Accretive Advisor Special Invitation Event Series

Zoomer and Accretive Advisor would like to invite you to learn about Accretive Advisor and to hear from one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, Harvard Professor Dr. Nicolas Christakis,  co-author of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.

Inciting Ideas – Connected
May 16, 2011 – Toronto, ON
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
5:30pm – 8:00pm

Inciting Ideas – Connected
June 14, 2011 – Vancouver, BC
Vancouver Convention Centre
5:30pm – 8:00pm

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The New York Times put Connected “in the category of works of brilliant originality that stimulate and enlighten and can sometimes even change the way we understand the world.”

Dr. Christakis is a Harvard professor with cross-appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Health Care Policy and Sociology. Named last year as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World , he’s also a spell-binding speaker, which you can see from his TedTalks

Please join us to hear how our social networks drive our ideas, finances, feelings, health, relationships, behaviour, politics – and even our weight.

Visit the Accretive Event website for full details.

Attendance is free, compliments  of Accretive Advisor, but space is limited – so please RSVP early.

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD
MPH Harvard Professor and Author

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He is Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is the Master of Pforzheimer House in Harvard College.

Dr. Christakis received his BS from Yale University in 1984, his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1989, and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

His current research focuses on health and social networks, and especially with how ill health, disability, health behaviour, health care, and death for one person can influence the same phenomena in others in a person’s social network. This work involves the application of network science and mathematical models to understand the dynamics of health in longitudinally evolving networks. To the extent that health behaviours such as smoking, drinking, or unhealthy eating spread within networks in intelligible ways, there are substantial implications for public health and health policy. This body of work has also engaged the spread of emotional states such as happiness, depression, and loneliness within social networks. Other recent work has examined the spread of altruism and the genetic determinants of social network structure. Along with his long-time collaborator, James H. Fowler, Dr. Christakis  also authored a book on social networks published in 2009, called Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives. It has been translated into nearly 20 foreign languages and has been widely reviewed.

Dr. Christakis’ past work was focused on topics related to end-of-life care, such as hospice care, widowhood and caregiver burden, ICU decision-making, and the role of prognostication in medicine (about which he has written three books, including clinical textbooks).

In 2009, Christakis was named by Time magazine to their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2009 and in 2010, he was listed by Foreign Policy magazine in their annual list of Top 100 Global Thinkers.