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Technical Support Information – Desktop Computers

In order to view the webcast, you must have a currently supported HTML5 compliant web browser with standards-based media playback support on supported versions of the Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

Video webcasts require that you have a broadband Internet connection with at least 600kbps of download connectivity. If you are having difficulty with playback of a video webcast, for example playback is buffering frequently, please check your internet connection. Downloadable audio-only MP3 files are available for each session.

If you are still having trouble viewing the webcasts, please carefully review the detailed System Requirements and Troubleshooting Steps webpage.

Using the Capital Reach Media Player

For each session, there may be two different versions of the media player. Some sessions may include video of the presenter.

  1. Slide video – video of the speaker's slide presentation is the default stream displayed in the player. This option displays all speaker mouse movements and videos included in presentations.
  2. Audio and slides – audio of the speaker's presentation is the default stream in the player. Static slide images in the slide presentations are synchronized to the audio stream.

Navigating the Presentation Webcast

The player offers several tools to navigate the presentation:

  1. "Browse Slides" icon – select the browse slides icon to navigate to any slide in the presentation by selecting the slide thumbnail image.

Player Tools

  1. "Speaker Information" icon – if available, displays information about the speakers and presentations in the session.
  2. "Download Media" icon – select this button to download an audio-only file of the session.
  3. Playback Controls
    • Play/Pause button – select this button to play or pause the default media stream of the player.
    • Stop button – select this button to stop the default media stream of the player.

Mobile Device Support

Presentation playback is available on supported versions of Apple iOS devices (Apple iPad and iPhone) and Android devices with an enabled Internet connection and a currently supported web browser with standards based media playback support. Users of these devices can stream sessions to their mobile device. Users have the option to stream either slide presentation video or audio-only from the session. Please note that some advanced interactivity features of the desktop player may not be supported on the Apple iOS mobile devices.

Speaker Info
Keynote Address
Interrogating the Stowaway: Harvey Cushing and the Beginning of Pituitary Research
Michael Bliss, PhD
University of Toronto (Canada), Toronto, ON
Disclosures: None
Michael Bliss, Emeritus University Professor at the University of Toronto, is one of Canada's most distinguished historians; his scholarship in medical biography and the history of medicine has been extraordinary. His definitive account of the discovery of insulin brought new insights to an important chapter in the history of medical science and gave thousands of readers worldwide a better understanding of the world of biomedical research. "The Discovery of Insulin" (1982) was followed by "Banting: A Biography" (1984); "Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal" (1991); "William Osler: A Life in Medicine" (1999); and "Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery" (2005). The books on Osler and Cushing are companion pieces that form a two-volume biographical study of the rise of North American medicine.

Until his retirement in 2006, Bliss was an active member of the University of Toronto faculty for 38 years. As one of the leading public intellectuals in English Canada, he has written for magazines and newspapers and has appeared regularly on both radio and television as a contributor to public policy debate. He is a member of the Order of Canada and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has received honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from McGill and McMaster universities. At the time of his retirement, Canada's national news magazine Maclean's referred to him as "perhaps Canada's greatest living historian."
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