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PhD Final Oral Examination (2000 – 2005)


[ELEANOR PINTO] December 2, 2005
[ROBB TRAVERS] October 28, 2005
[LOUISE MURPHY] October 17, 2005
[STEPHANIE NIXON] October 5, 2005
[HEATHER SCOTT] September 30, 2005
[ANN SYLVIA BROOKER] September 26, 2005
[JULIE RICHARDSON] September 19, 2005
[LUBA MAGDENKO] June 16, 2005
[SARAH FLICKER] June 8, 2005
[ROBIN STADNYK] June 2, 2005
[MONICA BIENEFELD] December 16, 2004
[CAMERON DALE NORMAN] November 5, 2004
[ALISON THOMPSON] October 29, 2004
[SHAFAGH FALLAH] October 27, 2004
[JOANNA BIERNACKA] October 5, 2004
[MARY TERESA FYNES] May 13, 2004
[CHI-CHEN HONG] February 4, 2004
[JOCALYN PAIGE CLARK] January 19, 2004
[MARK PURDUE] January 9, 2004
[ELEANOR ALWYN] December 8, 2003
[PEIZHONG PETER WANG] November 19, 2003
[PIA KONTOS] September 11, 2003
[LISA J STRUG] September 11, 2003
[DEBORAH LALIBERTE RUDMAN] August 27, 2003
[ANGELA WAI YAN SHIK] June 13, 2003
[DANA S. EDGE] April 10, 2003
[ELLEN MACEACHEN] March 18, 2003
[SARAH FRISE] February 7, 2003
[FANG XIE] December 6, 2002
[AMY KAISER] November 22, 2002
[LORI DAVIS] September 23, 2002
[CRYSTAL MICHELE FREEMAN] August 29, 2002
[JANICE WALKER] June 21, 2002
[CHRISTINA SINDING] June 12, 2002
[PIERRE COTE] May 29, 2002
[MICHELLE ANNIE DUPUIS] November 22, 2001
[ELAINE POWER] November 5, 2001
[PAUL ZHANG] August 28, 2001
[JOSEPH BEYENE] June 12, 2001
[MICHELLE FAN] May 25, 2001
[SANDRA BULLOCK] February 13, 2001
[ELIZABETH RAEL] January 10, 2001
[LINDA O’MARA] December 21, 2000
[CAROL JANICE STRIKE] December 15, 2000
[YING LIU (NANCY)] December 4, 2000
[JANET ANGUS] November 23, 2000
[SHAWNA L. MERCER] October 5, 2000
[MALCOLM KOO] September 8, 2000
[ANTHONY HANLEY] September 5, 2000
[PHILIPPA J. CLARKE] August 18, 2000
[RAFAL KUSTRA] July 24, 2000
[PAUL VILLENUEVE] June 23, 2000

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Eleanor Pinto

Friday, December 2, 2005
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Semi-Parametric Models for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis:
Improving the Efficiency of Estimation from Censored Data

Committee:
Exam Chair: Paul Fraser
Supervisor: Andy Willan
External Examiner: Heejung Bang
Voting Members: Wendy Lou
Mike Escobar
Murray Krahn

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Robb Travers

Friday, October 28, 2005
12:00 n – 2:00 pm
Room 111, 63 St. George Street

Doing Moral Work: A Critical Analysis of Living with HIV

Committee:
Exam Chair: Mounir AbouHaidar
Supervisor: Ann Robertson
External Examiner: Cindy Patton
Voting Members: Ted Myers
Blake Poland
Roy Cain
Non Voting Member: Barry Adam

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Louise Murphy

Monday, October 17, 2005
9:30 – 11:30 am
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

An Epidemiologic Study of the Role of the Exogenous and Endogenous Estrogens in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Committee:
Exam Chair: James Ingles
Supervisor: John McLaughlin
External Examiner: Elizabeth Wood Karlson
Voting Members: Murray Urowitz
Aillen Davis
Gerarda Darlington

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Stephanie Nixon

Wednesday, October 5, 2004
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Canada’s International Response to HIV/AIDS: A Critical Public Health Ethics Inquiry

Committee:
Exam Chair: David Williams
Supervisor: Ross Upshur
External Examiner: Ron Labonte
Voting Members: Soloman Benatar
Ann Robertson
Liviana Calzavara

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Heather Scott

Friday, September 30, 2005
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

A Political Economy Lens on Work-Related Insecurity in the New Economy: Evaluating the Consequences for Health

Committee:
Exam Chair: John Dick
Co-Supervisor: Peggy McDonough
Co-Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Jeffrey Johnson
Voting Members: Carles Muntaner
Emile Tompa

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Ann Sylvia Brooker

Monday, September 26, 2005
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Dignity, Work and Health

Committee:
Exam Chair: Rhonda Cockerill
Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Barbara Neis
Voting Members: John Frank
Bonnie Fox
Peri Ballantyne

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Julie Richardson

Monday, September 19, 2005
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Predictors of Functional Transitions and Disability-Free Life Expectancy with Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease

Committee:
Exam Chair: Scott Thomas
Co-Supervisors: Paul Corey & Joseph Beyene
External Examiner: Jacek Kopec
Voting Members: Ed Adlaf
Angela Colantonio

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Luba Magdenko

Thursday, June 16, 2005
10:00-12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Societies in Transition: Alcohol Misuse and Control Policy in Ukraine

Committee:
Exam Chair: TBA
Supervisor: Harvey Skinner
External Examiner: Florence Kellner
Voting Members: Eric Single
Louis Gliksman
Liviana Calzavara

Sarah Flicker

Wednesday, June 8, 2005
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Critical Issues in Community-Based Participating Research

Committee:
Exam Chair: Paul Fletcher
Supervisor: Harvey Skinner
External Examiner: Gina Browne
Voting Members: Carol Strike
Robin Mason
Liviana Calzavara

Robin Stadnyk

Thursday, June 2, 2005
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Personal Contributions to the Cost of Nursing Home Care: Policy Differences and Their Impact on Community-dwelling Spouses

Committee:
Exam Chair: Marty Wall
Supervisor: Victor Marshall
External Examiner: Jenny Ploeg
Voting Members: Rhonda Cockerill
Jerry Singleton
Ann Robertson

Monica Bienefeld

Thursday, December 16, 2004
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Occupational Radiation Exposure and 
Risk of Spontaneous Abortion Among 
Medical Radiation Technologists in Canada

Committee:
Exam Chair: Ted Brown
Supervisor: John McLaughlin
External Examiner: Tye Elaine Arbuckle
Voting Members: Loraine Marrett
Donald Cole
Ellen Hodnett

Cameron Dale Norman

Friday, November 5, 2004
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

The Web of Influence: Evaluating the Impact of Internet Interventions on 
Adolescent Smoking Cessation & eHealth Literacy

Committee:
Exam Chair: Raymond Reilly
Supervisor: Harvey Skinner
External Examiner: Paul McDonald
Voting Members: Lorraine Ferris
Lawrence Spero
Joanna Cohen
Non-Voting Member: Curtis Breslin

Alison Thompson

Friday, October 29, 2004
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

A Case Study of the Canadian Public Consultation on
Xenotransplantation

Committee:
Exam Chair: R.D. Tomlinson
Supervisor: Ann Robertson
External Examiner: Michael M. Burgess
Voting Members: Robert Gibbs
Ross Upshur
Joan Eakin
Non-Voting Member: Paul Thompson

Shafagh Fallah

Wednesday, October 27, 2004
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Statistical Methods for Clustering Gene Expression Data

Committee:
Exam Chair: Emil Pai
Supervisor: David Tritchler
External Examiner: Hugh Chipman
Voting Members: Paul Corey
Rafal Kustra
Michael Escobar
Non-Voting Member: Laurent Briollais

Joanna Biernacka

Friday, October 8, 2004
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Statistical Methods for Studying Two Linked Disease Genes

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jim Hu
Supervisor: Shelley Bull
External Examiner: Kung-Yee Liang
Voting Members: Lei Sun
James Stafford
Andrew Paterson
Non-Voting Member: Paul Corey

Mary Teresa Fynes

Thursday, May 13, 2004
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Personal to Political: The Changing Relationship between the Ontario 
Hospital Association and the State in Ontario

Committee:
Exam Chair: Gary Remington
Supervisor: David Coburn
External Examiner: Catherine Lesley Biggs
Voting Members: Linda Muzzin
Paul Williams
Rhonda Love

Chi-Chen Hong

Wednesday, February 4, 2004
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Influence of genetic polymorphisms in P450 c17a (T27C), catechol-O-methyltransferase (VAL158MET), and activity level of cytochrome P450 1A2 on Mammographic Density Levels and Other Risk Factors for Breast Cancer

Committee:
Exam Chair: Souraya Sidani
Supervisor: Norman Boyd
External Examiner: Christine Ambrosone
Voting Members: David Tritchler
Patricia Harper
Wendy Lou
Andrew Paterson

Jocalyn Paige Clark

Monday, January 19, 2004
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

The Medicalization of Sexual Assault: A Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Study

Committee:
Exam Chair: Lucia Stefaneanu
Supervisor: Robin Badgley
External Examiner: Olena Hankivsky
Voting Members: Margrit Eichler
Heather Maclean
Cheryl Regehr
Liviana Calzavara

Mark Purdue

Friday, January 9, 2004
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Etiologic Factors Associated with Nevus Involvement and 
P53 Abnormality in Cutaneous Malignant Malanoma

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jan Barnsley
Supervisor: Loraine Marrett
External Examiner: Eduardo Franco
Voting Members: John McLaughlin
Neil Klar
Gail Eyssen

Eleanor Alwyn

Monday, December 8, 2003
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Room 308, 63 St. George Street

Traditions in a Colonized World: Two Realities of a First Nation

Committee:
Exam Chair: James Duffin
Supervisor: Rhonda Love
External Examiner: Anver Saloojee
Voting Members: David Turner
Carol Yawney
Liviana Calzavara

Peizhong Peter Wang

Wednesday, November 19, 2003
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Examining the Roles of Contextual Factors in Disablement and Its Methodological Implication for Epidemiological Studies

Committee:
Exam Chair: Robert Murphy
Supervisor: Elizabeth Badley
External Examiner: Kristan Aronson
Voting Members: Gail Eyssen
Blaire Wheaton
Angela Colantonio
Non-Voting Member: Monique Gignac

Pia Kontos

Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003
1:00 -3:00 p.m.
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Embodied Selfhood: An Ethnography of Alzheimer’s Disease

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jay Pratt
Supervisor: Ann Robertson
External Examiner: Jaber F. Gubrium
Voting Members: Stephen Katz
Gail Mitchell
Joan Eakin

Lisa J. Strug

Thursday, September 11, 2003
10 am – 12 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Evidential Sample Size

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jerry Warsh
Supervisor: Paul Corey
External Examiner: Penny Brasher
Voting Members: Charles Rohde
Jamie Stafford
David Tritchler
Liviana Calzavara

Deborah Laliberte Rudman

Wednesday, August 27, 2003
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Active, Autonomous and Responsible: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Contemporary Newspaper Constructions of “Retirees”

Committee:
Exam Chair: Irene Andrulis
Supervisor: Ann Robertson
External Examiner: Bryan Green
Voting Members: Stephen Katz
Adrienne Chambon
Denise Gastaldo

Angela Wai Yan Shik

2:00-4:00 p.m.,
 June 13, 2003
Room 111, 63 St. George Street

Battling Solitude: The Experience of Loneliness 
Among Hong Kong Chinese Immigrant Youth

Committee:
Exam Chair: Richard Hill
Supervisor: Harvey Skinner
External Examiner: John Berry
Voting Members: Ilze Kalnins
Milada Disman
Rosemary Meier
Liviana Calzavara

Dana S. Edge

12:00-2:00 p.m., April 10, 2003
Room 104, McMurrich Building, 
12 Queen’s Park Crescent West

Occupational Risk Factors & Prostate Cancer in Ontario

Committee:
Exam Chair: Maire E. Percy
Supervisor: Andrea Sass-Kortsak
External Examiner: Paul Demers
Voting Members: Nancy Kreiger
Paul Corey
James Purdham
Mary Chipman

Ellen MacEachen

2:00-4:00 p.m., March 18, 2003
Room 302, 63 St. George Street

Managing Repetition Strain Injury in Ontario Newspaper Workplaces: 
An Ethnography of Governance

Committee:
Exam Chair: Hans Kunov
Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Pat O’Malley
Voting Members: Ann Robertson
Terry Sullivan
Peggy McDonough

Sarah Frise

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., February 7, 2003
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Risks Factors for Gastric Cancer in Ontario

Committee:
Exam Chair: Hue-Sun Chan
Supervisor: Nancy Kreiger
External Examiner: David Huntsman
Voting Members: Steve Gallinger
Michelle Cotterchio
Mary Chipman
Non-Voting Member: George Tomlinson

Fang Xie

10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, December 6, 2002
Room 111, 63 St. George Street

Simultaneous Detection of Linkage and Linkage Disequilibrium for 
Families with an Affected Sib-Pair

Committee:
Exam Chair: Denise Belsham
Co-Supervisor: Paul Corey
Co-Supervisor: Shelley Bull
External Examiner: Mary E. Thompson
Voting Members: David Tritchler
Celia Greenwood

Amy Kaiser

2:00-4:00 p.m.,
 November 22, 2002
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Psychological Aspects of Decision Making for Prenatal Testing

Committee:
Exam Chair: Reinhart Reithmeier
Co-Supervisor: Brian Shaw
Co-Supervisor: Lorraine Ferris
External Examiner: Anne Farmer
Voting Members: Hilary Llewelyn-Thomas
Ilze Kalnins
Non-Voting Member: Randy Katz

Lori Davis

12:00 noon-2:00 p.m., September 23, 2002
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Estimating Random Effects and Serial Correlation in Random Coefficient Models: To Weight or Not To Weight

Committee:
Exam Chair: Cheryl Arrowsmith
Supervisor: Paul Corey
Co-Supervisor: George Tomlinson
External Examiner: John Koval
Voting Members: Wendy Lou
Michael Escobar

Crystal Michele Freeman

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., August 29, 2002
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Living Environment, Social Context, Heavy Drinking and 
Cigarette Smoking Among University Students

Committee:
Exam Chair: Yaacov BenDavid
Supervisor: Roberta Ferrence
External Examiner: Kathryn Graham
Voting Members: Edward Adlaf
Susan Bondy
Mary Jane Ashley
William Mcgee

Janice Walker

1:00 – 3:00 p.m., June 21, 2002
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

The Markov Process as a Method of Evaluating Life Expectancy
Following Spinal Cord Injury

Committee:
Exam Chair: Michael Ward
Supervisor: Paul Corey
External Examiner: Russell Wilkins
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
Elizabeth Badley
Angela Colantonio

Christina Sinding

2:00 – 4:00 p.m., June 12, 2002
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Care’s Ultimate Limits: Experiences and Accounts of Caring for a Relative or Friend Who Died of Breast Cancer

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jerry Warsh
Supervisor: Heather Maclean
External Examiner: Juanne Nancarrow Clarke
Voting Members: Jane Aronson
Ross Gray
Peggy McDonough

Pierre Cote

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon,
 MAY 29, 2002
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

The Association between Patterns of Visits to General Practitioners, Chiropractors and Specialists and Time-recovery from Acute Whiplash

Committee:
Exam Chair: Steve Meyn
Supervisor: John Frank
External Examiner: Niklas Krause
Voting Members: Claire Bombardier
Bernard Dickens
Elizabeth Badley
Andrea Sass-Kortsak
Non-Voting Members J. David Cassidy
Sheilah Hogg-Johnson

MICHELLE ANNIE DUPUIS

10:00 AM – 12:00 NOON, NOVEMBER 22, 2001
ROOM 303, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

ESTIMATING TWO-YEAR SURVIVAL USING COX MODEL WITH UPDATED COVARIATES

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: TBA
SUPERVISOR: PAUL COREY
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: DAVID BELLHOUSE
VOTING MEMBERS: MARY COREY
JAIME STAFFORD
DAVID ANDREWS

ELAINE POWER

10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON, NOVEMBER 5, 2001
ROOM 308, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

DISCIPLINING SINGLE MOTHERS ON WELFARE: 
NEO-LIBERAL STRATEGIES OF GOVERNANCE IN A CONSUMER SOCIETY

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: TBA
SUPERVISOR: ANN ROBERTSON
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: MARJORIE DEVAULT
VOTING MEMBERS: HEATHER MACLEAN
VALERIE TARASUK
PEGGY MCDONOUGH

PAUL ZHANG

10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON, AUGUST 28, 2001
ROOM 301, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

MULTIPLE IMPUTATION OF MISSING DATA IN CLINICAL TRIALS

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: TBA
SUPERVISOR: PAUL COREY
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: SHARON-LISE NORMAND
VOTING MEMBERS: MICHAEL ESCOBAR
DAVID TRITCHLER
HAU LEI

JOSEPH BEYENE

2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M., TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2001
ROOM 303, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

USES OF THE FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM (FFT) IN EXACT STATISTICAL INFERENCE

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: TBA
SUPERVISOR: DAVID ANDREWS
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: MARCELLO PAGANO
VOTING MEMBERS: PAUL COREY
DAVID TRITCHLER
MICHAEL ESCOBAR

MICHELLE FAN

2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M., FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2001
ROOM 308, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.
(TELECONFERENCE)

A MULTIPLICATIVE MODEL OF THE TRANSMISSION RATE AND 
ITS STATISTICAL INTERFERENCES

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: TBA
SUPERVISOR: JOHN J. HSEIH
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: DAVID EDWARDS MATTHEWS
VOTING MEMBERS: PAUL COREY
PAULINE VAN DEN DRIESSCHE (VIA TELECONFERENCE)
MICHAEL ESCOBAR

SANDRA BULLOCK

10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON,
 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2001
ROOM 308, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

ABOUT LAST NIGHT: DATES, DRINKS AND SEX
A STUDY OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ALCOHOL USE AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY AMONG HETEROSEXUALS, INCLUDING SEXUAL BEHAVIOURS AT HIGH RISK FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF STDS AND HIV

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: CLIFFORD LINGWOOD
SUPERVISOR: TED MYERS
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: KATHRYN GRAHAM
VOTING MEMBERS: VICTOR MARSHALL
ROBIN ROOM (VIA TELECONFERENCE)
EDWARD ADLAF
LORRAINE FERRIS
NON-VOTING MEMBER: KARIN DOMNICK

ELIZABETH RAEL

1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.,
 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2001
ROOM 301, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

FEASIBILITY STUDY: RESEARCH EFFORTS TO IDENTIFY AND REACH PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING WOMEN WHO ARE UNDERSCREENED FOR CERVICAL CANCER

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: JUN LIU
SUPERVISOR: ANTHONY MILLER
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: GEORGINA FELDBERG
VOTING MEMBERS: ELLEN HODNETTL
IRVING ROOTMAN
GAIL EYSSEN
PEGGY MILLSON

LINDA O’MARA

1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.,
 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2000
ROOM 104, MCMURRICH BUILDING, 12 QUEEN’S PARK CRESCENT WEST

PEER LED HEALTH PROMOTION IN HIGH SCHOOLS: 
CONSTRAINING AND FACILITATING CONDITIONS EXPERIENCED BY YOUNG WOMEN

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: JAMES DRAKE
SUPERVISOR: ILZE KALNINS
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: JOAN WHARF HIGGINS (BY TELECONFERENCE)
VOTING MEMBERS: DENNIS RAPHAEL
MICHAEL GOODSTADT
ANDY ANDERSON
JOAN EAKIN

CAROL JANICE STRIKE

10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2000
ROOM 308, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO ILLEGITIMACY: 
THE CASE OF NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS IN ONTARIO

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: AVI CHAKRABARTTY
SUPERVISOR: TED MYERS
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: ROY CAIN
VOTING MEMBERS: JOEL BAUM
PEGGY WILSON
LOIUSE LEMIEUX-CHARLES
JOAN EAKIN
VICTOR MARSHALL (BY TELECONFERENCE)

YING LIU (NANCY)

10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2000
ROOM 308, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR TDT ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX TRAITS

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: JEREMY QUASTEL
SUPERVISOR: DAVID TRICHLER
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: BRUCE SMITH
VOTING MEMBERS: SHELLEY BULL
JAIME STAFFORD
NEIL KLAR
PAUL COREY

JANET ANGUS

3:30 – 5:30 P.M., THURSDAY,
 NOVEMBER 23, 2000
ROOM 301, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: 
WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES WITH HOMEMAKING AND 
SELF CARE AFTER AORTOCORONARY BYPASS SURGERY

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: DONALD PERRIER
SUPERVISOR: DAVID COBURN
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: JOAN ANDERSON
VOTING MEMBERS: PATRICIA MCKEEVER
DOROTHY SMITH
LINDA MUZZIN
JOAN EAKIN

SHAWNA L. MERCER

2:30 P.M.,THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2000
ROOM 301, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING IN THE MIDST OF CONTROVERSY:
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, BELIEFS, PRACTICES, INTENTIONS AND
PERSONAL PREFERENCES OF CANADIAN MEN

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: MARTIN POST
SUPERVISOR: J. IVAN WILLIAMS
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: CAROL L. MCWILLIAM
VOTING MEMBERS: VIVEK GOEL
HARVEY SKINNER
FREDERICK ASHBURY
MARY CHIPMAN

MALCOLM KOO

2:00 P.M., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2000
ROOM 301, 63 ST. GEORGE ST.

DIETARY FIBRE, DIETARY FAT AND MENARCHE

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: MICHAEL BARRETT
SUPERVISOR: TOM ROHAN
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: M. FRANCOIS MEYER
VOTING MEMBERS: PAUL COREY
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
MEERA JAIN
LIVIANA CALZAVARA

ANTHONY HANLEY

2:00 P.M., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2000
ROOM 301, 63 ST. GEORGE STREET

PROINSULIN AND CHANGES IN GLUCOSE TOLERANCE IN 
A NATIVE CANADIAN COMMUNITY EXPERIENCING AN EPIDEMIC OF 
TYPE 2 DIABETIC MELLITUS

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: JOHN NORRIS
SUPERVISOR: GAIL EYSSEN
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: STEVEN HAFFNER
VOTING MEMBERS: BERNARD ZINMAN
TOM WOLEVER
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
MARY CHIPMAN
ROBERT HEGELE

PHILIPPA J. CLARKE

10:00 A.M.,
 FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2000
ROOM 301, 63 ST. GEORGE STREET

WELL-BEING FOLLOWING STROKE IN LATER LIFE: 
THE INTERPLAY OF SELF AND SOCIETY

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: D. N. ROY
SUPERVISOR: VICTOR MARSHALL
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: LINDA GEORGE
VOTING MEMBERS: ANGELA COLANTONIO
SANDRA BLACK
CHERYL COTT
BENEDIKT FISCHER

RAFAL KUSTRA

10:00 A.M.,
 MONDAY, JULY 24, 2000
ROOM 301, 63 ST. GEORGE STREET

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL IMAGES WITH APPLICATIONS TO NEUROIMAGING

COMMITTEE:
EXAM CHAIR: PAMELA OHASHI
SUPERVISOR: ROB TIBSHIRANI
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: KEITH WORSLEY
VOTING MEMBERS: STEPHEN STROTHER
JAMES STAFFORD
RANDAL MCINTOSH
PAUL COREY

PAUL VILLENUEVE

10:00 A.M., FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2000
ROOM 301, 63 ST. GEORGE STREET

CANCER AMONG ONTARIO ELECTRIC UTILITY WORKERS:
THE EVALUATION OF ALTERNATE INDICES OF EXPOSURE TO 60HZ ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS

COMMITTEE:
PURDHAM

JIM HELLER

EXAM CHAIR: ANDERS BENNICK
SUPERVISOR: PAUL COREY
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: DR. DON WIGLE
VOTING MEMBERS: JULIA KNIGHT
JIM PURDHAM
JIM HELLER