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Local Partnership, Global Implications
Submitted: April 29, 2010
UBC and Vineyard Networks partner on advanced networks research Internationally respected Kelowna-based company Vineyard Networks is collaborating with UBC to create a new approach to data storage and retrieval. This partnership...
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Grand Rounds: How did Prescription Drugs become a Leading Cause of Death? The Risk Proliferation Syndrome
How did Prescription Drugs become a Leading Cause of Death? The Risk Proliferation Syndrome
Prescription drugs are one of the most beneficial parts of modern medicine and yet they have become a leading cause of falls, accidents, hospitalizations, and death. The lecture will explain The Risk Proliferation Syndrome of institutional practices that expose more patients to risks of harm than need be. Open discussion about the Syndrome and how to reduce harms will follow.
Presenter: Donald Light
Donald Light is a professor social medicine and comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. A founding fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, he is doing research on justice issues in global pharmaceutical policy. He has received the William Foote Whyte distinguished career award for applied sociology.
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SPPH Faculty Meeting
SPPH Faculty Meeting
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Media Training session for SPPH Faculty
Training session to cover:
* interacting with the media
* writing op-ed articles
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OEH Seminar: Shiftwork, stress and heart disease among paramedics
Presenter: Imelda Wong, PhD candidate
UBC School of Population and Public Health
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Tel: 604.822.2772
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