Eat Move Think

There’s a national effort underway to get people to download what’s known as a contact tracing app. To help listeners understand why they’re so important, Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis talks to the University of Waterloo math PhD candidate who pioneered the “decentralized Bluetooth exposure notification” technology that started it all—James Petrie, the director of research at Covid Watch. Also featuring an interview with Florian Kerschbaum, the director of the University of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com for complete show notes.    Mentioned in this episode: James Petrie’s co-founder in Covid Watch is Tina White. Here’s her profile at Stanford.

At 55, Deedee Moscoe looked around one day and realized her life needed a reboot. Caring for her aging parents left her without any time for her career—or herself. Deedee’s journey to remake her life is chronicled in a documentary called Hack Your Age, airing on Zoomer Media’s Vision TV. It’s also emblematic of the moment we’re in, as society returns to the next normal. With host Shaun Francis, Deedee explores a typically human dilemma with extraordinary honesty and humour.

By devoting so much of our attention to stopping the spread of COVID-19, with lockdowns, with physical distancing measures, by closing borders and many businesses, are we ignoring the possibility we could be harming population health in other ways? That’s what host Shaun Francis explores with Dr. Vivek Goel, member of the federal government’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and vice-president of research and innovation, and strategic initiatives, at the University of Toronto. Mentioned in this episode: Vivek Goel’s podcast is What’s Next and it’s produced by the University of Toronto. He’s on the federal government’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.   Find the POST Promise here and here’s the federal government press release.

What’s the objective for COVID-19 management? Is the model to eradicate the virus altogether? To contain it until we have a vaccine? And how does that objective affect our U.S. border strategy? Irfan Dhalla is a physician and a vice-president at Unity Health Toronto who is challenging policy makers to think about such issues. In this episode, he and host Shaun Francis engage in a fulsome debate about the future. For complete show notes visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com.   Follow Irfan Dhalla on Twitter @irfandhalla and Shaun Francis @shauncfrancis.

Dr. David Carr is an ER doc who has been on the front lines caring for patients affected by COVID-19 in Toronto. Host Shaun Francis spoke to Dr. Carr about the mistakes we’ve made these last few months, what it’s like to tell someone they’re infected with COVID, and the dangerous resource crunch we’re facing as the health care system tackles the elective surgery backlog while still fighting the pandemic—with flu season around the corner.   Follow Dr. David Carr on Twitter @davidcarr333. For complete show notes go to eatmovethinkpodcast.com. Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcast platform. Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis is Medcan’s CEO and chair. Follow him on Twitter @shauncfrancis. Connect with him on LinkedIn. And follow him on Instagram @shauncfrancis. Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau.

Exercise is the most important thing you can do to help yourself cope. But the pandemic makes it difficult for us to get physical activity. Host Shaun Francis spoke with brain health expert Dr. Jennifer Heisz, the professor who leads McMaster University’s Neurofit Lab, to learn a set of easy-to-follow tips and tricks that use physical activity to decrease stress even in these uncertain times. For complete show notes go to eatmovethinkpodcast.com. Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcast platform. Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis is Medcan’s CEO and chair. Follow him on Twitter @shauncfrancis. Connect with him on LinkedIn. And follow him on Instagram @shauncfrancis. Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau.

The need for more testing has existed throughout the pandemic. To stop COVID-19, you need to be able to see it and assess how many people have it. Most jurisdictions in North America are nowhere near the ideal yet. To learn what’s going on, host Shaun Francis spoke to one of the most outspoken of the experts on the issue, Dr. Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, a clinical epidemiologist.  For complete show notes go to eatmovethinkpodcast.com. Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcast platform. Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis is Medcan’s CEO and chair. Follow him on Twitter @shauncfrancis. Connect with him on LinkedIn. And follow him on Instagram @shauncfrancis. Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau.

A recent poll revealed that 50% of us feel our mental health has worsened since the pandemic started. Dr. Jonathan Danson is a clinical psychologist who believes that the extra time we all have, from not having to commute or take kids to sports practices, is particularly difficult for high achievers. He says it induces “analysis paralysis,” and his prescription for how to address that forms a large part of his conversation with host Shaun Francis.  Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcast platform. Visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com for complete show notes. Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis is Medcan’s CEO and chair. Follow him on Twitter @shauncfrancis. Connect with him on LinkedIn. And follow him on Instagram @shauncfrancis. Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau.

Why do some large gatherings of people become superspreader events, while some do not? Jonathan Kay is a Canadian journalist who compiled a database of the most important COVID-19 clusters. His analysis features surprising implications for business and government, and may help all of us return to work safely — as well as make life more enjoyable over the next few months.  Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcast platform. Visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com for complete show notes. Follow Jonathan Kay on Twitter @jonkay. Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis is Medcan’s CEO and chair. Follow him on Twitter @shauncfrancis. Connect with him on LinkedIn. And follow him on Instagram @shauncfrancis. Eat Move Think is produced in conjunction with Ghost Bureau.

What’s to come? For those seeking guidance, we checked in with the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Kai Singbartl. He’s the chair of infection control and prevention at Mayo Arizona, and he spoke to Medcan’s chief medical officer, Dr. Peter Nord, about the COVID-19 therapies that excite him, and when to expect a vaccine. Also, please check out Medcan’s Dr. David Carr on the Toronto Star’s This Matters podcast. Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcast platform. Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis is Medcan’s CEO and chair. Follow him on Twitter @shauncfrancis. Connect with him on LinkedIn. And follow him on Instagram @shauncfrancis. Eat Move Think is produced in conjunction with Ghost Bureau.