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Dear Colleagues,

The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO invites nurses and other health-care providers to attend a FREE knowledge exchange webinar to learn more about the influence of genetics on addiction. Please forward this information to all appropriate contacts.

Title: Genetics and Addiction: Unravelling the Secrets of the Double Helix

Date: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016 12 - 1 pm EST

Are you a Health care professional who is interested in learning more about how our genes may influence tobacco addiction?

Please join us for a webinar that will introduce concepts of genetics, with discussion on how many inherited, genetic and environmental factors can influence a person’s vulnerability to tobacco addiction.

Presenter: Tiiu Sildva BN, MPH
Tiiu is a Provincial Tobacco and Nicotine Intervention Specialist at RNAO. As a Registered Nurse trained in Australia, Tiiu’s background is in hospital and community-based nursing, health promotion, and teaching since 2008. She completed a Master of Public Health in 2012 and has worked with Indigenous populations in Australia, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also in 2012, Tiiu also completed an internship in the Health Promotion and Social Determinants of Health Department at the World Health Organization in Switzerland. In 2014, Tiiu worked for the University of Cambridge in the Global Health and Genetic Epidemiology research group where she worked alongside bioinformaticians and genetic scientists at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; a large scale DNA sequencing centre which was a central participant in the Human Genome Project.

Register Now Link: https://rnaochampions.webex.com/rnaochampions/onstage/g.php?MTID=e4bdf19c3cce8d77a240ae9c004d3343f

Please see attached flyer.