Today I told 2 different mom friends that I am leaving soon for a 4-week “away” rural rotation and they both had the same wide-eyed reaction: “and you’ll only have to look after yourself for 4 whole weeks!" Oh yes.

Road trip up to my rural FP placement! We’ve been driving for 8 hours and are still next to the Fraser river. Also, not even half-way there yet. Getting a good sense of just how big BC is.

Pro-tip for anyone giving lectures over Zoom: check in and see if your students need a 5-minute break. It's just not good learning when you sit through 4 straight hours of Zoom lecture with no breaks.

I am so, so, so grateful for bursaries.

Day 2 of Christmas break and it’s clear that I have completely forgotten how to relax.

Ten months into the pandemic and I've just now rearranged the furniture so that when I'm sitting at my desk on Zoom, the background isn't my unmade bed

Today I watched a surgeon talk rapid-fire to a patient whose first language wasn’t English. When the surgeon walked away, I hung back and asked the patient if he had understood, then explained again slowly and in simple words. Feels good to make a difference for someone.

You know you're on a surgery rotation when you sleep in 3 extra hours on the weekend but still wake up at 7:30 am

When your husband’s slippers need mending AND you need to practice your suturing.

I’m proud to be working with UBC’s Brain and Music student group to present an on-line symposium that delves at the heart of the question: what goes on in our brains when we make or listen to music? Claim your spot today by registering here: eventbrite.com/e/in-tune-with…

From University of British Columbia Transcending Boundaries Init., by grad students: In Tune With Your Brain: Harmonizing Creative, Clinical, and Community, Sat, May 5, 10 AM |⁩ ⁦Benoit-Antoine Bacon⁩ ⁦BCBrainWellness⁩ ⁦UBC School of Music⁩⁩ eventbrite.com/e/in-tune-with…

A half-day symposium all about the intersection of music and the brain. Check out "In Tune With Your Brain: Harmonizing Creative, Clinical, and Community" eventbrite.com/e/in-tune-with… Eventbrite

Check out "In Tune With Your Brain: Harmonizing Creative, Clinical, and Community" May 15, 2021 - free event!! Explore the interface of art and science, music and medicine. Organized by students for the entire community! eventbrite.com/e/in-tune-with… Eventbrite

The cool thing about neuro is that you can predict the lesion from the sx: back pain + tingling, radiating down the side of the leg to dorsum of foot: L5 nerve compression. Exactly what my MRI showed. What's not cool is how much this hurts. Ow ow ow.

New University of British Columbia Student Direct Seminar! Music Cognition is an interdisciplinary orchestration of cognitive sciences and music studies to explore the perception, processing, and production of organized sound as it relates to the brain. bit.ly/musiccogsds

For Christmas, my kid gave me a cactus that looks like brains. My family gets me.

I live in a beautiful part of the world

16 y ago, I left a post-doctoral research job to be a stay-at-home mom, knowing it would be almost impossible to get back into research. Today, I’m thrilled that I matched into UBC’s research track in Psychiatry. I get to be a psychiatrist, AND I have another crack at research!

So excited to be part of the team presenting the 2nd Annual “In Tune With Your Brain” Symposium! This year’s theme is “Music and Emotion”; we explore how composers make us feel the full range of emotions, and how music facilitates healing and wellness. bit.ly/InTune2022Regi…

Looking forward to sitting on a panel at this fantastic event: “In Tune With Your Brain” symposium, where we explore Music and Emotion. Join us May 14th, online or at UBC Robson Square. Register here: bit.ly/InTune2022Regi…