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Join us in congratulating Bevin Wiley who has received a 2024 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship! The Vanier CGS program honours exceptional doctoral students who are leading the way in their field of science and medicine. As a third-year #UCalgaryMed PhD candidate in neuroscience, Bevin is investigating the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). She says her journey at #UCalgary began during undergraduate studies, where she worked with Dr. Ken Lukowiak, PhD. She also credits her current supervisor, Dr. Kara Murias, MD, PhD. “The support and mentorship I received during this time inspired me to pursue my PhD in neuroscience.” As Bevin continues to pursue her own neuroscience research she also hopes to inspire and mentor other younger researchers. Bravo Bevin! Read about the Vanier Scholars who are blazing new paths in children’s health research at UCalgary: https://lnkd.in/gYfFFxrM UCalgary Faculty of Graduate Studies | UCalgary Faculty of Arts | Hotchkiss Brain Institute | Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada | #ResearchMatters #Neurosciences #LeadersinMedicine

🎉 Join us in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, whose members are passionate clinicians and leaders in community-based research. The University of Calgary institute was founded in 2014, enabled by a foundational gift from Gail and David O’Brien. We thank them for their generosity as it has helped the O’Brien Institute make great strides to improve health equity and impact public policy. Follow along as the O’Brien Institute highlights the many ways it has supported Alberta’s most vulnerable people, beginning with the story of Lexi Marr. The Calgary youth now has her own home, facilitated by the O’Brien Institute’s Health Equity HUB which unlocked federal funding for a Calgary program to combat youth homelessness. WATCH 👇🏼 #10YearsOfImpact #ResearchMatters

As the study of women’s neurology continues to gain ground, #UCalgaryMed neurology resident Dr. Hayley Thornton, MD'20, is at the forefront. Medical programs aim to train more specialists, including Dr. Thornton, as the field grows well beyond obstetrical neurology and spans a broad range of neurological illnesses such as stroke, epilepsy, headache and multiple sclerosis. The subspecialty enables a more fulsome approach to neurology through the lens of sex and gender as those influences become increasingly recognized in medicine and science.   Dr. Thornton will begin a fellowship in women’s neurology at the University of Toronto in the fall of 2025.   “For me as a trainee it took a lot of initiative to pursue this because, at the start of my residency, very few people had even heard of women's neurology,” says Dr. Thornton, now a fifth-year resident, whose work has focused on epilepsy in pregnancy, optimizing the women's neurology residency educational curriculum, and developing a shared decision-model tool for neurologic issues in pregnancy. She hopes to explore issues related to menopause and aging during fellowship, and ultimately, to practice as a general neurologist with an expertise in women's health and sex and gender influences. Read more in Neurology Today: https://lnkd.in/gpRwagZZ Hotchkiss Brain Institute | University of Calgary #WomensHealth #ResearchMatters

This Mental Illness Awareness Week, join experts from the Mathison Centre and the Calgary Counselling Centre to discuss stress and its impact on mental health. Let organizers know the mental health topics of interest to you and register at the link below. 📣 This webinar takes place tomorrow, Oct. 9. #MentalHealthMatters

While researchers have uncovered hundreds of genes that influence facial features, there are still many questions about how genetics influence facial development and the sometimes strong resemblance between family members. “How is it that you have thousands of segregating genes influencing the shape of your nose or the overall shape of your face, and yet we can still say things like ‘in our family, my son has his grandmother’s nose,’” says Dr. Benedikt Hallgrimsson, PhD, professor and head of the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at #UCalgaryMed. Environment also plays a role, Hallgrimsson says. For example, research shows kids who are malnourished look different from kids who are not. Read the full story in Discover Magazine: https://lnkd.in/g8nDhaAz One Child Every Child | McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health

Have you completed the UCalgary EDIA Survey yet? Complete the survey via the link in your email by Monday, October 7 to help make #UCalgary a more equitable, diverse, inclusive and accessible campus community. Learn more about EDIA at the university: https://lnkd.in/gwT-EDhG

Join us in congratulating #UCalgaryMed's Dr. J Neil (JN) Armstrong, MD’81, associate professor emeritus, who was formally inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame (CAHF)! Dr. Armstrong has had a fascinating and successful career integrating medicine and aviation. He joined STARS in 1991 as a helicopter pilot, captain, where he spearheaded the first medical aviation service to carry blood on board and the first flight to deploy an airborne ultrasound. At the CSM, one of Dr. Armstrong’s main anaesthesia initiatives was to incorporate some of the validated safety processes used in aviation, such as the safe use of drug trays and carts, and checklists for safe surgery or unusual anaesthesia circumstances. Read more about Dr. Armstrong's work: https://lnkd.in/geZaJzg9

Registration for the 2024 Gairdner Lecture Series is now open! Join us in celebrating excellence in health sciences with guest lecturers Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, PhD, and Dr. Mathieu Lupien, PhD. ⭐ Sir Shankar is winner of the 2024 Canada Gairdner International Award for his fundamental and applied research that led to a revolutionary and affordable method to sequence DNA on a massive scale - dramatically accelerating discoveries in the life sciences and medicine. ⭐ Dr. Lupien is a senior scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PM) in Toronto, a professor at the University of Toronto and holds a cross-appointment with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He serves on the senior advisory group and the research council on oncology to the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gzmr7-WJ

Celebrating three #UCalgary grad students who are recipients of the new Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada Strategic Master’s Awards - supporting health research! Among the recipients are #UCalgaryMed's Shayla Claringbold and Aliza Jaffer. 🌟 Shayla is an Igulungmiuk and Cree-Métis master’s student in the Department of Community Health Sciences, specializing in population public health. Her research studies stigma as a social determinant of sexual and reproductive health in Canadian Inuit communities. 🌟 Aliza Jaffer, BHSc’23, is a master’s student in the Medical Sciences program, specializing in medical imaging. She is part of the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at the Alberta Children’s Hospital where she studies brain function in infants whose mothers experienced anxiety and/or depression during pregnancy. Visit the link to read more about their emerging work! https://lnkd.in/exhfTSMB

Want to learn more about #UCalgary’s institutional, transdisciplinary health and life initiatives? On October 21, come connect with health and life leadership and researchers on campus, and network with industry experts at the Institutes for Transdisciplinary Scholarship Health and Life Gathering.   The morning will offer insight and panels on institutional priorities and successful transdisciplinary initiatives. After lunch, you will participate in roundtable discussions and have an opportunity to make new connections on campus.    Learn more and register: https://lu.ma/tj276il1   -- The Institutes for Transdisciplinary Scholarship are a connection point for the UCalgary community, from research institutes to individual scholars.