Cynthia Isenor, Health Services Director for Critical Care, Nova Scotia Health Cynthia Isenor is the Health Services Director for Critical Care Services and Legacy of Life at Nova Scotia Health. Prior to moving home, Cynthia worked in Ontario as a registered nurse; beginning her critical care career in Kingston General Hospital and [...]
Dr. Olena Hankivsky, PhD Dr. Olena Hankivsky (Professor) B.A. (Toronto), M.A. PhD (Western Ontario) specializes in public policy and political theory and has a particular interest in gender, intersectionality, and social and health policy. Dr. Hankivsky is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Gender and Health Research Chair and a Michael Smith [...]
Dr. Charles Weijer, CmdSc, MsC, PhD – Bioethics, Research Ethics Charles Weijer is a professor of medicine, epidemiology & biostatistics, and philosophy at Western University in London, Canada. Charles is an internationally recognized expert in research ethics. His publications on the duty of care in clinical research, the ethical analysis of study [...]
Dr. Rhiannon Reed, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Alabama Comprehensive Transplant Institute I am an epidemiologist/outcomes researcher by training and have been working in transplant health services research at UAB under the mentorship of Dr. Jayme Locke since 2013. I completed my Doctor of Public Health in April 2019 and joined [...]
Holidays on Ice: Precautions around COVID-19 during the holiday season Enjoy this 90-minute webinar, with 5 experts discussing the holidays during COVID-19. Topics included: communication with family members about limitations during the holiday season, self-care during the winter months and fun ideas for spending the holidays at home. The speakers included Dr. Susan Abbey, [...]
Dr. Karen Yeates speaks of setting urgent health research priorities for Indigenous, rural and remote populations in Canada and the balance between the perspectives and needs of communities with those of health researchers. Introductions: Vikas Sridhar, CDTRP Trainee Karen Yeates, MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University [...]
Join us for this out-of-the-box webinar by Ramesh Prasad, Professor of Medicine at UofT and Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at St. Michael's Hospital.
Learn about Dr. Caroline Tait's experience in being the organizer of a Saskatchewan-based First Nations and Métis Think Tank on Organ Donation and Transplantation. The think tank is made up of Elders/Knowledge Keepers, peoples with lived experience and health care professionals in Saskatchewan. Dr. Caroline Tait is a member of [...]
Join us for the fifth webinar in the research cross-cutting priority series. This is part of the research priority: Pediatric, Adolescent and Elderly. Dr. Segev will examine age as a factor in being an organ donor or recipient and discuss the definitions of physiologic reserve and how they factor in to defining [...]
Learn through 3 different examples of clinical trials in Bone Marrow Transplant /Cell Therapy during this thoughtful webinar prepared by Dr. Donna Wall, section head of blood and marrow transplant / cell therapy program at SickKids in Toronto, Ontario. - Dr. Donna Wall