Seminar on Trandisciplinarity report

A Seminar on Trandisciplinarity was held in Montreal on November 14 &15, 2008. Fifteen STIRRHS Trainees and four mentors participated. Dr. William Fisher presented the challenges and opportunities of Transdisciplinarity; Dr. Roger Pierson presented Transdisciplinarity in a biological research context; Dr. William Fraser presented Trandisciplinarity in a clinical research context. Dr. Jeff Nisker presented examples and results of a transdisciplinary research project.
Trainees worked in small groups to write transdisciplinary letters of intent that were evaluated by their peers.