Med.E.Mail
Weekly Information from the Dean’s Offices
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
March 8, 2004
Volume 12, Number 24
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THIS ISSUE:
FAST FACULTY FACT
HONOURS AND AWARDS
NEW CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
CIHR OPERATING GRANTS
EVENTS AND LINKS TO EVENT WEBSITES
LINKS TO OTHER NEWSLETTERS/WEBSITES
FAST FACULTY FACT
The University recognizes unusual scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in a
particular field of knowledge through the designation of University Professor.
Currently there are thirty-one University Professors, eight of whom are members of
the Faculty of Medicine - David MacLennan (Banting and Best Department of Medical
Research), Tak Mak (Department of Medical Biophysics), Roderick McInnes
(Department of Paediatrics), Tony Pawson (Department of Medical Genetics and
Microbiology), Janet Rossant (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology),
Michael Sefton (Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering), Peter St
George-Hyslop (Department of Medicine) and Lap Chee Tsui (Department of Medical
Genetics and Microbiology).
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Mary Anne Cooper (Department of Medicine) has been awarded one of the two
provincial PAIRO Trust Fund Travel Awards for Clinical Educators. This award is
intended to enable Faculty members to visit other centres to improve clinical
teaching abilities either by acquisition of a new skill or by gaining new knowledge.
Dr. Cooper will use her Award to visit Albert Palitz (University of California, San
Francisco, California) to review their endoscopy training program for primary care
physicians and nurses – with the aim of helping Dr. Cooper with the implementation
of the expanded training program at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health
Sciences Centre as part of the colon cancer screening initiative.
Dan Drucker (Department of Medicine) has received the 2004 Unrestricted
Biomedical Research Grant in Metabolic Research from the Bristol Myers Squibb
Foundation. This unrestricted research Award is provided annually to one scientist
anywhere in the world carrying out research in the area of diabetes and metabolism.
An awards ceremony will be held in the spring of 2004.
CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
Ramune Pleinys will be the new Chief Administrative Officer of the Faculty of
Medicine, effective April 5th. Ms Pleinys has been director of administrative services
for the Department of Paediatrics of the University of Toronto and the Hospital for
Sick Children since 1997. She brings to the position not only experience with
university policies, information systems, and planning processes, but also an
understanding of practice plan issues, including the negotiation and management of
AFPs and pension/benefit options for clinical faculty. Her educational background
includes a BA in administrative and commercial studies from UWO and an MBA with a
co-op component in health services management from McMaster.
CIHR OPERATING GRANTS
The results of the September 2003 Canadian Institutes of Health Research operating
grants competition were announced in January. In this competition, grants totaling
$179M over five years were awarded. The UofT and the UofT-affiliated research
institutes garnered $48.85M of the total or 27.3%, our highest market share to date.
For the UofT, 109 of the 278 grants submitted were approved – a 39% success rate.
The national success rate was 29%. Comparative market shares are shown below.
Percentage of Funding received
Toronto
27.3
McGill
13.0
Alberta
8.0
Montreal
7.0
Western
6.2
Calgary
4.6
UBC
5.5
Ottawa
3.6
MacMaster
3.1
Dalhousie
3.1
Queens
2.4
The following Faculty of Medicine faculty received operating grants in this
competition:
 Mathieu Albert (Department of Psychiatry) and co-applicants Brian Hodges
(Department of Psychiatry), Lorelei Lingard (Department of Paediatrics), Glenn
Regehr (Department of Surgery) – a two-year grant for their project, “Medical
education in transition: From service provision to scientific knowledge
production”.
 Shabbir Alibhai (Department of Medicine), Sarah Duff Canning, Neil
Fleshner, Murray Krahn (Department of Medicine), Gary Naglie (Department
of Medicine), Ian Tannock (Department of Psychiatry), and George Tomlinson
(Department of Otolaryngology) – a three-year grant for their project, “A
prospective, longitudinal study to examine health efforts of androgen deprivation
therapy on older men with non-metastatic prostate cancer”.
 Nicole Anderson (Department of Psychiatry) and co-applicants Roberto
Cabeza (Duke University, North Carolina), Cheryl Grady (Department of
Psychiatry), Simon Graham (Department of Medical Biophysics), and Janine
Jennings (Wake Forest University, North Carolina) – a three-year grant for their
project, “Memory interventions for older adults”.
 Morton Beiser (Department of Psychiatry) and co-applicants Haile Fenta,
Hayley Hamilton, Nazila Khanlou, Claire Pain (Department of Psychiatry),
and Joanna Rummens (Department of Psychiatry) – a four-year grant for their
project, “Leavers and stayers: A comparison of the health and development of
Ethiopian children growing up in Toronto and in Addis Ababa”.
 Denise Belsham (Department of Physiology) – a five-year grant for her project,
“Molecular mechanisms dictating control of neuroendocrine function by estrogen”.
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Yaacov Ben-David (Department of Medical Biophysics) – a three-year grant for
his project, “The role of the tumour suppressor p45 NFE2 and spleen in the
progression of leukemia”.
Stuart Berger (Department of Immunology) – a three-year grant for his project,
“Mast cell signalling”.
Russell Bishop (Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology) – a
three-year grant for his project, “Enzymatic medication of endotoxins”.
Benjamin Blencowe (Banting and Best Department of Medical Research) – a
three-year grant for his project, “Regulation of alternative splicing in mammalian
cells”.
James Booth (Department of Immunology) – a three-year grant for his project,
“Trafficking of macrophage receptors”.
Gabrielle Boulianne (Department Physiology) – a three-year grant for her
project, “Identification and characterization of genes regulating ageing/lifespan in
Drosophila”.
Benoit Bruneau (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) – a fiveyear grant for his project, “Role of iroquois transcription factors in cardiac
development and function”.
John Callahan (Department of Paediatrics) and Don Mahuran (Department of
Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology) – a three-year grant for their project,
“Lysosome biogenesis”.
Mark Cattral (Department of Surgery – a three-year grant for his project,
“Investigation of dendritic cell ontogeny from highly purified precursors”.
John Chamberlain (Department of Immunology) – a two-year grant for his
project, “Understanding the human anti-influenza A T cell response: Novel
approaches for developing broader more effective vaccines”.
Peter Cheung (Department of Medical Biophysics) – a three-year grant for his
project, “Linking histone modifications to signal transduction pathways and
dissecting their functional roles in vivo”.
Edward Chow (Department of Radiation Oncology) and co-applicants Andrea
Bezjak (Department of Radiation Oncology), Tony Panzarella, and Jackson Wu - a
three-year grant for their project, “Validation of a predictive model for survival in
metastatic cancer patients attending an outpatient palliative radiotherapy clinic”.
David Clarke (Department of Medicine) – a five-year grant for his project,
“Structure and mechanism of the human multidrug resistance P-glycoprotein”.
Ernest Cutz and Herman Yeger (both in the Department of Laboratory
Medicine and Pathobiology) – a five-year grant for their project, “Phenotypic and
functional development of pulmonary neuroendocrine cell system in health and
disease”.
Charles Deber (Department of Biochemistry) a five-year grant for his project,
“Peptide and protein structure in membranes”.
Jonathan Dostrovsky (Department of Physiology) and co-applicants William
Hutchison and Andreas Lozano (Department of Surgery) – a five-year grant
for their project, “Neurophysiological studies of human subthalamic nucleus”.
Gregory Downey (Department of Medicine) – a five-year grant for his project,
“Inflammatory injury to the lung epithelium: Implications for acute lung injury”.
Sean Egan (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) – a three-year
grant for his project, “Genetic analysis of the EH domain endocytic ese/intersectin
proteins”.
Lori Frappier (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) – three-year
grant for their project, Characterization of a novel component of the human
replicative helicase/MCM complex”.
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Jean Gariepy (Department of Medical Biophysics) – three-year grant for her
project, “Targeting breast tumour cells with peptide-based vehicles”.
Jennifer Gommerman (Department of Immunology) - a three-year grant for
her project, “Dendritic cell positioning within the lymph node microarchitecture
and the regulation of CD4+T cell responses”.
Cheryl Grady (Department of Psychiatry) and co-applicant Claude Alain – a
three-year grant for their project, “Age-related differences in working memory for
"what" and "where" in the auditory system”.
Robin Green (Department of Psychiatry) and co-applicants Mark Bayley
(Department of Medicine), Bruce Christensen (Department of Medicine),
Deborah Hebert (Department of Occupational Therapy), Elizabeth Inness
(Department of Physical Therapy), William McIlroy (Department of Physical
Therapy), David Mikulis (Department of Medical Imaging), and Georges
Monette – a two-year grant for their project, Natural history and mechanisms of
cognitive versus motor recovery following TBA: A prospective, longitudinal
study”.
Carol Greenwood (Department of Nutritional Sciences) and co-applicants
Malcolm Binns and Robert Van Reekum (Department of Psychiatry), - a
three-year grant for their project, “Altered food intake patterns in
institutionalized seniors with cognitive impairment”.
Sergio Grinstein (Department of Biochemistry) – a five-year grant for his
project, “Targetting and regulation of ion transporters”.
Mitchell Halperin (Department of Medicine) and co-applicant Kamel Kamel
(Department of Medicine) – a five-year grant for their project, “Metabolism of
organic anions: Implications for acid-base, potassium and kidney stones”.
Anthony Hanley (Department of Medicine), and co-Pis Bernard Zinman
(Department of Medicine), Philip Connelly (Department of Medicine), Mathew
Sermer (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology), and Janet Raboud
(Department of Public Health Sciences) and co-applicant Ravi Retnakaran – a
three-year grant for their project, “Longitudinal associations of dipocytokines and
markers of sub-clinical inflammation with changes in insulin resistance and betacell function in women with a history of gestational Diabetes Mellitus”.
Lea Harrington (Department of Medical Biophysics) – a four-year grant for her
project, “The role of limiting mammalian telomerase in genetic instability and
cancer”.
Gillian Hawker (Department of Medicine) and co-applicants Elizabeth Badley
(Department of Public Health Sciences), Aileen Davis (Department of Physical
Therapy), Monique Gignac (Scientist, University Health Network), Allan
Gordon (Department of Medicine), Wen-Yi Lou (Department of Public Health
Sciences), Gary Naglie (Department of Medicine), and Sarah Romans
(Department of Psychiatry) – a five-year grant for their project, “Determinants
and consequences of pain and fatigue in osteoarthritis (OA) using a biopsychosocial approach”.
Margaret Hough (Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology) and coapplicant Stephen Kruth – a three-year grant for their project, “Efficacy and
safety of lentiviral vector-mediated gene therapy in a large animal model”.
Walid Houry (Department of Biochemistry) – a three-year grant for his project,
“Role of molecular chaperones in protein folding and degradation: Analysis of
hsp100/clpX mechanism of function”.
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Patricia Howell (Department of Biochemistry) and Régis Pomes (Department of
Biochemistry) a five-year grant for their project, Structure-function studies of
methionine recycling enzymes”.
Timothy Hughes (Banting and Best Department of Medical Research) and co-PI
Brendan Frey and co-applicant Elisabeth Tillier – a three-year grant for their
project, “Genomic and Rnomic analysis of novel mouse transcriptional
regulators”.
Mansoor Husain (Department of Medicine) – a five-year grant for his project,
“C-myb-dependent vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation”.
Joan Ivanov (Department of Surgery) and co-applicants Michael Borger
(Department of Surgery), Tirone David (Department of Surgery) and Jack Tu
(Department of Medicine) – a one-year grant for their project, “A propensity
score, pairmatched study of late outcomes for off-pump versus on-pump
coronary artery bypass graft surgery”.
Miles Johnston (Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology) and coapplicant Daniel Dumont (Department of Medical Biophysics) – a two-year grant
for their project, “Integration of physiological and molecular approaches to the
study of lymphangiogenesis”.
Nicola Jones (Department of Paediatrics) – a three-year grant for her project,
“Host immune responses to Helicobacter pylori infection”.
Michael Julius (Department of Immunology) and co-applicant Dominik Filipp –
a five-year grant for their project, “The role of accessory activation molecules,
kinases and phosphatases in T cell antigen receptor signaling”.
Violet Kaspar (Department of Psychiatry ) and co-applicants Feng Hou
(Department of Psychiatry) and Kandauda Wickrama – a five-year grant for
their project, “Trajectories of mental disorders for racial and ethnic minority
youth”.
Tara Kennedy (Department of Paediatrics) and co-applicants Ross Baker
(Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation), Lorelei Lingard
(Department of Paediatrics), Glenn Regehr (Department of Surgery) – a threeyear grant for their project, “A fine balance: Patient safety and trainee education
on clinical teaching teams”.
Audrey Laporte and Whitney Berta (both in the Department of Health Policy,
Management and Evaluation) and co-applicants Geoffrey Anderson
(Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation) and Vivian
Valdmanis – a three-year grant for their project, “Operational efficiencies of
long-term care facilities in Canada”.
Gary Lewis (Department of Medicine) – a three-year grant for his project,
“Determining the mechanisms of hepatic and intestinal lipoprotein overproduction
in insulin resistant states”.
Peter Liu (Department of Medicine) and co-applicant Wen-Chen Yeh
(Department of Medical Biophysics) – a five-year grant for their project,
“Pathogenesis of viral myocarditis – role of intrinsic innate immunity”.
Gergely Lukacs (Department of Surgery) – a five-year grant for his project,
“Molecular mechanism of cystic fibrosis mutation associated with endosomal
recycling defect of CFTR”.
John MacDonald (Department of Physiology) and co-applicants Michael
Tymianski (Department of Surgery) and Hubert Van Tol (Department of
Psychiatry) – a five-year grant for their project, “The role of TRP channels in
stroke, aging and calcium sensing in the central nervous system”.
David MacLennan (Banting and Best Department of Medical Research) – a fiveyear grant for their project, “Structure, function and regulation of the calcium
release channel”.
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David MacLennan (Banting and Best Department of Medical Research) – a fiveyear grant for his project, “Structure, function and regulation of the calcium
ATPase”.
Alberto Martin (Department of Immunology) –a three-year grant for his project,
“Biochemical mechanisms of mismatch repair during somatic hypermutation of
immunoglobulin genes”.
Laurie Morrison (Department of Medicine) and co-applicants Alexander Kiss,
Jennifer Long (Department of Medicine), Jonathan Sherbino, John Szalai
(Department of Public Health Sciences), Richard Verbeek (Department of
Medicine) and Marian Vermeulen – a two-year grant for their project,
“Termination of resuscitation in the pre-hospital environment with defibrillator
only paramedics – prospective validation of a clinical decision rule”.
Michael Ohh (Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology) – a threeyear grant for his project, “Molecular characterization of VLP”.
John Parker (Department of Medicine) – a three-year grant for his project,
“Studies concerning the vascular effects of the organic nitrates”.
Anthony Pawson (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) – a fiveyear grant for his project, “Signaling from mammalian guidance receptors”.
Anthony Pawson (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) – a fiveyear grant for his project, “Protein interaction domains in cell signaling”.
York Pei (Department of Medicine) and co-applicants Daniel Cattran
(Department of Medicine), Peter St. George-Hyslop (Department of Medicine)
– a three-year grant for their project, “Molecular genetics of igA nephropathy”.
Linda Penn (Department of Medical Biophysics) – a five-year grant for her
project, “Myc induced apoptosis: Mechanisms of action and abrogation”.
Régis Pomes (Department of Biochemistry) – a three-year grant for his project,
“Theoretical studies of proton translocation in membrane proteins”.
Martin Post (Department of Paediatrics) – a five-year grant for his project,
“Effect of mechanical forces on lung development”.
Reinhart Reithmeier (Department of Biochemistry) – a five-year grant for his
project, “Structure, function and biosynthesis of normal and mutant
chloride/bicarbonate anion exchangers”.
James Rini (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) – a three-year
grant for his project, “Glycosyltransferase structure and mechanism”.
Eve Roberts (Department of Paediatrics) – a three-year grant for her project,
“Disordered hepatocellular cu handling in the txj mouse, a model for Wilson
Disease”.
Chaim Roifman (Department of Paediatrics) – a three-year grant for her
project, “Role of eph receptors in the immune system”.
Janet Rossant (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) – a five-year
grant for her project, “Lineage allocation and axial asymmetries in the early
mouse embryo”
Daniela Rotin (Department of Biochemistry) – a three-year grant for her
project, “Signaling and function of LAR family tyrosine phosphatases”.
Michael Sefton (Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering) and coapplicants Reginald Gorczynski (Department of Surgery) and Jeffrey Medin
(Department of Medical Biophysics) – a three-year grant for their project, “Tissue
engineering: Immune response and vascularisation”.
Molly Shoichet ((Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering) and coapplicant Charles Tator (Department of Surgery) – four-year grant for their
project, “Enhancing axonal regeneration following spinal cord injury by localized
delivery of neuroregenerative factors”.
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Chi-Hung Siu (Banting and Best Department of Medical Research) – a threeyear grant for his project, “Molecular analysis of neural cell adhesion molecules”.
Elise Stanley (Department of Physiology) – a three-year grant for her project, “
Modulation of presynpatic N type calcium channels by MUNC18”.
Therese Stukel (Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation) and
Michael Schull (Department of Medicine) and co-applicants David Alter
(Department of Medicine), Astrid Guttmann, Philip Jackson, Andreas
Laupacis (Department of Medicine), Douglas Manuel (Department of Public
Health Sciences), Brian Schwartz (Department of Family and Community
Medicine), Merrick Zwarenstein – a two-year grant for their project,
“Determining the population health impact of the healthcare system response to
the SARS outbreak”.
Ian Tannock (Department of Medicine) and Janette Vardy – a one-year grant
for their project, “Cognitive function and fatigue in cancer patients after
chemotherapy: a longitudinal controlled study in colorectal cancer patients”.
Allan Tanswell (Department of Paediatrics) – a five-year grant for his project,
“Role of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species in normal and aberrant postnatal lung
growth”.
Douglas Templeton (Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology) – a
five-year grant for his project, “Iron signaling, oxidative stress, and liver fibrosis
in iron overload”.
William Trimble (Department of Biochemistry) – a five-year grant for his
project, “Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release”.
Douglas Tweed (Department of Physiology) – a five-year grant for her project, “
Computational theory of sensorimotor systems and learning”.
Michael Tyers (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) – a threeyear grant for his project,”Novel elements in control of DNA replication and
mitotsis”.
Michael Tymianski (Department of Surgery) – a five-year grant for his project,
“Targeting postsynaptic density proteins in the treatment of central nervous
system injury”.
Derek Van Der Kooy (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) – a
five-year grant for his project, “The neurobiology of motivation”.
Rosanna Weksberg (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology) and coapplicant Jeremy Squire (Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology)
– a three-year grant for their project, “Analysis of imprinting control in a tumour
predisposing region on human chromosome 11p15”.
Lori West (Department of Paediatrics) – a three-year grant for her project,
“Investigation of neonatal immune tolerance induced by ABO-incompatible infant
heart transplantation”.
Michael Wheeler (Department of Physiology) and co-applicants Catherine
Chan and Mary-Ellen Harper – a five-year grant for their project, “Beta cell
stimulus-secretion coupling: The role of mitochondrial uncouplers”.
Michael Wheeler (Department of Physiology) – a three-year grant for his
project, “Mechanisms controlling the glucose-dependent action of the insulinstimulating hormone glucagons-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)”.
Catharine Whiteside (Department of Medicine) and co-applicant Lakshmi
Kotra (Faculty of Pharmacy) – a three-year grant for their project, “Protein
kinase C isozyme regulation of glomerular mesangial cell phenotype relevant to
health and disease”.
Agnes Wong (Department of Ophthalmology) and co-applicant Carol Westall
(Department of Ophthalmology) – a three-year grant for their project, “Early
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versus delayed surgery for infantile esotropia: A clinical evaluation of sensory and
motor outcomes”.
Martin Yaffe (Department of Medical Imaging) and co-applicant James
Mainprize – a three-year grant for their project, “Three-dimensional contrastenhanced breast cancer detection”.
EVENTS AND LINKS TO EVENT WEBSITES
 Faculty of Medicine Educational Achievement Event - annual forum
celebrating excellence in teaching - all faculty invited - keynote address (Good to
Great Medical Education) by Gary Donnington (Southern Illinois University,
Illinois), poster presentations from Dean’s Excellence Fund projects - Monday,
May 3, 2004, 3:00 to 7:00 p.m., 89 Chestnut Street (formerly the Colony Hotel):
Allison Hardisty 416-946-8067 or a.hardisty@utoronto.ca.
 Health Law and Policy Workshops - UofT Faculty of Law and Faculty of
Medicine Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation –
Decision-Making Regarding New Technologies: Who Pays? Who Decides? Peter
Coyte and Eric Nauenberg (Dept. of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation,
University of Toronto) - March 18, 2004, 12:10 to 2:00 p.m., Solarium, Falconer
Hall (Room FA2), 84 Queen’s Park: n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
 Faculty Development Workshop - Centre for Faculty Development,
Faculty of Medicine, UofT at Saint Michael’s Hospital – Teaching and
Learning Technical Skills – Stan Hamstra (Department of Surgery) and Richard
Pittini (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology) – Tuesday, March 23, 2004,
1:00
to
5:00
p.m.,
Surgical
Skills
Centre,
Mt.
Sinai
Hospital:
carpenterd@smh.toronto.on.ca
or
http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/workshops.htm
 Faculty Development Workshop - Centre for Faculty Development,
Faculty of Medicine, UofT at Saint Michael’s Hospital – Small Group
Teaching – Denyse Richardson (Department of Medicine) and Danny Panisko
(Department of Medicine) – Thursday, April 29, 2004, 8:00 a.m. to noon:
carpenterd@smh.toronto.on.ca
or
http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/workshops.htm
 Faculty Development Workshop - Centre for Faculty Development,
Faculty of Medicine, UofT at Saint Michael’s Hospital – Divergent Case
Based Teaching Method – Helene Polatajko (Department of Occupational
Therapy) – Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. and Thursday, June 10,
2004,
1:00
to
5:00
p.m.:
carpenterd@smh.toronto.on.ca
or
http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/workshops.htm
 Donalda J. McGeachy Memorial Lecture Series – Faculty of Medicine
Graduate Department of Speech-Language Pathology – “An Evidence-Based
Approach to Clinical Practice in Communication Disorders” – Christine Dollaghan
(University of Pittsburgh) - Friday, May 28, 2004, 8:30 a.m. to noon, Mount Sinai
Hospital (18th Floor – Ben Sadowski Auditorium), 600 University Avenue, no cost
to participants: slp.rsvp@utoronto.ca
 11th Biennial Canadian Neurooncology Meeting - Multi-disciplinary meeting
of basic and clinician scientists plus affiliated health care workers in
neurooncology - Invited speakers plus oral and poster presentations - May 28 to
30,
2004,
Toronto:
http://www.ccns.org/home.html#neuro_oncology
or
sandi.amaral@uhn.on.ca
 29th Edna W. Park Lecture - UofT Household Science and Nutritional
Sciences Alumni Association - Feeding for the Future - the major impact of
early nutrition on long-term health - Alan Lucas (MRC Childhood Nutrition
Research Centre Institute of Child Health, London, U.K.) - March 25, 2004,
Sanford Fleming Building, room 1105, 5:30 p.m. – further info at 416-813-7844
(Debbie O'Connor): http://www.utoronto.ca/nutrisci/CurrentEdnaPark.html
 Changing Dynamics of Stroke Prevention and Management- for
neurologists, family physicians, internists and residents - fully interactive session
on secondary stroke prevention - Friday March 26, 2004, 7:30 to 10:00 a.m. Le
Royal Meridien King Edward Hotel, 37 King St. East, Windsor Ballroom-Lower
Level - to register contact Hollie Mullins, mullinsh@smh.toronto.on.ca or 416864-6060 x. 2815
 Medical Wilderness Adventure Race - MedWAR North 2004 – organizers:
UofT medical student WildernessMeds Club - Teams of four will snowshoe,
mountain bike, and cross-country ski their way across the course, solving
wilderness medicine scenarios as they go. Designed in cooperation with
Adventure Racing Canada, the race is open to men / women, students /
professionals, medical / non-medical - race on March 13, 2004, Hardwood Hills,
Barrie, Ontario: www.medwar.org
 UofT Knowledge Media Design Institute International Conference - Open
Source and Free Software: Concepts, Controversies and Solutions – including a
session on Open Source Systems in Health Care Computing with David Ryan
(Department
of
Physical
Therapy)
May
9
to
11,
2004:
http://osconf.kmdi.utoronto.ca/panel_health.html
 Continuing Medical Education Congress 2004 – Toronto, May 15 to 18, 2004
- Final Program now on website: www.cmecongress.org
 Mini-Med School –Faculty of Medicine Continuing Education Office - spring
session: February 19 to April 8, 2004: www.mini-med.utoronto.ca
 XIIIth International Vascular Biology Meeting - June 1 to 5, 2004, Westin
Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto: www.ivbm2004.ca
 Faculty of Medicine Continuing Education - Saturday at the University
2003/2004 - For general practitioners, family physicians, general internists, and
nurse
practitioners
March
27,
2004:
ce.med@utoronto.ca
or
www.cme.utoronto.ca
 Faculty
of
Medicine
Continuing
Education
courses:
http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/education/listing.html
Med.E.Mail lists event websites with URL addresses. If you have an event that you
would like hyperlinked to Med.E.Mail, send the details to Leslie Bush at
leslie.bush@utoronto.ca
LINKS TO OTHER NEWSLETTERS/WEBSITES
 Edward Bronfman Family Foundation Research Clinic in Secondary
Progressive
Multiple
Sclerosis
(EBFFRC):
http://www.mtsinai.on.ca/EBFFRC/default.htm
 Faculty
of
Nursing
Research
Office:
http://www.nursing.utoronto.ca/research/
 Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine, UofT at St.
Michael’s Hospital: www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca
 CHSRF/CIHR Health Services Chair: Health Care Settings and Canadians
www.hcerc.utoronto.ca
 Faculty
of
Medicine
Magazine
UToronto
Medicine:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/medicine/uum/
 Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre Colposcopy
website: www.colposcopy.com
 Canadian Interventional Radiology Association: www.car.ca/cira
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Health Care, Technology and Place (hct&p) CIHR Strategic Research and
Training Initiative: www.hctp.utoronto.ca
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation - bi-monthly
newsletter - NewsBytes: www.utoronto.ca/hpme/
From Medicare to Home and Community (M-THAC) Research Unit:
www.m-thac.org.
CCBR website: http://ccbr.med.utoronto.ca
Canadian Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Team (a CIHR-IHRT research
team headquartered at ICES/SWCHSC): www.ccort.ca
UofT
Faculty
of
Medicine
Clinician
Investigator
Program:
www.utoronto.ca/cip/about.html
Sunnybrook and Women's Clinical Epidemiology Unit and Institute
for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (CEU/ICES) - Conjoint Evaluative
Sciences Rounds: www.ices.on.ca
UofT Surgical Skills Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital: www.utoronto.ca/ssc
Wasser
Pain
Management
Centre
at
Mount
Sinai
Hospital:
www.mtsinai.on.ca/wasser
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and newsletter: www.torontorehab.com
Institute for Work and Health: www.iwh.on.ca/ - Newsletter At Work:
www.iwh.on.ca/Pages/Publications/Newsletters/latest_iss.html
Faculty of Medicine Research Office: www.medresearch.utoronto.ca / Funding
Opportunities: www.medresearch.utoronto.ca/a_5.html#fundopps
Hospital for Sick Children / HSC Research Institute: www.sickkids.ca.
Bloorview
MacMillan
Children's
Centre:
http://www.bloorviewmacmillan.on.ca
Ontario Rehabilitation Technology Consortium: http://www.assistivex.com /
www.htx.ca
Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science: www.utoronto.ca/gdrs
Department of Otolaryngology newsletter: www.utoronto.ca/otolaryngology
Division of Neurosurgery semi-annual newsletter - The Neurotransmitter:
www.sickkids.ca/neurosurgery/Transmit.asp
+
http://ots.utoronto.ca/users/howardg/neurosurge.html
Office of International Surgery: www.utoronto.ca/ois/
Knowledge Translation Program (Continuing Education) newsletter Knowledge to Practice: www.ktp.utoronto.ca/newsletter/index/htm
Ontario HIV Epidemiologic Monitoring Unit - Department of Public Health
Sciences: http://www.phs.utoronto.ca/ohemu
Wilson Centre for Research in Education: http://cre.med.utoronto.ca/
Banting and Best Diabetes Centre: www.bbdc.org
UofT Department of Anaesthesia newsletter: www.utoronto.ca/anaesthesia
Heart and Stroke / Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence: www.hsrlce.on.ca
Department of Physical Therapy - News - PT Weekly: www.utoronto.ca/pt
Baycrest websites
 Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care: www.baycrest.org
 Baycrest Nursing Centre of Excellence: www.ncoe.ws
 Baycrest Collaborative Research Prog:www.collaborativeresearchprogram.com
 Baycrest Rotman Research Institute: www.rotman-baycrest.on.ca
Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program (at Toronto Sunnybrook Regional
Cancer Centre) newsletter - HOT SPOT: www.tsrcc.on.ca/rrrp.htm
Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Family Medicine Research newsletter:
http://www.mtsinai.on.ca/familymedicine/research
UofT Centre for the Study of Pain: http://www.utoronto.ca/pain/
Centre for International Health: http://intlhealth.med.utoronto.ca/
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Program in Proteomics and Bioinformatics: http://p-b.med.utoronto.ca/
Department of Psychiatry Education Program Newsletter - bi-monthly:
www.utbeta.net
 Centre for Research in Women's Health: http://www.crwh.org
 Department of Public Health Sciences – weekly newsletter – PHS Update:
www.phs.utoronto.ca
 Joint Centre for Bioethics: www.utoronto.ca/jcb/
 Institute
of
Medical
Science
News
and
Views:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/ims/news.htm
 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology newsletter:
www.utoronto.ca/LabMedPathobiology
 Program
in
Neuroscience
Newsletter:
www.utoronto.ca/neurosci/newsletter/htm
 Gerstein Science Information Centre newsletters - Gerstein homepage under
"keeping current": www.library.utoronto.ca/gerstein/
 UofT Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health Research Unit:
www.utoronto.ca/miru
 Department of Family and Community Medicine - monthly bulletin:
http://dfcm19.med.utoronto.ca/
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