PHS Seminar Series - January 2021

| 23 December 2020

The Department of Public Health Sciences is proud to present the January speakers for our Seminar Series! For more information, please contact nikki.remillard@queensu.ca.

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CARE-SEEKING FOR SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS IN AN ERA OF SHRINKING RESOURCES: ANSWERED AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Presented by Dr. Bradley P. Stoner

Learning outcomes: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• discuss changing patterns of care-seeking for gonorrhea and chlamydia in a Midwestern US city

• describe treatment approaches to STI care-seekers in emergency department settings

• consider alternative research approaches to augment understandings of STI care- seeking

Dr. Bradley P. Stoner is Professor and Head, Department of Public Health Sciences. and Professor, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University. His research focuses on elucidating the determinants and correlates of sexually transmitted infection (STIs). Dr. Stoner received the MA degree in Anthropology from McGill University, followed by MD and PhD degrees at Indiana University, with subsequent residency and fellowship training in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He is the founding director of the St. Louis STD/HIV Prevention Training Center and the Medicine & Society Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is past-president of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA). Dr. Stoner is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 12:30-1:30pm

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HIJACKING OF EVIDENCE- BASED MEDICINE: LESSONS FROM ONCOLOGY

Presented by Dr. Bishal Gyawali

In his talk Dr. Gyawali will discuss how and why cancer drugs that seem efficacious on clinical trial reports may not necessarily improve outcomes for patients with cancer. This talk will teach the participants how to think critically about clinical trials, understand the concept of surrogate endpoints, and be familiar with various biases and spins that may distort trial results.

Bishal Gyawali, MD, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, scientist in the Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, a clinical fellow in the Department of Medical Oncology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada and an affiliated faculty at the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics and Law in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA. He is also currently serving as a research consultant to the Nepal Health Research Council and has previously served as a medical consultant for the not-for-profit Anticancer Fund, Belgium. He is in the editorial and advisory board for multiple medicine and oncology journals including Cell, JCO Global Oncology, JCO Oncology Practice and ecancer, has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and is the recipient of the 2020 ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation Global Oncology Young Investigator Award in Implementation Science. He was also awarded by the Government of Nepal with Young Health Researcher Award in 2020. His areas of academic interests include cancer policy, global oncology, evidence-based oncology, financial toxicities of cancer treatment, clinical trial methods, and supportive care. He is an advocate of "cancer groundshot", a term he coined to imply that investment should be made on proven high-value interventions in cancer care that are easy to implement globally and are affordable. Dr. Gyawali tweets at @oncology_bg.

Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 12:30-1:30pm