BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250807T075939EDT-3070mstBJr@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250807T115939Z DESCRIPTION:Global Health Seminar Series The Global Epidemic of Type 2 Dia betes in the South Asian Diaspora Sonia Anand\, MD\, PhD Date: 12 Januar y 2015\, 4:00-5:00 pm Location: McIntyre Medical Building\, Martin Amphit heatre\, Room 504 Dr. Sonia Anand is a Professor of Medicine and Epid emiology at McMaster University\, the Director of McMaster Population Geno mics Program and a vascular medicine specialist. She recently received the Canada Research Chair in Ethnic Diversity and Cardiovascular Disease. She also holds the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research. Her present research focuses upon th e environmental and genetic determinants of vascular disease in population s of varying ancestral origin\, women and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Ana nd received a Doctor of Medicine from McMaster in 1992\, Internal Medicine Training at McMaster and a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1996. She further received her Master’s in Clini cal Epidemiology at McMaster in 1996 and Ph.D. in Health Research Methodol ogy at McMaster in 2002. In 1996\, Dr. Anand received a Canadian Institute s of Health Research Clinician Scientist Award Phase 1 followed by the Pha se 2 Award which she held from 2003-2008. Her current research includes in itiating 2 large birth cohort studies funded by the CIHR and Heart and Str oke Foundation of Canada - one among South Asian women of the greater Toro nto area and the second among Aboriginal women from the Six Nations Reserv e. Her work is widely published amongst academic and peer-evaluated journa ls and she teaches clinical epidemiology courses in methodology and cardio vascular disease at McMaster University. DTSTART:20150112T210000Z DTEND:20150112T220000Z LOCATION:Martin Amphitheatre\, Room 504\, McIntyre Medical Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3G 1Y6\, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler SUMMARY:Global Health Seminars: The Global Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes in t he South Asian Diaspora URL:/globalhealth/channels/event/global-health-seminar s-global-epidemic-type-2-diabetes-south-asian-diaspora-240003 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR