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Monday Feb 01, 2016
Monday Feb 01, 2016
Episode 70
Dr. Kevin D’Amour
Promising Stem Cell Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
Conversations That Matter features Dr. Kevin D’Amour who is leading a San Diego based research team that has FDA approval to develop a stem cell treatment for Type 1 Diabetes. The promise lies in the delivery of, “a stem cell that has great proliferative power to make many cells, and to treat many patients.”
D’Amour points out that the proliferative power of the cell needs to be harnessed to produce islet cells, “We call that differentiation, or the process of differentiation, where the immature cells become more mature cells”.
To date ten patients have been implanted with the device, “it is encouraging. No one has ever done anything quite like this before.” Phase Two is set to start in 2016.
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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Monday Jan 25, 2016
Monday Jan 25, 2016
Episode 69
Dr. Joseph Sung
The SARS “Asian Hero” on Traditional Chinese Medicine
Conversations That Matter features the man Time Magazine dubbed the Asian Hero during the SARS outbreak. Dr. Joseph Sung is the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong, a global leader in Gastroenterology who has published more 800 full scientific articles and written more than 25 books. In short he is a highly respected health care practitioner.
Dr. Sung is also actively working to introduce holistic approaches to patient care, in particular Traditional Chinese Medicine, “what we're striving at. To try to put together the best of care in terms of Medicine, in terms of Physical and Mental health for the recovery of the illness.”
Dr. Sung points out that TCM and Western medicine compliment one another rather than compete, “in Chinese Philosophy and Chinese thinking, health is keeping our balance. And in Western Medicine, this is the term sometimes we use called Homeostasis, and that is to keep the balance of the electrolytes, of our hormones and so on. I do believe that a lot more can be done to find out how they fit into each other to provide the best care.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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Saturday Jan 16, 2016
Saturday Jan 16, 2016
Episode 68
Saul Minkoff
Social Entrepreneurism
Conversations That Matter features Saul Minkoff’s adventure in Social Entrepreneurialism. In 2013 he was part of a team competing for the Hult Prize offered by the Clinton Global Initiative to create a business that would help provide food security for 20 million people by 2020.
Minkoff and his team developed an ingenious phone app that allowed women to save money on their mobile phone. Minkoff says they started with “women, in slums who have a little bit of leftover change. Instead of taking that money and putting it literally under the mattress, they could go to the local corner store and hand that change over to the vendor who would create an SMS account that became a mobile banking system. They could literally text the balance to them.”
Entrepreneurial ventures targeting issues related to poverty around the world are growing in numbers headed by young women and men committed to changing the world by putting market forces to work.
Even though Minkoff’s team did not win the $1,000,000 Hult prize they were committed to their idea and attempted to make it work on a much smaller budget. They were unsuccessful due to a myriad of challenges associated with being under-financed. Minkoff says it was a good idea and he’d do it again given the chance.
He also encourages others who are considering a Socially Entrepreneurial venture to move forward and make a difference, “If you fall flat on your face like I did, you have the option to get back up. So, I'd say, the differences between people who succeed in ventures and don't, often times is just getting started. Just do it.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
Please become a subscriber and support the production of the program at www.conversationsthatmatter.tv
Friday Jan 08, 2016
Friday Jan 08, 2016
Episode 67
Peter Xotta
Where and what is Port Metro Vancouver
This week’s Conversations That Matter features Peter Xotta of Port Metro Vancouver a Federal entity that touches 16 municipalities in the lower mainland. He goes on to say most ports in Canada have a one municipality to one port relationship. Xotta says when he talks to shippers from around the world about Vancouver’s port, they tell him, “We have the most complex port environment”.
It’s a port that generates $500 million of activity every day and supports 100,000 jobs across Canada. Xotta says “so these aren't the mining jobs, these are the transportation jobs in various parts across the country and of course, a lot of that activity is here in the lower mainland. About 10 billion dollars worth of GDP contributed through that transportation activity.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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Saturday Jan 02, 2016
Saturday Jan 02, 2016
Episode 66
Dr Michael Lyon
Healthy Weight Management
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Dr. Michael Lyon one of Canada’s top obesity experts who says we’ve been conned by the weight loss industry into believing there is a magic formula to losing weight and keeping it off. He says, “eat less and move more” is only half true.
He has dedicated himself to understanding how the human body works, why it puts on weight and never wants to lose it. He maintains the key to managing a healthy weight is complex but it can be done. “you get into a long term mindset where you know, this is gonna be something I work at ‘for the rest of my life.’ It's something you work at every day. That doesn't mean necessarily that weight maintenance is harder, it certainly requires daily vigilance, and as time goes on the key is you have to develop a new rhythm of life.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
Please become a subscriber and support the production of the program at www.conversationsthatmatter.tv
Monday Dec 28, 2015
Monday Dec 28, 2015
Episode 65
Buffy St. Marie
Cradleboard - Helping First Nations youth realize their full potential
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Buffy St. Marie who says her career lived at the intersection of social activist and artist. She points out that artists tell the stories of our times in ways that resonate. Over the past five decades Ms. St. Marie has been a voice for First Nations in Canada and the United States.
The Cradleboard project was a concept she developed in the early days of personal computing that allowed First Nations communities to connect and celebrate their individual and collective heritage. “this put aboriginal people in the driver's seat of delivering who they are to remote partners of the same age and they’d discuss everything from clan mothers to medicine. It’s a journey of discovery about each other’s cultures and their own. It’s putting kids in touch with kids and it promotes self-esteem”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
Please become a subscriber and support the production of the program at www.conversationsthatmatter.tv
Episode 65
Buffy St. Marie
Cradleboard - Helping First Nations youth realize their full potential
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Buffy St. Marie who says her career lived at the intersection of social activist and artist. She points out that artists tell the stories of our times in ways that resonate. Over the past five decades Ms. St. Marie has been a voice for First Nations in Canada and the United States.
The Cradleboard project was a concept she developed in the early days of personal computing that allowed First Nations communities to connect and celebrate their individual and collective heritage. “this put aboriginal people in the driver's seat of delivering who they are to remote partners of the same age and they’d discuss everything from clan mothers to medicine. It’s a journey of discovery about each other’s cultures and their own. It’s putting kids in touch with kids and it promotes self-esteem”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
Please become a subscriber and support the production of the program at www.conversationsthatmatter.tv
Tuesday Dec 22, 2015
Tuesday Dec 22, 2015
Episode 64
Steve Burton
Is it safe to eat?
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Steve Burton who following a terrifying bout of food poisoning changed in purpose in life and now he’s working with food producers to help them ensure the food you eat is safe.
Burton points out, “you go to the grocery store, you pick a product off the shelf, you can see if it's gluten-free, non-GMO, organic. But there's actually nothing that tells you on the product whether or not the product is manufactured by a company that takes food safety seriously.”
Burton goe on to say, it’s up to you to ask your retailer about its food safety protocols.
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
Please become a subscriber and support the production of the program at www.conversationsthatmatter.tv
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Episode 63
Darryl Condon
The City of the Future
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Darryl Condon a civic design specialist who says no matter the arguments for or against climate, the design of cities has to change and it’s a change that includes fewer cars, better transit, greater density and liveable spaces that make city living fun and affordable.
Condon says going from now till the city of the future will be an evolutionary and complicated process, “ the city is an organism, it consists of a whole number of elements that operate by their own principles and their own dynamics. At times we applied overly simplistic ways of understanding and influencing those things and not recognized the interrelationships. Moving forward involves planning decisions, funding, which government and how many levels of government will have a voice and a role. At the other end of the spectrum is the community’s role in shaping those decisions and how are they going to feel connected to those decisions.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
Please become a subscriber and support the production of the program at www.conversationsthatmatter.tv
Tuesday Dec 01, 2015
Tuesday Dec 01, 2015
Episode 62
Gianni Kovacevic
Realistic Environmentalism
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Gianni Kovacevic who says we need to keep our climate goals in perspective. He points out that about half of the world’s population is either just entering or about to enter the consumer class.
According to Kovacevic the products they want will require energy to build, he says, “there is no government, no army and no spiritual force that will stop them from seeking the quality of life of developed nations” He says the demand for electricity will grow from 5,600 gigawatts today to more than 14,000 gigawatts in the next 25 years that’s close to a 300 per cent increase in power generation globally.
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
Please become a subscriber and support the production of the program at www.conversationsthatmatter.tv
Saturday Nov 28, 2015
Saturday Nov 28, 2015
Episode 61
Dr. Jeffrey Bland
Functional Medicine
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Dr. Jeffrey Bland the father of functional medicine who says, “we’re in a time of revolution, this transition into the 21st century with biomedicine and our understanding of the origin of health and disease is truly epicly changing.”
According to Dr. Bland functional medicine reflects the coming together of western, complementary and alternative therapies. He says, “In the late '80s and early '90s we had integrated, complementary, alternative, holistic, Chinese and ayurvedic medicines and therapies. All of these were techniques or historical ways of treating patients but they lacked a kind of a coherency to link them to Western medicine, they lacked a mechanistic framework. Functional medicine is a systems biology approach to taking Western thinking and applying it to all these other disciplines.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
Please become a subscriber and support the production of the program at www.conversationsthatmatter.tv