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, […]
Linda Quiney – Veiled Concerns: Social and Professional Tensions of Voluntary Aid Detachments and Military Nurses during the 1st World War
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC School of Nursing and the Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry. With only a brief training and minimal hospital experience, the VADs entered the unfamiliar world of the military hospital to work alongside the qualified Canadian military nurses at home, and British military nurses […]
Abenomics Two Years In: Successes, Failures, and Transformations
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and program sponsored by the Institute for Asian Research, Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, CNRS, Oxford University, Waseda University,and Stanford University. Speakers: Joseph Caron (Former Canadian Ambassador to Japan), Takeo Hoshi (Stanford), Kenji Kushida (Stanford), Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS), Miyajima Hideaki (Waseda), Sako Mari (Oxford) and Yves Tiberghien […]
24/7 hours at the Learning Centre
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will be open 24 hours a day beginning Saturday, November 29.
Bonnie Stevens – Nursing’s Role in Changing Care Practices and Outcomes in the Context of Health Care System Transformation
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Nursing as part of the 2014 Marion Woodward Lecture. Nurses are positioned ideally to affect patient and family outcomes at both the individual and organizational level. The conceptual and theoretical basis of change and implementation science not only underlies the […]
The Legacy of Nutritional Experiments in Residential Schools
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and in partnership with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, with support from the UBC First Nations House of Learning, the UBC Department of History and Kloshe Tillicum (Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research). Shortly after WWII, when knowledge about nutrition was still sparse, scientists […]
UBC Health Information Series and the Life Sciences Institute Present "Drugs, Diet and Genes. Personal Approaches to Treat Diabetes and Obesity"
Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Alice MacKay Room, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
UBC Dialogues: Should We Have the Right To Die?
Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 6:30 – 9:00 pm, Kay Meek Centre, 1700 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver, BC
"Food In Transit" – Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Menu Exhibition talk by Robert Sung
November 19, 2014, 12.00pm to 1.00pm at the Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre