Rick Hansen
Rick Hansen, C.C., O.B.C., world champion, Pan Am gold medalist, Paralympic medalist and founder of the Rick Hansen Foundation
June 2024
Paul Oh
Paul Oh, Cardiologist and Medical Director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Program at the UHN-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
2022 Exercise as health care: past, present, and future
Lucie Thibault
Lucie Thibault, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, and the 2021 Shaw-Mannell Leisure Research Award recipient
2021 Shaw-Mannell Award and Hallman Lecture: Lucie Thibault
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Perry Bellegarde
Perry Bellegarde, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
Panelists: Elder Myeengun Henry, Chantelle Richmond, Lori Campbell, Lori Davis Hill
Hallman Lecture and Panel: COVID 19 and Indigenous communities
Jane Philpott
Jane Philpott, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
The state of Indigenous health in Canada: Causes and consequences
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Dan Dustin
Daniel Dustin, Professor, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, University of Utah
Remarks in Honour of Sue Shaw and Roger Mannell, December 2019
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Peter Johnson
Peter Johnson, Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington
David O'Toole
David O’Toole, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Maintaining relevance in the era of artificial intelligence
Gerard Kyle
Gerard Kyle, Professor, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M University
Leisure studies, ego involvement, and the dodo: Trying to make sense of the ebbs and flows of leisure research, November 2018
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Laura Frey Law
Laura Frey Law, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Iowa
Strength and Fatigue Adaptations with Aging: Modeling a Paradox and Implications for Musculoskeletal Injury, October 2018
Justin Garcia
Justin Chambers, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Research Director at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
Love and sex in the digital age, September 2018
Donna Chambers
Donna Chambers, Professor of Tourism in the Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism at the University of Sunderland, UK
Whiteness, women and sex tourism, July 2018
Scott Russell
Scott Russell, MA; CBC Sports broadcaster; advisory committee for the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport
Building a stronger Canada through values-based sport, June 2018
Alfgeir Kristjansson
Alfgeir Kristjansson, Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, West Virginia University School of Public Health; Center for Social Research and Analysis, Reykjavik University
How did Iceland transform rates of adolescent substance use over a 20 year period?, February 2018
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Dana Kivel
Dana Kivel, Director, Community Engagement Center; Professor, Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration, Sacramento State University
Are we ready for radical leisure?, December 2017
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Doug Kleiber
Doug Kleiber, Emeritus Professor, Counseling and Human Development Services; Adjunct Professor, Psychology and Gerontology, University of Georgia
The relevance of leisure in optimizing life transitions: Personal knowledge and alternative facts, December 2017
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Mike Salvaris
Mike Salvaris, Director of the Australian National Development Index (ANDI)
Measuring the future we want, November 2017
Jack Dennerlein
Jack Dennerlein, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Science at Northeastern University
Demystifying ergonomics in the modern office, October 2017
John Frank
John Frank, Director, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy
Chronic disease prevention: "upstream" and "downstream" revisited, October 2017
Honourable Anne McLellan
Honourable Anne McLellan, Head of the Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation
The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis – what does it all mean?, May 2017
Diane Phillips
Diane Phillips, Professor, School of Management, Canberra University
Brant E. Fries
Brant E. Fries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
“Fries’” a crowd: Current studies of long-term care eligibility, payment, and poisoning, October 2016
Laura Punnett
Laura Punnett, Distinguished University Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Safe patient handling: Highlights of current research and U.S. public policy efforts to improve safety, October 2016
Leon Geffen
Dr. Leon Geffen, Family Physician, Cape Town, South Africa. Senior interRAI Fellow, South Africa
Aging in Africa: Challenges and opportunities to improve the well-being of older persons, April 2016
Alex C. Michalos
Alex C. Michalos, Adjunct Professor, Brandon University
Building the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, September 2011
Robert Thirsk
Dr. Robert Thirsk, Astronaut, Canadian Space Agency with guest Richard Hughson, Kinesiology, University of Waterloo
Secrets of health in outer space and here on Earth: lessons from International Space Station Expedition 20/21, October 2010
Barbara Silverstein
Barbara Silverstein, Research Director, SHARP Program, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
Research to Practice to Policy and Back Again, May 2009
Tess Kay
Tess Kay, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of Youth Sport, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University
Pressure Zone or Pleasure Zone? How Family Life Impacts Work-life Balance, April 2009
Linda Duxbury
Linda Duxbury, Professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
Work-Life Balance: Rhetoric versus Reality, April 2009
Benjamin K. Hunnicutt
Benjamin K. Hunnicutt, Professor, Department of Leisure Studies, University of Iowa
Time to Live: The Forgotten Dream of Progress, the Healthy Alternative to Work Without End, March 2009
Kathryn Pollack
Kathryn Pollak, Duke University Medical Center
Doctors and Patients at the End of Life: What happens behind closed doors?, October 2008
Trevor Hancock
Trevor Hancock
Reflections on the impact and ethics of designing built environments as if people mattered, April 2008
Timothy E. Hewett
Timothy E. Hewett, Director of the Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Cincinnati
Effects of Sex on Young Athletes: Why Girls' Knees are More Trouble than Boys', April 2008
Wendy Frisby
Wendy Frisby, Professor in the School of Human Kinetics and Chair of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia
Mobilizing Communities to Promote the Health of Women and Youth Living in Poverty, March 2008
Gloria Gutman
Gloria Gutman, Simon Fraser University
Global Aging and the Continuum of Care, September 2007
Lewis Lipsitz
Lewis Lipsitz, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Gerontology Division at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Irving and Edyth S. Usen Chair in Geriatric Medicine and Co-director of the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew Senior Life
Fainting, Falls, and Blood Pressure Regulation in the Elderly: Insights from Clinical Geriatric Research, May 2007
Susan Kirkland
Susan Kirkland, Associate Professor and Clinical Research Scholar in the Departments of Community Health and Epidemiology and Medicine at Dalhousie University
Beyond the Fountain of Youth: Healthy Aging in the 21st Century, May 2007
Len Gray
Dr. Len Gray, Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland
Express Lanes and Collectors: Using Decision-making to Ease Traffic Congestion in Acute Care, April 2007
Clinton T. Rubin
Clinton T. Rubin, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Biotechnology, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the State University of New York
Osteoporosis: Can it be Prevented Without the Use of Drugs?, March 2007
Jaber Gubrium
Jaber F. Gubrium, Professor, Chair of Sociology at the University of Missouri-
Aging, Life Stories, and Social Context, February 2007
Alan Hargens
Dr. Alan Hargens , Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, San Diego
Snakes in Space, October 2006
Kermit Davis
Dr. Kermit Davis , Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati
When the Individual and the Workplace Interact: The Story of Low Back Pain, June 2006
Michelle Porter
Michelle Porter, Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Studies at the University of Manitoba
Driving and Aging - An In-Vehicle Approach, April 2006
Linda Caldwell
Linda Caldwell, professor of recreation, park, and tourism management and human development and family studies, Penn State University.
Leisure and Health: Joining Forces to Prevent Youth Risk Behaviour, March 2006
Ed Smith
Ed Smith, Director of Evaluation Research for the Prevention Research Center and Director of the Prevention and Methodology pre and post-doctoral Training Program
Leisure and Health: Joining Forces to Prevent Youth Risk Behaviour, March 2006
Deborah Bowen
Deborah Bowen, Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington
Applying Social Behaviour Science Findings to Eliminate Health Disparities, February 2006
Stuart McGill
Stuart McGill, Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo
Strategies to Prevent Low Back Injury: Fact vs. Fiction, April 2002
Christina Mills
Christina Mills, former Director General of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control at Health Canada and President of the Canadian Public Health Association
April 2002 to May 2003
Roy Romanow
The Honourable Roy Romanow, former Chairman of the Commission for the Future of Health Care in Canada
The Future of Health Care in Canada, November 2001
Ron Borland
Ron Borland, inaugural Director of the VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, a unit of the Cancer Control Research Institute at the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria in Melbourne Australia.
Where Should we be Going in Tobacco Regulation?, July 2001
Phil Campagna
Phil Campagna, professor in the School of Physical and Health Education at Dalhousie University
Children - Less Active and More Obese: What can we do?, May 2001
Fraser Mustard
Dr. Fraser Mustard, former surgeon at McMaster University Hospital and Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
The Effect of the Early Years on Health, Learning and Behaviour throughout the Life Cycle, May 2000