CHSPR/CAE Seminar: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities of Palliative Psychiatry

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Daniel Buchman, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Palliative psychiatry is an emerging subfield of mental health care that focuses on improving quality of life and relieving suffering in people living with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI), rather than aiming solely for symptom remission or cure. Palliative psychiatry applies the principles of palliative […]

Building a More Welcoming Movement Toward a Just Culture

Online/Virtual Event

In today’s climate, some EDI efforts may seem stuck—perceived as punitive, compliance-driven, or relying too heavily on calling-out. What can we do to create a movement that can welcome all of the diverse clinicians, learners and staff who are deeply committed to the key goals of equity and inclusion? Join REDI’s Fourth Annual Symposium on […]

CHSPR Seminar | Evolving Strategies for Ovarian Cancer Prevention: Exploring the Acceptability and Feasibility of Risk-Reducing Salpingectomy

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Alex Lukey, PhD Candidate, School of Population and Public Health Growing confidence in both the origins of ovarian cancer and the safety and effectiveness of salpingectomy as a preventive strategy has led to increased adoption of opportunistic salpingectomy in clinical practice. Although current guidelines only recommend salpingectomy opportunistically, the greatest reduction in mortality and […]

Accessing Data through DASH—Breaking Barriers: Distributed Analysis for Multi-regional Research

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join us for an exclusive webinar introducing Distributed Analysis—a groundbreaking methodological innovation designed to transform how researchers conduct multi-regional studies. Traditional data-sharing models often face roadblocks related to privacy and regulatory compliance. Distributed analysis offers a powerful alternative: enabling researchers to analyze data across multiple regions without physically pooling datasets. In this session, you'll learn: […]

Thriving Kids UBC Research Cluster Webinar Series: Climate-related Weather Events and the Experiences of Families of Children with Medical Complexities

Online/Virtual Event

Please join us for our most recent UBC Thriving Kids Research Cluster webinar! Dr. Ben Mortenson and Dr. Vanessa Fong will be presenting their research findings around the experiences of families of children with medical complexities during extreme weather events related to climate change. The presentation will also include a firsthand account from one of […]