AUTUMN 2018 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ALUMNI MAGAZINE Dementia steals people away from the lives they knew. Research is finding a better way forward AUTUMN 2018 ON THE COVER VOLUME 74 NUMBER 2 A patient-centred approach to dementia care means working to replace feelings of disconnection with a sense of purpose and wellness. Page 18. Illustration by Hugh Syme features 18 Living with Dementia What a new approach could mean for families 26 Alumni Awards Meet 23 alumni doing great things in the world departments 3 Your Letters 5 Notes What’s new and noteworthy 10 Continuing Education Column by Curtis Gillespie 13 Thesis Let’s take a look at food. Because sustenance is about so much more than what you eat 41 Trails Where you’ve been and where you’re going 42 Books 44 Class Notes 52 In Memoriam 56 Small Talk Compassion has always driven Anwar Shah to help others. His work with the World Bank will improve lives for future generations, including that of his granddaughter Amina. Page 26. Photo by John Ulan new trail autumn 2018 1 }upfront OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Native Studies Sean Price, ’95 BCom Chancy Black Water, Awakas’ikitstakiaki Associate Vice-President (Deer Offering Woman), ’10 BA(NativeStu), ’10 Cert(AborGov/Ptnshp) Greg Latham Director, Alumni Engagement Nursing Eric Martin, ’09 BSc, ’13 BScN Tracy Salmon, ’91 BA(Hons), ’96 MSc We Are the Change Kate Young, ’07 BScN, ’15 MBA Director, Alumni Programs Pharmacy Coleen Graham, ’88 BSc(HEc), ’93 MEd brought changes to paid maternity Ron Pohar, ’95 BSc(Pharm) in 1916, with the world gripped by Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives war, universities were depleted leave, disabled rights and Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation of resources and students were employment equity. As co-counsel ALUMNI COUNCIL EXECUTIVE Bill Werry, ’73 BA(RecAdmin) Alumni Association President Public Health being sent to the front lines. The at the Supreme Court of Canada Ayaz Bhanji, ’91 BSc(Pharm) Salima Thawer, ’03 BSc, ’05 Dip(DentHyg), first president of the University of for Delwin Vriend, the Alberta President-Elect ’06 BSc(DentHyg), ’13 MPH Alberta, Henry Marshall Tory, urged teacher who was fired for being gay, Heather Raymond, ’82 BEd, ’86 Dip(Ed), Rehabilitation Medicine campus to continue to honour the Greckol set in motion advances in ’95 MEd, ’02 PhD Grant Irwin, ’75 BSc, ’79 BSc(PT) Committee Chair: Alumni Awards Science spirit of the institution. “Let us gender-minority rights — not just Ryan Thompson, ’03 BSc(Hons), ’13 MA Ross Lockwood, ’08 BSc(Hons), ’15 PhD continue to adjust our differences in Canada but around the world. Committee Chair: Alumni Student Council MEMBERS AT LARGE Ashlyn Bernier, ’06 BSc, ’11 PhD, ’13 MBA and solve our problems by means Anwar Shah, ’83 PhD, grew up Yasmin Barre, ’09 BSc, ’12 MSc of free discussion,” he wrote in in Pakistan and yearned for a way Committee Chair: Career Services Ramesh Bhambhani, ’66 BSc, ’68 MSc, ’72 PhD Christy Ciezki, ’02 BSc(Spec), ’09 MEd the Gateway, adding: “The ability to lift people out of poverty. While Maxine Clarke, ’03 BCom Committee Chair: Priority Programs Rick Dowell, ’03 BSc(MechEng), ’09 MBA to work with our fellows in the studying economics, he saw great Phil Wong, ’85 BSc(Spec) Vivian He, ’08 BCom Joel Johnston, ’16 BA(RecSpoTourism), ’16 common interest of all is one of the promise for change through the Committee Chair: Strategic Planning Cert(ABSR), ’16 Cert(CESL) Bill Werry, ’73 BA(RecAdmin) finest products of our education.” decentralization of government. 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