Appointment of Dr. William Panenka as Director, Research Track, UBC Psychiatry Postgraduate Program

Dear Department Members,

On behalf of the UBC Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Lakshmi N. Yatham cordially invites you to our year-end Festive Celebration on Friday December 15, 2023! The event will take place at the Arbutus Club at 2001 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver BC, from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.  

All Department members, including faculty, staff, fellows, students, residents and volunteers, are invited so please be sure to submit your online RSVP by Friday December 8 at https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_54uFqRYvqHGYXRk to confirm your attendance and be added to the Guest List. Once you have RSVP’d, please click on the link to add the event to your Outlook calendars, if you have not done so already.

We hope to see you all at our annual end-of-the-year celebration!

**Please note that anyone who is experiencing symptoms or feeling unwell should not attend.

A monthly film series promoting professional and community education on issues pertaining to mental health and illness. Presented by The Cinematheque and the Institute of Mental Health, UBC Department of Psychiatry. Screenings are generally held on the third Wednesday of each month at The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC.

Film Description

As artificial intelligence increasingly marks our daily life in covert ways, deepfake technology might be one of its more disturbing capabilities. Taylor, a young engineering student and self-declared ​“nerd,” has her life turned upside down after her face is digitally altered to appear on the body of a porn actress. Her face is not the only thing exposed on a popular porn website—her real name and hometown are also visible. Using deepfake imaging software, online bullying is taken to the extreme and soon Taylor realizes she’s not alone. As Taylor and others seek justice, it’s clear that laws have yet to catch up to this new frontier of sexual harassment. Expertly weaving Taylor’s story with insight from activists and legal experts, Another Body exposes toxic masculinity in dark recesses of the internet and the devastating impact that AI can have on gender-based violence and bodily autonomy at large.

Special Jury Award, Documentary Feature
SXSW 2023

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“A riveting, upsetting search for justice for victims of deepfake pornography … Essential viewing.” — John Fink, The Film Stage

“Eye-opening … Taking a sensitive, respectful, but necessarily frank approach to this challenging subject, Another Body makes a compelling call to action.” — Nikki Baughan, Screen International

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Post-screening Discussion:

Post-screening discussion with Dr. Jason Winters, Dr. Carolin Klein, and Director Reuben Hamlyn. Moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia

**Update**
The Honourable Niki Sharma, Attorney General of British Columbia, will be joining the post-screening discussion! Please don’t miss it!

About the Panel:

Dr. Jason Winters is a registered psychologist and co-founder and co-director of the West Coast Centre for Sex Therapy. He is renowned for his work in the areas of atypical sexual interests and problem sexual behaviours, often called sex and pornography addiction. He has been invited to participate in this panel due to his expertise in the area of pornography and its effects on consumers.

Dr. Carolin Klein is a registered psychologist and co-founder and co-director of the West Coast Centre for Sex Therapy. Her clinical work involves assisting individuals, couples, and other partnership configurations to build and strengthen sexual and relational intimacy; overcome sexual shame, pain, and anxiety; and bring more joy and curiosity into sexuality. She is also involved in training graduate students and other professionals in evidence-based sex therapy.

Reuben Hamlyn is a New York-based writer, director, and editor from London, England. His first feature as a director, Another Body, was selected for the Sundance Institute’s Catalyst Lab and Hot Docs Dealmaker, and premiered in competition at SXSW 2023. His previous short film, Roger, was commissioned by the BFI and BBC Arts to open their Born Digital season in 2019 and won multiple awards.

Dr. Harry Karlinsky, the Series Director of Frames of Mind and a Clinical Professor in the UBC Department of Psychiatry, has a longstanding commitment to professional and public education. He has presented nationally and internationally on topics ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to information technology to narrative medicine to PTSD and to the use of films in health care education.

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The UBC Department of Psychiatry will be funded yearly for 1 Re-entry Residency Position in Psychiatry in the Interior going forward.

This re-entry residency position comes with a 3-year Return of Service (ROS) contract with the Ministry of Health. This year, the ROS will be completed in the Interior Health Authority in British Columbia.

The application deadline for 2024/2025 is January 1st, 2024. Please review the full posting for this position for additional information regarding eligibility requirements and the application process.

For full details on the ROS commitment, please see the re-entry ROS contract templates and policy available on the Ministry of Health’s Re-entry webpage. Training for the Interior ROS position will occur in the Interior Psychiatry PGE Track for PGY2 and 3 with years 4 and 5 being flexible for training opportunities anywhere in the province, in Canada and even abroad if approved.

You are invited to attend an in-person / virutal talk on MAiD and Mental Disorders:  How did we get here? on Thursday November 9th, 2023 at 5:30pm. This talk will be presented by Sandra Martin, an award-winning journalist and a contributing writer for The Globe and Mail and the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller, A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices. 

In-person: Diamond Health Care Centre, Vancouver. DHCC 1020 (lobby level)
Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/join
Meeting ID: 917-8725-3544
Passcode: 253544

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Sandra Martin, an award-winning journalist and a contributing writer for The Globe and Mail, is the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller, A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices.  Winner of the B.C. National Non-Fiction Award and a finalist for both the Dafoe Prize and the Donner Prize in Public Policy, A Good Death was named one of the best books of 2016 by The Globe and Mail, the CBC and several other media outlets. Margaret Atwood has called A Good Death “a timely and deeply felt account of assisted dying:  the histories, the issues” and included it on her list of best books about death and dying. 

A Good Death was published in a revised paperback edition in 2017 with a new chapter on Bill C-14, Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying law (MAID). She has written about her ongoing MAiD research in The Globe and Mail and other publications. Including The Literary Review of Canada. Her essay, Death of an Author: the weirdest man I never met, about MAiD activist John Hofsess was a finalist for a national magazine award in 2023.

She has won two National Magazine Awards, several honourable mentions, the Fiona Mee Award for literary journalism, and a National Newspaper Award nomination for feature writing. As a journalist for The Globe and Mail, she was known for her books and arts coverage and especially for her perceptive, deeply researched and vividly written obituaries.  Many of them formed the basis of her essays on the history, culture and future of obituaries in her book, Working the Dead Beat: 50 lives that changed Canada.  Long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize and named a Globe one hundred book for 2012, it was published in paperback under the title Great Canadian Lives:  A Cultural History of Modern Canada Through the Art of the Obit.   

Her public policy initiatives about race and gender in the workplace won the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy from The Toronto Star. She has also been awarded a Canadian Journalism Fellowship to study at the University of Toronto, named the Pelham Edgar lecturer at Victoria College, and awarded The Harvey Southam Lectureship in Creative non-fiction at the University of Victoria.

As a literary journalist, Martin edited the Oberon Best Short Stories and Coming Attractions anthologies with writer David Helwig, bringing writers such as Rohinton Mistry, Bonnie Burnard and Frances Itani to a wider audience.

As a wide-ranging non-fiction writer, she is the co-author of three books, including Rupert Brooke in Canada and Card Tricks: Bankers, Boomers and the Explosion of Plastic Credit, which was short-listed for the Canadian Business Book Award in 1993. She has written for most magazines (past and present) in this country including Toronto Life, The Walrus, Saturday Night and Queen’s Quarterly.

As a memoirist, she conceived, commissioned and edited The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write About Their Fathers, a best-selling anthology of personal narratives about one of our most complicated and least explored relationships. She also contributed the essay, “Visitation Rights,” to the anthology. 

Among other memoir essays, she contributed “Snapshots” to the second volume of Dropped Threads, “Travels in The New South Africa” to Why Are You Telling Me This: Eleven Acts of Intimate Journalism, “Visitation Rights” and “Road Trips” to Great Expectations: Twenty-Four True Stories About Childbirth.

Martin is currently working on a book about aging.