-taught by Clare Pain MD, Lisa Andermann MD & Ruth Lanius MD, PhD.
    (July 17 and 18, 2009 & September 25 and 26, 2009)
    Learn to manage the clinical challenges of trauma clients, Canadian-born to refugees, and learn about the neuroscience of unresolved trauma and affect dysregulation.  For further information and registration details: http://tinyurl.com/d2vtsa

     

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    CNE Historical Photo Exhibit:
    The 19th-century Garrison Reserve

    The enclosed notice announces a special exhibit of photos and graphics with which we are collaborating for this year's Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), concerning the 19th-century "Garrison Reserve" institutions.  Those include today's Old Fort York, CNE, CAMH Queen Street site, and several early public facilities that no longer exist.  The exhibit is being mounted by our professional archivist and curator colleagues based at the CNE Archives.

    An informative, illustrated blend of folklore – relating to the other institutions – and fact, vis-à-vis CAMH's former 19th-century asylum, this exhibit bears the attention-catching title, "CNE After Dark and Other Haunting Tales from the Garrison Reserve."  In terms of "haunting," however, the exhibit makes clear that, rather than by any paranormal phenomena, the Queen Street asylum and its clients were shadowed (haunted) from early days by the persistent stigma against mental illness.

    Drawing on a range of our own archival images, the exhibit will offer an introductory window on the 19th-century asylum's historic role and significance in its local neighbourhood and the City, while offering perspectives toward counteracting stigma and linking to the current Site Redevelopment program. 

    It will be on display throughout this year's CNE, from Friday, August 21st through Labour Day – Monday, September 7th.

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    Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy:
    Preventing Depressive and Anxiety Relapse
    (8 week Program)

    Mindfulness is a non-judgmental way of paying attention in the present moment. This helps us to relate differently to such conditions as Depression and Anxiety, opening us to possibilities for change. Mindfulness may increase our ability to manage our emotions and to accept that which cannot be changed, reducing our reactivity.

    Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a treatment for Depression and Anxiety that examines the relationship between beliefs, thoughts, feelings and behaviours. People suffering from Depression and Anxiety often have thoughts related to feelings of hopelessness and/or helplessness. CBT identifies thoughts as thoughts (rather than the facts we believe them to be) and helps challenge them, opening us to more constructive beliefs, often leading to changes in moods and behaviours.

    This experiential, 8 week course works with mindfulness and CBT. Homework consists of approximately one hour per day of meditation and CBT activities, six days per week. All participants must have a Family Physician and a valid OHIP card. Participants must be currently free of substance misuse.

    Fees: $290.00 (includes all materials and non-MD facilitator). Those with extended health coverage may be covered under Psychological services. Registration required by August 18, 2009

    Dates: Required Orientation/Intake: Tuesday August 25, 2009-3:00pm-5:00pm, Please bring your OHIP card. Course: Tuesdays  September 1, 2009 – October 20, 2009 – 3:00pm-5:00pm. 

    Location: 1466 Bathurst Street, #306, Toronto. Please call Jackie to register: 416-536-5555 or email drrockman@o.aibn.com.

    Facilitators: Patricia Rockman, MD, CCFP, FCFP & Allison McLay, BA, Dip. CS

    Patricia Rockman is a Family Physician, Medical Psychotherapist/Educator working in the areas of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Mindfulness based techniques.

    Allison McLay works in psychological assessment and counselling in the area of Learning Disabilities. She has co-led various MBCT and MBSR programs.
     

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    • September 2009

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    Getting to Uptake: Leveraging Social Innovation for Practice Change

    The symposium will bring new ideas from business and social media enterprise to a gathering of experts from the children’s sectors to explore how social media innovations and new thinking might leverage organizational or practice change in education and mental health.

    The focus will be on (1) the co-development of new strategies for knowledge translation and practice change, and (2) the re-interpretation of existing strategies that have been applied in one sector but have yet to be adapted for application in another. The existing inventory of knowledge translation strategies is limited and their effectiveness variable. The field must continue with further research on their effectiveness, but the pool of strategies also needs to evolve further. The venue will provide a much needed opportunity to look beyond our own disciplines and work environments to that we might learn from what others are doing elsewhere that may have application in mental health and education. Only then will we be able to further our success in bridging knowledge to practice and to improve knowledge exchange and uptake.

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    • October 2009

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    University of Toronto Centre for Patient Safety:
    2009-2010 Certificate in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

    Dear Faculty,

    Last year, Drs. Ed Etchells (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre), Kaveh Shojania (SHSC), Chaim Bell (St. Michael’s Hospital), Anne Matlow (Sick Kids Hospital), and Chris Hayes (St. Michael’s) ran a Certificate Course through the University of Toronto’s Centre for Faculty Development. This course filled to capacity within two weeks of the announcement. The 39 participants came from the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Surgery, Family & Community Medicine, and Radiology and represented all of the core University of Toronto teaching hospitals. Their academic ranks included subspecialty residents and fellows (5), Clinical Associates (2), Lecturers (8), Assistant Professors (14), and Full Professors (3), including one Division Head.  These individuals predominantly came from the Faculty of Medicine, but this year’s course has been modified to increase multidisciplinary participation. 

    The course consists of didactic and interactive sessions roughly 2 Friday afternoons per month from October to May. Interested individuals can also use the course as an opportunity to develop projects in patient safety or quality improvement that they plan to implement in their respective institutions.

    Formal and informal feedback from last year’s course has been uniformly positive, so the course is being offered again under the auspices of both the Centre for Faculty Development and the newly created University of Toronto Centre for Patient Safety. Guest lectures include prominent local and external researchers and decision makers (e.g., from the Ministry of Health), as well as the course directors. 

    The full course description and link to the registration form can be found at http://www.deptmedicine.utoronto.ca/Faculty/patient_safety.htm
      
    Lisa Habib
    Strategic Planning and Implementation Assistant
    Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
    3-805, R. Fraser Elliott Building
    190 Elizabeth St., Toronto, ON M5G 2C4

    p. 416.978.6834
    f. 416.978.7230
    e. lisa.habib@utoronto.ca
    w. www.deptmedicine.utoronto.ca


     
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    Department of Psychiatry,
    Humber River Regional Hospital

    Annual Clinical Day:
    “Stigma of Mental Illness – Combating the Enemy Among Us”

    October 2, 2009 - Old Mill Inn, Toronto

    For more information, please contact:
    Mary Pistilli, (416) 658-2067 or mpistilli@hrrh.on.ca


     
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    "Landmark Lecture"

    Dear Colleagues,

    On behalf of Martin Strauss, Lee Errett, Subodh Verma and the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, I am pleased to invite you to the acclaimed "Landmark Lecture" series. The Landmark Lecture is a unique educational platform introduced by our division over the past four years, and complements our efforts to enhance research, education, clinical care, and inter-specialty collaboration within the Greater Toronto Area. Established in 2006, the Landmark Lecture series featured Dr. Salim Yusuf in its inaugural year, Dr. Eugene Braunwald in 2007, and Dr. Steven Nissen in 2008. Over 300 members of Toronto's cardiovascular community have attended each Landmark Lecture.

    Dr. Louis Ignarro is the Landmark Lecturer for 2009. Dr. Ignarro was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998) for his discovery of the role of Nitric Oxide as a key "signaling" molecule between cells, a discovery that has had tremendous impact in all medical specialties and life sciences. Dr. Ignarro's lecture is entitled "Nitric Oxide as the Molecule of Life".
    Please reserve the evening of Tuesday October 13, 2009 at 6pm to join us at the Hilton Hotel (145 Richmond Street West) for a memorable evening with Dr. Louis Ignarro. A formal invitation can be downloaded at  http://www.medresearch.utoronto.ca/Landmark.pdf lecture Oct. 13, 2009. We encourage you to RSVP quickly, since we expect that this event will be oversubscribed. We look forward to seeing you at the 2009 Landmark Lecture.

    All the best.

    Peter Lewis

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    P. N. Lewis, Ph.D.
    Vice Dean, Research and International Relations
    Faculty of Medicine

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    • November 2009

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    The Canadian Action Network for the Advancement, Dissemination and Adoption of Practice-informed Tobacco Treatment
    (CAN-ADAPTT)

    Dear colleagues,

    We are pleased to announce the date for CAN-ADAPTT’s 2nd Annual Meeting on November 1, 2009 from 10:30 am - 4:30 pm. This year our event will be held as a pre-conference workshop at the 6th National Conference on Tobacco or Health 6th (November 1 - 4, 2009) in Montréal, Quebec. Please mark these dates in your calendars. There is no cost for the CAN-ADAPTT workshop, however, space is limited and pre-registration is required.

    Registration for the CAN-ADAPTT workshop and/or the National Conference can be completed online through the NCTH website or you may follow the link I have provided below. If you have any questions regarding our annual meeting please feel free to contact me at stephanie_elliott@camh.net  or 416-535-8501 x 7427. We look forward to seeing you all in Québec!!  

    CAN-ADAPTT and NCTH Registration form

    Stephanie Elliott
    Administrative Secretary
    CAN-ADAPTT & Long-Term Care Projects
    175 College Street, rm 112
    Toronto ON, M5T 1P7
    Tel: (416) 535-8501 x7427
    Fax: (416) 599-8265
    www.CAN-ADAPTT.net
    www.smokefreeltc.ca

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    • December 2009

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