Graduate Studies and Faculty Research Event

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
9 am - 12:30 pm
Room 322 - Arthur and Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building

Presented as part of Western's Career Week 2012

Interested in graduate school?

Join us and see what Western has to offer.

Get information related to:

  • Research programs
  • Graduate student projects
  • Applying to graduate school
  • Finding a supervisor

See presentations from award-winning researchers in the School of Health Studies on a variety of research areas. Presenters and topics will include:

Jennifer Irwin - 9:15 am

  • Obesity prevention and treatment               
  • Motivational interviewing and life coaching interventions               
  • Promotion of health-related physical activity and dietary intake behaviours

Shauna Burke - 9:30 am

  • Health promotion
  • Psychology of health and physical activity (group dynamics)
  • Child and youth health; childhood obesity
  • Measurement and promotion of physical activity in children
  • Group-based lifestyle interventions

Alexsandra Zecevic - 9:45 am

  • Aging and health, Gerontology
  • Falls and injury prevention in the elderly (systems approach), safety culture in health care
  • Dementia, stoke, osteoporosis, arthritis
  • Biomechanics (gait, balance, sports, hand movement)
  • Gerontology education, future of health care

Treena Orchard - 10 am

  • Sexuality; Gender and health       
  • Community-based research with a range of different populations, including female sex workers      
  • Aboriginal men and women, gay men and youth       

Debbie Fitzsimmons - 10:15 am

  • Cancer; Chronic Conditions; Quality of life; Health Economics; Health Services Research
  • Emerging Trends in Healthcare

Anita Cramp - 10:30 am

  • Psychology of Exercise Initiation and Maintenance             
  • Health Behaviour Modification         
  • Pre and Postnatal Fitness Interventions
  • Exercise-based smoking cessation Interventions

James Melling - 10:45 am

  • Roles and mechanisms of intracellular molecular signaling pathways in the development of cardiovascular disease/complications associated with Type II diabetes       
  • Alleviation of cardiovascular & metabolic complications associated with Type II diabetes patients    

Christine Guptill - 11 am

  • Health and music performance

Phil Doyle - 11:15 am

  • Voice and voice disorders; Speech and voice acoustics
  • Communication disorders associated with head and neck cancer
  • Laryngeal physiology and pathophysiology
  • Disorders of voice and speech related to head and neck cancers adn laryngectomy
  • Perceptual psychophysics and measurement of voice and voice quality
  • Measurement of quality of life associated with voice disorders and cancer

Dalton Wolfe - 11:30 am

  • Putting evidence into practice with a focus on enabling technologies/telehealth
  • Spinal cord injury rehabilitation and health promotion programming with a focus on enhancing physical activity and self management
  • Managing secondary medical complications following spinal cord injury

Jessica Polzer - 11:45 am

  • Sociology of health and illness; Social theories of health, risk and the body
  • Experiences of health and the risks to health
  • Social and ethical impacts of techologies in health
  • Biotechnology, gender and medicalization

Marita Kloseck - Noon

  • Aging, community health and optimizing seniors' health and independence
  • Health and function of older individuals living in the community
  • Threats to independence with advancing age
  • Community capacity building
  • Naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs)
  • Peer-led education models to improve chronic disease outcomes

Dan Belliveau - 12:15 pm

  • Role of gap junctions in the development and differentiation of the nervous system
  • Neurotrophic control of connexins via members of the neurotrophin family of growth factors
  • Differentiation Therapy of neuroblastoma - role of gap junction proteins in regulating cancer growth

Western provides the best student experience among Canada's leading research-intensive universities.