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» Faculty of Medicine » Home » 2014 » September » 12 » Faculty of Medicine – Weekly Announcements and Funding Opportunities September 8 – 12

Faculty of Medicine – Weekly Announcements and Funding Opportunities September 8 – 12

In this week’s issue:

Funding Opportunities:

  • National Sanitarium Association – NSA Scholars Program (reminder)
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Grand Challenges Explorations

Awards and Honours:

  • UBC Faculty of Medicine – Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer Award (reminder)

Events:

  • UBC Faculty of Medicine Continuing Professional Development – Breast, Colorectal, and Prostate Cancer Workshops
  • Centre for Blood Research Seminar Series – Crosstalk between innate immunity, coagulation, and inflammation: basic and translational studies of cell-free DNA and histones in sepsis
  • UBC Faculty of Medicine Continuing Professional Development – The Women & Heart Disease Conference
  • Centre for Blood Research – The Earl W. Davie Symposium

 

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES:

National Sanitarium Association – NSA Scholars Program

Deadline: October 17, 2014

The NSA Scholars Program funds highly promising new researchers (within two years of their first faculty appointment as independent investigators) who have demonstrated considerable potential for success during their research training. They would be involved in research of the type described above. It is anticipated that Scholars may be working with colleagues who share complementary research interests, but the Scholar will be expected to add a distinctly new direction or innovative dimension to the group in an emerging area of importance.

Grants normally provide funding of up to $1 million over five years. It is expected that during the course of an NSA award research grants will be captured from traditional funding agencies, and that the project becomes self-sustaining by the end of the NSA funding period.

Please visit the NSA website for complete details.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Grand Challenges Explorations

Deadline: November 12, 2014

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now inviting applications to Grand Challenges Explorations, which has awarded over 1070 grants in over 58 countries to date.

Grand Challenges Explorations seeks innovative global health and development solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations as well as for-profit companies.

Two-page proposals are being accepted online from September 4, 2014 until November 12, 2014 on the following topics:

  • Surveillance Tools, Diagnostics and an Artificial Diet to Support New Approaches to Vector Control
  • New Approaches for Addressing Outdoor/Residual Malaria Transmission
  • New Ways to Reduce Pneumonia Fatalities through Timely, Effective Treatment of Children
  • Enable Universal Acceptance of Mobile Money Payments to Create an Economic Ecosystem that Will Help Lift the Poorest Out of Poverty
  • Explore New Ways to Measure Brain Development and Gestational Age
  • New Ways of Working Together: Integrating Community-Based Interventions

Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million. Full descriptions of the new topics and application instructions are available at: www.grandchallenges.org/explorations.

AWARDS AND HONOURS:

UBC Faculty of Medicine – Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer Award

Deadline: September 22, 2014

The Faculty of Medicine is encouraging nominations for the 2014 Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer Award in Basic Sciences or Clinical Sciences. Since 1980, the Faculty of Medicine has recognized the outstanding lecturers in our medical research fields. Candidates from Basic Sciences or Clinical Sciences are nominated by fellow faculty members on the basis of a distinguished research career, recognition in the medical/research community, and effective contributions to student educational growth over the past year.

Acceptance of this award is accompanied by a seminar open to all faculty members and students as part of the “Leaders in Medical Discovery” seminar series. New for this year, the seminar will be accredited for College of Family Physicians of Canada and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada credits.

Please visit the Distinguished Medical Research Lecturer Award website for nomination instructions.

EVENTS:

UBC Faculty of Medicine Continuing Professional Development – Breast, Colorectal, and Prostate Cancer Workshops

Date: See below

Location: See below

UBC CPD 4.5 Mainpro-C Colorectal Cancer Workshop – Abbotsford

Target Audience: Family physicians – we also welcome Specialists, Residents/Medical students & Allied Health Professionals

Topics include: screening guidelines & recommendations, diagnosis & treatment, follow-up

Accreditation: Up to 4.5 Mainpro-C

Date & Location: Nov 25 & Jan 27, Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Centre, Abbotsford

Registration Link: http://ubccpd.ca/course/abbotsford-colorectal-cancer

 

UBC CPD 4.5 Mainpro-C Colorectal Cancer Workshop – Cranbrook

Target Audience: Family physicians – we also welcome Specialists, Residents/Medical students & Allied Health Professionals

Topics include: screening guidelines & recommendations, diagnosis & treatment, follow-up

Accreditation: Up to 4.5 Mainpro-C

Date & Location: Oct 21 & Dec 9, The Heid Out Restaurant, Cranbrook

Registration Link: http://ubccpd.ca/course/cranbrook-colorectal-cancer

 

UBC CPD 4.5 Mainpro-C Colorectal Cancer Workshop – Port Alberni

Target Audience: Family physicians – we also welcome Specialists, Residents/Medical students & Allied Health Professionals

Topics include: screening guidelines & recommendations, diagnosis & treatment, follow-up

Accreditation: Up to 4.5 Mainpro-C

Date & Location: Nov 20 & Jan 22, Chances Rimrock Casino Restaurant, Port Alberni

Registration Link: http://ubccpd.ca/course/port-alberni-colorectal-cancer

 

UBC CPD 4.5 Mainpro-C Breast Cancer Workshop – Sechelt

Target Audience: Family physicians – we also welcome Specialists, Residents/Medical students & Allied Health Professionals

Topics include: screening guidelines & recommendations, diagnosis & treatment, follow-up

Accreditation: Up to 4.5 Mainpro-C

Date & Location: Oct 8 & Dec 3, The Old Boot Eatery, Sechelt

Registration Link: http://ubccpd.ca/course/sechelt-breast-cancer

 

UBC CPD 4.5 Mainpro-C Breast Cancer Workshop – Surrey

Target Audience: Family physicians – we also welcome Specialists, Residents/Medical students & Allied Health Professionals

Topics include: screening guidelines & recommendations, diagnosis & treatment, follow-up

Accreditation: Up to 4.5 Mainpro-C

Date & Location: Sep 24 & Nov 19, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey

Registration Link: http://ubccpd.ca/course/surrey-breast-cancer

 

UBC CPD 4.5 Mainpro-C Breast Cancer Workshop – Vernon

Target Audience: Family physicians – we also welcome Specialists, Residents/Medical students & Allied Health Professionals

Topics include: screening guidelines & recommendations, diagnosis & treatment, follow-up

Accreditation: Up to 4.5 Mainpro-C

Date & Location: Oct 28 & Jan 13, Vernon Jubilee Hospital, Vernon BC

Registration Link: http://ubccpd.ca/course/vernon-breast-cancer

 

UBC CPD 4.5 Mainpro-C Breast Cancer Workshop – Victoria

Target Audience: Family physicians – we also welcome Specialists, Residents/Medical students & Allied Health Professionals

Topics include: screening guidelines & recommendations, diagnosis & treatment, follow-up

Accreditation: Up to 4.5 Mainpro-C

Date & Location: Sep 24 & Nov 5, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria

Registration Link: http://ubccpd.ca/course/victoria-breast-cancer-care-workshop

 

UBC CPD 4.5 Mainpro-C Prostate Cancer Workshop – Williams Lake

Target Audience: Family physicians – we also welcome Specialists, Residents/Medical students & Allied Health Professionals

Topics include: screening guidelines & recommendations, diagnosis & treatment, follow-up

Accreditation: Up to 4.5 Mainpro-C

Date & Location: Oct 9 & Nov 27, Caribou Memorial Hospital, Williams Lake

Registration Link: http://ubccpd.ca/course/williams-lake-prostate-cancer

Centre for Blood Research Seminar Series – Crosstalk between innate immunity, coagulation, and inflammation: basic and translational studies of cell-free DNA and histones in sepsis

Date & Time: September 17, 2014, 12-1pm

Location: LSC 3, Life Sciences Centre, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver

 

Seminar by:

Dr. Patricia Liaw

Associate Professor

Division of Hematology and Thromboembolism

Department of Medicine

McMaster University

See attached Poster  for further details.

 

UBC Faculty of Medicine Continuing Professional Development – The Women & Heart Disease Conference

Date: October 18, 2014, 8am-3:45pm

Location: Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown, 1128 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

Target audience: Family Physicians, Allied Health Care Professionals, Residents and Students

Up to 4.75 Mainpro-M1/ MOC Section 1 credits

To Register: Click here

Key topics & speakers:

  • The Weight of the World: Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome, Dr. Ali Zentner
  • The Metabolic Complications of PCOS, Dr. Sabrina Gill
  • Aspirin, Calcium & Other Supplements & the Heart, Dr. Tara Sedlak
  • Atrial Fibrillation: Impact on Women and Management, Dr. Teresa Tsang
  • Contraception in Women at Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Dr. Stephanie Rhone
  • Hormone Therapy and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease – Revisiting the Evidence, Dr. Karin Humphries
  • Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging in Women, Dr. Carolyn Taylor

Full Links:

Conference: http://ubccpd.ca/course/women-heart-disease

Registration: https://events.ubccpd.ca/website/index/110200

Accommodation: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/VGH2014

Centre for Blood Research – The Earl W. Davie Symposium

Date: November 13, 2014

Location: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St., Vancouver BC

Keynote Speakers: Philip Majerus & Denisa Wagner

Special Guest: David Gailani & Jay Degen

The goal of the Earl W. Davie Symposium is to widely communicate cutting edge advances in the broad field of hemostasis-thrombosis, as applied to medically relevant disciplines including innate immunity, infectious diseases, inflammation and cancer.

Submit abstracts for posters, and register now at www.cbr.ubc.ca.

A preliminary program is available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/238567901/Earl-W-Davie-Symposium-2014-Preliminary-Program.

 

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