No Images? Click here December 2017 Congratulations to the fall class of 2017!(Photo credit: UAlberta - Richard Siemens) This November a number of learners in the Department of Pediatrics joined the convocation class of fall 2017. Congratulations to them all for their scholarly achievements!
Bring items for the Campus Food BankIsrael Amirav, associate professor in the Division of Respiratory Medicine, gets a treat from Santa at the 2016 Winter Celebration. This festive event for the Department of Pediatrics is a hot catered breakfast buffet with live music. We will be collecting for the Campus Food Bank again this year; please bring food and/or cash to contribute if desired. Thursday, December 7 Don't ship gifts and personal orders to workSupply Management Services would like to remind all UAlberta staff and students that gifts and items ordered for personal use must be addressed and delivered to your home. Only items for University business use are accepted at Central Receiving for delivery by campus mail. If gift or personal packages are delivered to Central Receiving, you will be contacted by Distribution Services for alternate delivery instructions. The package will be returned to the carrier to re-deliver elsewhere for pick-up. Update your profile on the university staff directoryInformation Services and Technology (IST) has been working to build the next iteration of Find a Person, the university’s staff directory. You can find this directory on the top of all U of A websites. As part of an enhancement to the application, staff can now edit and update their personal directory listing through https://directory.ualberta.ca. It is recommended that all staff review their directory listing to ensure accurate information is presented and edit/update as needed. For more information, visit the IST Find a Person page. To provide feedback, contact IST by email at ist@ualberta.ca. *Note that this listing does not update your human resource record and is also separate from your FARM or Professor Page profile. The Find a Person directory is for contact information only. If your human resource record needs to be updated, please contact HR. Faculty in the NewsDepartment members Anita Kozrskyj and Yarden Yanishevsky. (l-r) Department members shared new research and insights this past month:
Med Ed team shares tips at international conferenceThe room was packed for Anita Reff and Amanda Schwalbe's presentation at the 2017 International Conference on Residency Eduation, titled "Google Sites: Bridging communication between PA's, PD's and trainees." Two members of the department's Medical Education team presented at the 2017 International Conference on Residency Education, the world's largest conference devoted exclusively to advancing residency education. Add your positions to the summer student jobs databaseThe FoMD Undergraduate Summer Students' Research Program job database is now open to post your summer research positions for two, three or four months between May and August. Please ensure the following required information is entered into the database:
*Note to Supervisors: Appropriate ethics approvals must be in place prior to the commencement of the project. Share your #StolleryBackyard storyAvery, above, loves art classes and riding horses. But she might never have had the change tollow her passion were it not for the Stollery. Learn more about Avery's #StolleryBackyard story by clicking the photo. The Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation is proud to introduce In My Backyard, a campaign that’s educating Albertans on the many ways Stollery care positively impacts your community. Over the next 12-18 months, you will meet Stollery kids from communities throughout northern Alberta who are back in their backyards because of the specialized care only the Stollery provides. Kids like Avery (watch Avery’s video). If you or someone you know has a #StolleryBackyard story, the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation wants to hear it — share it today! Your “In My Backyard” stories have the ability to impact another person’s life. To share your Stollery story,
PSIG gives pediatric grad students a community of their ownPediatrics graduate student Maryam Kebbe sells samosas to support Pediatric Student Involvement Group activities. The academic year is well underway, and the Pediatric Student Involvement Group (PSIG) has been as busy as the rest of us! Formed in 2016, PSIG promotes student socialization, encourage professional relationships, and ensure the opinions of graduate students are heard in the department. Throughout the year PSIG provides numerous opportunities to ensure that students needs are met, educationally and mentally. They provide support of the 3-Minute Thesis competition and offer regular 'Coffee Breaks' (small meetings hosted during lunchtime for students to relax and unwind with their peers). UAlberta Winter Closure December 26 - January 1On behalf of the Department of Pediatrics, we wish you all the very best in the Dermatologist's research will help kids with psoriasisLoretta Fiorillo hopes her research will help kids with psoriasis from the outside in. (Photo courtesy of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation.) Some say that beauty is only skin deep, but Loretta Fiorillo knows that, for young children, the effects of a skin condition like psoriasis can run much deeper. That's why she puts so much effort into her research. Worklife ResourcesThe University of Alberta is a great place to work, with access to many programs, services and resources for faculty and staff. Please visit Human Resource Services Learning and Development for more information or the Learning Shop Calendar for upcoming courses and workshops.
For human resources service in the Department of Pediatrics, please contact Kevin Meleskie at 780.248.5414.
Submit your story to the PulsePediatric Pulse is an internal publication for faculty, staff and learners in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta. It is published the first Tuesday of every month by department communications staff. The deadline to submit to the January newsletter is December 15, 2017. |