The Science of Good Health or How did we manage to get this Old?

Course Description:
We will explore human health and disease. We discuss what your immune system does to protect you from the thousands of threats you encounter daily – and how, like us, it sometimes makes incorrect decisions – with serious consequences.  We examine the silent goings-on inside which allow most of us to experience lifespans over triples those of our ancestors.

Sessions are taught at the educated lay level to non-scientists.

• Birth, Death and Between: Early understandings.  Building a potent defense system that doesn’t backfire.
• Allergies and Asthma: What are they, Why do they happen, What can be done about them?  (Professor A. Becker as guest contributor)
• CHILD: An in-depth study of 3500 normal Canadian infants from before birth through to their teens.  What have we learned?
• Sex and Immune Capacity. Men and Women differ, Girls and Boys, not so much.
• Your Gut: When it is Good to You and When it is Not.  (Professor JE Ghia as guest contributor)
• An Appraisal of Vaccines
• Coming Improvements to Human Quality of Life, Health and Longevity.

Dates and time:
Wed Nov 6   1:30-3:30pm                      Thomas Sill Multi-Purpose Room
Wed Nov 13   1:30-3:30pm                    Thomas Sill Multi-Purpose Room
Wed Nov 20   1:30-3:30pm                    Thomas Sill Multi-Purpose Room
Wed Nov 27   1:30-3:3-pm                     Thomas Sill Multi-Purpose Room
Wed Dec 4     1:30-3:30pm                    Thomas Sill Multi-Purpose Room
Wed Dec 11   1:30-3:30pm                    Thomas Sill Multi-Purpose Room

Biography:
Born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, Dr. Kent HayGlass did his undergraduate training at Queen’s University. After working a year, he began his PhD program at Western University London in 1979, obtaining it 3 years later. In 1983, he undertook a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard in the lab of Baruj Benacerraf, an awardee of the Nobel prize in 1980.  After an additional year as Faculty there with his own lab, Kent moved to the University of Manitoba in 1986. UM hosts the first Department of Immunology in Canada.

His main professional activities include developing and leading basic research programs in Immunology plus advanced training of graduate students, post doc fellows, medical students and pharmacists. At various times he also served as Head of Department, Director of UM’s MD/PhD program and Scientific Director/Research of the Manitoba Institute of Child Health. He is a recipient of various national and international awards.

Throughout his career, his main interest has been (i) trying to unravel the different ways in which our immune system is turned on and (ii) understanding how it chooses the correct responses from the dozens available.  Done correctly, this provides us protection without accidentally inducing chronic health problems.

Together with his wife Sandy, they have had the privilege of becoming Manitobans, raising their family, enjoying their careers, and trying to contribute to the open, friendly and constructive nature of our province.

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If you have any questions about this course, or would like to be added to a waitlist, please email b.doran@uwinnipeg.ca