Events Calendar

For our weekly listing of events taking place at Providence Health Care as well as locally and internationally, please click here.

Special Session Antiretroviral Update

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012

Time: Approximately 8:00am - 4:30pm

Location: Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel (located across from St. Paul's Hospital in Downtown Vancouver)

This special session is an open educational event sponsored by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and accredited by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.  A light breakfast, lunch and refreshments throughout the day will be provided on site.

 

~ Keynote Speaker ~

Dr. Nora Volkow
Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health

Dr. Volkow's work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug addiction is a disease of the human brain. As a research psychiatrist and scientist, she pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate the toxic effects of drugs and their addictive properties.  She has published more than 440 peer-reviewed articles and more than 75 book chapters and non-peer reviewed manuscripts, and has also edited three books on the use of neuroimaging in studying mental and addictive disorders.

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Registration will be on-line only and will open January 9, 2012 on the CFE website.  Please note that seating availability for this event is limited to approximately 300 people and, therefore, pre-registration is strongly recommended.  On-site registration will not be available.

We hope that you can attend, and are sure that you will find these presentations informative and helpful.  A full program will become available on the website.

For additional information and registration, please visit the Centre’s website at www.cfenet.ubc.ca and follow the link on the homepage.

 

PHCRI 8th Annual Research Day: Putting Evidence into Practice

Date: Monday, March 5, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Location: New Lecture Theatre, St. Paul’s Hospital, Providence Tower, Level 1

 

Providence Health Care Research Institute (PHCRI) 8th Annual Research Day, “Putting Evidence into Practice” is here! Join us in celebrating the work of our researchers here at PHCRI and to honour one of our scientists with the 2012 Research and Mission Award.

 

Our special guest speaker will be Carole Estabrooks, RN, PhD, FCAHS, FAAN, Professor and Canada Research Chair (Knowledge Translation), Faculty of Nursing at University of Alberta.

 

This is a free event opened to all PHC staff and researchers. Registration is required. Lunch and refreshments will be available.

 

Please RSVP to research@providencehealth.bc.ca or call 604-806-9464
* Registration deadline: February 27, 2012

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From Asthma to Stem Cell Transplantation to Spinal Cord Injury: The Latest in Regenerative Medicine (UBC Celebrate Research Week)

Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 from 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm

Location: Paetzold Lecture Theatre, VGH, 899 West 12th Ave., Vancouver

Moderator: Pamela Fayerman, Vancouver Sun Medical/Health Issues Reporter

 

The Child & Family Research Institute, Providence Health Care Research Institute, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and UBC Faculty of Medicine present a free public forum on the latest directions and discoveries in regenerative medicine with three of the Lower Mainland’s leading experts.

 

Speakers:

Darryl A. Knight, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Airway Disease
Michael Smith Senior Scholar
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia
Associate Director, UBC James Hogg Research Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital

Dr. Kirk Schultz
Head, Childhood Cancer & Blood Research cluster, Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI)
Scientist Level 3, CFRI
Professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia

Dr. Matt Ramer
Associate Professor, ICORD (International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries)
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

RSVP via e-mail to research@vch.ca or by phone to 604-875-4111 x68699

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Heart + Lung Health FEST 2012

Date: March 6-10, 2012

Heart and Lung Health Fest 2012 will feature the following events:

 

• Air Quality & Health Workshop (March 6 & 7)
• Two-day FEST scientific symposium (March 8 & 9)
• UBC Divisions of Respiratory Medicine & Cardiology CMEs (March 10)
• Heart + Lung Health Public Forum (March 10)

Special Lecture Series will include:

David Bates Lecture: Air Pollution: How can it be that bad for us?
– Dr. Sverre Vedal, University of Washington

Alan Bernstein Distinguished Lecture: The Power of Knowledge to influence Policy: Lessons from the Institute of Medicine

– Dr. Harvey Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

British Columbia Lecture:

Dr. Michael R. Hayden, Director & Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics

Graeme Copland Memorial Lecture: Phenotype specific management of severe asthma

– Dr. Ian Pavord, Professor, Institute for Lung Health, Leicester

For more information, please see attached event program and call for abstracts notice. Please also visit http://fest.heartandlung.ca/.