October 16: An exploration of menopause - An Evening with Dr. Michelle Jacobson

 How comfortable are you diagnosing and managing perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms?

You are invited to spend an evening increasing your comfort level by virtually participating in our upcoming October  Doctors’ Lounge event.

Our guide for the evening  will be Dr. Michelle Jacobson. Dr. Jacobson is an OBGYN with expertise in managing menopause. She is a member of the medical advisory board of the Menopause Foundation of Canada.

Should we be “celebrating menopause” or seeing it as a disability requiring accommodation?

You are invited to explore the topic of menopause in the collegial environment of the Doctors’ Lounge, a place to share your experiences and clinical expertise with colleagues.

Women may experience over half of their lifetime in the perimenopausal/menopausal state.

Wouldn’t it be wise to spend two hours of your time trying to better understand it?

Please join us as we mark World Menopause Awareness Month.

September 18 An exploration of academic freedom

 September marks the traditional start to the school year.

Whether it is elementary school or medical school, places of learning should be dedicated to developing healthy minds capable of adapting to a rapidly changing world and new truths as they emerge.

The search for new truths can often collide with the powers of those in authority, motivating truth seekers to pursue justice on behalf of emerging concepts.

Sometimes progress is made. Sometimes chaos ensues.

In recent years in the world of academia, priorities seem to be shifting from the traditional pursuit of truth as the highest value to the pursuit of justice as the exclusive top priority.

This deeply troubles our guest speaker, especially after recently becoming personally entangled in the conflict.

You are invited to spend an evening with Dr. Laurence Klotz, a thought leader who, by questioning authority, became an authority, changing the way we all practise medicine by pioneering the idea of active surveillance of prostate cancer.   He received the Order of Canada for his work in prostate cancer.

Dr. Klotz is presently concerned about the threats to the academic freedom required to germinate new ideas necessary to advance our profession.

It is for that reason why he is encouraging faculty members of academic institutions to join the University of Toronto Heterodox Academy community, and for non-academics to support the cause by understanding what is happening at our institutions of higher learning.

Please join us as he guides us in an exploration of what it means to embrace the ideals of viewpoint diversity, open inquiry and constructive disagreement from a medical perspective.