Congratulations to Professor Dr. Jehannine Austin, who has been appointed the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Genetic Counseling. Dr. Austin currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journal, and will step into this new position on January 1, 2024.
The Journal of Genetic Counseling is the official journal of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, providing genetic counselors, other clinicians and health educators, laboratory geneticists, bioethicists, legal scholars, social scientists, and other researchers with a premier resource on genetic counseling topics in national, international, and cross-national contexts.
We once again congratulate and wish Dr. Austin all the best as they move into this prominent new role!
The June 2023 Canadian Psychiatric Association’s Position Statement on Mental Health and the Climate Crisis recommends that psychiatrists “participate in climate-related advocacy or activism at institutional and systems levels. Ongoing delays to decarbonize (“mitigation”) and to meaningfully prepare for the coming changes we cannot avoid (“adaptation”) represent policy choices that harm the mental health of Canadians.“
Accordingly, Drs. Ron Gibson, Kai Irani, Irfan Khanbhai, Robert Stowe, Steven Taylor, and Randall White, alongside the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment, and Doctors for Planetary Health (West Coast)urge you to participatein theFridays for Future Global Climate Strike event taking place in Vancouver next Friday afternoon on September 15.
Fridays for Future is a global, youth-led organization spearheaded by Greta Thunberg. The Vancouver event will be one of over thirty similar peaceful rallies planned in cities across Canada, and thousands internationally, timed to closely precede UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ Climate Ambition Summit being held in NYC on September 20th.
The goal of these actions is to pressure our governments to take urgent and decisive action to tackle the climate crisis, including a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels to an energy and economic system that is efficient, fair, and equitable, based on clean energy sources, and produced with respect for nature and the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples.
We will muster at the southwest corner of Cambie and 10th at 12:50 pm, then join the main rally at 1 pm at Vancouver City Hall, where there will be entertainment (for kids and adults), and some brief speeches. Hopefully you can join us as well for the march from there to the Vancouver Art Gallery, where there will be a 3 pm rally with more speeches and performances.
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.
Before the screening, please join us in raising a glass to Caroline Coutts, who is retiring as series programmer after 21 years in the role. Complimentary sparkling wine will be served.
A festival favourite at Berlin, Edinburgh, and SXSW, Millie Lies Low is an exemplary feature debut from Michelle Savill, a comedy/drama with enough heart and chutzpah to rival the best of her Kiwi compatriot Taika Waititi. Played by the magnetic Māori actor Ana Scotney, Millie is a young architecture student recently awarded a coveted internship with a prestigious firm in New York City. On departure day, she experiences a panic attack right before take off and demands to be let off the plane. Too embarrassed to come clean to her friends and family, Millie makes the fateful decision to hide out in Wellington while trying to raise the funds for a replacement ticket, all the while posting to social media about her exciting new life in America. Of course, it all has to come crashing down eventually.
“Millie Lies Low sits somewhere between the chaotic self-destruction of Fleabag and the anxious missteps of Eighth Grade. It takes the popular tropes of messy women, social media, and an impending sense of existential anxiety, and lets it make our skin crawl in new ways.” — Veronica Phillips, FilmDaze
“A work of real humanism, an Agnès Varda portrait of anxiety. I can’t wait to see what Savill does next.” — Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Post-screening Discussion:
Post-screening discussion with Mark Antczak and Judith Law. Moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
About the Panel:
Mark Antczak is Anxiety Canada’s in-house registered clinical counsellor and clinical educator. His primary role is facilitating the online Mindshift Anxiety Groups and consulting on mental health anxiety programming to ensure resources are grounded in evidence-based practice.
Judith Law is CEO of Anxiety Canada (since 2014) and has nearly two decades of experience in successfully developing, implementing, and evaluating public health programs and research initiatives in Canada and beyond.
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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