Nurses' roles in health information technology: A Canadian Perspective
October 15, Thursday 2015 | 7:00-8:00pm, at UBC Robson Square | 800 Robson Street | Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Bringing Personalized Medicine to BC: “Preventing, Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are Soon to Change Forever”
Wednesday, Oct 7th, 6.00-8.00pm | Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch | Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
UBC Dialogues – In Search of Happiness: Is there a secret to feeling content?
What is the key to happiness? Is it family relationships? Wealth? Job satisfaction? Helping others? Perhaps we need to spend more time in nature, and less time in cities. And is happiness a universal feeling, or are there significant differences in the experience of it based on culture, age or other factors? There are so […]
Kate Prebble – We Can Do This But We Need To Do it Our Way
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Nursing. This presentation explores the development of forensic psychiatric services in Auckland, New Zealand in the late 1980s and 1990s. The story is based on oral histories undertaken with twenty one participants who helped create the service. They told of […]
Lesley McBain – Place and Nursing in Remote Northern Communities: A Historical Perspective
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Nursing at UBC. Following World War II, governments began extending healthcare to residents living in northern remote communities as a way to “modernize” the vast region and to pave the way for increased resource extraction. Small outpost nursing stations were […]
UBC Health Information Series and the Life Sciences Institute Presents "Tuberculosis – a silent local killer and global threat"
March 25, 2015, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms, Lower Level, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
Personalized Medicine: Your Life, Your Genes, Your Health and Happiness
This talk is an informal and open forum that aims to bring the latest and greatest ideas in the area of the Life Sciences to the public. Each event is free to attend and will include a talk, networking opportunities and reception. This series focuses on Personalized Medicine and how the Life Sciences Institute faculty, staff and students are working […]
Sally Mennill – Reducing Risk: Caesarean Section at Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital, 1950-1970
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Consortium and the BC History of Nursing Society. In the immediate post-WWII Years, the treatment of caesarean sections solidified and became entrenched in medical and social discourses. Canadian mothers and medical professionals embarked on a quarter-of-a-century consideration of how reduction of risk […]
LSI Public Talks on Diabetes
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Life Sciences Institute at UBC. This talk – “Drugs, Diet and Genes. Personal Approaches to Treat Diabetes and Obesity” is about the link between obesity and diabetes, current treatment options for type 2 diabetes and how genetics and personalized medicine will inform […]
Mona Gleason – Constructing Child Health
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC School of Nursing and the Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry. This presentation explores how health professionals contributed to conceptions of “the healthy child” in early twentieth century Canada. Based on her recently published book entitled Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, […]