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Longwoods eLetter September 5, 2006

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." – Hippocrates

OFF THE CUFF

Longwoods Publishing – in its ongoing relationship with Google – has incorporated the power of Google in its web enterprise search engine. For the better part of a year we have already been part of the Google Scholar community. These are important contributors to our vision to be the knowledge centre of the healthcare community; a place where the power of imagination and communication is lived and celebrated, a place where ideas are born, debated, translated, and widely distributed for the benefit of good care. Everywhere. We challenge you to search for more insight into your priority issue today. Just click here.

Fellowships from $36,750 for post-doctoral students and $21,000 for doctoral students per year are available. For specific criteria, details about the program, a complete list of mentors, research projects and interests and downloadable application forms, please visit http://www.santepop.qc.ca/training

Dr. Alan Bernstein's interview with CBC's The Current aired on Monday, August 14, 2006
He discusses the impact of AIDS research, treatment, funding and advocacy on health care policies ---in Canada and internationally.

New Survey from The International Alliance of Patients' Organizations: What Patients Really Want - survey results on perceptions of healthcare among patients' organization members in 10 EU Member States, Canada and Nigeria.

Canada Health Infoway launched its Infoway Passport recently to facilitate access to various services and resources Infoway offers on the Web.

The nomination process for induction into The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame is officially underway. Any two individuals are invited to nominate a Canadian citizen who has made either a single meritorious contribution or achieved a lifetime of outstanding accomplishments in the health sciences. The deadline for nominations is December 15, 2006. For more information click here.

Live and Learn
Longwoods’ Learning Group reports that, to date, we have the following faculty members scheduled for this year (Sept. 06 – June 07): Ross Baker, Professor Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, U of T; Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Office of Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario; Dr. Andreas Laupacis, President & CEO, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES); The Hon. Philippe Couillard, Minister of Health, Province of Quebec; Jeff Lozon, President and CEO St. Michael’s Hospital; Dr. Alan Hudson OC, Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times, Ontario; Philip Hassen, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI); Dr. Alan Bernstein, President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); Dr. Sheela Basrur, Chief Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Health Division, MOHLTC, Ontario; Dr. Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group; David Levine, President and Director General, Agence de développement de réseaux locaux de services de santé et de sérvices sociaux de Montréal; Jonathan Lomas, CEO, The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF); David Garets, CEO, HIMSSAnalytics; Dr. Penny Ballem, British Columbia. Dr. Judith Shamian, President & CEO, Victorian Order of Nurses.

Some other faculty nominees have yet to be finalized as we begin a year that now includes a new program for nurse leaders. We are proud participants in programs presented by ELF, ACEN, ACAHO and OHA. For more information contact Lina Lopez

RECOMMENDED READING

Healthcare Policy
Développement d'interfaces entre les services de santé publique et les services cliniques de première ligne à Québec : une étude de cas
Jalila Jbilou, Daniel Reinharz

HealthcarePapers
Nature and Prevalence of Mental Illness in the Workplace
Carolyn S. Dewa, Alain Lesage, Paula Goering, Michele Caveen

Healthcare Quarterly
Alberta Strategy to Help Manage Asthma (ASTHMA): A Provincial Initiative to Improve Outcomes for Individuals with Asthma
Heather M. Sharpe, Don D. Sin*, Elaine M. Andrews, Robert L. Cowie and Paul Man

Electronic Healthcare
Computer Telephony in Healthcare
H. Jay Biem, Artur Klimaszewski and Florence Chen

Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
Leadership Profiles of Senior Nurse Executives
E.A. Hemman

World Health and Population
Public Health Implication of Bacteriuria and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Bacteria Isolates in Schistosoma haematobium-Infected School Pupils in Southeast Nigeria
C.J. Uneke, C.D.C. Ugwuoru, B.A.F. Ngwu, O. Ogbu, C.U. Agala

Need to Ask an Expert in Healthcare Law & Governance?
A feature presented by Longwoods Publishing in collaboration with a pool of leading experts in the design and management of healthcare organizations. More

LONGWOODS RADIO PODCASTS: listen and learn
[more than 12,000 people have read our cases and 2000 have listened to this new feature. Thank you.]

Organizations interested in contributing to Longwoods Radio read this . . .
This is great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using story telling, compelling lectures or gripping interviews – using simple digital recordings that we distribute on the web. Formatted for iPod listeners too. For criteria and specifications please contact Rebecca Hart at Rhart@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance of course.

HealthcarePapers – Full issues now available for download at www.longwoods.com. Only $40 per issue or an annual subscription for $140

Vol. 5 No. 4 2005 | Veterans Health Administration
Lead Article:
The Veterans Health Administration: Quality, Value, Accountability, and Information as Transforming Strategies for Patient-Centered Care
Jonathan B. Perlin, Robert M. Kolodner and Robert H. Roswell

Be sure your individual subscription is up to date. Sign up online here or contact Barbara Marshall bmarshall@longwoods.com or 416-864-9667.

BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS – To register for any one of these events email Lina Lopez
Please note: all events start at 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. (join us for breakfast at 7:30 a.m.).

Wednesday, September 27, 2006. Toronto. Dr. Ross Baker, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), University of Toronto and guest editor of the Healthcare Quarterly on Patient Safety
Topic: Patient Safety.Recommended reading, click here
Location: Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Room 106
Sponsors: 3M Healthcare, HP, Microsoft Canada, Philips Medical Systems, and TELUS

Thursday, October 05, 2006 – Toronto. Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Topic: To Be Announced.
Location: Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Room 610
Sponsors: Cerner, HP and TELUS

Tuesday,October 17, 2006. – Toronto. Dr. Andreas Laupacis, President & CEO, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
Topic: Initial Experience with the Common Drug Review.
Location: Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Room 106
Sponsors: Roche and TELUS

The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts. If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.

CONFERENCES & EVENTS
Dr. Robert Kolodner is the keynote speaker for this year's e-Health Session at HealthAchieve2006. Dr. Kolodner is the Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) of the world-renowned United States Veterans Health Administration (VA). Also coming are: Malcolm Gladwell, Justin Trudeau, Peter Mansbridge, Andrew Weill and more. See and register now at www.healthachieve.com.

September 14, 2006 : The Emerging Leader Forum (ELF) with Dr. Alan Hudson, Lead for Ontario ’s Access to Care & Wait Times Strategies. If you’ve been in the eHealth industry for less than 5 years, ELF invites you to join this dynamic group of thinkers. Email elf@courtyard-group.com to reserve your spot by September 8th and obtain more information. Also visit ELF at www.emergingleaderforum.com ELF - New Minds. New Ideas.

September 29, 2006: Toronto. Quality Healthcare Network presents: A Patient-Centred Health System: Scripting for Improvement
The deadline for the Call for Presentations is September 5, 2006. For details click here.

October 13–14, 2006: Edmonton. Making Clinical Decisions for Managing Cognitive-Communication Disorders After Traumatic Brain Injury. This two-day course will provide speech-language pathologists with evidence on which to base clinical decisions for cognitive-communication disorders after traumatic brain injury (TBI). For details click here.

October 16-17, 2006: Toronto. The PHIPA Summit 2006. Longwoods is an official media partner. Join the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Saskatchewan, the Canadian Medical Association, the Ministry of Health, Health Canada and many others at Ontario's premier and most reasonably priced Health IM & Privacy conference! For details click here or call 1-866.814.8317

November 3, 2006: London. The Royal College of General Practitioners (NHS) brings you E-Learning In Medical Education: Savings For The NHS. For details and registration go here.

November 6-8, 2006: Prince George. Research Use Week (Northwest): Tools, strategies, and stories of using evidence in rural and remote health services delivery and policy development. The goal is to encourage and improve evidence-based decision-making in health system policy and management. For details click here.

November 6-8, 2006: Toronto. OHA HealthAchieve2006 - register online today and take advantage of the Early Bird Prices Available to September 16, 2006. For details click here.

November 16-18, 2006: Ontario College of Family Physicians 44th Annual Scientific Assembly. The Premier Family Medicine Conference in Ontario. Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel. Click here for details.

For our complete list of conferences and events go here

Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario conferences click here.

[We don't go looking for these conferences. Send details to conferences@longwoods.com]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Closing soon
The OHA’s 2006 Healthcare Awards include: The Robo Award | Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education |Call for Submissions is Now Open! All awards will be presented at the OHA HealthAchieve2006 held on November 6 to 8 in Toronto. Visit here

TRANSITIONS:
Josée Goulet to CEO, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada
Drs. Cecilia Benoit (University of Victoria), B. Brett Finlay (University of British Columbia and CIHR Governing Council member), Molly Shoichet (University of Toronto), Michael D. Tyers (University of Toronto) and Teresa Liu-Ambrose (University of British Columbia) to recipients of medals and awards from the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada for extraordinary achievement in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
Senator Yoine Goldstein to Senior Counsel McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP
Dr. Pierre Chartrand (Université de Montréal) to Vice-President of Research, CIHR

Review all recently reported Transitions here. Do you have appointments or transitions? Send them to transitions@longwoods.com

CAREERS: sent to +40,000 people including Canada's student nurses.
Director of Operations – Cardiac Program & OR Services - Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Vice President-Medical Affairs - Lakeridge Health
Director, Professional Practice and Chief Nursing Officer - The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
Manager, Integration and Database Services - Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA)
Manager, Business Applications - Vancouver Island Health Authority’s (VIHA)
Manager, Clinical Applications - Vancouver Island Health Authority’s (VIHA)
Executive Director Acute Programs - Peace Arch Hospital and Delta Hospital
Volunteer Opportunities - Cottage Dreams
President and Chief Executive Officer - Trillium Health Centre
Senior Planning Consultant - LHIN
Administrative Assistant - LHIN
Community Engagement Consultant - LHIN
Controller, Business Support Manager - LHIN
Corporate Coordinator - LHIN
Decision Support Consultant - LHIN
Decision Support Consultant - LHIN
Epidemiology and Decision Support Consultant - LHIN
Funding and Allocation Consultant - LHIN
Funding and Performance Consultant - LHIN
Integration Consultant - LHIN
Performance and Contract Management Consultant - LHIN
Planner - LHIN
Planning and Decision Support Consultant - LHIN
Program Assistant - LHIN
Senior Community Engagement and Communications Consultant - LHIN
Senior Community Engagement Consultant - LHIN
Senior Consultant, Performance and Contract Management - LHIN
Senior Consultant, Planning and Integration - LHIN
Senior Epidemiology and Decision Support Consultant - LHIN
Senior Funding and Allocation Consultant - LHIN
Senior Funding and Performance Consultant - LHIN
Senior Integration Consultant - LHIN
Senior Planner - LHIN
Challenging Opportunities - The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Executive Director - The Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN)
Administrator - Longwoods Publishing, Toronto, ON
Student Nurse Burseries - Northwest Territories Health and Social Services
Specialty Nursing Education and Career Information
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
Career Opportunities at Hamilton Health Sciences
Career Opportunities at Capital Health Edmonton
Career Opportunities at Fraser Health
Career Opportunities at Northern Health Authority
Healthcare Quarterly Careers - June/06 - (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers (PDF)

Visit our portal of 80 participating healthcare recruitment centres
[Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com or 416-864-9667]

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