Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 11:00 am
UBC Cecil Green Park House
Speaker: Säde Stenlund, MD, Ph.D, postdoctoral researcher at the Happiness Lab at the University of British Columbia
Topic: Health Behaviour and Happiness
Bio: Säde Stenlund, MD, PhD, is a Finnish Physician with a special interest in prevention and health promotion. Currently, she serves as a postdoctoral researcher at the Happiness Lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and the BC Centre for Disease Control. Her doctoral studies at the University of Turku in Finland focused on health behavior and subjective well-being.
Her current research areas encompass the testing of happiness strategies as tools to boost happiness and mental health, the heritability of health behavior and life satisfaction, the role of life satisfaction in supporting healthy transitions to retirement, the relationship between spending money and happiness, and initiatives aimed at enhancing antibiotic prescribing practices to reduce their detrimental effects on the microbiome in British Columbia.
Säde specializes in healthcare planning and management in Finland, which is comparable to a Public Health physician in North America). This provides her with a foundation to reflect on health promotion opportunities for individuals, healthcare practices, and on the societal levels. With her clinical experience in diverse healthcare settings such as general practice, emergency facilities, a prison, and surgical departments, Säde consistently seeks practical ways to translate research findings into tangible improvements in individuals’ lives. Furthermore, coming from Finland, a country that has consistently ranked at the top of the World Happiness Report for six years, Säde actively seeks perspectives on the determinants that contribute to a happy society.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 11:00 am
UBC Cecil Green Park House
Speaker: Jonathan Berkowitz, Ph.D., The Word Guy, “North By Northwest”, CBC Radio One. Full-Time Lecturer, Operations and Logistics Division, Sauder School Of Business, UBC.
Topic: Our Marvellous and Humorous English Language
Bio: Dr. Berkowitz loves sharing his passion for statistics, words, puzzles, and ideas. For the past seven years, he has appeared as the Word Guy (and for one year as the Puzzling Professor) on CBC Radio One’s weekend morning program, “North by Northwest”, educating and entertaining about all aspects of the English language.
Professionally, Jonathan is a consulting statistician and full-time lecturer at UBC’s Sauder School of Business. He has been involved in a wide range of collaborative and interdisciplinary research. He has co-authored two Canadian editions of a statistics textbook and co-written many academic publications.
Jonathan has written two books about words: The Whirl of Words: Puzzling Past and Present (www.thewhirlofwords.com) in 2021, and Tales From the Word Guy: What Your English Teacher Never Taught You (www.talesfromthewordguy.com) in 2022.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 12:00 Noon
UBC Cecil Green Park House
Speaker: Sarah Cobb
Topic: Death Education: A Public Health Issue
Sarah has many years of experience working in palliative and end-of-life care. She is passionate about person and family-centred care and supporting excellence in nursing and multidisciplinary collaboration. She has experience in strategic planning, quality improvement initiatives, and change management strategies.
Prior to joining VHS, Sarah led practice in the role of Clinical Nurse Leader at St Paul’s Palliative Care unit for over 10 years. While in that role, she supported excellent patient and family centred care as well as supporting her palliative care program’s Accreditation Canada process, and many initiatives across the organization to improve access to end of life care. Sarah has worked hard to make a difference in the clinical and administrative practice of palliative care and feels honoured to be in a leadership and advocacy role as Executive Director at VHS.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 11:00 am
UBC Cecil Green Park House
Speaker: Joyce Resin
Topic: Move: Just for the Health of It!
Joyce Resin has an MSW degree from the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. She is a BC Recreation and Parks Association certified fitness and osteoporosis trained instructor who has been teaching fitness in BC and Alberta since 1976. She’s a dynamic and engaging teacher and speaker who brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to her classes and presentations.
Joyce was the Director of the Healthy Heart Society of BC and Executive Director of Impact BC, a provincially funded health improvement agency, where she developed Canada’s first Patient Voices Network. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Frailty Network, a Centre of Excellence which funds research to develop evidence based guidelines to improve the health of older Canadians.
She is a Board member of the Australian Frailty Network and has worked as a consultant for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement at Harvard University in Boston.
As a journalist, Joyce worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for 28 years including as the host and Executive Producer of the CBC network television program “Alive! The Picture of Health” and the host of “The Best Years”, Canada’s first television program for people over 50. She was also host of a Vancouver radio program and a column in the Vancouver Sun entitled “Your Guide to Good Health”.
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