The Organizing Committee of the Occupational, Environmental and Public Health Conference at Semiahmoo is proud to announce the speaker for the 2014 David Bates Memorial Lecture.
Dr. Richard Jackson
Dr. Richard Jackson, Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the Fielding School for Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles, will deliver the lecture, entitled: “The Built Environment as a Determinant of Health: Keep the Effort Going!”, at the Semiahmoo Conference on January 9, 2014.
As a pediatrician and public health physician, Dr. Richard Jackson has had a distinguished career calling attention to environmental risks and their impact on our health. He has served in many leadership positions in both environmental health and infectious disease including as Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health. He is a recipient of a Presidential Distinguished Service award, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. David Bates Memorial Lecture
Dr. David V. Bates was an internationally renowned pulmonary disease specialist and expert in air pollution health effects. Dr. Bates was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at UBC from 1972 to 1977 and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine (Respiratory) and Department of Health Care & Epidemiology. In 2006 the organizing committee established a named lecture at the Occupational, Environmental and Public Health conference, with David Bates as the first presenter.
Dr. David Bates (1922-2006)
He received his medical training from Cambridge University and was a Senior Lecturer in Medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and the University of London. As a young physician he experienced firsthand the infamous “Big Smoke” air pollution episode in London 1952. Shortly afterward he moved to Canada to serve on the faculty of McGill University where he remained until moving to UBC. At McGill, he published seminal papers on ventilation and lung physiology and demonstrated how environmental pollutants could damage the lung, including early work on the effects of ozone on pilots and flight attendants. Most of his work in air pollution epidemiology, including a series of landmark studies on the relationship between of air pollution and hospital admissions in southern Ontario, was conducted after having retired.
He actively worked for improved air quality in Vancouver and throughout British Columbia. Often described as the grandfather of air pollution epidemiology, all those in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the world who value clean air owe a debt of gratitude to David Bates. Dr. Bates passed away in 2006.
Occupational, Environmental and Public Health Conference at Semiahmoo
The Conference is a joint initiative of The University of British Columbia, University of Washington, Simon Fraser University and University of Victoria. Held annually at the Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, Washington, this “intimate” conference is an opportunity for cross border researchers and students to discuss current health and safety, research and practice issues.
More information & registration details: www.spph.ubc.ca/Semiahmoo