2010 Gairdner Faculty Lecture: “The tribulations of not doing randomized trials: helping smart doctors stop prescribing dumb treatments”
Dr. David Sackett, OC, FRSC, MD, ScD, FRCP (Ottawa, London, Edinburgh), and Professor Emeritus at McMaster University is the former Director of the NHS R&D Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, and founder of the Trout Research & Education Centre, where he reads, researches, writes and teaches about randomized clinical trials. He has written 10 books, contributed chapters to some 50 others, and has penned more than 300 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals.
The 2010 Gairdner Lecture is made possible by the generous support of the PEI department of Innovation and Advanced Learning and the PEI BioAlliance.
A reception will follow the lecture.
2010 Fulbright Lecture at UPEI: "Cardiometabolic diseases: a growing problem in an ever-shrinking world"
Dr. Bobby Khan is a physician and investigator at the Atlanta Clinical Research Centers. He is the past director of the Coronary Care Unit and Cardiovascular Research Lab at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. His lecture will focus on global health and initiatives including preventive forms of medicine, specifically in the role of cardiovascular health.
The 2010 Fulbright Scholarship and Lecture are made possible by the John and Judy Bragg Family Founcation
A reception will follow the lecture.
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Public Lecture
"Crawling from the Wreckage", a public lecture by Canadian Journalist and Author, Gwynne Dyer.
UPEI Executive-style MBA Information Session
UPEI’s executive-style MBA program is designed for those working in, or aspiring to work, in a management or leadership position. Specialized streams of study are offered in Innovative Management and Biotechnology Management & Entrepreneurship.
To learn more about this exciting opportunity in graduate studies, UPEI’s School of Business invites you to attend one of its upcoming information sessions. Learn more about the program and application process, have your questions answered, and meet with staff, current students and faculty from the School of Business.
UPEI Executive-style MBA Information Session
UPEI’s executive-style MBA program is designed for those working in, or aspiring to work, in a management or leadership position. Specialized streams of study are offered in Innovative Management and Biotechnology Management & Entrepreneurship.
To learn more about this exciting opportunity in graduate studies, UPEI’s School of Business invites you to attend one of its upcoming information sessions. Learn more about the program and application process, have your questions answered, and meet with staff, current students and faculty from the School of Business.
UPEI Executive-style MBA Information Session
UPEI’s executive-style MBA program is designed for those working in, or aspiring to work, in a management or leadership position. Specialized streams of study are offered in Innovative Management and Biotechnology Management & Entrepreneurship.
To learn more about this exciting opportunity in graduate studies, UPEI’s School of Business invites you to attend one of its upcoming information sessions. Learn more about the program and application process, have your questions answered, and meet with staff, current students and faculty from the School of Business.
Departments of Biomedical Sciences & Pathology and Microbiology Seminar
SPEAKER: Michelle Patterson, Department of Biomedical Sciences
TITLE: In vivo optoacoustic imaging of a transgenic murine model of prostate cancer.
Fall Federal Job Fair
Fall Federal Job Fair will take place from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm on November 24, 2010 in the W. A. Murphy Student Centre concourse. Please visit the website for more information: http://www.upei.ca/studentservices/career/fall-federal-fair
Career Planning
This is an opportunity for students to meet and interact with a career counsellor to learn more about the career decision making cycle and some of the resources available to help with answering, What can I do with my degree?
Light Up Papua New Guinea: The Captain Nichola Goddard Project
Guest Speaker: Valerie Fortney best-selling author of Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard. Please join us for a special and entertaining dinner to raise funds for solar powered lights in rural medical centres throughout Papua New Guinea, where Nichola was born. Tickets are $125 each. Please call (902) 569-5665.