NOSM Welcomes New Associate Program Director
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ariella Zbar to the position of Associate Program Director for the Public Health and Preventive Medicine (PHPM) residency program, effective January 2020. Dr. Zbar is an Assistant Professor at NOSM and Associate Medical Officer of Health at Public Health Sudbury and Districts where she provides preceptorship for PHPM trainees. She is a graduate of the Queen's University PHPM Residency Program and brings three years of experience as a local public health physician practicing in Northern Ontario in the areas of communicable disease, health promo...
> Read MoreNOSM garden provides harvest for its Culinary Medicine Labs
When the call went out for volunteers for a Green Thumbs Committee at NOSM, Natalie Lefort was quick to answer. She is the School’s Research Laboratory Coordinator and has a flair for gardening. The group started out maintaining flower beds at NOSM at Laurentian University and shortly thereafter built a full-scale vegetable garden behind the medical school building. “I signed up to take care of landscaping and later on Kate Beatty asked if anyone wanted to build a garden in the back. Of course, I said ‘Yes!’ I took the lead on that, along with anyone who wanted to help,” says Lefort. The NOSM Healthy Workplace Group (HWG)...
> Read MoreFood, glorious food! In all its forms of consumerism, is food insecurity real?
Food insecurity in the North is a multifaceted problem. Northerners rely on a mix of traditional or wild food and market food, and both harvesting and food shipping costs are extremely high. Canada's efforts to provide Northerners in isolated communities with improved access is failing to lower the cost of perishable and nutritious food in northern communities by providing northern retailers with a subsidy on a select list of foods. Read more in the latest edition of Northern Routes....
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