2024 Vancouver Retreat

The 2024 Vancouver Retreat (December 3 – 5, 2024) was a 3-day retreat for training and project development for RAM Scholars and their institutional mentors that included harm reduction site visits and didactic sessions, writing workshops, and guidance from the Associate Director on how to develop an analytic plan. It also provided an opportunity to practice research presentations and participate in both professional and leadership development. We also celebrated the welcoming of the 13th cohort of the RAMS program (Cohort of 2024-26)!

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  • Group photo at 2024 RAMS Vancouver Retreat
  • Tim Kelly presenting on his research project
  • Group networking lunch
  • Enroue leading a session for mentors
  • Nadia, Ned and Patrick
  • Guy Felicella presenting to Scholars
  • St Paul's Hospital
  • St Paul's Hospital
  • Harm reduction researchers panel
  • Group dinner

Site Visits:

Plenary Leads:

  • Jules Canfield, MPH, Senior Program Manager, Boston Medical Center
  • Daryn David, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Child Study Center, Associate Director for Leadership Development in the Offices of Academic & Professional Development and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Yale School of Medicine
  • E. Jennifer Edelman, MD, MHS, Professor of Medicine and Public Health in the Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
  • Nadia Fairbairn, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, cISAM, Assistant Professor and holder of the Philip Owen Professorship in Addiction Medicine in the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Guy Felicella, Harm Reduction & Recovery Expert and International Public Speaker
  • Enroue Halfkenny, MSW, Owner, Healing and Liberation Counseling
  • Mark Lysyshyn, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health
  • Patrick O’ Connor, MD, MPH, MACP, Dan Adams and Amanda Adams Professor of General Internal Medicine and Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
  • Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH, John Noble MD Professor of General Internal Medicine and Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
  • Michael Stein, MD, Chair and Professor of the Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University School of Public Health
  • Lianping (Mint) Ti, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia