This week I advanced to the rank of professeure titulaire, which translates as full professor. For reference, because the translations are confusing across English and French and I routinely run into people who have trouble with the confusion, I will use this opportunity to clarify: French English professeur.e assistant.e a […]
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In the interests of transparency, here are recommendations I sent individually by email to CIHR in response to their decision to cancel the Spring 2020 Project decision. I sent the following to Dr. Michael Strong (president of CIHR), Dr. Jeannie Shoveller (chair of CIHR Governing Council), Dr. Tammy Clifford (vice-president, […]
Here are the cover letter and open letter sent to agencies as part of a campaign to end the Canadian Common CV.
I wrote this to explain some things that are often invisible to people who don’t publish in peer-reviewed journals as corresponding authors. My primary purpose for putting up this post is to share that even in the current, imperfect system, there are things that anyone can do to more easily […]
My DIY standing desk at my university office “Sitting is the new smoking,” they say. Since I already have type 1 diabetes, I don’t need extra health risk factors. My PhD is in Human Factors, a field that include ergonomics, so I have been familiar with the idea of standing […]
From an invited talk I gave at The XXXIII FIMS World Congress of Sports Medicine in June 2014 in which I was making a point about the need to think about what is truly important to people:
I have organized a symposium at an upcoming conference in Miami. The topic is medical decision making in diabetes, and the focus is on incorporating diversity. Mila Ferrer is one of our speakers, and we have some very exciting(1) academic speakers as well. “Medical decision making” is academic speak for […]
Last night, I glanced at twitter just before going to sleep. (Rarely a good idea, I know.) I noted a tweet posted by the account of the editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, a high impact and generally (no pun intended) excellent journal: Simple experiment in #JGIM finds […]
Note: I originally wrote this post for Emmi Solutions, and it was also picked up by Kevin MD. ~~~~~~~~~ My first week at my new job at a French-speaking university in a city of 95% francophones, I learned a useful new expression: vouloir le beurre, et l’argent du beurre. This […]
I’m keenly interested in the design features of online health applications and the way people respond to different aspects of presentation and interaction. One of the things that triggered a set of questions for me was one of the websites I analyzed in my dissertation research, which offered detailed estimates […]