CANADA’S FUTURE HEALTH LEADERS WORK TOWARDS SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION Canadian students from every healthcare discipline gathered in Toronto over the weekend of March 12-13 to strategize and share ideas on how improved collaboration and teamwork in healthcare could improve health outcomes for all Canadians. The event was a meeting of the National Health Sciences Stu-dents’ Association or NaHSSA. “NaHSSA was built on the belief that collaboration can im-prove the patient and healthcare provider experience,” said Luciano Di Loreto, president of the National Health Sciences Students’ Association and recent graduate of the Canadian Me-morial Chiropractic College (CMCC). “As Canada’s future healthcare providers, we are passionate about shifting the healthcare system from one that focuses on uniprofessional patient care to one that focuses on interprofes-sional patient-centred care.” Each year NaHSSA holds an annual conference, bringing together students from occupational therapy, nursing, respi-ratory therapy, medicine, chiropractic, rehabilitation sciences, dietetics, and many more health care disciplines. The theme of the seventh annual conference was Crossing the Bridges of Socioeconomic and Cultural Diversity in Healthcare, and repre-sented the participants’ growing awareness that cross-cultural diversity management in healthcare is extremely relevant to today’s professionals. This year’s conference, a joint venture hosted by the Canadian Me-morial Chiropractic College, the University of Toronto, Canadian news • Ergonomically designed • Therapeutically sound College of Naturopathic Medicine, and Ryerson University, in-cluded a workshop for student-run clinics, an interprofessional problem-based learning session, and the National Health Care Team Challenge where teams compete to provide an interpro-fessional plan of care based on an assigned case study. Each year at this conference, NaHSSA presents the Dr. John Gilbert Interprofessional Education Mentorship Award to an in-dividual who has provided outstanding support to students ad-vocating for interprofessional education and collaborative prac-tice. NaHSSA is proud to announce that this year’s recipient is Dr. Scott Reeves. Dr. Reeves is the research advisor at the Centre for IPE and editor of the Journal of Interprofessional Care . Established in 2005, NaHSSA was the first interprofessional student association in the world. Students who are driven to improve education and healthcare continue to network through NaHSSA each year. To learn more about NaHSSA, please visit http://www.nahssa.ca. Restore your patient’s health ... • All Therapeutica products encourage healing by providing support and stability while sleeping and sitting • Therapeutica back supports are created to match the natural curve of the spine and to help the patient achieve optimum neutral posture while sitting • The Therapeutica back support aids in the prevention and relief of back pain and fatigue • Available in three sizes The Ultimate Back Support The Ultimate Spinal Orthotic Upper Back Support Lumbar Support The Ultimate Cervical Sleeping Pillow Lower Back Support 1.800.348.5729 · www.therapeutica.com www.canadianchiropractor.ca CANADIAN CHIROPRACTOR | APRIL 2011 • 31
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