CFN Speakers:

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ABSTRACTS

INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Professor Liz Bondi, Head of the Institute of Geography, School of GeoSciences and Director of the Counselling Studies Programme, School of Health at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Professor Bondi is also a counsellor accredited by Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland. Her research interests include the provision of and relationships within care in the northern context of Scotland.

NATIONAL SPEAKERS:

Valorie Crooks, Department of Geography, York University

Denise Cloutier-Fisher, British Columbia Rural and Remote Health Research Network

Sarah de Leeuw, Research Coordinator, Centre of Excellence for Children and Adolescents with Special Needs

Margo Greenwood, National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health

Cindy Jardine, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta

Jean Shoveller, Heathcare and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia

LOCAL SPEAKERS:

Jacqueline Baldwin, Poet

Howard Brunt, Vice-President (Academic) and Provost & Professor in Community Health Science & Nursing

Neil Hanlon, Geography Professor and Chair of the Canadian Rural and Remote Health Association

Dawn Hemingway, BCNAR and Social Work Program

Martha MacLeod, Nursing and Community Health Professor

Christina McLennan, Women North Network

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Deborah Thien, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, Organizer

Patricia (Trish) Pilotte, Research Assistant, Social Work, Co-organizer