SPRIING 2011 V VooxxMMTHE VOIeeCE OF DADDLHOUSIEAA MEDICALLL ALUMNI Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick launch! DMAA Alumni Gala & Fall Reunion Medical School Tour October 21 Page 19 Alumni enjoy Fall Reunion DMAA Awards Gala 2010 New DMAA President & Medical Tour classmates of 1970 celebrate Dr. Dan Reid ’70 Resear ch is everything. The Molly Appeal is pr oud to support the world-class research happening right here in the F aculty of Medicine . www .mollyappeal.ca Dalhousie Medical Resear ch F oundation 902.494.3502 T oll-fr ee 1.888.866.6559 Suite 1-A1, Sir Charles T upper Medical Building, 5850 College Str eet, Halifax NS B3H 4H7 VoxMeDAL SPRING 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS alumni.medicine.dal.ca Mailed under Canada Post Publications Mail Agreement # 40601061 FEATURES 16 2010 DMAA Awards and Fall Reunion 18 DMAA Annual Award recipients DMAA VOX Editorial Board Editorial Director: Joanne Webber 20 DMAA Fall Reunion and Alumni Tea Editorial Board: DMAA Executive Officers Executive Assistant, Paulette Miles 21 DMAA Fall Reunion and Medical Tour Board of Directors, 44 DMAA alumni around the globe Dalhousie Medical Alumni Association Executive 48 DMAA book club Dr. Dan Reid ’70 President, DMAA, Dr. Dale Dauphinee ’64 Honourary President, DMAA 16 Dr. Alf Bent ’73 Treasurer DMAA INITIATIVES Dr. Margaret Casey ’68 Pro Tem, Vice-President, Dr. Vonda Hayes ’71 Past President 8 Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick update Members at Large 13 What’s new on the DMAA scene Dr. Robert Anderson ’54 Dr. Don Brown ’59 15 DMAA Annual Awards: call for nominations Dr. Douglas Brown ’57 37 Medical students on campus Dr. D.A. Gillis ’53 Dr. Dennis Johnston ’58 38 DMSS update Dr. Allan Purdy ’74 Dr. Merv Shaw ’65 40 Life before medicine Dr. David Young ’73 42 Alumni making a difference DMAA Chair in Medical Education Committee Dr. David Young, Committee Chair 47 In the eyes of a resident 20 Executive Ex-Offico FACULTY OF MEDICINE Dr. Tom Marrie, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Haralambos Lavranos ’12, DMSS President 22 DMNB opening Charmaine Gaudet, Director of Communications FoM Joanne Webber, Executive Director DMAA 23 DMNB receives $5 million for research labs Dalhousie Medical Alumni Association 24 Volunteer patients urgently needed 1st Floor Tupper Building, 5850 College St. Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7 24 Mandatory rural week introduced Tel: (902) 494-8800 Fax: (902) 422-1324 26 Medical school classrooms cyber-sized Website: alumni.medicine.dal.ca/ 27 Dr. Ivar Mendez honoured for his humanitarian work DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH 28 Brain surgery goes virtual 26 30 What the past says about the future 31 Metagenomics and microbiomics: new approaches 41 in microbial health VoxMeDAL is published twice a year by Metro Guide Publishing THE BUSINESS OF MEDICINE Publisher : Patty Baxter 32 The problem with professionalism Managing Editor: Trevor J. Adams Editor : Janice Hudson 34 Measure of success Design: Gwen North Advertising Sales: Mary Jane Copps 36 Defining and defusing bullying Production Coordinator: Dana Edgar DEPARTMENTS Welcome Updates Metro Guide Publishing 4 DMAA President’s Message 1300 Hollis Street 49 DMAA NEWS Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1T6 5 DMAA Executive Director’s IN MEMORIAM Tel: (902) 420-9943 Fax: (902) 429-9058 53 E: [email protected] Message 54 REUNIONS www.metroguidepublishing.ca 6 Dean’s Message 10 Voice of Alumni SPRING 2011 | VOXMEDAL 3 WELCOME DMAA PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Meet the new DMAA President President Dr. Dan Reid is committed to strengthening Dalhousie’s medical community By Dr. Dan Reid ’70 DMAA President We’re changing more than our name. s a proud graduate of our medical The Annual Gala Dinner this fall will school over 40 years ago, I feel a coincide with Dalhousie’s Homecoming Agreat obligation to give back to my Weekend. Class reunions will be organ - alma mater for providing me with a life - ized around this event if that is the class’s time of friends and a career in medical desire. I hope this will be a bigger and practice that is a privilege second-to-none. better event in 2011 and beyond. When the opportunity to serve on the All graduates of Dalhousie Medical DMAA Board of Directors came along two School, in my view, owe a debt of years ago, I readily accepted. Now I gratitude to this terrific and long-serving assume the presidency with equal institution. As we see Dean Marrie lead us enthusiasm. to greater achievements over the next five Having been the Life President of the years, I ask for your cooperation and great class of 1970 provided me with the input for our alumni association and its experience in organizing at least 10 class activities, whether you are a first-year or reunions. I realize the importance our a 60-plus-year graduate. medical school played—and still plays— I would be remiss if I did not, on your in our professional lives. I hope to behalf, offer heartfelt thanks to outgoing For information on special rates translate this into the broader mandate of President, Vonda Hayes, and Interim offered to patients through our the DMAA to “promote the interests of President and continuing Treasurer, Alf AtlantiCARE program and Dalhousie Medical School, its students Bent, for their yeoman service to our business travel rates for medical and graduates in all phases of their organization. As well, continued success & educational professionals, call activities.” to our delightful and hard-working This coming year, the DMAA will see an Executive Director, Joanne Webber…I today. updated set of bylaws (last revised in promise to make her professional life even 1999) thanks to hard work of one of our more challenging in the coming year! toll free 1.888.810.7288 several committees. This will allow us to I invite you to contact me with your local 902.423.1161 renew and strengthen our Board of ideas of enhanced activities and/or your Directors and expand our activities in personal interest in being involved in [email protected] support of Dean Marrie’s plans for a upcoming endeavours by emailing www.atlanticahotelhalifax.com renewed curriculum and greater support [email protected] or by calling 1980 Robie Street for undergraduate medical students. I will (902) 494-8800. Halifax, Nova Scotia be calling on some of you to join and B3H 3G5 strengthen the DMAA in this regard. I hope to see continued support, both Independently owned & for articles and financial support for our operated by I.M.P. Group Limited biannual VoxMeDAL publications. Be ready to hear from me. 4 VOXMEDAL | SPRING 2011 WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THE LARGEST Alumni SELECTION OF support PREMIUM QUALITY DIAMONDS IN strengthens ATLANTIC CANADA our medical students By Joanne Webber DMAA Executive Director t is my pleasure to welcome our new a mentor or join as a new Board member. President, Dr. Dan Reid ’70. Dr. Reid I encourage you to get involved in the many Ibrings a wealth of professional opportunities offered at the medical school. experience to our association and I look If you would like to get involved, please forward to working with him. I would like call me at (902) 494-4816 or email to thank Dr. Bent on behalf of the DMAA [email protected]. and Board of Directors for overseeing Dalhousie Medical School is a great place dual roles as our DMAA President and to work and visit. As you will read in this Treasurer. issue of VoxMeDAL , there are many excit - Dr. Bent will continue on as our ing events, activities and lectures taking Treasurer and we look forward to working place at the Faculty of Medicine. with him this year. I would like to join Dr. Charmaine Gaudet, Director of Reid in thanking Dr. Hayes for her time Communications and her team work very and dedication to the DMAA. On behalf of hard keeping us informed and provide the Board, I would also like to thank articles for the Faculty of Medicine section Paulette Miles for her dedication and hard of VoxMeDAL . Please check our website work with reunion planning and assistance alumni.medicine.dal.ca to keep abreast of in the DMAA office. current issues and news. Two other out - I truly enjoyed meeting many of you standing resources are: who attended our DMAA Awards Gala and Fall Reunion last October. Please join us Dalhousie Medical Communications: AWARD-WINNING DESIGNS for our 2011 Awards Gala and Fall news.medicine.dal.ca IN YELLOW GOLD, WHITE Reunion and Medical Tour. See page 19 DalMed News (a monthly publication): for details. facultyliaison.medicine.dal.ca/news/issue5 GOLD OR PLATINUM It’s also time to nominate a fellow (Thanks to Amir Feridooni for getting this classmate for the 2011 DMAA Alumni started.) Awards. If you know of a Dalhousie Medical School alumni who is a leader in Thank you for your financial donations their field and making a difference, please and continued support to the DMAA. Your take the time to nominate them. The support allows the DMAA to continue our Purdy’s Landing nomination deadline is April 30. Find valuable work, assist our medical students 1949 Upper Water Street, Halifax more details on page 14. and provide important support to the By appointment, please call Please consider getting involved with Faculty of Medicine. I welcome your 420-9792 • 1-800-661-4030 your DMAA. Alumni participation can make phone calls and visits to the medical a substantial difference in the experience of school. belgium-diamonds.com our medical students. Volunteer, sign up as SPRING 2011 | VOXMEDAL 5 WELCOME DEAN’S MESSAGE News from the Faculty of Medicine Highlighting the outstanding achievements of our alumni family By Dr.