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SUMMER/FALL 2013 VoxMeDALTHE VOICE OF DALHOUSIE MEDICAL ALUMNI Featuring Dal Med Young Alumni: In the Field Dr. Anna Stratis ’07 improving healthcare in India Purchase DMAA Gala Tickets Now! alumni.dal.ca/dmaagala 494-8800 VoxMeDAL SUMMER/FALL 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS alumni.medicine.dal.ca Mailed under Canada Post Publications Mail Agreement #40601061 FEATURES 7 Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick Update DMAA VOX Editorial Board 36 In The Eyes of a Resident Editorial Director: Joanne Webber Editorial Board: DMAA Executive Officers 37 Convocation Executive Assistant, Paulette Miles Public Relations Co-op Student, Kimberly MacLachlan DMAA INITIATIVES Board of Directors, Dalhousie Medical Alumni Association 12 Dalhousie Medical Alumni Homecoming Executive Dr. Dan Reid ’70 President, DMAA, 13 Gala 2013 DMAA Awards Dinner 14 Dr. Jean Gray PGM ’72 Honourary President, DMAA Dr. Michael Banks ’70 Treasurer 14 DMAA Alumni Award Recipients Dr. Richard Langley ’90 Vice-President, Dr. Merv Shaw ’65 Past President YOUNG ALUMNI IN THE FIELD Members at Large Dr. David Amirault ’76 18 DMAA Support Forever Changed My Life & Dr. Amy Brennan ’08 Career Path: Dr. Anna Stratis ’07 Dr. Don Brown ’59 Dr. Dennis Johnston ’58 22 DMAA New Alumni Skype with Medical Dr. Bill Mason ’61 Students Initiative: Dr. Christy Sutherland ’08 Dr. Sarah Seaman ’02 Dr. John Steeves ’74 26 Preventative Medicine in Malaysia: Dr. Joanna Zed ’88 Dr. Ken Lin Tai ’08 22 Executive Ex-Offico Dr. Tom Marrie, Dean of Faculty of Medicine FACULTY OF MEDICINE Dr. Elias Fares ’16, PhD, DMSS President Joanne Webber, Executive Director DMAA 28 Physician Resource Plan puts comunity needs Dr. Mary McHenry ’09, PARI-MP first Dalhousie Medical Alumni Association 29 Brain Repair Centre sharpens focus on Office Location: 1st Floor Tupper Building, 5850 College Street knowledge translation Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2 New fundraising partnership aims to raise $10 Mailing Address: 30 5850 College Street, Rm 1C1, Box 15000 million for medical research Halifax, N.S. B3H 4R2 Tel: (902) 494-8800 Fax: (902) 422-1324 31 Dalhousie Medicine Introduces the First Website: alumni.medicine.dal.ca Endowed Research Chair in Occupational Medicine in Canada 39 33 Research in Medicine (RIM) Program is ready to be launched 34 Dalhousie Medical School researchers publish two of the top five cancer research papers in Canada VoxMeDAL is published twice a year DEPARTMENTS by Metro Guide Publishing Publisher: Patty Baxter Welcome Advertising Sales: Susie White 40 4 DMAA President’s Message 5 DMAA Executive Director’s Message 6 Dean’s Message Metro Guide Publishing 1300 Hollis Street 8 Voice of Alumni Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1T6 Tel: (902) 420-9943 Fax: (902) 429-9058 Updates On our cover: Dr. Anna Stratis ’07 E: [email protected] DMAA News improving healthcare in India www.metroguidepublishing.ca 46 Photo: Graham Crouch 53 In Memoriam grahamcrouch.com SUMMER/FALL 2013 | VOXMEDAL 3 WELCOME DMAA PRESIDent’s Message Proud to be a graduate of Dalhousie Medicine (L to R): Husband and wife, Dr. Meaghan Keating ’13 and Mike MacDonald ’14 By Dr. Dan Reid ’70 with DMAA President, Dr. Dan Reid ’70 at convocation gala. DMAA President he annual meeting of the DMAA Our Executive Director, Joanne Dean Marrie is entering the fifth has just, in June, noted several Webber was congratulated on her recent and final year in his service as Dean of signal events that I wish to share graduation from Saint Mary’s University, Medicine. A search committee is now with each and every alumnus. Executive MBA Program. She, along with struck to find his successor. Big shoes to TThe current DMAA Board of Officers Paulette Miles and our co-op student Kim fill for sure. Another great reason for you will serve another year. Their commitment MacLachlan will continue to offer you and to attend the October Gala Dinner as he to your association is outstanding. your class every support you might need bids us adieu. Covering graduation years from 1958 in attending and organizing class reunions I wish you a pleasant Summer and Fall through 2009, they bring a longitudinal and attending alumni events. season. view to our varied and successful Remember your alma mater and activities. My personal thanks to each of especially medical school needs when you them (see the page 3 for details). next receive that Dalhousie Annual Giving Our financial status is very secure request. Dean Marrie, I assure you, is and we continue to operate within our putting it to excellent use. budget, and will do so in the coming year. Thank you for your continued and future financial support. A new electronic Kiosk will be installed in the Tupper Link this current year. This will update all class photos, award recipients at graduation and link to the DMAA’s web page. In a simple-to-use touch screen and wheelchair accessible format, this should prove of great interest on your “next visit” to your alma mater. This year’s DMAA Alumni Gala Awards Dinner will take place at Pier 21 on October 18, 2013. We hope to highlight both in person and video presentation many of our medical school’s unique historical and clinical achievements. It will truly make you proud to be a grad of Dal Medical School. Be there! Second from left, Dr. Dan Reid ’70 at convocation 2013. 4 VOXMEDAL | SUMMER/FALL 2013 | alumni.medicine.dal.ca WELCOME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE Engagement: How do we engage students and alumni? By Joanne Webber DMAA Executive Director ecently, I had the privilege of But what exactly are the key ingredients Satisfied students become engaged participating in convocation as a that make these people stand out? Please students, who evolve into engaged graduate. After a long duration see pages 38 & 39. alumni. of grueling hard work, I have Engagement can be considered in two Rcompleted my MBA. Over the years, dimensions: emotional engagement, The DMAA works to engage our I have been a customer of purchasing meaning that alumni and students students through various initiatives, one “higher education.” I have taken courses self-identify with the university; and being $12,000 to support medical student from a variety of universities, including behavioural engagement, representing projects, $2,000 to Resident Research Saint Mary’s, Saint Francis Xavier, alumni and student participation in Prizes, and support to Convocation. Athabasca University, Sauder School university activities. In today’s declining Dalhousie Medical School offers some of of Business and, of course, Dalhousie resource pool, universities must the best teaching, clinical and research University. What have I learned? From a differentiate their services in order to experiences as you will see highlighted consumer’s perspective, it is the people; recruit and retain their students. How on pages 8 and 32. These initiatives the calibre of the faculty, university do universities differentiate themselves? separate ordinary medical programs from resources, and the staff that truly We know that there is great value in the exemplary medical programs within make the difference. This calibre is the importance of culture, symbolism and universities across Canada. I invite you foundation upon which universities stand. tradition. Dalhousie Medicine scores as alumni to get involved with Dalhousie It shapes the culture, level of engagement high on all of these variables, and there Medicine, and stand behind our students and the educational experience of our are many stories which validate this and programs. As alumni members of our future alumni. point, peppered throughout this issue of association, you are part of this equation. Dalhousie Medical School stands out for VoxMeDAL. its many traditions, which fosters long-term As Executive Director of the DMAA and Sincerely, engagement for students and alumni. For through exploring alumni engagement best Joanne Webber example, the role of the DMAA volunteers, practices in my MBA, I have discovered [email protected] Med Ball, Euphoria and the long history of that the university experience is based on a awards. Such awards include the MD Class holistic approach. This approach includes of 1965 Silver Shovel Award, established meaningful experiences, long-standing to honour medical school professors who traditions and the special people that have shown dedication, compassion and separate Dalhousie Medicine from other true commitment to medical students. The medical schools. We have included some MD Class 1995 Resident Teacher Award of our faculty and staff who have been was also created to recognize the important identified by students as key people in role played by residents in teaching their educational experience, recognized by undergraduate medical students. Through awards such as the Rosemary Gill Award these awards, students show their gratitude (please see page 46). Research indicates to those key influencers who have truly that when university staff on every level, impacted their educational journey. delivers outstanding services, student satisfaction increases. alumni.medicine.dal.ca | SUMMER/FALL 2013 | VOXMEDAL 5 WELCOME DEAN’S MESSAGE Faculty of Medicine Update By Dr. Tom Marrie ’70 Dean, Faculty of Medicine Dean Marrie enjoying convocation awards celebrations with newest alumni Dr. Andrew Marsh ’13 s I write this on a rainy student wellness, pharmacology and every physician to be able to think like a afternoon, it is hard to therapeutics are stressed in these sessions. researcher and contribute constructively imagine that another academic We also plan a one-month junior to the generation of new knowledge. We year has come to an end— resident experience to better prepare want our medical students to develop congratulationsA and best wishes to MD students for the transition to residency. critical thinking skills in real-world Class of 2013. For the first time last year, Application and Consolidation and scenarios, so they learn to approach we had family members present at the Review (AnCR) sessions are designed to problems in ways that yield meaningful Convocation Awards Ceremony.