2010 National Conference:
October 25-27, 2010
Conference Program - click here to view in pdf format
Keynote Speakers and Presenters
- MADELEINE DION STOUT - President of Dion Stout Reflections, Inc
- Regional Chief Angus Toulouse - Assembly of First Nations-(Ontario)
- Mary Simon - President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
- Rosella M. Kinoshameg - President, Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada
- Shelley Esposto - Diabetes Interest Group (RNAO)
- Dr. Dennis Raphael, pHD - Professor, School of Health Policy and Management, York University
- Dr. Ofer Agid, MD - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
- Dr. Margo Greenwood - Associate Professor, University of Northern British Columbia
- Gideon Forman, MA - Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE)
- Dr. Marco Di Buono, PhD - Director of Research at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.
- Jessica Yee - 2009 Role Model, National Aboriginal Health Organization
- Kent Waddington - Communications Director, Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care
- Lori Nichols Davies - CEO of Holistc Cooking Academy of Canada
- Dr. Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg - Environmental Health Lecturer, OISE/University of Toronto and Film Producer
- Dr. David Butler-Jones - Chief Public Health Officer
Watch National Conference webpage at, anac.on.ca/conferences.php for for further information on Keynote Speakers and Presenters.
Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Healthcare System
Written by Marina Freire-Gormaly
“I got my degree in physiology, but I didn’t want to do research for the rest of my life, so I went into nursing, because I thought nurses are the point of entry into the healthcare system,” says Rhonda Goodtrack, an advisor to Aboriginal students at the Native Access Program to Nursing and Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. “So I applied, got in, went through the four years, got my degree and went to work in public health right out of nursing school.” .../read more (.pdf)
PRESS RELEASE: 2010 National Conference Celebrating 35th Anniversary
The Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada (A.N.A.C.), together with its collaborative partners, the Canadian Men in Nursing Group (CMNG), Canadian Nurses for Health and the Environment (CNHE) and Diabetes Nursing Interest Group of the RNAO (DNIG) is proud to announce its 2010 National Conference “Linking our Knowledge through Diverse Interests” will be hosted at Hilton Toronto Airport, Toronto, ON, October 25 – 27, 2010.... /read more (.pdf)
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