{"id":30828,"date":"2024-11-26T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/?p=30828"},"modified":"2024-11-26T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:55:37","slug":"cdtrp-11th-annual-scientific-meeting-congratulations-to-our-rising-star-travel-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/cdtrp-11th-annual-scientific-meeting-congratulations-to-our-rising-star-travel-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"CDTRP 11th Annual Scientific Meeting – Congratulations to our Rising Star Travel Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congratulations to Our Rising Star Travel Winners<\/strong><\/h4>\n
This year, the CDTRP proudly partnered with the following organizations to provide funding for five $1,000 trainee travel awards<\/strong>. These awards recognize the highest-ranked abstracts<\/strong> submitted to the Annual Scientific Meeting.<\/h6>\n
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    Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
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    Simon Fraser University (SFU)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    The selected abstracts will be presented as oral presentations<\/strong> during the main program, highlighting the exceptional work and contributions of our rising stars in the field of donation and transplantation research.<\/h6>\n<\/div>
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    Meet Our Winners<\/strong><\/h4>\n
    Below, you will find the bios of this year\u2019s winners, showcasing their remarkable achievements and dedication to advancing research in this field.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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    About Sean Hayden John<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Hayden John is a student researcher passionate about addressing health inequities through patient and community-centred research. He has recently completed the Queen’s Accelerated Route to Medical School (QuARMS) pathway and is a first-year medical student at Queen’s University. Currently, he is a research student with the Kidney Health Education Research Group (KHERG) focusing on the A.C.TI.O.N Project: Improving Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (LDKT) in Ethno-racial Minority Communities in Canada. Under the supervision of Principal Investigator Dr. Istvan Mucsi, Hayden explored the perceived risks and benefits of kidney donation among African, Caribbean and Black Canadians.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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    About Marie-Pier Lalonde<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Marie-Pier joined Dre. Marie-Jos\u00e9e H\u00e9bert’s lab in the nephrology, transplantation and renal regeneration research unit at the CRCHUM in 2024. She obtained her BSc degree in biology at McGill university and is now pursuing a Masters degree in the Molecular Biology program at l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. She is currently working on evaluating the pro-angiogenic potential of RNAs enriched in apoptotic exosomes and whether these RNAs cooperate to modulate endothelial function. Marie-Pier is also a trainee in the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research program (CDTRP).Outside of the lab, Marie-Pier loves to read, go to spin classes and play word games like Scattegories and Bananagrams.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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    About Matthew Kolisnyk<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    My name is Matthew Kolisnyk. I am a third-year PhD Candidate in Neuroscience at Western University. My undergraduate training was in Psychology and Statistics, where I spent time applying neuroimaging techniques to memory and mindfulness research. In my current lab, I use neuroimaging to measure residual cognitive function in patients who have sustained an acute brain injury and use that neural measure in combination with machine learning to try and predict which patients will survive their injury. I currently am a research associate at the London Health Science Centre, where we measure physiological and neural changes that occur when patients undergo planned withdrawal of life-sustaining measures.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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    About Jordan Bird<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Jordan is a PhD student at UBC working in the Vancouver General Hospital ICU. His current work focuses on donation after circulatory death by looking at how the brain responds during the dying process after withdrawal of life-sustaining measures. During Jordan’s undergraduate degree in Health Sciences and Physics, he got his start in research focusing on whole body hypoxia in the context of high altitude physiology. This led to working in industry since 2020 using medical imaging to evaluate hypoxia and ischemia in wound care, vascular surgery, and plastic and reconstructive surgery. Jordan returned to school in 2021 to pursue a MSc with Dr. Glen Foster at UBCO focusing on developing and validating a new medical imaging approach to quantify diaphragm blood flow in humans. In 2023, Jordan joined the ICU Research Group to continue looking at oxygenation and blood flow in critically ill patients. As such, the unifying theme of Jordan’s work involves investigating low oxygen and blood flow in both healthy and clinical populations. This focus on physiology underpins the organ procurement process in donation after circulatory death as warm ischemic times may render organs ineligible for transplantation. Outside of research, Jordan can be found playing hockey, biking, running, reading, or trying to spend as much time outdoors in Alberta or British Columbia.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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    About Anita Slominska<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Anita Slominska, PhD, is a post-doctoral fellow at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and McGill\u2019s Institute of Health Sciences Education. She is a social scientist and a qualitative researcher investigating patient and family caregiver experience of kidney graft loss. She is interested in how patient and caregiver narratives can be integrated into evidence-based practices, contribute to the mapping out of future research directions for training and practice improvements and guide strategies to improve patient-identified outcomes of importance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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    Register Now!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Registrations for our highly anticipated Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) are open. The event will be in a hybrid format, with the in-person component in Calgary, AB<\/strong> on December 3-4, 2024<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<\/div>

    <\/i>REGISTER HERE<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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    Take advantage of your opportunity to<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0network with colleagues, establish collaborations, and learn about the latest research. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n
    Register Now!<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>
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