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Students, trainees, faculty and staff,

I encourage you to join the conversation online tomorrow in support of positive mental health. There are online events, opportunities to share resources or a message of hope, or maybe simply reach out to loved ones to check-in. Read more on where to find support, join events and learn about additional ways to engage.

Learning and working

  • Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Chan, MD, who has been appointed by the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) and Alberta Health Services Cancer Care Alberta as the director of the Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute. Read more.
  • Congratulations also to Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe, MD, appointed as the CSM’s first assistant dean, Indigenous, within the Indigenous, Local and Global Office. Read more.
  • This year marks the 13th year of the UCalgary Sustainability Awards, honouring people for their innovative and sustainable solutions to pressing environmental challenges. If you know someone in the CSM community doing outstanding work in this area, nominate them for an award by midnight Feb. 3. Read more.

UCalgary resources and events

  • Drs. Craig Jenne, PhD, and Doug Mahoney, PhD, will share their insights on vaccination during a virtual event hosted by the Calgary Public Library. They will discuss the different types of vaccines and what to expect as the COVID-19 vaccines roll out. Read more.
  • The seventh annual Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship symposium is going virtual this year. The showcase of medical education research and innovation takes place Feb. 18. Read more.
  • The Building the Equity Bridge Symposium continues this week. Hosted by the Office of Professionalism, Equity and Diversity, it’s a virtual symposium open to all learners, faculty and staff in the CSM, the UCalgary community and others who are interested. Tomorrow’s topic will be Health Equity in the COVID Era with Dr. Esther Choo, MD. Registration is open until Jan. 28 at 8:30 a.m. Read more.
  • Want more buy-in for a project you are working on? The Office of Faculty Development and Performance is hosting a workshop to help you with techniques for getting buy-in and applying this new knowledge to a current project. Read more.

View the CSM Events calendar

UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN

What a remarkable result for the 2020 United Way campaign. The university donated a record-breaking total of $780,511 to the United Way. The CSM won awards in two categories — core donors and leader donors — and was once again the top faculty in terms of donations. Also, the departments of Medicine and Physiology & Pharmacology are the department challenge winners, earning student scholarships for their departments. Winners of the random draw for gift baskets and other prizes from the 20 for 2020 challenge will be posted on the CSM’s United Way web page next month. Read more.

CSM in the news

  • 'It's a scary thing': Doctor on COVID ward says pandemic taking emotional toll on workers, patients. Read more.
  • Travel concerns pressing as more transmissible COVID-19 variants emerge: experts. Read more.
  • Heart patients avoiding hospitals in pandemic are suffering permanent damage, cardiologists say. Read more.

Have a great week everyone.

Sincerely,

Jon Meddings, MD
Dean, Cumming School of Medicine

 

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