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Monday, April 1 at 12:00 p.m.
Pharmacology and Therapeutics Seminar Series
Connecting universities with industry and community partners Noha Gerges, PhD
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Monday, April 1, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
JGH Medical Grand Rounds
Lumps, bumps and genes Dr. William D. Foulkes
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April 1-30
Osler Library Exhibition
Drawing from the rich holdings of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Curiosities of Conception looks specifically at the ways that medical discourses have responded to and perpetuated the image of the monstrous maternal from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
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Tuesday, April 2, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
LDI Epidemiology Seminar
Obstetrical factors and risk of autism Dr. Haim Abenhaim
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Tuesday, April 2, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Council on Palliative Care Workshop
The value of the Palliative Care team Film -The Caregiver’s Club
Discussion to follow.
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Wednesday, April 3, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
SCSD/JGH Free Swallowing & Language Screening and Consultation
Come find out more about one of the most basic actions of the human body and how Speech-Language Pathologists can help when something goes wrong.
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Wednesday, April 3 at 12:00 p.m.
McGill Research Centre on Complex Traits Seminar Series
Antibody-based micro and nanotechnologies for multiplexed protein and exosome analysis of complex samples Dr. David Juncker
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Wednesday, April 3, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
IDIGH WIP/Lunch & Learn Seminar
Association study of classical HLA genes with leprosy susceptibility Dr. Monica Elizabeth Dallman Sauer
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Wednesday, April 3, 12:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m.
Visiting Speakers Program in Oncology
Targeted therapy for lung cancer Dr. D. Ross Camidge
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Wednesday, April 3, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Family Medicine Research Seminar
Data sharing in the post genomic era: A contemporary golden rule for bioethics? Vasiliki Rahimzadeh
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Wednesday, April 3 at 4:00 p.m.
GCRC Frontiers in Cancer Research Lecture Series
Base excision repair and autoimmunity Joann B. Sweasy, PhD
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Thursday, April 4, 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Multidisciplinary Surgical Grand Rounds
Management of retroperitoneal sarcoma Dr. Sinziana Dumitra
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Thursday, April 4 at 11:00 a.m.
Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Recruitment Seminar
Interpretable deep learning for biological sequence analysis Peter Koo, PhD
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Thursday, April 4, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Pharmacology & Therapeutics Workshop
Win4Science – Hacking the gender gap
Negotiation WIN! WIN! Valérie Viau
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Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m.
CPD Thursday Evening Learning Series (TELS): Face-to-Face and Webinar
Cardiology (Adult or Pediatric)
Optimizing therapy for your patient with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction Dr. Mathieu Walker
Primary + secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death Dr. Jacqueline Joza
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Friday, April 5, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
SCSD: World Voice Day Vocal Care Workshop
Be kind with your voice
Speech-language pathology students and Dr. Nicole Li-Jessen will host a 90-minute workshop on voice care and chronic cough.
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Monday, April 8 at 12:00 p.m.
Pharmacology and Therapeutics Seminar Series
More ubiquitins than meets the eye: Novel variants encoded by ubiquitin pseudogenes Dr. Francois-Michel Boisvert
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Monday, April 8, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
SCSD: World Voice Day Voice Screening
Find your voice tired after teaching, singing, coaching, talking at the front desk, a night out, or coughing? Come to get your voice condition screened. A questionnaire, perceptual voice evaluation, and computerized voice analysis will be conducted.
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Tuesday, April 9 at 4:00 p.m.
Killam Seminar Series
Challenges and opportunities in using neuroimaging to understand brain development and psychopathology Dr. Theodore D. Satterthwaite
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Wednesday, April 10, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Pediatric Medical Grand Rounds
17th Annual Steinberg Child Development Lectureship
A new era in the treatment of rare disease: Perspectives from a pediatric neurologist Dr. Maryam Oskoui
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Wednesday, April 10 at 2:30 p.m.
Social Studies of Medicine Seminar
Chronic illness and all that comes between Prof. Todd Meyers
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Wednesday, April 10, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Goodman Cancer Research Centre Public Forum
A reason to hope: Understanding and managing cancer
As part of its mission to empower patients, caregivers and families dealing with cancer, the Goodman Cancer Research Centre organizes an annual series of four lectures at which leading experts discuss advances in cancer research. Session 3: Symptoms and strategies of cancer cachexia
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Thursday, April 11 at 12:00 p.m.
Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Recruitment Seminar
How to talk to neurons: Engaging neural circuits, systems and rhythms using brain stimulation Jeremie Lefebvre, PhD
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Friday, April 12, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Infectious Diseases & Immunity in Global Health (IDIGH) Research Day
Memory without experience: Heterogeneity in the “naïve” CD8+ T cell repertoire Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ross Kedl
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Friday, April 12, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
McGill International TB Centre/RECRU Joint Seminar Series
Chronic kidney disease, dialysis, and preventing tuberculosis Jonathon Campbell, PhD
Estimating the accuracy of GeneXpert for diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis Dr. Nandini Dendukuri
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Monday, April 1, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
RI-MUHC Pediatric Research Seminar
22q11.2 deletion syndrome Drs. Loydie Jerome-Majewska & Yannis Trakadis
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April 1-15
Osler Library Exhibition
Corps qui hantent d’autres corps
A project by Caroline Boileau, Michele Larose – Osler Library Artist-in-Residence. During her residency, she explored different European and Asian medical texts dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries
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Tuesday, April 2, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
MUHC Medical Grand Rounds
Improving diagnoses of obstructive lung diseases in Canadian communities Dr. Shawn Aaron
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Tuesday, April 2, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Family Medicine & Observatory Seminar Series
A FREE seminar to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the Family Medicine Group model in Quebec primary care.
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Wednesday, April 3, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Pediatric Medical Grand Rounds
Donald Cohen Lectureship in Childhood Autism
New frontiers in ASD diagnosis Dr. Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
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Wednesday, April 3 at 11:30 a.m.
Anatomy and Cell Biology Recruitment Seminar
Mechanism of ribosome, a macromolecular machine, in protein synthesis Dr. Hiroshi Yamamoto
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Wednesday, April 3 at 12:00 p.m.
BRaIN Seminar Series
Organization and function of feedback connections in early visual processing Dr. Alessandra Angelucci
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Wednesday, April 3, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
CPD Wednesday E-Learning Series (WELS): Webinar only
Emergency Medicine
Managing pain in the Emergency Department: It's not just narcotics Dr. Mitchell Shulman
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Wednesday, April 3, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Institute for Health and Social Policy Seminar
What is disability? Theoretical strategies to define a contested concept Prof. Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry
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Wednesday, April 3, 3:00 - 5:30 p.m.
HBHL/CRBLM Panel Discussion
Creating an inclusive science ecosystem
What is the current state of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in academia and the world of science? What can faculty, staff and students do to help get us to a fully inclusive academic world? The panel will be followed by a networking session with complimentary refreshments.
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Wednesday, April 3, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
ISoN: Women Deliver 2019 Mobilization Canada
More than a footnote: Women and girls with disabilities in Canada Bonnie Brayton Sponsored by The McGill Nursing Collaborative for Education and Innovation in Patient- and
Family-Centered Care and co-hosted with the McGill Women’s Health Advocacy Club, DAWN-RAIF Canada and the Institute for Health and Social Policy.
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Thursday, April 4, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Microbiology & Immunology Recruitment Seminar
Modeling microbiome development and dysbiosis in the human gut Dr. Nicholas Bokulich
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Thursday, April 4, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
The Neuro: 2019 Dorothy J. Killam Lecture
Genes, neurons, and circuits: Organizing behavior across timescales Cornelia I. Bargmann, PhD
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Friday, April 5 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Seminar Series
Genetic and social determinants of population variation in immune response to infections Dr. Luis Barreiro
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Saturday, April 6, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Montreal Hodgkin Lymphoma Conference for Adolescents & Young Adults
Hodgkin lymphoma 101, nutrition, managing the side effects of chemo, how to stay in shape and fertility. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Nathalie Johnson
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Monday, April 8, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
JGH Medical Grand Rounds
Modern management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: JGH’s comprehensive integrated program – From bench to bedside to operating room or to cath lab
Drs. David Langleben, Andrew Hirsch, Jean-François Morin & Ali Abualsaud
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Tuesday, April 9, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
MUHC Medical Grand Rounds
Ethiopia project/hospital acquired infections Dr. Makeda Semret
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Tuesday, April 9, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Council on Palliative Care Workshop
The value of the Palliative Care team Patrick Durivage, SW & Zelda Freitas, SW
Sue Britton, RN & Joan Foster, BN
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Wednesday, April 10, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
IDIGH Program Seminar Series
Alpha-Gal glycotopes as effective glycovaccines and chemotherapy biomarkers of Chagas disease Dr. Igor Almeida
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Wednesday, April 10 at 4:00 p.m.
MRCCT/IDIGH/TB Seminar
Alveolar macrophages in tuberculosis and HIV-1 infection Dr. David G. Russell
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Thursday, April 11, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
LDI Distinguished Lecture Series
Genomic screens for drug resistance studies Marc Ouellette, PhD
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Thursday, April 11, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Infection & Immunity Seminar Series
Genetics and dynamics of the latent HIV reservoir: implications for HIV cure Dr. Zabrina Brumme
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Thursday, April 11 at 2:15 p.m.
Social Studies of Medicine Seminar
Small fixes: Humanitarian design in a broken world Prof. Peter Redfield
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Friday, April 12 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Seminar Series
Regulation of neuronal function by translational mechanisms: From synaptic homeostasis to age-dependent neurodegeneration Dr. Pejmun Haghighi
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Saturday, April 13, 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Continuing Nursing Education: Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Training
By the Heart & Stroke Foundation, designed for healthcare providers and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings.
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