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About the Speaker

Dr. Wingfield Rehmus is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and an Associate Member of the Department of Dermatology and Skin Science at the University of British Columbia. Prior to moving to Canada in 2008, she lived and worked in the Republic of Palau, an island nation of 20,000 residents in the Western Pacific, for 2 years.  She completed her residency training in 2001 at Stanford University and remained on faculty conducting clinic research until moving to Palau.  Her primary interest is in improving access to care in areas that have limited access to resources, particularly in those that are limited by their remote nature.  She is actively involved with the American Academy of Dermatology currently serving as the Chair of the Education and Volunteers Abroad Committee.

“We learned a lot from H1N1.  In 2011 we presented through the UBC Learning Circle the important lessons we learned from our public health partners.  At this session we would like to present the results of our quantitative analysis using physician and hospitalization data.  These are the numbers that reinforce the stories we heard across the province and answers questions such as:  did having Tamiflu available in some communities help reduce influenza and pneumonia among community members?  Did First Nations get sicker than other British Columbians?”

Click for the:  H1N1 Outcomes of First Nations in BC – Factsheet

Download the power point: UBC Learning Circle – Quantitative analysis – April 26 2012

About the Speakers

Dr. Evan Adams is a Coast Salish physician and actor from the Sliammon First Nation located near Powell River. Previously he served as Aboriginal Health Physician Advisor to Government and the First Nations Health Council, contributing to positive developments in health for all citizens in B.C. while making substantial improvements in service delivery to First Nations in the province. He was most recently appointed as the Deputy Provincial Health Officer.

Dr. Shannon Tania Waters is a Coast Salish physician and a member of Stz’uminus First Nation on Vancouver Island. She worked as a family doctor close to her home in Duncan, then after two years in family practice Dr. Waters returned to school and completed her specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Waters now works as the Director of Health Surveillance at First Nations Inuit Health Branch in Vancouver and is involved in First Nations health information governance, eHealth and is excited to be involved in the formation of the new First Nations Health Authority.

Heart Failure (HF) has been identified as a significant health problem in BC.  The Specialized Populations Working Group has been established by the Provincial Heart Failure Committee to identify needs of specialized populations, gaps in service and plans to address these needs. As part of our work with Specialized Populations, there has been recognition that more dialogue is required between our Working Group and the Aboriginal Population. Our presentation and workshop is an opportunity for us to share what we have learned about Heart Failure, the care of the individual with Heart Failure and an opportunity for us to learn from the Learning Circle participants’ experiences and knowledge.

Presentation Resources

About the Speakers

Barbara Hennessy is the Regional Coordinator of Cardiovascular & Cerebrovascular Services and is responsible for all activities related to Northern Health’s participation in the BC Stroke Strategy and Cardiac Program as well as leading the development of services under the NH CCVS strategy as part of the NH Chronic Disease Program.  This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining working groups to participate in various NH and provincial initiatives under the CCVS domain.  This includes leading NH’s participation in provincial Clinical Care Management initiatives for stroke and congestive heart failure. She has a Masters in Nursing from Dalhousie University, N.S. with specialty in Adult Cardiac, and is a current member of the Provincial Heart Failure Strategy Resource Development Working Group. In her spare time, Barbara loves to read books, gardening (she is a new gardener), crafting, and she is very excited to see more of beautiful Northern BC.

Bonnie Catlin is the Provincial Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and is a member of the Provincial Heart Failure HUB (St Paul’s Hospital) which is co-leading BC’s Heart Failure Strategy and established BC HF Network and website. In her Provincial CNS role she is responsible for co- chairing many of the provincial HF working groups. Some of her responsibilities include creating provincially standardized patient and interprofessional HF education programs, practice tools and resources.  Bonnie is working with cardiologists to establish principles to ensure best practice for Heart Failure Echocardiography and Nuclear Cardiology Services in British Columbia (BC) as well as creating a provincial standardized echocardiography referral process and form and diagnostic reporting template for echocardiography. As well, Bonnie is working with BC HF Network special populations working group to understand and support the HF needs of the Frail Elderly, South Asian, Chinese and 1st Nations populations. She was part of the team that created BC’s HF indicator framework and minimum data set that will inform the foundation for the provincial HF data base. Her nursing practice over the last 26 years has focused primary on cardiology, with experience in coronary care, critical care, emergency, rural nursing, nursing education [general nursing and critical care specialty] as well as emergency manager, cardiac research nurse, professional practice consultant, leading practice and system change both regionally and provincially. Bonnie received her BSN from the University of Victoria and her MScN from York University in Toronto.

Presentation Notes: What’s bugging you

About the Speaker

Dr. Wingfield Rehmus is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and an Associate Member of the Department of Dermatology and Skin Science at the University of British Columbia. Prior to moving to Canada in 2008, she lived and worked in the Republic of Palau, an island nation of 20,000 residents in the Western Pacific, for 2 years.  She completed her residency training in 2001 at Stanford University and remained on faculty conducting clinic research until moving to Palau.  Her primary interest is in improving access to care in areas that have limited access to resources, particularly in those that are limited by their remote nature.  She is actively involved with the American Academy of Dermatology currently serving as the Chair of the Education and Volunteers Abroad Committee.

Aboriginal  eMentoring BC is an online career mentoring program for Aboriginal youth. Using the internet, we match mentees (youth in grades 6-12 across British Columbia) with mentors (UBC students in health science programs) who are 100% dedicated to helping them figure out what they want and how to get there. eMentoring’s online platform gives mentors and mentees a chance to meet despite geographical distances. With ongoing support from mentors, mentees complete a personal quest that was developed in partnership with icouldbe.org and is informed by Aboriginal ways of knowing and learning. This learning circle will include a discussion on how eMentoring can best support the academic success of Aboriginal students, empower them to realize their potential, and encourage them to keep their options open for a career in health.

eMentoring_UBC Learning Circle (final)

Presenters:
Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Associate Director, eHealth Strategy Office

Katherine Wisener, M.A.
Research Coordinator, eHealth Strategy Office

The interCultural Online Health Network (iCON) is a project based out of the University of British Columbia’s eHealth Strategy Office which uses technology as a basis to share culturally relevant prevention and management of chronic diseases with communities around BC.

Please join us and our panel of experts to discuss common barriers to chronic disease management and ways that health care workers and other community members can help individuals with chronic conditions to overcome these barriers.  We are particularly interested in exploring with and learning from the audience how traditional approaches and values can help support community members to achieve optimal health through prevention or effective management of diabetes and its complications.

Speakers:

Dr. Kendall Ho – Dr. Kendall Ho, an associate professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine, practices clinically at the Vancouver General Hospital.  He is the Director of the eHealth Strategy Office in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine.  His research interest is in eHealth – the innovative application and evaluation of modern information and communication technologies in health research, education, and health practice. He actively works with his colleagues at UBC and partnering institutions to incorporate eHealth into the medical curriculum, and introduce eHealth at the pre-medicine level, Masters level, and in high school via summer camps. He is a collaborator with the World Health Organization global eHealth Observatory, and a Board member of COACH – the Canadian Health Informatics Association, and a board member of the Canadian Virtual Health Library.  He is a member of the Association of Faculties of Medicine eHealth Education Committee, and he is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Professional Development Committee.

Dr. Lee Brown – Dr. Lee Brown is the Director of the UBC Institute of Aboriginal Health and is the former Coordinator of the Indigenous Doctoral Program in the Department of Educational Studies at The University of British Columbia where he wrote his Doctoral thesis entitled: Making the Classroom a Healthy Place: The Develop of Affective Competency in Aboriginal Pedagogy.. He is the Co-author of The Sacred Tree, an educational curriculum based in Aboriginal values and epistemology. Lee has also contributed to the Round Lake Native Healing Centre in Vernon, BC during the last twenty-nine years in a number of capacities including clinical supervisor and currently as a cultural resource to the centre. He has been an invited to share his knowledge of culture and healing in over five hundred indigenous communities in North America. Lee is a member of the Cherokee Nation and the Wolf Clan.

Dr. Heather McDonald – Heather has been a nurse for over 25 years. She recently completed her PhD at UBC. Her dissertation looked at the fit between arthritis health services and experiences of arthritis in First Nations people. For the past two years Heather has been working for Seabird Island Health department. She is involved in health program planning and evaluation and has a role in Seabird’s diabetes programs.

Ida John – Traditional Medicine and Nutrition Counselor, Elder – Chilliwack Territory, Sto:Lo First Nation

Notes and Contact: Nutrition and Your Mental Health

About the Speaker

Rebecca Sovdi is a Registered Dietitian and currently works in the area of Mental Health as a program manager for youth suicide prevention at Health Canada. Rebecca has worked with Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch for five years, having the pleasure of working with and travelling to many communities in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. She has worked in many areas of health promotion and nutrition include diabetes, prenatal nutrition, and food security. Rebecca is currently completing a Masters of Public Health at the University of Waterloo and hopes to graduate in 2013.

“Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh presents a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and disappearances of an estimated 500 Aboriginal women in Canada over the past 30 years. This is a journey into the dark heart of Native women’s experience in Canada. From Vancouver’s Skid Row to the Highway of Tears in northern British Columbia, to Saskatoon, this film honours those who have passed and uncovers reasons for hope. Finding Dawn illustrates the deep historical, social and economic factors that contribute to the epidemic of violence against Native women in this country. ” (From the National Film Board Website)

About the Speaker

I interned on “Finding Dawn” under the Direction of Metis Filmmaker Christine Welsh. I do work to address violence against Indigenous Women and I am a member of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Memorial March Committee for approximately 8 years. I worked as part of the Residential School Settlement for 3 years and am currently the Director of Development and Public Relations with AIDS Vancouver. Personally, I  am also a Gitk’san Artist specializing in Documentary, multimedia, painting and photography where I tend to  focus on often overlooked dimensions of contemporary Indigenous life, which is deeply inspired by the activism I undertake in my community.

SIDS and Safe Sleep through an Aboriginal Lens- Protecting our Children

About the Speakers

Lucy Barney, Provincial Lead, Perinatal Services BC, Provincial Health Services Association.
Lucy is from the Lillooet First Nation.  She received her Master’s of Science in Nursing from UBC in 2005. Lucy specializes in Aboriginal health and has worked in diabetes, HIV/AIDS and STIs as manager and educator for Aboriginal people in BC. Lucy has been awarded the Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS for innovative programming and the Community Service Award in Health from Langara College. Lucy’s interests are health promotion and prevention.

Tansey Ramanzin, Medical reviewer and Coroner, Child Death Review Unit, BC Coroners Service
Tansey graduated from Nursing in1983. She spent almost two decades working at BC Children’s Hospital before moving into the postgraduate specially nursing program  at BCIT, where she taught for five years.  Tansey joined the Child Death Review Unit of the BC Coroners Service in 2007, where she is committed to reducing the number of child deaths in BC, and reducing inequities in health outcomes.