Senior Scholar's Series
October 12, 2021, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Making a difference: contributing to a healthier canada
Carol Herbert
Professor Emerita of Family Practice (2021)
Carol Herbert, a founding Fellow and former President of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, is Professor Emerita of Family Medicine in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University and Professor Emerita of Family Practice at UBC. She was Dean at Schulich (1999-2010), Head of the UBC Department of Family Practice (1988-98), founding Head of the UBC Division of Behavioural Medicine, and a founder of the UBC Institute of Health Promotion Research. As a community-based physician, she practised from 1970-82 at REACH Community Health Centre and co-founded the Vancouver Sexual Assault Assessment Service. She has been committed to equity and social justice. She is internationally known for her leadership in primary care research and participatory action research methodology. Her scholarly interests have included family violence and sexual assault; clinical health promotion and patient-physician decision-making; ecosystem health issues in aboriginal and marginalized communities; and health care and health professional education as complex adaptive systems.
Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe - moderator
Professor Emeritus of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (2015)
Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe graduated from the Courtauld Institute and taught for the Open University, and at London and McGill Universities before joining UBC. He chaired the ISGP and then his home department, Art History Visual Art & Theory before serving as Associate Dean, Awards and Scholarships, in the Faculty of Graduate Studies; a member of Senate for several years he was twice elected co-Chair. He has published extensively on art, architectural and design history with a particular interest in related social and political culture especially of the later modern era; recipient of the Vancouver Book Prize, he was awarded a J.S Guggenheim Fellowship and a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall in Cambridge University. He is currently completing a re-assessment of the architecture and ideology of Arthur Erickson and, also with Michelangelo Sabatino, a multi-perspective anthology on Modernist architecture in the Commonwealth of Nations.
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