We will get through this together

We are all in this together.

Many of us are feeling isolated as travel and education budgets are restricted while patient flow demands, H1N1 and the pressures of work increase. This is a time for us, the chief executive nurses, to take a leadership position in our organizations. Two years ago we reviewed the strategic plan of the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN). The primary foci for ACEN are to network and set ...

I thought we were in this together?

We may get this horse to water, but will it drink?

Modern medicine is practised under increasingly challenging conditions. The accelerating pace at which new information becomes available can be overwhelming. The physician is asked to function as a dual agent: to serve the patient’s interests and, at the same time, to be responsible to society (through government) for the appropriate management of limited resources. As if this weren’t enough, t...

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Primes Get Together

Mathematics has long been an important tool in infectious disease epidemiology. I will provide a brief overview of compartmental models, the dominant framework for modeling disease transmission, and then contact network epidemiology, a more powerful approach that applies bond percolation on random graphs to model the spread of infectious disease through heterogeneous populations. I will derive ...