BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20@womenshealthresearchcluster.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190920T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190920T113000 DTSTAMP:20231214T180339Z URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/aug-24-2019-shaping-hea lthy-future-young-women/ SUMMARY:Shaping a Healthy Future for Young Women DESCRIPTION:\nJoin the Women's Health Research Institute for a fun and info rmative evening learning about healthy living for young women!\n\nAbout th is Event\n\nThe evening will feature four short presentations on mental we llness\, sexual health\, physical activity\, and STI prevention\, as well as a Q&\;A with the speakers.\n\nThe evening will be emceed by Dr. Liis a Galea\, Professor in the Department of Psychology and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscienc e\, and a Scientific Advisor at Women&rsquo\;s Health Research Institute a t the University of British Columbia.\n\nLight refreshments will be served .\n\nSpeakers:\n\nDr. Dzung X. Vo - \;Mental Wellness\n\nDzung X. Vo\, MD\, is a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine\, and a Clinic al Associate Professor and Division Head for the Division of Adolescent He alth and Medicine\, Department of Pediatrics\, at BC Children&rsquo\;s Hos pital and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Vo e arned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at the University of California\, San Francisco. His main clinical and research a reas of interest are in stress and health\, resilience\, care and advocacy with vulnerable and marginalized adolescents\, integrative health\, and m indfulness-based interventions with youth. In partnership with Dr. Jake Lo cke\, Dr. Vo co-developed MARS-A (Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents)\, an eight-week mindfulness training program for adolesce nts with depressive symptoms\, with or without other co-occurring chronic illness or chronic pain. Dr. Vo is the author of The Mindful Teen: Powerfu l Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time. Learn more about Dr. Vo&rsquo\;s work in mindfulness at www.mindfulnessforteens.com. He is the founding Director of the BC Children&rsquo\;s Hospital Centre for Mind fulness\, which has the vision of supporting &ldquo\;Mindful community\, c ompassionate care&rdquo\; throughout BC Children&rsquo\;s Hospital and bey ond.\n\nNicole Pasquino - \;Sexual Health\n\nNicole is a Registered Nu rse and the Clinical Practice Director at Options for Sexual Health. She h as a Master&rsquo\;s Degree in Health Studies &\; Leadership. In her ro le at Options she provides practice support for over 100 nurses and clinic al staff\, helping to create provincial practice standards for nurses in s exual and reproductive health. She was also the driving force behind the c reation and implementation of the Contraception Management and STI Managem ent courses in BC\, which allows nurses to provide contraception and STI c are after becoming certified. .\n\nNicole is the faculty lead for sexual h ealth at where she leads advance practice education for nurses in contrace ption\, pelvic exams\, and sexually transmitted infection care. She contin ues to practice and provide patient care at Options clinics and with the B C Women's Hospital Sexual Assault Service.\n\nTBD - \;Physical Activit y\n\nStay tuned!\n\nDr. Monika Naus - \;STI Prevention\n\nMonika Naus is a public health physician who has worked in communicable diseases\, imm unization and vaccine preventable diseases at the provincial level in Onta rio and BC. She is currently the Medical Director for Communicable Disease s &\; Immunization Service and Medical Lead for Immunization and Vaccin e Preventable Diseases at the BC Centre for Disease Control.\n\nShe was a member of the Canadian National Advisory Committee on Immunization for 12 years\, and has been on the Canadian Immunization Committee since its crea tion in 2004. She&rsquo\;s been engaged in operational\, policy and applie d research in this area for over 25 years\, and every aspect of public hea lth immunization programs including the HPV vaccine program for girls\, an d now also boys\, in BC.\n\nDr. Liisa Galea - \;Emcee\n\nLiisa Galea i s a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Djavad Mowafaghian Centr e for Brain Health\, Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience\, an d a Scientific Advisor at Women&rsquo\;s Health Research Institute at the University of British Columbia. Her research goal is to improve brain heal th for women and men by examining the influence of sex and sex hormones on normal and diseased brain states such as depression and Alzheimer&rsquo\; s disease. Dr. Galea obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Western Unive rsity and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller University. Dr. Gal ea is a Distinguished University Scholar\, is a twice winner of the NSERC- Discovery Accelerator Supplement\, and has won the Michael Smith Senior Sc holar Award\, Cattell Sabbatical Award\, and the Vancouver YWCA Women of D istinction award (Technology\, Science\, Research). She was recognized as a Fellow at International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS). She has over 130 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals with an H index of 49 . Dr. Galea is the chief editor of FiN (Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology IF : 9.425)\, an editor of eNeuro\, and serves/served on the editorial boards of Endocrinology\, Hormones and Behavior\, and Neuroscience. Dr. Galea se rved on peer review panels for National Institute of Health\, CIHR\, and N SERC. She has held operating grants from CIHR and NSERC for 15-20 respecti vely\, and secured over $6.5M as PI. She is an elected council member of O rganization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) and IBNS\, and serves on the Advocacy and EDI committees for Canadian Association for Neuroscien ce.\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR