Researching cancer and making use of discoveries

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Written By Stuart McNish

Guest: Dr. Sam Aparicio (cancer researcher)

Dr. Sam Aparicio of BC Cancer, studying medicine was always the plan, but research became his passion. Unbeknownst to him, research also involves many skills that didn’t expect, such as grant-writing, which he had to learn along the way. This led him down other side pathways, such as starting a biotech company to commercialize some of the findings in the genomics field.

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Helping Canada’s dentists deal with challenges and trends
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Researching and teaching in academia and as a public scholar
Researching and teaching in academia and as a public scholar

Research is more than just digging for information; it is also about teaching. This is what Iman Goodarzi does, in his dual role as a public scholar and PhD candidate. In academia, he finds that his work day is more flexible in terms of timing, but the trade-off is that this is never-ending work – passion for the work and time management skills are vital for him.

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Allowing men to live longer and healthier lives
Allowing men to live longer and healthier lives

How do you allow men to live longer and healthier lives? As CEO and president of the Canadian Men’s Mental Health Foundation, that is Kenton Boston’s job. To be successful, he had to be good at elevating each member of his small team, so that they can solve difficult tasks and challenges, especially when spanning provinces, time zones, and community types.

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Importance of authenticity in an advisory role
Importance of authenticity in an advisory role

Is Diana MacKay a thinker? A change maker? Or an advisor? To her, there might never be a way to classify her career with a single role. Currently, she is working as a health journalist – something that was unplanned, initially to help her father but the role morphed into something more. Unlike her father, she is not a doctor, which forces her to pivot her role into more of a health advisor instead of medical expert. This allows her to topic issues such as the impact of housing on health, which may not neatly or formally fit into the world of medicine.

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