February Speaker Series

MHAC have been busy recruiting professionals who work with individuals with a mental illness or consumers to provide an educational discussion for our members. We invite you to come to the monthly educational session and potluck on February 2nd at 4:15 pm and learn about different topics related to mental health and wellness.

Our guest speaker for our February session is Dr. Fleming.Anxiety is a mental health concern common among university students. Dr. Fleming will be sharing with the audience: different psychological theories on anxiety, bio-psychosocial perspective on causes of anxiety (including basic psychopharmacology of anxiety), common signs and symptoms and manifestations of anxiety, commonly adopted interventions, tips on illness prevention strategies and significance of inter-professional collaborations.

The event will begin at 4:15 pm in Lab 1&2 / Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy; the 3rd floor of the UBC Hospital. There will be signs once you get to third floor using the elevators close by to Student Health Services on the main floor. As the session will be beginning at 4:15 pm, we will have the pot-luck after the discussion. MHAC will provide drinks, but please bring a pot luck item if you would like to participate in the pot luck. Come and join us even if you have to come in a bit late.

To learn more about Dr. Fleming, read the full post.

Dr. Fleming completed his undergraduate medical training at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1973. On completion of his internship at the University of Western Ontario, he came to UBC to study Psychiatry becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1978. Interested in the REM sleep findings associated with depression, he obtained further training in Sleep Medicine at Stanford and was certified as a clinical polysomnographer in 1986. He is a Diplomate of both the American Boards of Neurology and Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, a Fellow of the Clinical Sleep Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a founding member of the Canadian Sleep Society.  His research interests are in sleep and psychiatric disorders and the psychopharmacology of sleep and wakefulness. He is the Co-Director of the Sleep Disorders Program, UBC Hospital, Vancouver and is the Associate Head for Education in the Department of Psychiatry, UBC.