Wednesday, June 20, 2012
9:00AM - 4:00 PM
Macleod Auditorium
Medical Sciences Building
1 King’s College Circle
Toronto, ON
M5G 1R1
REGISTER FOR RESEARCH DAY
(registration closes June 8)
Keynote: Norman Doidge, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Research Faculty, Columbia University, Centre for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York
The Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy is pleased to announce that on June 20, 2012 Dr. Norman Doidge will give this year’s Thelma Cardwell Research Lecture. In his lecture, “Neuroplasticity”, Dr. Doidge will discuss case histories detailing the astonishing progress of people whose conditions had long been dismissed as hopeless. Many of these stories are presented in his book The Brain that Changes Itself that promises to overthrow the centuries-old notion that the brain is fixed and unchanging. Neuroplasticity not only gives hope to those with mental illness, or what was thought to be incurable brain damage, but also expands our understanding of the healthy brain and the resilience of human nature.
Dr. Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and writer, on faculty at the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry and Research Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Doidge ran the Assessment Clinic and the Psychotherapy Centre at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry for many years, and is now in private practice and writing. He has written over 170 scientific and popular articles. His book on neuroplasticity, The Brain That Changes Itself, has been described by Oliver Sacks as “Fascinating...a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.” The New York Times has written that The Brain That Changes Itself has “implications…not only for individual patients with neurologic disease but for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history.” Available in over 100 countries, it has become an international and New York Times bestseller, and #1 bestseller in Canada, where it has been on the bestseller lists for four years. It has been made into two documentary films, and has received scholarly and academic awards, including the U.S. National Alliance on Mental Illness 2008 Ken Book Award, "for an outstanding literary contribution toward a better understanding of mental illness."
Dr. Doidge also hosted the 25-hour TVO television series, The Mysterious Mind: From Brilliant to Broken. He has presented his work all over the world, including the White House, the United Nations, the Genoa Science Festival, the London School of Economics, Harvard, MIT, Learning & The Brain Conference, and the Peking University Neuroscience Research Institute.
On behalf of the Thelma Cardwell Research Day Planning Committee, we welcome your attendance to this annual event.
Denise Reid,
Chair of Thelma Cardwell Research Day Planning Committee
What is Research Day?
Through an endowment fund, the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy annually invites a distinguished visitor to give a public lecture at the Thelma Cardwell Research Day and meet the students, faculty and clinicians. At this symposium, the graduating class displays and discusses their research through poster displays and oral presentations. Read more about Research Day... |
 Thelma Cardwell |
2012 Thelma Cardwell Research Day Planning Committee
Denise Reid, Research Day Chair
Molly Schlosser, Business Officer
Nella Rupp, Administrative Assistant
Camille Williams, Teaching Assistant
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