Events

Third Annual Rich Man Poor Man Dinner
 
Join us at 6pm on December 1st in the HRIC Atrium for an evening of African-influenced food, music and art in support of the Global Generation Foundation’s primary care initiative in Tanzania and the University of Calgary’s Student Run Clinic. 

The content of this conference covers advances in pain research and treatment, the prevention and management of acute and chronic pain, and provides an overview of available programs and resources in Calgary. It will be of interest to physicians, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists. It will be held at the Red & White Club at McMahon Stadium- 1817 Crowchild Trail NW. If you require more information, please contact Carmen Kergan at the Continuing Medical Education office: ckergan@ucalgary.ca.

Knowledge Synthesis (KS) Canada proudly presents Dr. Ingram Olkin & Dr. Tom Trikalinos

Tuesday December 6, 2011 0700-1000 MT at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

(Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Methods Centre):

"A Personalized History & Overview of Meta-Analysis"

Speaker:  Dr. Ingram Olkin, Professor of Statistics and of Education

Emeritus at Stanford University

 and

"Visualizing clinical & statistical heterogeneity Modernizing systematic

reviews & meta-analyses"

Neurology

Please see the brochure for full course information and to register.

1930 Headache Cases: Some Commonly Encountered Problems
Lara Cooke

2030 Headaches in Children: How to Sort Them Out
Alice Ho

Please join us for Knowledge Translation Canada National Seminar Series

Session #4 on Thursday, December 8th from 1200-1300 ET, with Gaston Godin on the topic

"Asking questions about behaviour-relevant cognitions changes behaviour: The question-behaviour effect (i.e., Mere-measurement effect)" 

Canadian Immigration: How it Works, and What Your Options Are

Featuring Lynn Gaudet, B.A., LL.B
Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant
Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council

Thursday December 8, 2011
HSC 1405B - 3:30 to 5 p.m.

The Nutman will be here on Friday, December 9th, 9:30am-2:30pm.

Location: Hippocrates statue in the Health Sciences Centre mall area. 

A portion of all sales will support the Faculty of Medicine Student Run Clinic.

YOU’RE INVITED…
to the next public meeting of the Calgary History of Medicine Society (CHOMS)
Dr. Douglas Brown, Associate Professor, Associate Dean,
Undergraduate Program, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary
Presenting to the Calgary History of Medicine Society
“Excess in moderation?: Ancient Greek medicine and its ambivalence toward high performance sport”

Monday, December 12th, 2011
Begins 6:00 PM
TRW Building, 3rd Floor, Nightingale & Rose Rooms
3280 Hospital Drive NW, T2N 4Z6

Thank you to all who have picked up the red shoe boxes for the JOI campaign. These boxes will be distributed to local people in need this holiday season.

To ensure that there is sufficient time to have them delivered, please return them to the collection boxes located on the ground floor of the TRW building and in the hallway across from the bookstore in the Health Science Centre by TUESDAY DECEMBER 13th.

The next Protocol Submission Program (PSP) Training Session is:

Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Time: 1:30pm – 4:00pm
Location: Health Sciences Library Computer Classroom, 1406B

To register for PSP training please go to: https://intranet.med.ucalgary.ca/training/it/psp/default.aspx

If you do not have a MED domain account, to register for PSP training please contact:

David Zarecky
(403) 210-6329
dzarecky@ucalgary.ca

Faculty of Medicine Student Award in Social Accountability

The Faculty of Medicine Student Award in Social Accountability recognizes a student or student group in the Faculty of Medicine whose work within the Faculty and/or the community has contributed to one or more of the priority health needs of Albertans.

For full information and to complete a nomination form, please click here.

Featuring Dr. Jaideep Bains, professor, University of Calgary

When: Friday, December 16, 2011 - 9 to 11:30 a.m.
Location: HSC 1405B

This session will focus on what it takes to be in academia. It will include a presentation and open question session.

Systematic Review Course *Online* - January 9 to April 6, 2012

The next session of the Online Introduction to Systematic Reviews

and Meta-Analysis course will begin on January 9, 2012.

In this course, students will learn about topics including:

- Different types of evidence that can be synthesized

- How to formulate a review question

- How to develop a review protocol

- How to abstract data

- How to perform a meta-analysis

Students will have 3 months to complete the 16 module course.

KT + Drug Safety and Effectiveness Cross-Disciplinary Training (DSECT) Program

The DSEN Coordinating Office is pleased to forward to you the attached announcement

of the annual call for applications to the Drug Safety & Effectiveness Cross-Disciplinary

Training Program (DSECT). This one-year, largely online training program bridges biosciences,

clinical therapeutics, population health, epidemiology, biostatistics, and health services and

policy research to better understand research into developing, choosing, using and losing

Capri Hotel & Conference Centre
3310 – 50 Avenue, Red Deer 

All cancer researchers are invited to join us for an Alberta Cancer Research Plan Consultation Session with facilitator Gabe Shelley.

An End of Grant KT Course will be offered on February 13, 2012 (12pm - 4pm)

at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St Michael's Hospital, Toronto. This half day

course is designed to provide grant writers with the needed tools to write the KT portion

of their grant applications. Course attendees will use their own grants to develop an

end of grant KT plan.

The target audience for the course is:
* Scientists interested in learning more about end of grant KT
* Trainees learning to write grants
* Research staff who write grants