Highlights from Med//E-News: The McGILL FACULTY OF MEDICINE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER

• Genes & night shift work November 12, 2019
  What are the impacts of nighttime shift work on gene expression and circadian rhythms? Laura Kervezee from Drs. Diane Boivin and Dr. Nicolas Cermakian’s team at the Douglas Research Center in Montreal, presents the results of their recent study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). Read more ►  
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• Five Challenges and Opportunities in Advancing Education and Teaching Faculty-Wide November 12, 2019
  Seeking to advance education across a faculty with over 4,000 academics and more than 8,000 students, residents and fellows across departments and clinical settings is no easy task, but a growing network is seeking to do just that. This undertaking is part of the Faculty’s broader Project Renaissance strategic planning exercise, which is guiding the […]
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• How do emotions influence clinical and educational practice? November 12, 2019
  Conventional wisdom holds that emotions distort performance and should be suppressed, but visiting speaker Dr. Vicki LeBlanc, Chair and Professor of the Department of Innovation in Medical Education at the University of Ottawa and Director of the University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre, gave an attentive audience reason to think otherwise. “If emotions shape […]
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• McGill PhD graduate receives Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience November 12, 2019
  The Society for Neuroscience recently awarded the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience to Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, PhD, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Sorbonne Université in Paris. The Nemko Prize recognizes a young neuroscientist for his or her PhD thesis that advances the understanding of molecular, genetic or cellular mechanisms underlying higher brain function […]
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• SAVE THE DATE – Next Faculty Council Meeting is Thursday, December 5 November 12, 2019
  The next Faculty Council meeting takes place Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. The Faculty Council meeting is open to all members of the Faculty, including students and residents, and will be recorded. Read more ►  
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• Dr. Christel Renoux receives Heart & Stroke Award November 12, 2019
  Dr. Christel Renoux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, associate member in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and a researcher at the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital, is the 2019 recipient of the Heart & Stroke’s John-J.-Day MD Award of Excellence. […]
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• McGill researcher shares 2019 CCRC experience November 12, 2019
  Dr. Julia V Burnier, a newly recruited researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre , and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Oncology and Pathology at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine,  was awarded a CIHR-OICR award to participate in the CCRC as well as in the Early Career Investigator meeting, funded […]
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