Picchione Lecture Series
The Picchione Lecture Series: Research and the Future of Health Care serves to engage public interest and understanding of the relationship between health research and health outcomes.
Led by a prominent keynote speaker dedicated to health advocacy and/or health research, each event focuses on a theme central to the keynote lecture, then carried over to a panel discussion featuring outstanding health researchers from Dalhousie University.
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Call for Proposals:
If you are interested in hosting a Picchione Lecture, on a topic that would interest the general public, please submit a proposal outlining your plan. If your proposal is selected, all expenses related to the Lecture will be paid, up to a maximum of $8000.00.
Proposal requirements will be posted soon.
Please contact us, if you have any questions about the Picchione Lecture Series.
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Previous Picchione seminar series:
Dr. Kevin Kain, MD
Dr. Kain is a Clinician-Scientist, Canada Research Chair and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, UHN-Toronto General Hospital. Dr. Kain has worked extensively in low resource settings including New Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, DRC, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mozambique, Madagascar, Peru, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Bhutan, Indonesia and the Amazon basin. His research is focused on major global infectious disease threats, particularly as they pertain to maternal-child health; global equity, knowledge sharing and the transfer of appropriate technologies and the training of clinicians and scientists in low resource settings, empowering them to address their problems in a sustainable fashion. His current projects include: PI of multi-site randomized placebo-controlled intervention trial in Kenya to reduce preterm birth and neonatal sepsis – the leading causes of under 5 death globally; and as co-PI of a $11.5M EU-funded multi-site trial (Mozambique, Gabon and Ethiopia) to evaluate a new rapid point-of-care triage test for sepsis.
Dr Kain has received several awards including: the “C. Woolf Award” for “Excellence in Teaching”, University of Toronto, U of T “Department of Medicine Research Award”, a “Career Scientist Award”, Ontario Ministry of Health, “Bailey K Ashford Medal” from the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, awarded for “Distinguished work in Tropical Medicine”; and the “Sornchai Looareesuwan Medal”, from Mahidol University in Thailand for “Leadership and outstanding research accomplishments in malaria”. Dr Kain was profiled by “TIME magazine” as one of “Canada’s Best in Medicine”. Peer reviewed publications >400; Research Support: totals over $125,000,000
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