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Monday, March 25 at 12:00 p.m.
Pharmacology and Therapeutics Seminar Series
New players in mammalian post-transcriptional gene silencing pathways
Dr. Marc Robert Fabian
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Monday, March 25, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
JGH Medical Grand Rounds
New drugs for the treatment of severe asthma
Dr. Pierre Ernst
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Monday, March 25, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Department of Biochemistry Seminar – Quastel Lecture
Biochemical mechanisms in the control of chromosome segregation
Dr. David O. Morgan
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Monday, March 25, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
SCSD: Donald G. Doehring Memorial Talk
For arborized trees, plant early:
Syntax and neurolinguistic processing in early vs late first-language acquisition
Rachel I. Mayberry, PhD
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March 25 - April 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, March 26, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
MUHC Medical Grand Rounds
Old tests, new tests & what do we make of them
Dr. Brian Gilfix
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Tuesday, March 26, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
IHSP/East Asian Studies Panel Discussion
Approaches to universal health care: Perspectives from Taiwan
Universal health care in Taiwan
Prof. Tony Chen
Health and humanities in Taiwan: A global quest
Prof. Ping-Chen Hsiung
Response: Prof. Amy Yen
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Wednesday, March 27, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Pediatric Medical Grand Rounds
Charlotte Laplante Branchaud Lectureship in Perinatal Endocrinology
Congenital hyperinsulinism - Management and outcomes
Dr. Daphne Yau
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Wednesday, March 27, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
CPD Wednesday E-Learning Series (WELS): Webinar only
Occupational Medicine
Returning your patient to work
Dr. Avram Whiteman
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Wednesday, March 27, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Neuro Workshop
Making open neuroscience infrastructure interoperable 2.0
This workshop unites experts in presenting strategies that make neuroscience data management and processing FAIR and interoperable.
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Wednesday, March 27 at 2:30 p.m.
Social Studies of Medicine Seminar
On life support
Prof. Harris Solomon
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Wednesday, March 27, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
McGill Chapter of Exercise Is Medicine Annual Symposium
Effective strategies for exercise prescription
Distinguished speakers: Matthew Romano, Savannah King and Lissa Masse.
This symposium is open to all members of our community interested in learning about exercise prescription in the context of medicine/healthcare.
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Thursday, March 28, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Dementia Education and Support Workshop for Family Caregivers
Dr. José Morais is working in collaboration with Claire Webster and with the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning to offer a community workshop which aims to educate and support caregivers who are looking after a family member with Alzheimer's disease or a dementia-related illness. Dr. Isabelle Gélinas will facilitate the safety component of the workshop in the simulated apartment.
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Thursday, March 28 at 5:00 p.m.
SSOM: The Dr. Martin A. Entin Lecture in the History of Medicine
Migration, inequality and health: A view from the Indian Ocean
Prof. Sunil Amrith
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Thursday, March 28 at 6:30 p.m.
CPD Thursday Evening Learning Series (TELS): Face-to-Face and Webinar
Dermatology
Concerns over cosmetics
Joe Schwarcz, PhD
Emergency Medicine
Clinical tools for the workup of chest pain
Dr. Eli Segal
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Friday, March 29 at 1:00 p.m.
Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar
Towards machine learning predictions in big biomedical data
Dr. Danilo Bzdok
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Friday, March 29, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
McGill International TB Centre/RECRU Joint Seminar Series
Drug consumption: Barriers to accessing essential medicines for tuberculosis in Canada
Adam R. Houston
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Monday, April 1, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
RI-MUHC Pediatric Research Seminar
22q11.2 deletion syndrome
Loydie Jerome-Majewska, PhD & Dr. Yannis Trakadis
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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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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, 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, 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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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, 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 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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Monday, March 25, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
RI-MUHC Pediatric Research Seminar
A better trajectory for children at risk of developmental disorders: Definition of best practices in terms of screening
Marie-Noelle Simard, PhD
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Monday, March 25, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
LDI Distinguished Lecture Series
The brain tumor microenvironment and its role in tumor progression and therapeutic resistance
Stephen M. Robbins, PhD
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Monday, March 25, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
McGill Epidemiology Seminar
Methodological challenges of studying perinatal outcomes following immunization during pregnancy: A case study on influenza
Deshyane Fell, PhD
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March 25 - April 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, March 26, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
LDI Distinguished Lecture Series
Design of lipid nanoparticle systems to enable gene therapies
Pieter Cullis, PhD
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Tuesday, March 26, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
LDI Epidemiology Seminar
Perinatal and pediatric health outcomes following pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccination during pregnancy
Deshayne Fell, PhD
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Tuesday, March 26 at 4:00 p.m.
Killam Seminar Series
Encoding of associative memory in engram cell pathway
Dr. Jun-Hyeong Cho
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Tuesday, March 26, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Integrated Management Symposium Series
Navigating the cannabis haze: Disrupting a century-long underground market
Brian Athaide & Dr. Diana Dakhlallah
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Wednesday, March 27 at 12:00 p.m.
McGill Library: Author Workshop offered by The Lancet
Understanding the publishing process with The Lancet
In this workshop you will learn about how to structure your article, understand the peer review process, how to get your research noticed, and other important publishing tips and tricks.
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Wednesday, March 27, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
IDIGH Program Seminar Series
Developing novel tools to predict allograft outcomes of renal transplantation with pretransplant donor-recipient metrics
Dr. Jean Tchervenkov
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Wednesday, March 27 at 2:30 p.m.
McGill Library: Reviewer Workshop offered by The Lancet
Understanding the peer reviewer role with The Lancet
In this workshop you will learn how to construct an effective review, navigate some of the pitfalls of being a reviewer, what editors look for in reviewer comments and critiques, and emerging trends in the peer review process.
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March 27-28
24th Annual H. Rocke Robertson Visiting Professor
Dr. Donald H. Jenkins
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March 27-29
Visiting Speakers Program in Oncology
Current and future multiple myeloma management strategies: Where are we heading?
Dr. Rafael Fonseca
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Thursday, March 28 at 12:00 p.m.
Pharmacology and Therapeutics Seminar Series
Science vs faith: Addressing history’s oldest debate
Prof. Kenneth Miller
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Thursday, March 28, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Culture, Mind & Brain Seminar Series
Coordinating scientific perspectives in experimental contexts: Lessons from translational cognitive neuroscience and the RDOC project
Jacqueline Sullivan, PhD
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Friday, March 29 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Seminar Series
Physiology 14th Undergraduate Research Day
Emergence of renal potassium channels as drug targets for global health
Dr. Jerod S. Denton
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Friday, March 29, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Boost Your Health Series
A Feast of Science with Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Are there fish genes in tomatoes? Can snail-slime cream and bone broth really make your wrinkles disappear? What’s the problem with sugar, resistant starch, hops in beer, microbeads, and “secret” cancer cures? Are “natural” products the key to good health?
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Monday, April 1, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Meakins-Christie Research Seminar Series
Time to rethink reverse cholesterol transport
Prof. Catherine Martel
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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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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 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, 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, 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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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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