Tony's brother, Dr. Mike Evans, will be our guest speaker for this event. Dr. Evans's talk is entitled "Healthy Parent, Healthy Child: Putting on Your Oxygen Mask First."
The talk will be run through the art and science of everyday habits and things that are “good for a lot of things,” what Dr. Evans calls “The Better Life Experiment.” The evidence around better eating, sleeping, thinking, moving, and building social capital (better relationships) will be reviewed. Dr. Evans will also touch on the changing clinic, behaviour change, and will show media and films made in his lab.
Dr. Evans is a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, and a scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.
"Dr. Mike" is known worldwide for his work in innovative health messaging to the public. His media lab fuses patients with creatives (filmmakers, designers, writers) and experts (patients, clinician, researchers). His lab and film company have pioneered “peer-to-peer healthcare” where they tell or capture evidence-based stories and then embed them in relationships of care. Traditionally, this has been caregiver to patient, but Dr. Evans and his team are more interested in the social networks of the public. He is most known for his whiteboard series on YouTube that has been viewed by over 11 million people. Topics range from stress management to acne to quality improvement to the early childhood brain. The lab is just launching the Better Life Experiment.
His radio show on CBC’s Fresh Air is listened to widely, he was a doctor at the Sochi Olympics, and started a Med School for the Public at the University of Toronto. His work has been profiled in a wide range of publications from Journal of the American Medical Association to The BMJ (British Medical Journal) to Walrus to Readers Digest to the hit Netflix series "Orange is the New Black." Recent awards include being chosen as the top 10 innovators in health by the Canadian Medical Association, top 45 Canadians over 45, and the gold medal in social media at the Web Health Awards. In 2014, he was given the first worldwide Endowed Chair in Patient Engagement (and Childhood Nutrition) at the University of Toronto, and he was awarded the McNeil Medal from the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of outstanding communication of science and medicine to the public.
As always, childcare services will be provided by Strata. Click here for details and to sign up.