Health and medicine

Dr. Ruth Vander SteltGatineau, Quebec, 15 February 2011 (CBNS) — Dr. Ruth Vander Stelt, a member of the Baha’i Community of Gatineau, Quebec, has been named one of Canada’s Family Physicians of the Year for 2010 by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC).

Montreal, Quebec, 23 November 2007 (CBNS) — The Bahá’í Medical Association of Canada (BMAC) held a successful conference, on the theme “Balancing the Social and Spiritual Determinants of Health”, on November 9–11, 2007 in Montreal. It was considered by many attending to be the best ever.

Ashley Roberts discusses faith-based organizations. [Photo by Laura Mostmand]Toronto, Ontario, 22 August 2007 (CBNS) — Expanding on the diversity of topics explored in the previous day, the Association for Baha’i Studies Conference continued on Saturday 18 August with breakout sessions featuring presentations on the arts, communication, sustainable development, education, philosophy, and science and religion, among other topics.

Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian was among the speakers at the 3rd Conference on Spirituality and Mental Health in Ottawa.Ottawa, ON, 14 May 2007 (CBNS) — Abdu’l-Missagh Ghadirian, a professor of medicine at McGill University in Montreal and a Bahá’í, was among the mental health experts who looked at how humanity’s “quest for meaning” implicates families, faith communities, and health care systems.