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Morning Workshops (9:30-10:30):

Olive Wahoush, RN PhD
Topic: Social Exclusion: Lessons from research experiences with Newcomers.
Description: I use a social determinates perspective and have collected a lot of information about social support and other issues. I have examples of perceived racism and others that are very clear or difficult to explain, I also have used the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the HSCL-25 they measure exposure to violence including torture and screen for possible mental health consequences. I think there are some very basic lessons here for any health professional with being an expert in mental health. I would like to allow time for participants to discuss their concerns and ideas for good practice. Please remind me about how much time we have to do this so that I can ensure participants have time to ask questions and to engage in discussion.
Speaker: Dr. Wahoush is an Assistant Professor in the school of nursing at McMaster University, a recent graduate from Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto with a PhD in Health Policy Management & Evaluation (Outcomes measurement & evaluation stream). She has extensive experience in international settings in nursing practice and leadership, education and research. Dr. Wahoush’s most recent international experiences include the opening of a new 160 bed pediatriccancer centre in Cairo Egypt and coordinating a collaborative Oncology Nursing program with the University of West Indies in Trinidad. Primary interests for education and research are in the social determinants of health, vulnerable populations, equity, health systems and capacity development in communities.

Eve Nakabembe, MD
Dr. Nakabembe is an Assistant Professor, Obstetrician/Gynecologist and academic director of the Save the Mothers program at the Uganda Christian University

Sheila Harms, MD
Topic: Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health: Applications to Women and Children
Description: This hour workshop will expose workshop participants to the recent 2011 consortium results addressing grand challenges in global mental health for mental-neurological and substance abuse disorders. Participants will be asked to think critically about the results of this consortium and through dialogue, to apply results to the current populations of interest, particularly as it relates to issues of stigma.
Speaker: Sheila Harms is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist working at McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton, ON. She has a particular interest in marginalized populations and currently work with Hamilton’s homeless and street involved youth as well as incarcerated youth to address mental health concerns. Her research has focussed on conceptions of mental health in youth orphaned by HIV AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her work in the global health setting primarily involves working with African colleagues through the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research in the area of knowledge translation as it relates to global mental health for children and youth. Most recently, she participated in the “Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health” as a clinican respondent.

Manavi Handa, RM
Topic: "Un"Canadian Baby Mama - the untold Story of Canada's Uninsured Immigrant Mothers.
Description: This workshop will address the growing issue of uninsured and undocumented immigrants in the Canadian context. Specifically, it will look at the unique ethical, economic and health care issues related to uninsured women having children in Canada - by definition Canadian babies. This workshop will examine the access to care issues and interprofessional issues arising from the care of these women within the GTA/Ontario and present potential solutions to caring for this community.
Speaker: Manavi Handa is has been a practicing midwife in Toronto for over the past decade and is also currently a faculty member at Ryerson University. Manavi has a graduate degree in bioethics from the University of Toronto. She is the chair of the Association of Ontario Midwives Diversity Working Group and has been active in many interprofessional committees, including the role of head midwife at several hospitals. As a midwife and activist, Manavi has focused on serving immigrant and marginalized women. In recognition of her contribution to immigrant women's health, Manavi received the prestige "Urban Alliance for Race Relations" award in 2010.

Afternoon Workshops (2:30-3:30)

Lori Ross, MD
Topic: Reframing Assisted Human Reproduction: Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Women in Ontario
Speaker: Dr. Lori Ross is a Senior Scientist in the Social and Epidemiological Research Department at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. She is the leader of the LGBTQ Health Team at CAMH. Much of her research focuses on understanding the mental health and service needs of marginalized populations including lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people, in order to improve access to services for these communities.


Karen Trollope-Kumar, MD PhD
Topic:Mental Health of Refugees in Canada:
Description: In this workshop, Karen Trollope-Kumar will discuss mental health in the global context, with particular reference to cross-cultural psychiatry and the challenges of diagnosis in very different cultural contexts. Then she’ll share something of her work with the mental health of the Sudanese refugee population in Hamilton. The workshop will be interactive and participants will be encouraged to actively engage with the ideas presented.
Speaker: Dr. Karen Trollope-Kumar is Co-Director of the Professional Competencies program in the Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She began her medical career working as a family physician in northern Ontario, followed by eleven years of work in the Himalayan foothills of North India, with her husband Dr Pradeep Kumar. In 1996, she and her husband moved to Canada, where she completed a PhD in medical anthropology, studying women’s mental health concerns, focusing on the complexities of diagnosis in cross-cultural context. She has published articles in international journals on maternal health, medical ethics, and mental health and resilience. She and her husband continue to maintain a close connection with India through the charitable trust which they founded in 2007, named Samagra. The work of Samagra focuses on educational initiatives with disadvantaged women and children, and on mind-body medicine.

Dr. Simon Williams, PhD (Child Advocacy and Assessment Program)
Topic: Childhood Sexual Abuse: Through a Cultural Lens
Description:This talk will contrast traditional, Western views regarding sexual practices and cultural expectations “placed” on women and children, with various traditional, non-Western views, in order to appreciate the multifaceted dimensions of childhood sexual abuse. Given the multicultural nature of Canadian society, the goal of this talk is to impart an appreciation of the extent to which various cultures moderate the effects of, and responses to, child sexual abuse.
Speaker:Dr. Simon Williams is a registered Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Queenston, Ontario, Canada, and is a member of the Child Advocacy and Assessment Program (CAAP) at McMaster University Children’s Hospital. He has particular expertise assessing and treating children who have experienced child maltreatment, and often conducts workshops and presentations in this regard. He has completed a research fellowship in child maltreatment from the Offord Centre in Child Studies at McMaster University, and occasionally teaches undergraduate classes at Brock University in the Department of Child and Youth Studies.

Christianne Stephens, PhD
Topic: Deconstructing Trauma: A Medical Anthropological Perspective on Mental Health Issues in Aboriginal Communities
Description: This workshop will focus on mental health issues in Aboriginal communities in Canada. The speaker will draw on her nine years of research experience to discuss the range of health outcomes resulting from colonization and structural violence. Topics will include gendered perspectives on residential school trauma, substance abuse, and environmental health issues.
Speaker: Dr. Christianne Stephens is a medical anthropologist and a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)-supported Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences and sessional instructor in the Department of Anthropology (McMaster University). Her research focuses on Aboriginal health, mental health, environmental health, risk perception, and risk communication.