INFORMATION REPORT
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Brain Awareness Week 2000
INFORMATION REPORT |
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Alternate contact:
Kelly Jorundson
Phone: (204) 789-3454
Fax: (204) 789-3932
Email: kjorund@cc.umanitoba.ca
2. Brain Awareness Comittee
Dr. Jonathan Geiger, Chair
Kelly Jorundson, co-Coordinator, Brain Awareness Month
Nancy Eidsvig, co-Coordinator, Brain Awareness Month
Dr. Fiona Parkinson
Dr. Jean Paterson
Ms. Katinka Stecina
Mr. Gilles Detillieux
3. Sponsors
University Department:
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of Manitoba
Not-for-profit Organization:
Manitoba Epilepsy Association
Local Hospital:
St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre
Foundations & Other Organizations:
Manitoba Heart & Stroke Foundation
Sport Medicine Council of Manitoba
National Research Council, Institute for Biodiagnostics
Pharmaceutical companies:
Pfizer Canada
Smith Kline Beecham
AstraZeneca
4. Brief Description of Events
(Our Chapter designated March as "Brain Awareness Month".)
a) Scientific Lectures:
Throughout the month of March, a series of scientific lectures were
held and widely attended by the local neuroscience community.
Provided below is a listing of those lectures.
For detailed information regarding the lectures, please visit the
WCSN's BAW website at
http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/wcsn/baw2000.
(Hyperlinks are included below for easy access to website reference that
contains additional information on the lectures.)
| March 2 |
Dr. Jonathan GEIGER Director, Division of Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders Professor, University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics President, Winnipeg Chapter of Society for Neuroscience Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| March 3 |
Dr. Karen JOHNSTON Director of Neurotrauma, McGill University, Montreal. |
| March 7 |
Dr. Steven JACOBSON Chief, Viral Immunology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. |
| March 9 |
Dr. David EISENSTAT Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| March 10 |
Dr. Tom FEASBY Head of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. |
| March 13 |
Dr. John LATTER Head, Section of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| March 15 |
Dr. John JANE Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. |
| March 16 |
Dr. Dale CORBETT Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Health Sciences, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. |
b) Neuroscience & Mental Health Research Awareness Day:
Our Chapter hosted a "Neuroscience & Mental Health Research
Awareness Day" on March 23rd, at the Brodie Centre located at the
University of Manitoba's Bannatyne Campus in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
An estimated 200-250 people toured local neuroscience laboratories and
visited the scientific posters and display booths exhibited.
The event featured over 25 scientific posters presented by the
neuroscience and mental health community, as well as booths and displays
by pharmaceutical companies and local not-for-profit organizations.
The event was a great success and was considered to be informative as
well as enjoyable and educational to those who attended including
family members of individuals living with neurological disorders.
Please visit our website that highlights the event in detail at http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/wcsn/baw2000/#mar23
5. Logos
Following are the logos that were received from some of our sponsors.
Note: not all sponsors provided electronic files of their logo.
(Hyperlinks are used for each image that direct you to each
sponsor's website.)
Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada
St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre
AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical Inc.
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics,
Faculty of Medicine
University of Manitoba
6. Event Promotions
A number of mailings were done related to our events. We have enclosed
a copy of the promotional notices including a "Neuroscience
& Mental Health Research Awareness Day" poster, a student
recruitment poster, and copies of advertisements that appeared in local
newspapers. The event was also heavily promoted on our website and our
website administrator Mr. Gilles Detillieux designed a separate website
specifically to promote BAW activities. Please visit the website at
http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/wcsn/baw2000.
7. Correspondence
As mentioned previously, we approached local not-for-profit organizations,
pharmaceutical companies, and other related organizations for their
participation in our events. Attached are copies of;
1) Correspondence inviting participation from not-for-profit
organizations, foundations, and pharmaceutical companies.
2) Correspondence thanking all of our participants and sponsors.
3) Correspondence to invitees who chose not to attend, informing them
about the various successful events that were held and inviting them
to participate next year.
8. Digital Photos
Many pictures were taken at our "Neuroscience & Mental Health
Research Awareness Day".
Here is the hyperlink to a page that contains all of the images. Feel free to link this page to your website reporting on BAW activities.
http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/wcsn/baw2000/photos.html
We have grouped the photos into the following categories; 1) sponsors, 2) participants, and 3) other. Where known, we have identified the individuals (and affiliated organization) shown in each photo as per your request.
The students shown in the picture labeled "high school tour group" are from George Waters Middle School, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Please feel free to use any of the photos for your own purposes.
The BAW events were very successful and we look forward to hosting next year's event.
/klj
06/13/00
SCRC,
Physiology
and WCSN WWW administrator:
www@scrc.umanitoba.ca
Reported prepared and submitted to SFN by
Kelly Jorundson.
Posted July 12, 2000.