On Thursday, March 21, 2013, at 3:00 pm., Karina Cardona Claros, a student in the department of environment and geography, will be presenting a talk titled “Creative Skills for Confronting the Ableist City: Resisting Immobility Following Spinal Cord Injury.”
Cardona Claros will be telling the story of growing up with a visible disability, and how it […]

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On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Dr. Harvey Chochinov, University of Manitoba Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care, is giving a presentation on the dignity of people with disabilities.
Last month, he released a major paper in the journal Cancer on the importance of caregivers’ actions to reduce stress in people living with cancer. The article provided […]

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The University of Manitoba’s Department of Psychology Colloquium Zubek Lecture will this year feature Stanford University professor Dr. Laura Carstensen.
Carstensen is a professor of public policy and her lecture entitled Emotion and Aging: Exploding the Misery Myth, will put forth the idea that older people attend to and remember relatively more positive than negative information […]

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On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at 7:00 pm Dr. Harvey Chochinov will be launching his new book Dignity Therapy: Final Words for Final Days at McNally Robinson at Grant Park.
Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care. Translating that principle into methods of guiding care at the end of life, […]

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Visionary Conversations is a speaker series at the University of Manitoba hosted by president and vice-chancellor Dr. David T. Barnard. Some of the university’s leading minds share their insight on issues affecting our world and how the decisions we make today will shape our future.
For the next event, titled “Gender Equality: Fact or Fiction?”, join […]

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With the National Summit on Mental Health Promotion and Illness Prevention in Winnipeg this week, discussions on the best treatment and prevention of mental illness are hitting a high point. These sessions are proof that evidence-based decisions are important for policy and program development.
Past research at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) in the […]

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The Vulnerable Persons and End of Life New Emerging Team will be hosting an information session on palliative care and people with disabilities on Thursday, January 12, 2012, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm at the Manitoba Legislature, Golden Boy Room, 450 Broadway.
The event will feature presentations from leading palliative care and disability studies professors […]

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