5th Annual MGR Symposium

April 27, 2011

Massey College, 4 Devonshire Pl., Upper Library

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA:

Exploring the Issues 3:15-3:30 pm Nutrition Break

Program 3:30-4:30 pm PANEL ON NAVIGATING HEALTH NEWS

Co-Chairs: David Cape and Robert Fraser
12-12:50pm Registration & Light Lunch
Junior Common Room
Moderator: Mr. Kevin Finnerty, Executive Director, Ministry of
1:00pm Call to Order Health and Long-Term Care Communications & Information Branch
Co-chairs: Judith Seary, Rami Shoucri & Carla Pajak
Ms. Carolyn Abraham, Medical Reporter, Globe and Mail
Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Aubie Angel & Dean Catharine Whiteside Dr. Mike Evans, Assoc. Prof., Family Medicine & Public Health, U of T

Dr. Joseph Thywissen, Associate Professor, Physics, U of T

1:15-2 pm Keynote Address – Introduced by Judith Seary
Speaker: Dr. David Secko, Assistant Professor, Journalism
Concordia University
“Health Journalism: What would make it matter?” 4:30-4:45 pm Open Discussion
Moderator: Mr. Michael Valpy, Journalist & Fellow, School
of Public Policy & Governance, U of T
2 – 3:15 pm PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES 4:45 pm Summary
Co-Chair: Judith Seary Dr. David Goldbloom, Senior Medical Advisor, Centre for
Addiction & Mental Health
Ms. Carolyn Abraham, Medical Reporter, Globe and Mail,
"Stories for the well: How the media covers medicine" 4:55 pm Closing Remarks – Rami Shoucri, Dr. Aubie Angel

Dr. Molly Shoichet, Professor, Chemical Engineering, U of T Proud Sponsors:

“Where Engineering meets Medicine: Engaging the public in
research”

Dr. Mike Evans, Associate Professor, Family Medicine & Public

Health, U of T
“Self-care, media and new media: The evolving dynamic of
personal health decisions”
MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA: Exploring the Issues
April 27, 2011
PREAMBLE

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom

we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have
lost in information?” (T. S. Eliot, The Rock (1934))
Health-related information is accumulating at an astonishing rate.
5th Annual
Presumably, potential benefits for population and individual health Symposium
is embedded somewhere in this information. However, for
patients, professionals, researchers, journalists, and health policy
makers, it is certainly becoming more challenging to make sense
of it all or to effectively communicate amongst each other.
Organized medicine and conventional media sources have
traditionally facilitated the communication of both raw information
MASSEY
and reliable knowledge to the general public. This relationship,
when wisely applied, should realize tangible improvements in GRAND
health for society. Please join us for a vigorous discussion on the
contemporary challenges to this fundamental relationship
between Medicine, Media and the Masses at the Fifth Annual
ROUNDS
Massey Grand Rounds Symposium!

MASSEY GRAND ROUNDS (MGR)

Massey Grand Rounds is comprised of members of the Massey

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA:
College community and includes physicians, medical students and Exploring the Issues
graduate students in areas related to medicine and the health
sciences. It convenes monthly during the school term and serves
as a discussion forum for current topics related to medicine, the
health sciences and issues of interest to students. The group is
guided by Dr. Aubie Angel, MD, FRCPC, Senior Resident/Fellow,
President of Friends of CIHR.
This symposium is a project of MGR for the benefit of the entire U
of T academic community and for all medical and health science
students.
Student organizers of the Symposium include:
- Judith Seary, Jr. Fellow, 2nd year Medicine
Wednesday April 27th, 2010
- Rami Shoucri, Jr. Fellow, 3rd year Medicine (12:00 – 5:00pm)
- Carla Pajak, Jr. Fellow, 3rd year Medicine Massey College
- David Cape, Jr. Fellow, 3rd year Medicine University of Toronto
- Robert Fraser, Jr. Fellow, 2nd year MSc Nursing
4 Devonshire Place
- Poster & Program design by Carla Pajak
Cristina S. Castellvi supervised communications Upper Library
Web site - Robert Fraser Online Registration:
www.masseygrandrounds.ca