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Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 12:00 PM

Join the BC Children’s Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre and School Health Promotion team for a free webinar series for anyone working to promote mental health in school communities. In this webinar, Dr. Hasina Samji, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a Senior Scientist in Population Mental Wellbeing at the BC Centre for Disease Control, will discuss mental health and well-being in BC from recent findings from the Youth Development Instrument (YDI) and the Kids and COVID project – with a focus on protective factors and recommendations. The BC Children’s team will also discuss resources available to support the well-being of students in school communities.

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Frontiers in Overdose Prevention: Buprenorphine/Naloxone Microdosing in Emergency Departments
Wednesday, December 14  |  9:00 am – 10:00 am

Learners will be able to:

• Recognize emergency department visits as opportunities to identify people at high risk for overdose
• Understand pharmacology of buprenorphine/naloxone as it relates to patient care
• Understand rationale and evidence basis for buprenorphine/naloxone microdosing
• Understand objectives, design, and progress of an innovative study evaluating buprenorphine/naloxone standard dosing and microdosing from emergency departments (EMED study)

Presenter:
Dr. Jessica Moe, MD FRCPC DABEM MSc MA
Emergency Physician; Assistant Professor, UBC DEM; Clinician Scientist BCCDC

Zoom ID: 93725 021134 / Passcode: 021134