Time

Activity

7:45 – 8:15

Registration and Breakfast

8:15 – 8:20

Opening Remarks: Dr. Kendall Ho and Dr. Alison Buchan, UBC Faculty of Medicine

8:20 – 8:30

Ms. Mary Martin (City of Surrey): Achieving Optimal Public Engagement in Health: The health consumer perspective

8:30 – 10:00

Panel #1: Engaging health consumers and patients: What’s happening today (facilitated by Dr. Kendall Ho)

8:30 – 8:45

Speaker #1: Dr. Antoine Geissbuhler: Health on the Net (via WebEx)

8:45 – 9:00

Speaker #2: Dr. Cameron Norman: Using the Internet for Health Promotion in Youth (via WebEx)

9:00 – 9:15

Speaker #3: Dr. Gerri Sinclair: Digital Media and Public Engagement: Opportunities in Health Applications (via WebEx)

9:15 – 9:30

Speaker #4: TELUS: New Health Applications on the Horizon

9:30 – 10:00

Question and Answer Period

10:00 – 10:15

Break

10:15 – 11:00

Panel #2: TEKTIC patient engagement projects (facilitated by Dr. Richard Scott)

10:15 – 10:30

TEKTIC Project #1: Dr. Michal Fedeles and Ms. Katherine Wisener: Engaging Patients and the Community: (e)Literacy for Better Health

10:30 – 10:45

TEKTIC Project #2: Dr. Sandra Jarvis-Selinger: Community Learning Centres

10:45 – 11:00

TEKTIC Project #3: Dr. Kendall Ho and Dr. Helen Novak Lauscher: Public Engagement with Multicultural Communities via Multimedia Channels

11:00 – 12:00

Facilitated Discussion re: Patient engagement and collaboration (facilitated by Dr. Richard Scott)

12:00 – 12:15

Summary and Closing Remarks: Dr. Kendall Ho

12:15 – 13:15

Lunch and Networking