Physician as Patient: An Evening With Dr. Paula Rowland

Thank you to Dr. Paula Rowland  http://www.cpd.utoronto.ca/research/biography/paula-rowland-reg-ot-ont-phd/  for a thought provoking evening.
For more information on the AMS Phoenix Project, see:  http://www.theamsphoenix.ca/

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Interesting thoughts from Steve Paikin on the topic: http://tvo.org/blog/current-affairs/when-will-ontarios-health-care-system-finally-focus-on-the-patient

DECEMBER 8: A Night of Medical Imagineering

Thank you to the following doctors & their assistants who made our 3rd annual Medical Imagineering Night a success:

Dr. Julielynn Wong http://www.3d4md.com/

Dr. Kieran Murphy http://www.car.ca/uploads/Education%20Lifelong%20Learning/Meetings/ASM2013_Speakers_Pres/EE005_Oral_Antioxidants_for_Radioprotection_in_Medical_Imaging_Exams.pdf
Dr. Ramin Safakish http://allevioclinic.com/
Dr. Akbar Khan http://medicorcancer.com/
Medical student Zack Dulberg
Our Tech Talkers, Drs. Steve Pomedli, (www.consultloop.com) Rob Horvath (www.medevision.com) , David Gotlib (https://konode.wistia.com/medias/mwqstccbrf , https://konode.wistia.com/medias/mwqstccbrf), Christopher Dainton (www.quickchartmd.com), Jeremy Theal (www.agentplus.ca) , Jihad Abouali (www.consultconduit.com) and Marco Lo (www.magentahealth.ca).  

 

NOVEMBER 11: Making Love & War Intelligently

Thank you to Nikola Danaylov https://www.singularityweblog.com/   for his talk “On War, Death, Love and Being Human: How Our Exponential Technology is Changing Everything We Know for Sure.”
You might find the following web site on Exponential Medicine of interest: https://exponential.singularityu.org/medicine/videos/
Another site of interest on the singularity: http://singularityhub.com/

October 14: An Evening With Dr. Gregory M. Brown

Thank you to Dr. Gregory M. Brown , one of the world’s leading authorities on melatonin, for a clear overview on an emerging therapeutic tool

Two recent texts on the subject should help you start your own exploration on the topic : http://www.amazon.com/Melatonin-Melatonergic-Drugs-Clinical-Practice/dp/8132208242#reader_8132208242  

http://www.amazon.com/Melatonin-Therapeutic-Neuroprotection-Venkatramanujan-Srinivasan/dp/1482220091#reader_1482220091

 

 

June 23: An Evening with Dr. Philip Berger

Thank you to Dr. Berger for sharing lessons learned in medical advocacy, and hopefully inspiring us to do our share in advocating for our patients.

May 20: An Evening With Dr. Kate Hodgson

Thank you to Dr. Hodgson for the first of what hopefully be many talks based on the One Health Initiative
http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/index.php  
Further reading on tonight's topic can be found at:
http://www.habri.org/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4245602/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022463/  

 

April 21: An Evening on Chaos, Order & Complexity

Thank you to Drs. Vivian and Vanessa Rambihar for leading us on a tour of complexity science.
For a textual tour of the subject, see: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781493922550 
and http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/life-sciences/genomics-bioinformatics-and-systems-biology/systems-view-life-unifying-vision