Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Monday, September 14th, 2020 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm — 3:00 pm |
| Location: | Zoom Webinar – Please register in advance |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Contact: | Office of the Dean of Science, odscience@carleton.ca |
Join Carleton University’s Erling Rud (Health Science), Kim Hellemans (Neuroscience), Hashmat Khan (Economics), Tim Pychyl (Psychology) and Ottawa Public Health’s Associate Medical Officer of Health Brent Moloughney as they discuss the risks of the pandemic from biomedical, psychological and economic perspectives, with an emphasis on how epidemiological projections have had, and will continue to have, impacts on social wellbeing and economic stability.
Meet the Panel
Moderator
Alfonso Abizaid, Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Alfonso (Alfie) Abizaid completed his BA, MA and PHD in Psychology at Concordia University. At the end of his studies at Concordia, he received the Governor’s General Medal for his PhD work and the Valedictorian for the class of 2002. Alfie was fortunate to have the opportunity to continue his scientific training at Yale University School of Medicine with support from an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is currently interested on the brain processes that integrate information from the environment to regulate feeding and energy balance. Alfie’s NSERC funded research is focused on how metabolic hormones like ghrelin influence reward seeking behaviors via actions on the brain systems related to rewards and fears. His CIHR funded research examines how the hormone ghrelin influences feeding as a coping mechanism to mitigate the effects of chronic social stress. Alfie is also interested in how prenatal factors like diet, environmental pollutants, or gestational diabetes influence the development of brain systems implicated in the regulation of feeding and energy balance in their offspring.
Panelists
Brent Moloughney, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Ottawa Public Health
Dr. Brent Moloughney is the Associate Medical Officer of Health at Ottawa Public Health where he has been involved in many aspects of the response to COVID-19. He is a public health and preventive medicine specialist with over 25 years of experience at regional, provincial and national levels. For 18 of those years, he was an independent consultant working with public health clients across the country including projects addressing the areas of workforce development; the design and functioning of public health organizations and systems; as well as strategies to address particular health issues. Prior to his return to Ottawa in January of this year, Brent was most recently based at Public Health Ontario where he was the interim Chief of the Department of Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention.
Erling Rud, Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Sciences
Dr. Erling Rud has been a Research Scientist with 31 years (post PhD) experience in the Academic, Biotech/Pharmaceutical and Government sectors (Canada, the UK and USA) as a Virologist.
He has over 40 years postgraduate experience working in many aspects of Virology, 38 of those years on emerging infectious diseases (mainly viral) from RNA viruses (California Encephalitis, Human Parainfluenza Virus type 3, Vesicular Stomatitis Virus and Korean Hemorrhagic Fever) to Retroviruses (HIV, HTLV, SFV, SIV). His activities ranged from Basic and Molecular Virology to Antiviral and Vaccine R&D. While working mainly in the Private sector (Wellcome Foundations Ltd., now part of GlaxoSmithKline, PLC.) and within the Federal Government of Canada ( Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada or PHAC), he has published over 55 peer reviewed publications and has presented over 165 invited talks about his work at conferences and universities around the World.
Peer reviewer and Chair of Peer review committees for the NIH/NIAID (USA), CIHR (Canada), CANFAR (Canada), AIDS Fonds (Netherlands) on topics related to HIV research and development related to HIV vaccines, HIV Topical Microbicides and HIV therapeutics.
Kim Hellemans, Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Provost’s Teaching Fellow
Dr. Kim Hellemans is a teaching professor and current Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Carleton University.
She has received several prestigious teaching awards that recognize her passion and dedication to university teaching, including the Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award and the Capital Educator’s Award. Her current research is focused on exploring factors contributing to academic success, with a focus on how current life stressors, cannabis use, and social media among university students relate to mental health and academic outcomes. She is also the co-host of the popular podcast “Minding the Brain”.
Tim Pychyl, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Dr. Tim Pychyl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. He has garnered an international reputation for his research on the breakdown in volitional action commonly called procrastination. He produces the iProcrastinate podcast (iTunes) and writes the Don’t Delay blog for Psychology Today.
Tim has an interest in and has taught many courses related to personality and individual difference psychology. The COVID-19 pandemic is a living experiment that reflects many aspects of personality, and Tim notes the importance of considering individual differences in our understanding of the potential psychological effects of the pandemic.
Tim’s research is complemented by his passion for teaching for which he has won numerous awards including the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, the Ontario Faculty Associations Teaching Award, The University Medal for Distinguished Teaching, the Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award, and, most recently, the Carleton University Student Association Teaching award. Tim has been an invited speaker across the country working with professors in universities and colleges to enhance teaching and learning.
When not on campus, you will find this self-described “dinosaur dad” at home on his hobby farm with his wife and children (ages 15 and 12). Together they care for their dogs, horses and chickens while enjoying the restorative countryside of the Ottawa Valley.
Hashmat Khan, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics
Dr. Hashmat Khan is Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Carleton University. Hashmat started his career as a Research Analyst at the Bank of Canada and in 2002 joined the Bank of England as a Senior Economist. In 2005, he returned to Canada and joined the Economics Department at Carleton University. Hashmat has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the Vancouver School of Economics. His research interests are the area of macroeconomics from a variety of empirical and policy-relevant perspectives. He has published in leading economics journals. Hashmat is Co-Director of the Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics at Carleton and currently a Guest Editor for the Canadian Journal of Economics on COVID-19 related research.