- Event: Health Sciences Week
- Date: Tuesday, Oct. 14 through Thursday, Oct 16
- Time: Events take place at various times
- Place: Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, 2194
Health Sciences Mall - Parking: Parking is available in the Health Sciences
Parkade. Enter at Gate 1 off University Boulevard
Female victims of violence may receive inadequate attention in
hospital emergency rooms, suggests Colleen Varcoe, a doctoral candidate
in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia.
Varcoe will discuss this issue in her talk Violence Against Women:
Rethinking the Role of Health Care Providers. The lecture is one
of a series of free public presentations offered during UBC’s Health
Sciences Week, Oct. 14-16.
Varcoe’s lecture takes place Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 5:30 to 6:00
p.m. in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (IRC) lecture
hall 4.
Adolescent suicide is the topic of another of the week’s events,
the John F. McCreary Lecture. Carol Stuart, a child and youth care
professor from the University of Victoria, will present her current
research into teen suicide in Kitimat. The lecture is Tuesday, Oct.
14, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Woodward IRC lecture hall 4.
Paul Mackenzie, a graduate student in the Dept. of Psychiatry,
will discuss how information transmitted through nerve cells produces
learning and memory in his lecture “How the Brain Learns” on Wednesday,
Oct. 15 from 5:00 to 5:30 p.m in Woodward IRC lecture hall 4.
Designed to create a sense of common purpose among health sciences
students, Health Sciences Week is named in honor of the late Dr.
John F. McCreary, former dean of the Faculty of Medicine and coordinator
of Health Sciences. The week is sponsored by the Office of the Coordinator
of Health Sciences.
All events are free and open to the public.
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