Med.E.Mail
Weekly Information from the Dean’s Offices
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
May 3, 2004
Volume 12, Number 32
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THIS ISSUE:
FAST FACULTY FACT
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL EDUCATORS AWARDS
HONOURS AND AWARDS
OMA WEB-SURVEY OF CLINICAL FACULTY
RESPONSES TO UTFA PRESIDENT ON CLINICAL FACULTY
FACULTY OF MEDICINE COOKBOOK
GERSTEIN SCIENCE INFORMATION CENTRE NEWSLETTER
EVENTS AND LINKS TO EVENT WEBSITES
LINKS TO OTHER NEWSLETTERS/WEBSITES
FAST FACULTY FACT
Clinical Fellows are previously certified specialists who undertake a "topping-off"
training experience in their discipline. Albeit outside the formal Royal College
accreditation processes, these training activities prepare scores of highly-qualified
personnel for essential functions in the Canadian healthcare system. In 2002 /
2003, approximately half of Canada's clinical fellows were registered at the UofT
Faculty of Medicine.
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL EDUCATORS AWARDS
The Canadian Association of Medical Educators (CAME) has awarded their 2004
CAME/ACEM Certificate of Merit Awards. The aim of these Awards is to promote
medical education in Canadian medical schools and to recognize and reward faculty’s
commitment to medical education. The Awards were presented during the CAME
Annual General Meeting in Halifax at the ACMC/CAME Annual Meeting in April. The
winners from the UofT Faculty of Medicine are:
 Risa Freeman (Department of Family and Community Medicine)
 Mary Bell (Department of Medicine)
 Ian Johnson (Department of Public Health Sciences)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Peter Collins (Department of Psychiatry) has joined the faculty of an innovative
training program that trains police officers to investigate on-line crimes against
children. Dr. Collins is the only Canadian to be named to the faculty. Under the
auspices of INTERPOL, the Program - administered by the International Center for
Missing and Exploited Children and financed by Microsoft – has held training courses
in Lyon, France, San Jose, Costa Rica, and Brazil. Future training courses are
planned for Australia and Hong Kong, with other courses potentially being held in
Eastern European, African, and other South American countries. Dr. Collins continues
to serve as a member of the INTERPOL Specialist Group on Crimes Against Children.
Sheila Dunn (Department of Family and Community Medicine) won the Association
of Canadian Medical Colleges (ACMC) May Cohen Gender Equity Award. This award
recognizes outstanding effort or achievement of an individual(s), program(s),
department(s), or school in improving the gender equity environment in academic
medicine in Canada. The Award was presented at the 2004 ACMC - CAME Annual
Meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April.
Joanne Rovet (Department of Paediatrics) and co-investigators Elizabeth Asztalos
(Department of Paediatrics), Carol Westall (Department of Ophthalmology and
Vision Sciences), Kusiel Perlman (Department of Paediatrics), and Elise Heon
(Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences) have received a three-year
March of Dimes grant for their project, "Thyroid Hormone Insufficiencies and Visual
Perceptual deficits in Preterm Infants".
Sharon Straus (Department of Medicine) won the Association of Canadian Medical
Colleges (ACMC) GlaxoSmithKline Young Educators Award. This award recognizes
individuals who, by their vision, work and interaction with colleagues, have produced
change within their university or within the medical community as a whole, and are
within the first seven years of their academic career. The Award was presented at
the 2004 ACMC - CAME Annual Meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April.
OMA WEB-SURVEY OF CLINICAL FACULTY
The Ontario Medical Association web-survey of Toronto clinical faculty is slated to
close shortly. Clinical colleagues are urged to take a minute to complete this fivequestion survey and make their views known on the relationship between clinical
faculty and the University. An introduction to the survey was provided in Med.E.Mail
on March 26
(http://www.library.utoronto.ca/medicine/medemail/vol12/number026.doc) by Dr
Paul Dorian on behalf of clinical teachers and the Medical Staff Associations of the
nine fully-affiliated teaching hospitals.
RESPONSES TO UTFA PRESIDENT ON CLINICAL FACULTY
A message from David Naylor, Dean:
The April 5 issue of Med.E.Mail directed colleagues to a statement on clinical faculty
from Prof. George Luste, President of the University of Toronto Faculty Association
(UTFA). In my view, the UTFA President has again misinterpreted the Provostial Task
Force report and the related policy proposals that were endorsed in 2003 by,
variously, the executives of nine Medical Staff Associations and Medical Advisory
Committees, clinical department chairs, and teaching hospital executives. Colleagues
are referred to recent responses to the UTFA President from President Robert
Birgeneau and from the Task Force co-chairs at:
 http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_6_6404_1.html
 http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_6_6403_1.html
Clinical colleagues have waited more than twenty-five years to see their status at
this University clarified and to achieve direct representation in dealings with the
Administration. As a clinical faculty member temporarily serving in an administrative
capacity, I sincerely hope to see this unacceptable situation resolved in the near
future.
FACULTY OF MEDICINE COOKBOOK
The Office of Student Affairs (with the support of MedSoc and the Medical Alumni
Association) is compiling a Faculty of Medicine Cookbook. All faculty, staff, students,
and alumni are invited to submit their favourite recipes for publication in the
Cookbook. Ideally, recipes should be original or adapted and relatively quick, easy,
and affordable to prepare. Proceeds from the sale of this cookbook will support of the
Isolated Senior Citizens Project, an initiative of the MedSoc Community Affairs and
Student Affairs. Recipes should be submitted before June 30 to
marilyn.heng@utoronto.ca.
GERSTEIN SCIENCE INFORMATION CENTRE NEWSLETTER
The newest issue of the Gerstein Science Information Centre’s newsletter @Gerstein - is now available at http://www.library.utoronto.ca/gerstein/newsletter/
Featured in this issue:
 news on PubMed and UTL holdings
 new multidisciplinary database: Scopus
 new library service: Request Item
 new resource for health statistics
EVENTS AND LINKS TO EVENT WEBSITES
 InterHospital Stroke Rehabilitation Rounds "Optimizing Cardiovascular
and Neuromuscular Recovery Following a Stroke" - June 8, 2004, 4:00 to
5:30 pm, Toronto Rehab Auditorium, 550 University Avenue - no registration
necessary: 416-597-3422, X3693 or conferences@torontorehab.on.ca
 Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Seminar Series - Pattern formation in
the chick and mouse embryo – Cliff Tabin (Harvard Medical School) - Wednesday,
May 5, 2004, noon to 1:00 p.m. – Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount
Sinai Hospital, Room 968, 600 University Avenue: kramkowski@mshri.on.ca
 Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Seminar Series – Sex and Repression
– Barbara Meyer (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California,
Berkeley) – Wednesday, May 12, 2004, noon to 1:00 p.m. – Samuel Lunenfeld
Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Room 968, 600 University Avenue:
kramkowski@mshri.on.ca
 Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Seminar Series – Genome
surveillance pathways in mammalian cells and their organization in space and
time - Jiri Lukas (Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Biology) –
Wednesday, May 19, 2004, noon to 1:00 p.m. – Samuel Lunenfeld Research
Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Room 968, 600 University Avenue:
kramkowski@mshri.on.ca
 Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Seminar Series – CLIPs and CLASPs
and microtubule behaviour – Niels Galjart (Erasmus Medical Centre) –
Wednesday, May 26, 2004, noon to 1:00 p.m. - Samuel Lunenfeld Research
Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Room 968, 600 University Avenue:
kramkowski@mshri.on.ca
 Art and Science of Traditional Medicines: An International Conference presented by G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, the Hong Fook
Mental Health Association, and Friends of Alternative and Complementary
Therapies (FACT), with supporting sponsorship of the Baek Asian Mental Health
Project of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation - May 7 to 9,
2004: Connie Tinney (416-242-4688) or http://ceonline.ryerson.ca/ce/default.asp?id=1213
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Centre for Girls’ and Women’s Health and Physical Activity, Faculty of
Physical Education and Health - Bone Health Summit: Females, Physical
In/Activity, Bone Health Research and Interventions. Canadian and US panel in
bone health and women - Registration $40, $20 seniors and students, $0 UofT
students and staff - May 14, 2004, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Athletic Centre, 55
Harbord Street, third floor, room BN307:
http://www.utoronto.ca/physical/academic/Bone%20Health%20Summit.pdf
Saturday at the University 2004/2005, Office of Continuing Education,
Faculty of Medicine - for general practitioners, family physicians, general
internists, and nurse practitioners - September 18, 2004, November 6, 2004,
December 4, 2004, January 29, 2005, February 26, 2005, April 2, 2005: 416978-2719/1-888-512-8173 (voice), 416-971-2200 (fax), ce.med@utoronto.ca (email), http://www.cme.utoronto.ca
Centre for International Health + Bethune Round Table + Joint Centre for
Bioethics – 2nd Annual Global Health Research Conference – Mobilizing
Research to Action: A Canadian Contribution - Keynote Address: Stephen Lewis
(UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa) - May 14 / 15, 2004,
Medical Sciences Building, Faculty of Medicine: j.kopelow@sympatico.ca or
http://intlhealth.med.utoronto.ca/GHR2004_Program1.htm
Ethics Workshop – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – Thinking
Globally, Acting Locally: Ethical Issues in International and Cross-Cultural
Research – free - Friday, May 7, 2004, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health, Auditorium, 250 College Street:
nancy_deming@camh.net or
http://www.research.utoronto.ca/ethics_news.html#news
Hospital for Sick Children - 1st Annual Conference on Paediatric
Emergency Medicine - International panel in paediatric emergency medicine Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) course on Sept 29/30, Emergency
Nursing Paediatric Course (ENPC) Sept 29/30, Conference on Oct 1/2, 2004:
nicole.winters@sickkids.ca (brochure available May/June).
Centre for Global Health Research – Controlling the Risk: The Toronto
Conference on Global Infectious Diseases – June 15 and 16, 2004, Sutton
Place Hotel Toronto - pre-registration ($75 for students / $250 for professionals):
daidt@smh.toronto.on.ca or http://www.cghr.org/ID
Annual Bethune Round Table on International Surgery - May 14 to 16,
2004: http://www.utoronto.ca/ois/myweb8/BRTIndex.htm
Faculty of Medicine Continuing Education - Physiotherapy Mini-Med
School - May 4 and 18, 2004, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. - pre-registration ($75): 416978-2719 (voice) or mini.med@utoronto.ca or http://www.mini-med.utoronto.ca
Faculty of Medicine Continuing Education - Mini-Med School for Parents June 5 and 12, 2004, 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - pre-registration (adults $150,
senior citizens $95): 416-978-2719 (voice) or mini.med@utoronto.ca or
http://www.mini-med.utoronto.ca
Third International Conference on Metals and Genetics - Metals and
Biochemistry, Disease, Environment: A Tribute to Bibudhendra Sarkar - May 25
to 29, 2004, Hotel InterContinental Toronto, Canada:
http://www.thirdmetalsandgenetics.com
Faculty of Medicine Continuing Education course - Current Issues in Child
Maltreatment 2004 – Topics: neglect, emotional abuse, medical updates, forensic
interviewing, sexualized behaviour, prevention – study credits - October 1 and 2,
2004 - 89 Chestnut Street, Toronto: http://www.cme.utoronto.ca or
ce.med@utoronto.ca
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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:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/medicine/deans/Volume12004_2.pdf – RSVP to
Jamie Chung (jme.chung@utoronto.ca) or Allison Hardisty
(a.hardisty@utoronto.ca)
 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
 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: http://www.cmecongress.org
 XIIIth International Vascular Biology Meeting - June 1 to 5, 2004, Westin
Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto: http://www.ivbm2004.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
 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: http://www.camh.net
 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: http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca
 CHSRF/CIHR Health Services Chair: Health Care Settings and Canadians
www.hcerc.utoronto.ca
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Faculty of Medicine Magazine - UToronto Medicine:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/medicine/uum/
Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre Colposcopy
website: http://www.colposcopy.com
Canadian Interventional Radiology Association: http://www.car.ca/cira
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: http://www.utoronto.ca/hpme/
From Medicare to Home and Community (M-THAC) Research Unit:
http://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: http://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:
http://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: http://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
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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/
 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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