Education Highlights
Health Care, Technology and Place Seminar Series 2004-2005
The Health Care, Technology and Place (HCTP) Seminar Series is designed to provide transdisciplinary mentorship to students whose research will address the interconnectedness of bodies, technologies, places, and work in contemporary health care. HPME Faculty member Peter C. Coyte is Co-Director of this Collaborative Program, with Patricia McKeever from the Faculty of Nursing. The Program is unique at U of T in linking departments and disciplines from all divisions at the University. This year's line-up includes a wide variety of stellar Doctoral and Post-Doctoral graduate students presenting topical issues across the health spectrum. All faculty and students are welcome to attend, please mark the following dates in your calendar. We look forward to seeing you there.
All seminars are held from 4pm-6pm at the Faculty of Nursing (50 St. George Street). For more details (exact room number, discussants & moderators) and up-to-date listing, please visit the HCTP website: www.hctp.utoronto.ca.
Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
| Oct 6 | Bridging Theory and Practice: Rethinking Personhood in Place and Care | Pia Kontos |
| Oct 20 | Adaptive Recognition of User Activity for In-Place Intelligent Health Care | Jorge Silva | Nov 24 | Computerized Patient Records: A Communicative and Social Impact Analysis | Lara Varpio |
| Dec 15 | Technology, Place, and Care of the Pregnant Body | Mary Carolan |
| Jan 12 | Improving Interventions for Informal Care Providers to Stroke Survivors by Enhancing Knowledge Transfer Strategies | Jill Cameron |
| Jan 26 | Selling the Image: The Marketing of Ultrasound, CT, and MRI, 1950-1990 | Kiran Van Rijn |
| Feb 23 | Priority-Setting at Community Care Access Centres in Ontario | Michelle Kohli |
| Apr 13 | Health Services and Educational Resources in Public Schools for Children and Youth with Chronic Illnesses or Disabilities | Nicole Yantzi |
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
The Department of HPME and the Faculty of Law's Health Law and Policy Group jointly organize the Health Law and Policy Seminar Series. These stimulating sessions are presented by local, national and international experts.
Sessions are held from 12:10 – 2:00 pm in the Faculty of Law Solarium in Falconer Hall (84 Queen's Park). A light lunch is provided. Everyone is welcome to attend these seminars. For a current up-to-date listing please visit the Health Law and Policy Group website noted above.
For more information or to join an email notification list, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| October 14 | Raisa Deber Department of Health Administration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto |
Private Delivery and Public Goals: Mechanisms for Ensuring that Hospitals Can Meet Public Objectives: A Four-Jurisdiction Case Study |
| October 28 | Graeme Laurie School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law |
Genetic Privacy: Anti-social concept or fundamental right? |
| November 25 | Duff K. Waring Department of Philosophy, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University |
Integrating Values in Risk Analysis of Biomedical Research: The Case for Regulatory and Law Reform |
| December 9 | Carolyn McLeod Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario |
A Feminism Appraisal of Medical Conscience Clauses |