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DOM MONTHLY NEWSLETTER | AUGUST 5, 2021
In this update:
The SHORT Report

Feature
  • How can we make health care more equitable?
  • August 1 ~ Emancipation Day (new in 2021)
  • September 30 ~ National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (new in 2021)

Member Updates
  • Welcome / In Memoriam / President-Elect

Awards
  • Resident of the Month - June 2021
  • CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant
  • Dalhousie University Research Professor
  • President's Research Excellence Award - Emerging Researcher
  • Sharing congratulations from our Awards Ceremony - June 29
  • Walls of Gratitude

Reminder: Clinical Fellowship Award Competition 2021

Reminder: Annual E-learning

COVID-19

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THE SHORT REPORT
FEATURE
Annual Royal College Lecture, 2021 Professor-in-Residence:
Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull
Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, who works with some of the most vulnerable populations in Canada’s capital, explores new models of care and proposes future competencies for community-centred care in his 2021 Professor-in-Residence lecture: “Health Equity in 2021: Social Accountability Through the Lens of the Most Disadvantaged Communities.”

Time: 58 minutes

From: July 21, 2021 - Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada SMB3 e-newsletter
MPs unanimously vote to declare Aug. 1 Emancipation Day...

On March 24, 2021, MPs in the House of Commons voted unanimously to designate Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day across Canada. The motion drew 335 votes in favour on Wednesday, with no abstentions or nay votes. The date marks...

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Emancipation Day - Aug 1

Designated federally, Emancipation Day marks the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act and provides an opportunity to acknowledge the history of slavery in Canada. We spoke with The Honourable Wanda Thomas Bernard about what it means to...

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Raising the African Nova Scotian flag on Emancipation Day

The African Nova Scotian flag will be raised on Dalhousie campus this weekend for the first time in honour of Emancipation Day, a national day of recognition that marks the historic abolition of slavery in the British Empire on August 1, 1834....

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Resources:

What is Emancipation Day - Aug. 1 - http://emancipationdayns.ca/

The Canadian Federal Government unanimously passed legislation on June 3, 2021 (Bill C-5) to designate September 30 each year as National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This new federal statutory holiday will commemorate the tragic legacy of residential schools in Canada.

This date coincides with Orange Shirt Day, which began in 2013 and involved wearing orange shirts to honour Indigenous children forced to leave their families to attend residential schools.
'Imagine a Canada Program' inspires youth to help foster reconciliation.
MEMBER UPDATES
AWARDS
Resident of the Month – June 2021
CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant
Dalhousie University Research Professor
President's Research Excellence Award -
Emerging Researcher
Sharing the best chat comments from our Awards Ceremony held on June 29

Here are a few of the 819 comments made during awards ceremony. Dr. Gubitz (Emcee) asked Dr. Taylor (Zoom Chat Master) to sum up the chat in one word - LOVE!
~ Amazing team!!
~ Yes! Our ID team rocks!
~ Tremendous leadership folks! Thank you
~ I’ve had my nose swabbed like 5,000 times thanks to Lisa!  (OK maybe not that many but feels close!)
~ So lucky to have you all on our side!
~ Thanks for your leadership Dr. Strang.
~ Kudos to the clinical care team. Truly exemplary work! Thank you!
~ Thanks GIM, Resp, Critical Care and Hospitalist colleagues!
~ Thanks Melissa - the DoM bridging funds were critical to keeping our research teams together.
~ Thank you Rob for this. And, thank you to my team and the many others who supported the work: the COVID Virtual Care team, MED-LTC, and Geriatrics, and everyone who looked after ID patients so the ID docs could do their COVID work
~ Thank you Dr. Strang for all you do!
~ Happy retirement to all!
~ Very well deserved. Arnold made a huge contribution and truly loved his time in the DoM and at Dalhousie.
~ Congratulations Pene! Still stands out in my memory as an amazing mentor and teacher while I was in clerkship!
~ Congratulations to all for achieving a big milestone!
~ Congratulations Steven! Very well deserved.
~ Speaking of brilliant leaders-Christine deserves an award for brilliant leadership of the department
~ Laurie, this is so well deserved. It speaks to all you have done with such commitment and passion.
~ Congrats Volodko - I always appreciate your care of our shared patients and your ironic comments in Zoom chats
~ Exemplary Clinical Care Vlad! Congratulations!
~ Well deserved George. You are a wonderful clinician and teacher
~ Congrats Dr. Rajda!! Learned many clinical tips from you :)
~ Sue, so deserved. You have been a model of superb care since a resident!
~ Congratulations everyone. You are role models to us all.
~ The Zoom love-ins are even better than in person, I think!
~ Truly fitting Cathy; Spud would be tickled!
~ Congratulations Cathy! Role model extraordinaire.
~ Another dream team: Steve, Andrew, Bakhtiar, and Elana. Backbones of the Department's educational endeavours. Congratulations to you all!
~ Dr. Couban is very missed - would be a real honour to win this award.  Happy to have his family here.
~ He was the kind of doctor (and teacher, leader, role model) we all want to be
~ Definitely don't think I deserve this award, but I very much so appreciate it. Stephen had a big influence on my training and I hope I can be somewhere near his abilities one day
~ Congratulations Allen! You are so deserving of this. You have been an exemplary teacher and I know Stephen saw that first hand - please keep working in thrombosis!!!
~ Well deserved winners all around. Such great winners for education today all around. Congratulations to all, including my co PD's Andrew, Elana and Allen. Representing IMPDC! Congrats Steph on Academic Advisor award too.
~ Stephanie, so well deserved. Saint John is very lucky to have you.
~ WAY TO GO MIKE! Well deserved-puttin' FABRY on the map!
~ Congratulations. Very well deserved. It is an honor to work with you
~ Congratulations Gillian!! Research superstar.
~ Sherri - you are truly extraordinary and I’ve learned so much from you!
~ Important recognition of hard work during an extremely busy time of your lives . . . congratulations!
~ Thank you everyone for your incredibly kind words about Stephen and thank you again for the honour of having the award in his name. You are all clearly an incredibly talented and committed group of people. Thank you for all that you do in the medical field. Stella and Vivi Couban
~ Congrats to all residents doing research - never the path of least resistance, but very rewarding!
~ Congrats Mike! Great example of interdepartmental collaboration!
~ Congrats Iqbal! I have learned much from you over the years! You rock!
~ Our Admins rock! Thank you for all you do to keep the department running!
~ Jo-Ann sooo well deserved. You are amazing. Congrats to you. Palliative is blessed to have you.
~ Congrats Sharon!!!!!!! High fives all around
~ Congrats Kelly, so proud and happy for you and all the stars in the DOM galaxy!
~ All amazing admins!
~ Congratulations Heather (=rock of the research program!)
~ Congratulations everyone and thank you for sticking with us. Our Department is a better place because you are all here!
~ Tremendous leadership from Matt and Rachel - your calm, collected approach to a chaotic time was remarkable!
~ Lots of pivoting this year-thank you Education Team for your many contributions
~ Congratulations to all our resident award winners and all of our residents - you are outstanding!
~ Special Thanks to Anne Veinotte who coordinates the ZOOM presentation of the Amazing Extravaganza with Gord along with our Central admin team, including Mary, Katie, Isha, Amanda, Heather-thanks to you ALL!
~ The photos are fantastic!
~ Thank you to everyone for the amazing dedication and support this year! I am honored to work with all of you!
~ Thank you to Gord MC extraordinaire! Trudy and her CPD leadership! The education committee! Katie and the education Office! Mary Synette! Anne Veinotte! and Janet Hartnett! Today could not have happened without all of you and your planning activities.
~ Congrats to all and a very well done show!
Walls of Gratitude
Help Build a Wall of Gratitude (Partners for Care)

Health care workers across the province are doing all they can to help keep Nova Scotians safe. Partners for Care at Nova Scotia Health is collecting messages of support to display at various Nova Scotia Health sites.

Submit a message!

Shout-Out peer-to-peer recognition program (Dalhousie)

Shout-Out is a new peer-to-peer recognition program that allows you to informally give a shout-out to someone in your faculty, department or unit, or in the broader Dal community, who has helped you or your team in some way — big or small — during the past year.

Sign In to Dal SharePoint site to submit a Shout-out!

REMINDER: CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD COMPETITION 2021
REMINDER: ANNUAL E-LEARNING
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