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June 22, 2010
G8/G20 experts list
World leaders are gathering in Ontario for the G8 Summit and G20 Summits and SFU faculty members are standing by to offer expert commentary on hot-button issues such as the economy, the environment and global health: http://at.sfu.ca/urCxOQ
Medical tourism
SFU will host the first international conference on medical tourism June 24-25 at the Vancouver campus (515 Hastings Street). Organizers Valorie Crooks, a health geographer, and Jeremy Snyder, a bioethicist, want to expand the academic discussion about the ethical implications of medical tourism—the rapidly growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain timely and/or inexpensive health care. The conference will gather dozens of researchers, health policy experts and industry representatives from around the world to offer a range of views on the complex and controversial issue. Topics include medical tourism and national healthcare planning; marketing of medical tourism; reproductive and death tourism; and social justice perspectives. Media are welcome to attend the conference; e-mail medtour@sfu.ca to register.
Valorie Crooks, 778.782.8917, 604.417.9007; crooks@sfu.ca
Jeremy Snyder, jcs12@sfu.ca
Teen bullying
With the slaying of Reena Virk by teenagers still in the public’s mind, another horrific case of a teen being ambushed and murdered by her peers is in court. The crown wants two teenagers to be sentenced as adults for the first-degree murder of 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor. Ray Corrado, an SFU criminologist, can comment on whether teen bullying is becoming more vicious and deadly.
Ray Corrado, 778.782.3629, 778.808.4816 (cell); corrado@sfu.ca
Air India
Twenty-five years after the Air India bombing and days after the release of a damning report on Canada’s worst terrorist attack, Sikhs across Canada will hold special memorials to mark the bombing’s anniversary tomorrow. Andre Gerolymatos, a terrorism expert, can comment on the likelihood of the memorials inciting hostility and the merit of an official apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Andre Gerolymatos, 604.728.2712 (cell), 778.782.5597; agerolym@sfu.ca
World leaders are gathering in Ontario for the G8 Summit and G20 Summits and SFU faculty members are standing by to offer expert commentary on hot-button issues such as the economy, the environment and global health: http://at.sfu.ca/urCxOQ
Medical tourism
SFU will host the first international conference on medical tourism June 24-25 at the Vancouver campus (515 Hastings Street). Organizers Valorie Crooks, a health geographer, and Jeremy Snyder, a bioethicist, want to expand the academic discussion about the ethical implications of medical tourism—the rapidly growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain timely and/or inexpensive health care. The conference will gather dozens of researchers, health policy experts and industry representatives from around the world to offer a range of views on the complex and controversial issue. Topics include medical tourism and national healthcare planning; marketing of medical tourism; reproductive and death tourism; and social justice perspectives. Media are welcome to attend the conference; e-mail medtour@sfu.ca to register.
Valorie Crooks, 778.782.8917, 604.417.9007; crooks@sfu.ca
Jeremy Snyder, jcs12@sfu.ca
Teen bullying
With the slaying of Reena Virk by teenagers still in the public’s mind, another horrific case of a teen being ambushed and murdered by her peers is in court. The crown wants two teenagers to be sentenced as adults for the first-degree murder of 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor. Ray Corrado, an SFU criminologist, can comment on whether teen bullying is becoming more vicious and deadly.
Ray Corrado, 778.782.3629, 778.808.4816 (cell); corrado@sfu.ca
Air India
Twenty-five years after the Air India bombing and days after the release of a damning report on Canada’s worst terrorist attack, Sikhs across Canada will hold special memorials to mark the bombing’s anniversary tomorrow. Andre Gerolymatos, a terrorism expert, can comment on the likelihood of the memorials inciting hostility and the merit of an official apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Andre Gerolymatos, 604.728.2712 (cell), 778.782.5597; agerolym@sfu.ca