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SPEAKER PROFILES - CME Program
Go Back to Alaska August 14 - 21, 2005 MEDICAL ISSUES IN PSYCHIATRY

Dr. Mark Katz (Traditional Medicine)
Dr. Mark Katz is an Assistant Professor, in the Department if Psychiatry, at the University of Toronto. He is also the Coordinator of Psychiatric Services for the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network, and a Staff Psychiatrist in the Medical Surgical Psychiatry Program in the Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network. Dr Katz' academic interests include Mood Disorders in the Medically Ill and Psychosocial Aspects of Cancer; he has a particular interest in the psychosocial impact of head and neck cancer. Dr Katz is heavily involved in Education at the Undergraduate Medical and Postgraduate Psychiatry level. He is also very involved in both University and Industry initiated Continuing Education activities for physicians, and has won several University of Toronto Teaching Awards for his undergraduate and CE contributions.

Dr. Gary Chaimowitz (Complementary Medicine)
Dr. Chaimowitz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University in Hamilton. He is the Head of Service- Forensic Psychiatry at St. Joseph's Healthcare. In addition to subspecialty psychiatry certification he has an MBA from the University of Toronto. He has a longstanding interest in First Nations mental health and acts as a consultant psychiatrist to the James Bay Cree communities of Northern Ontario. His continuing medical education activities include organizing the McMaster Muskoka Seminars, now in its 9th year. He is a member of both the Ontario Review Board and the Consent and Capacity Board. He is secretary both to the Canadian Academy of Psychiatry and the Law as well as the Canadian Psychiatric Association Native Mental Health Section. He is a member of the Canadian Psychiatric Association Professional Standards and Practice Council.

Dr. Derek Puddester (Physicians' Health)
Dr. Puddester obtained his B.A., B. Med. Sc., and M.D. from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He completed a residency in Psychiatry at McMaster University, and then completed a fellowship in child/adolescent psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Puddester is Director of the Behavioural Neurosciences and Consultation-Liaison team at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, working primarily with children and youth affected by severe physical and mental disorders. He is also a Director of Education for the Department of Psychiatry at CHEO, and Director of the Faculty Wellness Program at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. The Faculty Wellness Program provides preventative, educational, interventional, and rehabilitation services to medical students, residents, and staff physicians.

Bart Mindszenthy & Gail Roberts (Practice Management)
Bart and Gail offer insight from 50 collective years in communications. Since founding their firm—The Mindszenthy & Roberts Corporation in 1990, they have provided counsel and support across Canada to more than 200 organizations in all sectors. Having worked on some of the highest profile issues and crises of the past decade, they've developed specialized workshops for professionals to effectively use communications to enhance understanding and strengthen relationships. Gail and Bart will focus on how physicians can communicate more productively and successfully with patients, staff, and others.

Gregory Hilderman (Wealth Management)
Greg has been a partner in G2 Financial for the past 12 years and practicing comprehensive financial planning for the past 23. He is a Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant and has spent the past 15 years specializing in retirement, tax and estate planning. Greg has been instrumental in reshaping how numerous physician groups are compensated, with a focus on improving their current and future lifestyle. Some of the groups he has worked with include Neo-Natologists, Radiologists, Thoracic Surgeons, Neurologists and the Oncologists of Alberta and British Columbia.

Jessie Johnnie (Local Content)
Jessie Johnnie was born and raised in Hoonah Alaska, to her parents Lilly (Houston) Johnnie and Clark Johnnie. Jessie joined two brothers and a sister. Being raised by her Grandmother for most of her young life, Jessie has always been interested in the culture and the preservation of the traditions, stories and the values of the Tlingit people. She has dedicated her life to teaching about the culture and the values that her Grandmother related to her and those life lessons that she has acquired by living a common life while raising her children and staying close to her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.