CCHSA wins big at SHRF Santé awards
CCHSA associate member Dr. Brenna Bath and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ornwipa (Fah) Thamsuwan were award recipients at the SHRF Santé awards held Thursday December 6 in Saskatoon.
Weekly Seminar: Saija Kontulainen
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, December 11. The seminar presenter will be Saija Kontulainen: Strong Bones Across the Lifetime. Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Ulfat Khanam
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, December 4. The seminar presenter will be Ulfat Ara Khanam: Predictors of Continuity of Care among Children with Asthma in Saskatchewan Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Josh Lawson
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, November 27. The seminar presenter will be Josh Lawson: Mental Health and Asthma among Children Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Young Innovators
Study sheds light on asthma rates in rural children
Weekly Seminar: Dr. William Pickett:
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday November 20. The seminar presenter will be Dr. Willian Pickett. Title: Risk-taking and Health in Rural Adolescent Populations: A National Study. Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Jafar Soltan:
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday November 6. The seminar presenter will be Jafar Soltan. Title: Technologies for Treatment of Indoor Air. Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Grzegorz Brozek
CCHSA will be hosting a Visiting Scholar Seminar on Wednesday, November 7 from 10:00 to 11:00. The seminar presenter will be Grzegorz Brozek. Title: E-cigarettes and Novel tobacco Products - An Epidemiological Approach. Seminar will be held in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254). WebEx Link: https://bit.ly/2EpTeRH
Weekly Seminar: Donald W. Cockcroft:
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, October 30. The seminar presenter will be Dr. Donald W. Cockcroft: Thunderstorm Asthma Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Stefanie Auer
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting a visiting scholar seminar on Tuesday, October 23: The seminar presenter will be Dr. Stefanie Auer. Title: Prevalence of Dementia in Austrian and Czech Nursing Homes. Seminar will be held from 10:30-11:30 am in Health Sciences B450 (Map below)
Weekly Seminar: April Liu
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, October 16. The seminar presenter will be April Liu: Model Building Using Artificial Neural Networks Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Sarath Peiris
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday Octoberer 9. The seminar presenter will be Sarath Peiris. Add Your Voice to The Conversation Canada. Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Abayomi Olaniyi
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, September 25. The seminar presenter will be Abayomi Olaniyi. Needs Assessment for Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS collaborative programming in Saskatchewan, Canada Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Stephanie Horsley
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, September 11. The seminar presenters will be Drs. Morgan and Kirychuk: CCHSA Welcome and Orientation. Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254). We offer Webex for those outside of Saskatoon.
Weekly Seminar: Drs. Morgan and Kirychuk
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, September 11. The seminar presenters will be Drs. Morgan and Kirychuk: CCHSA Welcome and Orientation. Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
RRC Graduate Student Award winners
The Respiratory Research Centre is proud to announce the recipients of the Respiratory Research Centre Graduate Student Awards: Upkardeep S. Pandher (College of Medicine - Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) Brendan Murray (Physiology) Razi Mahmood (Physiology)
Congratulations to Dr Ornwipa Thamsuwan!
2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Congratulations!
to Dr. Oluwafemi Oluwole, supervised by Dr. Josh Lawson and Olasoji Awoyera, MSc, supervised by Drs George Katselis and Shelley Kirychuk, who convocated on June 7th, 2018.
CIHR Travel Award
CCHSA's Adriana Angarita Fonseca was nominated as being within the top 5% of doctoral students for participation in the CIHR Research Poster Presentation. Adriana is a PhD candidate in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology supervised by Dr. Catherine Trask and Dr. Brenna Bath. As part of the award, CIHR has selected her to receive an amount of up to $1,000.00 to reimburse her travel/accommodations expenses to attend the Canadian Student Health Research Forum (June 12-15, 2018 in Winnipeg), where she will be presenting the poster entitled, “Chronic Back Disorders in Canadian adults: Results of the 2007-2014 Canadian Community Health Survey.”
CCHSA’s Catherine Trask renewed as a Canada Research Chair
Dr. Catherine Trask has been awarded an additional 5-year term as Canada Research Chair in Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Health. This chair will support ongoing work in the CCHSA Ergonomics Lab focusing on work-related musculoskeletal disorders in agriculture.
2018 Life and Health Science Best Paper in Social and Population Health
Congratulations to Dr. Oluwafemi Oluwole – Postdoctoral fellow at the CCHSA - for his winning paper in the category of Social and Population Health during the 2018 Life and Health Sciences Research Expo (formerly the Life and Health Sciences Research Day). His paper titled “Asthma diagnosis among children along an urban-rural gradient” was published in the Journal of Asthma in February 2018. He wrote this paper with Dr. Lawson (Oluwafemi’s Ph.D. academic supervisor) and co-authors (Drs. Rennie, Senthilselvan, Dyck, Adamko and Mrs. Afanaseiva). Congratulations again to Dr. Oluwafemi Oluwole and his co-authors for the excellent performance.
Congratulations Ulfat!
University of Saskatchewan Graduate Scholarship (UGS) 2018 winner
Weekly Seminar: Kelley Bird-Naytowhow
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, April 24. The seminar presenters will be Kelley Bird-Naytowhow, Shania Duquette, and Benjamin Clarke: Tools of Building Relationships Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Cindy Deschenes
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, April 17. The seminar presenter will be Cindy Deschenes: The Colonial Box Theory” – Shifting our Paradigms in Approaching Research with Indigenous people and the Natural World (an excerpt of Coyote’s Dream: Restoring Leadership & Balance through Character Enrichment) Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Special Seminar: Kate Elliott
A third year medical student, Kate Eilliott, is presenting on racial violence in the workplace. Presentation is on Thursday April 12 at 11:30 am in the CCHSA James Dosman Board Room.
RaDAR Rounds with Presenter Dr. Michele Board
The Rural Dementia Action Research (RaDAR) Team is pleased to host a RaDAR Rounds seminar with visiting guest Dr. Michele Board from Bournemouth University (UK). Her presentation will be: “Stepping into the Shoes of a Person with Dementia – Using Simulation and 3D Film Immersive/Experience for Training for Health Care Professionals”
Weekly Seminar: R. Dyck and G. Katselis
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, April 10. The seminar presenters will be Roland Dyck and George Katselis. Title: Examining the relationship between diabetic pregnancies and kidney disease in the offspring: perspectives of a clinician and a basic scientist. Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Tracy Danylyshen-Laycock
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, April 3. The seminar presenter will be Tracy Danylyshen-Laycock: "Examining the Relationship Between Facilitation and Short-Term Sustainability of an Educational Program in Rural Long-Term Care Homes" Seminar will be held from 2:30-3:30 pm in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254).
Weekly Seminar: Adriana A Fonseca
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, March 27. The seminar presenter will be Adriana Angarita Fonseca: Physical activity and chronic back disorders in Canadian adults: Overview and preliminary results Please join by 2:20 pm to allow time to resolve connection issues before the presentation begins. Seminar will be held in the James Dosman Boardroom (Health Sciences E-wing 1254). Also available by WebEx - Info below.
Successful defence for ErgoLab student Muhammad Khan
Muhammad's thesis in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology was titled, "Trunk posture exposure as a risk factor for low back disorders in farmers". In it he investigated the issue of low back disorder among farmers using a systematic review and a field-based exposure assessment. Muhammad will work with supervisors Brenna Bath and Catherine Trask to publish this work in ergonomics and agricultural health journals. Muhammad's official graduation will be in June 2018. Congratulations Muhammad!
Weekly Seminar: Melanie Bayly
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, January 30, 14:30-15:30 p.m. at James Dosman Boardroom 1254. This week's seminar presenter will be Melanie Bayly. Title: Aging alone with cognitive impairment: An assessment of functioning and factors associated with social wellbeing.
FARM SAFETY Research has found that sitting in machinery for too long without a break can also put farmers at risk
Researchers with the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture equipped saddles with sensors to monitor vibration and shock rates. They used the data to figure out how at risk horseback riding can be for back pain.
FARM SAFETY: Too much automation can reduce operator awareness and contribute to more worker injuries
University of Saskatchewan researcher Behzad Bashiri stands beside a tractor simulator at the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture. Bashiri constructed the simulator to monitor physical and mental stresses on farm machinery operators.
SHRF Collaborative Innovation Development grant
CCHSA researchers awarded a SHRF grant
Weekly Seminar: Upkardeep Pandher
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, January 30, 14:30-15:30 p.m. at James Dosman Boardroom 1254. This week's seminar presenter will be Upkardeep Pandher Title: Unravelling the inflammatory nature of endotoxin and glyphosate inhalation exposure. All are welcome
Weekly Seminar: Jon Watts
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, January 30, 14:30-15:30 p.m. at James Dosman Boardroom 1254. This week's seminar presenter will be Jon Watts Title: Researcher, Profile Thyself or How to plunge into the miasma of cyberspace and come up smelling like roses. All are welcome
Weekly Seminar: Tyler Polreis
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, January 30, 14:30-15:30 p.m. at James Dosman Boardroom 1254. This week's seminar presenter will be Tyler Polreis Title: Career Talk: What can I do with my degree in … learn how to explore career possibilities. All are welcome
Weekly Seminar: Ornwipa Thamsuwan
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, January 30, 14:30-15:30 p.m. at James Dosman Boardroom 1254. This week's seminar presenter will be Ornwipa Thamsuwan. Title: An ergonomic evaluation of apple harvesting in Washington State All are welcome!
CIHR Grant Awarded to CCHSA and UofS Researchers
Researchers from the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) and University of Saskatchewan were granted by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) $1,250,775 for 5 years to “Assess, Redress, Re-assess: Addressing Disparities in Sleep Health among First Nations People”.
David Schneberger - Weekly Seminar
The Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) will be hosting the weekly seminar on Tuesday, January 30, 14:30-15:30 p.m. at James Dosman Boardroom 1254. This week's seminar presenter will be David Schneberger. Title: Effect of Hog Barn Dust and CO2 on Lung Innate Immunity. All are welcome!
CCHSA Ergonomics Lab is recruiting women to participate in this study
CCHSA Ergonomics Lab Researcher Angelica Lang is Researching Upper-Limb Problems Caused by Surgery Used to Treat Breast Cancer
Welcome to Fah!
Ergonomics Lab welcomes new Lab Manager and Postdoctoral Fellow