Leading journalist to moderate panel on impact of CAMH research

Ever wonder how CAMH’s research affects people’s lives? One of Canada’s leading science broadcasters and journalists will help answer that question at a special event at CAMH’s Annual General Meeting on June 18, 2009, at 4:45 pm.

Jay Ingram, host of Discovery Channel Canada’s flagship Daily Planet science show, is the ideal host for an event dedicated to furthering understanding of CAMH’s research.

Jay Ingram, host of Discovery Channel Canada’s flagship Daily Planet science show, will moderate a lively, interactive discussion with three prominent CAMH scientists working in very diverse areas of research – Dr. James Kennedy, Director, Neuroscience Research; Dr. Jeffrey Meyer, Head, Neurochemical Imaging in Mood Disorders at the PET Centre; and Dr. Paula Goering, Section Head - Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit. Dr Bruce Pollock, Vice President, CAMH Research, will introduce the moderator and speakers and provide an overview.

Jay Ingram has hosted Daily Planet since it began in 1995 and previously hosted CBC Radio’s national science show, Quirks and Quarks, from 1979 to 1992. At the time it was the only hour-long, prime-time daily science show in the world.

He’s the perfect host for an event intended to connect a ‘lay audience’ with the meaning and impact of world-class mental health and addiction research, according to Dr. Pollock.

“One of CAMH’s priorities this year is to broaden the understanding of the general public-- and our stakeholders in particular-- of the research we do at CAMH and its impact,” Dr. Pollock says, adding that ‘impact’ is also the theme of the forthcoming CAMH Research annual report.

Author of 10 books and producer of numerous newspaper, magazine and broadcast science pieces, Mr. Ingram received the Sandford Fleming medal from the Royal Canadian Institute for his efforts to popularize science, the Royal Society’s McNeil medal for the Public Awareness of Science and the Michael Smith award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

You are invited to attend the 2009 Annual General Meeting
Thursday, June 18, 2009, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Workman Theatre
1001 Queen Street West, Toronto ON
RSVP 416 535-8501, ext. 6718 or bharati_singh@camh.net by June 11, 2009

 

 

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