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Newest Items...
Department
- Memo from Dr. Donald Wasylenki, Chair - Dept. of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto:
External Review of the Department of Psychiatry
- Message from the Dean - Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Toronto:
Update on the Status of the H1N1 Situation
- Office of Admissions & Awards and the Career Centre, University of Toronto:
2009-2010 University of Toronto Work-Study Program
- Dept. of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre:
Professorial Lecture Series: "Town & Gown: making the connections"
Presented by Dr. Carole Cohen MD, FRCPC; Clinical Director, Community Psychiatric Services for the Elderly, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry
(Date: May 11, 2009)
- Save the Date!
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)
Opportunities
- Canadian Action Network for the Advancement, Dissemination and Adoption of Practice-informed Tobacco Treatment (CAN-ADAPTT):
Seed Grant Opportunity
(Deadline: June 12 and December 11, 2009)
Newest Course and Event Announcements
- Hospital for Sick Children:
Psychiatry Rounds: “D-Cycloserine Augmentation of Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder”
Presented by Eric Storch, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychology, University of South Florida
(Event: May 7, 2009)
- Centre for Addiction & Mental Health:
Grand Rounds: "Addressing Tobacco Organizational Change and Implementing Tobacco Bans in Mental Health and Addictions Facilities"
Presented by Douglas M. Ziedonis, MD, MPH; Prof. & Chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of Massachusetts, Medical School &
UMass Memorial Medical Center
(Event: May 8, 2009)
- UHN - Toronto General Hospital:
Grand Rounds: "Going Beyond the Monoamine Model: Impact of immune cytokines in depression"
Presenter: Sophia Lakatoo-Hunt, MD
Supervisor: Sanjeev Sockalingam, MD
Discussant: Roger Mcintyre, MD
Chair: Sidney Kennedy, MD
(Event: May 8, 2009)
- Univ. of Toronto Global Medicines Initiative & Centre for International Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health:
Grand Rounds: "An Ethical Framework for Global Health Development: Role of Affluent Universities and Countries"
Delivered by: Dr. Solomon Benatar
(Event: May 12, 2009)
- REMINDER:
Community Health Systems Resource Group, Hospital for Sick Children - Collaborative Research Symposium Series:
“Marginalized Youth and Contemporary Educational Contexts”
The Key Note Panel and Discussions will include leading experts from Canada and United Kingdom
(Event: May 13, 2009)
- Women's College Hospital:
Grand Rounds: "The use of a Brief Therapy approach:
When enough is truly enough"
Presented by Sylvia Kerr, RD, MSW, RSW; Social Worker/Dietician, Women’s Mental Health Program, Women’s College Hospital
(Event: May 15, 2009)
- Book Launch:
"Cowboys & Bleeding Hearts: Essays on Violence, Health and Identity"
Presented by Ron Charach, MD
(Event: May 21, 2009)
- Canadian Conference on Dementia (CCD):
5th Canadian Conference
Keynote presentations by Dr. Margaret Lock (McGill University) and Dr. Mary Ganguli (University of Pittsburgh)
(Event: October 1-3, 2009)
- Culture and International Mental Health Conference:
A conference to bring together clinicians and researchers in the area of culture and mental health
Resilience and Vulnerability
Keynote Address: Dr. Vikram Patel, Psychiatrist and Professor of International Mental Health and Wellcome Trust Senior
Clinical Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London
(Event: October 15-16, 2009)
CME Courses 2009
- Workshops for 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital, (Various courses throughout 2009)
Other Courses and Events 2009
- Advanced Child Psychopharmacology, Hospital for Sick Children, (Jan-June)
- Advances In Psychiatry 2009, The Canadian Psychiatric Association’s CPD Institute, (May 1 to June 12)
- Psychiatry Rounds, Hospital for Sick Children, (May 7)
- Grand Rounds, CAMH, (May 8)
- Grand Rounds, UHN - Toronto General Hospital, (May 8)
- 9th Annual Educational Clinic Day Program, Behavioural Neurology Section, Div. of Neurology, Univ. of Toronto, (May 8)
- Professorial Lecture Series: Dr. Carole Cohen, Dept. of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, (May 11)
- "An Ethical Framework for Global Health Development: Role of Affluent Universities and Countries", Univ. of Toronto Global Medicines Initiative & Centre for International Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, (May 12)
- “Marginalized Youth and Contemporary Educational Contexts”, Community Health Systems Resource Group, Hospital for Sick Children - Collaborative Research Symposium Series, (May 13)
- Grand Rounds, Women's College Hospital, (May 15)
- Book Launch: "Cowboys & Bleeding Hearts: Essays on Violence, Health and Identity", (May 21)
- Attachment, Intersubjectivity, and Mentalization: Clinical and Developmental Implications, The Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, (May 23)
- Professional Training Workshop & Mentoring group, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, (May 25)
- 10th Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Conference, 2009 Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference, (May 28-29)
- Diversity and Equity in Mental Health / Addiction, Hong Fook Mental Health Association, (May 28-29)
- CPAD 2009, Child Psychotherapies and Development, Dept. of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children, (May 29-30)
- Training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Trauma, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, (May 2009 - Jan. 2010)
- Dr. Ira Pollock Clinic Day and Wulf Grobin Memorial Lecture, Baycrest, (June 5)
- An interdisciplinary conference in honour of Dr. Donald T. Stuss, Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute, (June 11-12)
- Tourette Syndrome, 5th International Medical & Scientific Symposium, (June 11-13)
- MPSI Workshop - CBASP, Mount Sinai Hospital, (June 19-20 and Sept. 11-12)
- MPSI Workshop - Psychological Trauma, Mount Sinai Hospital, (July 17-18 and Sept. 25-26)
- Emotion Focused Therapy Institute, York University Psychotherapy Research Center, (Summer & Fall)
- Provincial Conference, Women’s Mental Health Program, Univ. of Toronto, Women’s College Hospital, CAMH, (Oct 17)
- 5th Canadian Conference, Canadian Conference on Dementia, (Oct 1-3)
- Culture and International Mental Health Conference, Mt. Sinai Hospital, (Oct 15-16)
- 4th Annual Canadian Congress for Research on Mental Health and Addiction in the Workplace, CAMH and Work and Well-being Research and Evaluation Program, (Oct 28-30)
- 2nd Annual Meeting , Canadian Action Network for the Advancement, Dissemination and Adoption of Practice-informed Tobacco Treatment (CAN-ADAPTT), (Nov 1)
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