Vol. #6; Issue 8

August 24, 2016

Teaching across the spectrum raises understanding and engagement

Cheryl Sadowski, associate professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences recognized the gap in knowledge and training in ambulatory assistive devices (AAD) for Pharmacy students.To find the answer, she discussed this with a colleague in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta, Allyson Jones.


	Associate professor Cheryl Sadowski

"We asked ourselves, 'why can't we have the students engaged in teaching this training,'" says Sadowski, which prompted an instructional design and assessment project that was published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education in December 2015.

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The Department of Pediatrics celebrates
60 years

Town Hall Meeting

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

8:00 am - 9:00 am

Chair's Council Address with
Cake and refreshments to follow

ECHA 3rd floor south atrium

All welcome!

International Forum on Public Health

November 2 - 3, 2016

Registration opens TODAY for the International Forum on Public Health Education. This international conference will take place on November 2 and 3, 2016 at Lister Conference Centre, hosted by the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta.

Public health crosses multiple fields of study, such as health, social and human sciences. Over the last century, the field has seen dramatic achievements, as well as new and complex challenges that threaten the health of people.

Registration is for public health researchers, professionals, practitioners and educators from academic institutions, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and industry. Those with expertise and interest in program design and delivery for adult learners may also be interested.

Join us on November 2 and 3 to learn how public health researchers, practitioners and professionals continue to evolve and adapt, and the vital role of programs and schools of public health play in this endeavor.

Rehab Med gets summer boost from the world's brightest young minds

Earlier this month 47 international students - some of the brightest young minds in the world - landed in Edmonton. focused on helping local researchers make ground-breaking discoveries and form global connections in a wide range of industries.

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Innovative data mining tool to investigate adverse birth outcomes and environmental variables

Members of the Children's Environmental Health Clinic organized a meeting for the DoMiNO (Data Mining and Neonatal Outcomes) project - a partnership between national and international interdisciplinary researchers along with knowledge users, supported by CIHR/NSERC.

The project, led by Alvaro Osornio-Vargas (Pediatrics) and Osmar Zaiane (Computing Sciences), investigates relationships between multiple environmental exposures and adverse birth outcomes (e.g. preterm birth, low birth weight and small for gestational age) in Canada, by using data mining methods. The team met this August in Edmonton to discuss the latest version of a data mining visualization tool designed for this project.

The tool will help to identify relevant combinations of multiple environmental variables. This will serve for the creation of new hypotheses towards the understanding of the geographic diversity of adverse birth outcomes occurrence in Canada. Results from the project are expected by March 2017.

Kule Connect Caf�s: Researching the Digital Across Disciplines

Are you interested in researching the digital and getting to know others with similar interests across disciplines? Then join us for our inaugural (and informal!) Kule Connect Caf�, a casual networking event open to faculty members, post-docs and grad students to discover people with mutual research interests.

Date: Friday, September 9th, 12:00pm

Location: Arts Lounge, Arts & Convocation Hall (main floor)

Brief introduction from Randy Goebel, Associate VP (Academic & Research) and Professor in Computing Science on Computing Methods in Collaboration Between the Arts & Sciences

Did we mention there's also coffee and sandwiches?

RSVP now through the Google Form or by emailing kias@ualberta.ca

To propose a theme for future caf�s, email kias@ualberta.ca or drop by our office at 337 Arts & Convocation Hall (themes should be broad enough, e.g. energy and climate change, migration and refugees, medical humanities, indigenous languages etc.).

For more information about KIAS: www.kias.ualberta.ca

CIHR Gold Leaf Prizes

The Canadian Institute of Health Research announced a new suite of prizes, the CIHR Gold Leaf Prizes, which are among the highest honours that can be bestowed on an individual or team for excellence in health research and its translation into benefits for Canadians. Each CIHR Gold Leaf Prize has a value of $100,000

Four CIHR Gold Leaf Prizes will be awarded, one in each of the following categories:

CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Impact
CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Discovery
CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Outstanding Achievements by an Early-Career Investigator
CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Transformation

What are the important dates?

Nomination deadline: September 6, 2016
Gold Ribbon Panel selects winners: fall 2016
CIHR hands out prizes: early 2017

For more information, check out the CIHR Gold Leaf Prizes web page, or email support@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Pediatric Update Conference

September 22 - 24, 2016

Pediatric Update is an annual continuing medical education conference hosted by the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta. Join faculty from the department, along with community colleagues, to learn about the latest advances, guidelines and resources for a wide variety of practical pediatric topics.

Who should attend?

community pediatricians
family physicians
emergency physicians
nurses and nurse practitioners
allied health professionals
residents and trainees

Falling Walls Lab UAlberta returns

Share your idea to Win a Trip to Berlin!

Application deadline: August 26, 2016

Are you a graduate student, post doc, academic, researcher or innovator under 35 with a breakthrough idea or social innovation with the potential to improve society? If so, apply for Falling Walls Lab UAlberta 2016. We are seeking 15 of UAlberta's outstanding next gen researchers and innovators. Share your idea or research in 3 minutes to a distinguished jury from academia, government, business and the media. Up to 3 of the best ideas will win a trip to Berlin to compete in the international Falling Walls Lab finale. Semi-finalists will receive specialized training to hone their presentation skills.

Applications instructions, screening criteria and more:
Visit research.ualberta.ca/FWLab/FWLab2016 for details. Questions can be directed to fwlab@ualberta.ca.

The Inaugural Lecture of the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry Dean's Lecture Series "Leading Academic Health Care Institutions"

Friday, September 9, 2016

9 to 10 a.m.

Bernard Snell Hall

Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre

8440 112 Street, Edmonton

featuring Dr. Joseph B. Martin

Dean of Harvard Medical School (1997-2007)

Chancellor of UCSF (1993-1997)

Dean of the School of Medicine, UCSF (1989-1993)

University of Alberta Alumnus MD Class of 1962

Refreshments to follow

Parents/Caregivers need for a Pediatric Otitis Media Study

Want to help create learning resources for families about pediatric otitis media (i.e. middle ear infection)? If you have a child who recently had otitis media, researchers at the University of Alberta would like to hear your story!

Please contact us for more information and to sign up:
Kelli Buckerus, Project Coordinator
email: kelli.buckreus@ualberta.ca | phone: 780.492.4142

Summer hours

Engrained and Starbucks have moved to summer hours:

Starbucks, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Engrained, Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

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