Can Twitter be good for my health? Can I find useful health information on Facebook? What are the best social media resources to help manage my medical problems?
The Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia exploratory workshop on social media and health includes a great line up of speakers, including Dr. Eysenbach, the father of the Medicine 2.0 movement; Ms. Ana Lucia Ruggiero, knowledge management expert at the Pan American Health Organization; and Dean Giustini from UBC’s Biomedical Library.
Location: UBC Robson Square, Downtown Vancouver, Room C300
Date: February 4th, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
The evening will by moderated by Ms. Gillian Shaw, the technology writer from Vancouver Sun.
Co-organized by the Faculty of Medicine eHealth Strategy Office, the Faculty of Applied Science, the School of Nursing, the Sauder School of Business and iSchool at UBC.
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