Trent University :: 50th Anniversary

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Ideas That Change The World Symposium Profiles

Panel Theme: Life and Health

Panel 1: The Family

Tom Miller '82

Physician, Peterborough Regional Health Centre

Moderator

After Trent, Tom Miller studied for a M.Sc. at the University of Manchester and then returned to Canada to work as a Health Policy Analyst for Health Canada. He studied medicine at McMaster University between 1988 and 1991, and completed his Family Medicine residency at McMaster in 1993. During that time he became a member of the research team for the “Health of Children in War Zones Project,” acting as the Principal Investigator for the Gaza Child Health Survey, conducted in 1996. From 2002 to 2011 he held the positions of Chief and/or Medical Director of Emergency Services at the PRHC. Also, he holds the position of Assistant Professor, Adjunct, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Queen’s University.

Bob Glossop '67

Executive Director, Vanier Institute of the Family (retired)

For more than thirty years, Dr. Glossop worked with the Vanier Institute of the Family as a cultural observer intent on learning about families. The research shed light on our nation’s economy, social trends, culture and, ultimately, our future. His writings, speeches, and analyses have addressed a broad range of themes: societal aging, taxation policy, community economic development, new reproductive technologies, childcare, genomics, the mass media, and technological change. In 2005, Mr. Glossop received the Lawson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2008 the Order of Canada.

Kathryn Norlock

Kenneth Mark Drain Endowed Chair in Ethics and Chair of Philosophy, Trent University

Dr. Norlock writes and teaches on ethics, feminist philosophy, environmental philosophy, and sociopolitical issues. Upon appointment as the Drain Chair in Philosophy, she said "Establishing an endowed chair in ethics shows Trent’s commitment to the importance of thinking excellently and critically about the most fundamental questions of our lives and our shared responsibilities."

Rod Phillips '69

Professor of History, Carleton University

Dr. Phillips is a professor of history at Carleton University, Ottawa, where he teaches courses in the history of Europe and the history of food and drink. He has researched widely in the history of the family, and has written several academic books on the history of marriage and divorce, as well as on the history of alcohol and a textbook on 20th-century Europe. Since 1996 he has been the editor of The Journal of Family History, the leading academic journal in the field.

Sarah Williams '96

Physician, Senior Advisor for Health Services, First Nations Health Authority (BC)

Dr. Williams is a medical doctor and Anishnaabe (Ojibway) from Curve Lake First Nation, Ontario, where she was born and raised. She also considers herself from Trout Lake, which is her mother's homeland, located in northwestern Ontario. She is a Senior Advisor for Health Services with the First Nations Health Authority in British Columbia.

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