Human Teratogens: Environmental Factors Which Cause Birth Defects
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education
April 22-24, 2012
Boston, MA

Local governments and non-profit organizations

Pharmaceutical companies

Canadian International Development Agency

Canadian Institute for Child Health

Provincial health authorities, Perinatal Services BC, and other Canadian provincial centres for perinatal health

Ministry of Solicitor General (crime prevention)

Maternity and pediatric hospitals

Federal and provincial government departments (Ministry of Health, Health Canada, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Child and Families)

World Health Organization

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System

First Nations Health Council

First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of provincial governments

• Faculty position, University of Victoria
• Faculty position, University of South Florida
• Faculty position, Simon Fraser University
• MPH students accepted to the PhD program in the UBC School of Population and Public Health

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology holds a variety of rounds at BC Women’s Hospital, St. Paul’s Hospital, and Vancouver Hospital and Health Centre. The rounds are usually attended by a variety of professionals including staff and trainees from the Divisions of Neonatology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Anaesthesia, Obstetric Medicine, Family Practice, Midwifery, Nursing and other paramedical professions. The schedule for these rounds can be found here.

CFRI Rounds

Child and Family Research Institute is offering a variety of rounds, seminars and conferences. They are held by professionals in their field of research.

Department of Pediatrics Rounds

The UBC Department of Pediatrics regularly holds Grand Rounds, Advances in Pediatrics, and various other presentations.

SPPH Grand Rounds

The School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, holds Population and Public Health Seminars – Grand Rounds – presented by a variety of professionals in this field.

Child and Youth Mental Health Matters
First National Parental Mental Health Conference
First International Young Carers Congress
Third International World Congress on Children of Parents with Mental Illness
Vancouver, BC
May 6-8, 2012

Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research
25th Anniversary Meeting
Minneapolis, MN
June 25-27, 2012

Society for Epidemiologic Research
Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, MN
June 27-30, 2012
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 3, 2012

CIHR’s Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH)
8th Summer Institute in Maternal-Fetal and Pediatric Pharmacology
Toronto, ON
July 8-13, 2012
Application Deadline: April 17, 2012

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and
CIHR’s Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH)
8th Annual NICHD-IHDCYH Summer Institute in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology
Philadelphia, PA
July 22-27, 2012
Application Deadline: April 16, 2012

Public Health Association of BC
Public Health Summer School
Vancouver (UBC), Victoria (UVIC), Prince George (UNBC), Kelowna (UBC-O)
July 24-27, 2012

American College of Epidemiology
Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
September 9-11, 2012
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 1, 2012

International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FIGO)
XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Rome, Italy
October 7-12, 2012

18th Annual Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (MCH EPI) Conference
co-hosted with the
2012 CityMatCH Urban MCH Leadership Conference
San Antonio, TX
December 12-14, 2012
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012

• Royal Society of Canada, Alice Wilson Award
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007-08
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007-08
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Prize (most outstanding recipient), 2008
• Interdisciplinary Women’s Reproductive Health Training Program, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007-08
  “Maternal Mental Health Outcomes associated with Abuse during Pregnancy”

Gillian Hanley, Postdoctoral Fellow – Co-supervisors, P. Janssen, T. Oberlander

• Child and Family Research Institute, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-12
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-14
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-14
  “Socioeconomic status as a predictor of prenatal mental health, use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy and infant outcomes”

Celeste Bickford, PhD student – Co-supervisors, P. Janssen, Y. MacNab

• Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2011-14
• UBC Faculty of Medicine Graduate Award, 2009
• UBC Four Year Fellowship award, 2010-14
  “Home Birth in British Columbia”

Kristi McIntosh, PhD student – Supervisor, P. Janssen

• University Graduate Fellowship, 2008-12
• Graduate Entrance Scholarship, 2008
• British Columbia Epilepsy Society Scholarship, 2011
  “Perinatal and Early childhood Outcomes Associated with Use of Antiepileptic medications in BC”

Kathrin Stoll, PhD Student - Supervisor, P. Janssen 

• Banting and Best Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2010-12
  “Factors associated with childbirth self-efficacy among Canadian women”

Glenys Webster, PhD Student – Committee, P. Janssen, S. Venners

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Scholarship, 2004-06
• UBC PhD Tuition Award, 2004-08
• Canadian Federation of University Women, 2006-07
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Senior Research Trainee Fellowship, 2006-07
• University Graduate Fellowship, 2007-08
• Pacific Century Scholarship, 2007-08
• Bridging Public Health Engineering and Policy Research (Bridge Program – CIHR/MSFHR)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Interdisciplinary Women’s Reproductive Health Training Program, 2009
  “PBDE Flame Retardants & Thyroid Disruption in Pregnancy”

Angela Kaida, PhD Student – Co-supervisor, P. Janssen, D. Money

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Doctoral Fellowship, 2006-09
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Doctoral Fellowship, 2006-09
• UBC Graduate Entrance Scholarship, 2005
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research/Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010-2013
• Canadian Association for HIV Research, New Investigator Award (Epidemiology and Public Health), 2009
  “Investigation of the impact of expanding access to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) on sexual and reproductive decision-making and behaviours of women in high prevalence settings in sub-Saharan Africa.”

Sura Alwan – Supervisor, P. Janssen

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2007-09
• UBC Graduate Fellowship Award, 2007-09
• MS Society Post-doctoral Fellowship Award, 2009
  “Teratogenicity of drugs in human pregnancy”

Sarka Lisonkova – Supervisor, S. Sheps

• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Doctoral Fellowship, 2004-05
• BC Research Institute for Children’s & Women’s Health, Graduate Studentship, 2004-05
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Graduate Studentship, 2005-06
• Western Regional Training Centre for Health Services Research, Studentship, 2003-04
  “Impact of Twin Births on Perinatal Outcomes in BC”

Giulia Muraca – Supervisor, KS Joseph

• UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship – 4YF, 2011-15
• Young Investigator’s Award, Controversies in Breast Cancer, 2010-11
• UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies, Graduate Fellowship, 2009-10
• UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies, Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship, 2009-10
• University of Toronto, Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award, 2007
• University of Toronto, Woodsworth College, Peter F. Bronfman Gold Scholarship, 2007-09
• University of Toronto, Medical Anthropology HIV/AIDs Internship in Namibia, 2006-07
• York University, Admissions Scholarship, 1999-2000