Le PRDTC est heureux d’annoncer sa série annuelle de webinaires dont le thème principal est « Diversifier sa recherche« . Les sujets ont été choisis par les stagiaires du PRDTC au cours du 7e Congrès scientifique annuel et portent sur divers aspects de la méthodologie et de l’exécution de la recherche.
Nous remercions Novartis Canada et Aequus Pharmaceuticals pour leur soutien à la série de webinaires 2021.
Les biographies des conférenciers invités et les sujets sont présentés ci-dessous (en anglais).
Dre Rhiannon Reed, Professeure adjointe de chirurgie University of Alabama Comprehensive Transplant Institute
Je suis un épidémiologiste et chercheuse de formation et je travaille dans la recherche sur les services de santé de la transplantation à l’UAB sous le mentorat du Dr Jayme Locke depuis 2013. J’ai terminé mon doctorat en santé publique en avril 2019 et j’ai rejoint le département de chirurgie de l’UAB en tant que professeur adjoint en juillet 2019. Mes recherches portent sur les résultats des soignants de transplantation, les donneurs de rein vivants et l’augmentation de l’accès au don vivant. Mes principaux intérêts comprennent les méthodes mixtes et le développement d’interventions, en particulier en ce qui concerne les efforts d’éducation visant à accroître la sensibilisation au don d’organes et les interventions visant à réduire le fardeau des soignants.
Mme Alexis Carter, MPH, Coordonnatrice de recherche, University of Alabama Comprehensive Transplant Institute
Je suis chercheuse et je travaille dans la recherche sur les services de santé de la transplantation à l’UAB sous le mentorat du Dr Jayme Locke depuis 2018. J’ai terminé mon master en santé publique en décembre 2020. Actuellement, ma recherche se concentre sur la promotion de la sensibilisation éducative à la transplantation rénale et l’exploration de méthodes pour augmenter le don vivant. Mes principaux intérêts de recherche comprennent des méthodes mixtes concernant spécifiquement l’accès aux soins et les disparités en matière de santé parmi les populations rurales, minoritaires et mal desservies.
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Dr Charles Weijer, CmdSc, MsC, PhD – Bioéthique, éthique de la recherche
Dr Charles Weijer, CmdSc, MsC, PhD – Bioéthique, éthique de la rechercheCharles Weijer est professeur de médecine, d’épidémiologie, de biostatistique et de philosophie à l’Université Western de London, en Ontario. Charles est un expert internationalement reconnu en matière d’éthique de la recherche. Ses publications sur le devoir de diligence dans la recherche clinique, l’analyse éthique des avantages et des inconvénients des études et la responsabilisation des communautés dans la recherche ont eu une grande influence. De 2008 à 2013, Charles a co-dirigé une collaboration qui a produit les premières directives éthiques internationales pour les essais randomisés. De 2014 à 2018, il a collaboré avec le Dr Adrian M. Owen sur un projet explorant l’éthique de la neuroimagerie fonctionnelle après une lésion cérébrale grave. Les travaux actuels de Charles explorent l’éthique de la recherche impliquant des patients en fin de vie imminente, ainsi que les questions éthiques liées au don d’organes, notamment l’utilisation de la perfusion régionale normothermique. Il a été titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en bioéthique de 2005 à 2019. En 2014, Charles a reçu le prix Hellmuth de Western pour ses réalisations en recherche et, en 2016, il a été élu à la Société royale du Canada.
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Dre Olena Hankivsky, PhD
Olena Hankivsky (professeur) B.A. (Toronto), M.A. PhD (Western Ontario) se spécialise dans les politiques publiques et la théorie politique et s’intéresse particulièrement au genre, à l’intersectionnalité et aux politiques sociales et de santé. Elle est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche sur le genre et la santé des Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada et chercheuse principale de la Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
Dre Hankivsky est l’éditrice de Health Inequities in Canada : Intersectional Frameworks and Practices (2011, UBC Press), et corédactrice de Women’s Health in Canada : Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy (2007, University of Toronto Press) et Gender, Politics and the State in Ukraine (University of Toronto Press). Elle est également l’auteur de Social Policy and the Ethic of Care (2004, University of British Columbia Press) et co-auteur de The Dome of Silence : Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport (2000, Fernwood & Zed Publications). Ses recherches ont été publiées dans des revues telles que le Journal of Health and Social Policy, Critical Social Policy, International Journal of Health Services, Canadian Public Policy, International Journal for Equity and Health, et Social Science and Medicine (pour lequel elle est co-rédactrice d’un numéro spécial sur le genre et la santé, à paraître en 2021).
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Cynthia Isenor, Directrice des services de santé pour les soins intensifs, Nova Scotia Health
Cynthia Isenor est la directrice des services de santé pour les services de soins intensifs et Legacy of Life à Nova Scotia Health. Avant de s’installer en Nouvelle-Écosse, Cynthia a travaillé en Ontario en tant qu’infirmière autorisée. Elle a commencé sa carrière dans le domaine des soins intensifs à l’hôpital général de Kingston, puis à l’hôpital St. Depuis 2005, elle a développé sa carrière dans le domaine du don d’organes et a été membre à part entière d’un certain nombre de projets clés au sein du Réseau Trillium pour le don de vie de l’Ontario. À l’heure actuelle, Cynthia assure la supervision stratégique et agit à titre de chef des opérations pour le groupe tertiaire/quaternaire des unités de soins intensifs de la région d’Halifax et pour le programme provincial de don d’organes.
Jade Dirk, Gestionnaire du projet LEADDR, Nova Scotia Health
Jade Dirk est gestionnaire de projet au sein du Nova Scotia Health Research & Innovation et gère actuellement le programme Legislative Evaluation : Assessment of Deceased Donation Reform (LEADDR), qui vise à évaluer la mise en œuvre de la transformation du système de santé de la Nouvelle-Écosse en matière de dons de personnes décédées. Avant de déménager en Nouvelle-Écosse en 2018, elle était au programme de recherche sur le rein, la dialyse et la transplantation de l’ICES. À ce titre, Jade a fait partie intégrante de l’obtention de plus de 12 millions de dollars de financement pour divers projets et initiatives de recherche médicale et a coordonné plus de 30 projets ayant donné lieu à 18 publications.
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Dre Lisa Mellon
La Dre Lisa Mellon est psychologue de la santé, et est conférencière au Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) depuis 2014. Elle a occupé des postes de recherche postdoctorale sur des projets évaluant la qualité des soins pour les services de sevrage tabagique dans les hôpitaux irlandais, et avec l’étude ASPIRE-S (Action on Secondary Prevention Interventions and Rehabilitation in Stroke). Lisa est titulaire d’une licence en psychologie et d’une maîtrise en psychologie de la santé, tous deux obtenus au NUI, à Galway. Avant de commencer son doctorat dans le cadre du HRB PhD Scholars Program in Health Services Research au RCSI, elle a travaillé dans des services hospitaliers de première ligne et à l’école de santé publique et de médecine préventive de l’Université Monash à Melbourne. Elle est actuellement membre de l’équipe Cochrane de la HRB pour une étude Cochrane intitulée Interventions for improving medication adherence in solid organ transplant recipients.
ity of Alberta and has received training in patient-oriented research through the University of Calgary’s PACER (Patient and Community Engagement Research) Program. He is the Patient, Family, and Donor Partnerships & Education Manager with the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program. In this role, Manuel builds relationships patient partners with investigators and strengthens capacity among CDTRP patient partners.
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born and raised in Edmonton, AB. With a degree in Music Performance (saxophone performance) and Education, Lindsey has taught for over a decade in the Edmonton Public School system. When she is not teaching, she is very involved in the music community, performing in the Edmonton Winds, conducting her own community ensemble (The Beer League Band) and on numerous musical boards across the province. For the past 5 years, Lindsey has had to take a break from teaching after having her amazing son, George. Maternity leave did not goes as expected as George was diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy at 5 months old and required 2 heart transplants before the age of 4. During this time, Lindsey has also began to dedicate her time building and expanding her charity: Big Gifts for Little Lives, where they raise money to fund Pediatric Heart Transplant research at the Stollery.
Dr. Caigan Du is a scientist at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and an assistant professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He received a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in UK and postdoctoral training in Immunology in USA. He is interested in the pathogenesis of kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury and transplant rejection, and molecular control of urinary malignancies. He has been studying the impact of kidney donor-derived factors on renal allograft rejection, and the molecular pathways of kidney injury and regeneration in experimental models. He is also interested in developing medical solution including drugs made from natural compounds for all kinds of health problems, including immune disorders, organ preservation, kidney failure and urinary cancer. He is the PI of many grant supports from the Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Heather Badenoch is a non-directed living liver donor and communications strategist. As the president of Village PR, she provides strategic communications direction and training to not-for-profit clients in community and health. An active transplant volunteer, Heather helps transplant candidates find living donors by running their public appeals, small and large, pro-bono. She also mentors potential living donors on the path to living donation. Heather is a volunteer with the UHN Centre for Living Organ Donation and the Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program. She and her spouse adopt rescue dogs and volunteer together with Community Veterinary Outreach, a group providing free veterinary care to the pets of people who are homeless.
Sean Dicks is a clinical psychologist who has 20 years’ experience supporting both families of organ donors and transplant recipients. While it is rare for him to have contact with a donor family and recipient linked to the same organ donation-transplantation event, his contact with families who have lived experience with organ donation on the one hand, and patients who have received transplants on the other hand has provided opportunities to explore how their journeys become linked when they attempt to make sense of and find meaning in their respective crises.
Terri Hansen-Gardiner is a Cree speaking Metis woman from Northern Saskatchewan as well as a 10 year Breast Cancer Survivor. Her tireless spirit and dedication to her community is undeniable. Terri is a cancer survivor who travels around the province to provide assistance, information, and support to Indigenous patients who are trying to access and navigate the cancer care system.
Dr. Golnaz Karoubi is Assistant Scientist at the Toronto General HospitalResearch Institute and principal investigator in the Latner Thoracic Research Labs. She currently holds an Assistant Professor appointment in the department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and a cross-appointment in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Karoubi received her PhD in Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto and joined the Lung Regenerative Medicine Program in the Department of Clinical Research in Berne University, Switzerland for a post-doctoral research fellowship. She stayed on as a Group Leader in 2008 to direct the basic and transitional science as related to Cancer Stem Cell and Lung Regenerative Medicine in the Department of Biomedical Research at the University of Berne until 2012. In early 2012, she joined the team of Dr. Tom Waddell at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute as a Senior Scientific Associate and was appointed to Assistant Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (University Health Network) in November 2019 and to Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology in July 2020.
Dr. Haykal graduated from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine in2007 as class valedictorian and silver medalist, and subsequently completed her residency training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Toronto in 2016. During her residency, she completed a four-year Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and immunology with a focus on tracheal reconstruction. She obtained numerous grants and awards including a CIHR Vanier Scholarship. Dr. Haykal then pursued fellowship training in microsurgical reconstruction at the Albany Medical Centre in New York. Dr. Haykal joined the University Health Network and the Toronto General Hospital in 2018. Her clinical focus is on complex oncological reconstruction and microsurgical reconstruction of the breast, head and neck and extremity. She started a lymphedema program in 2019 where she offers microsurgical techniques for the treatment of lymphedema.
Dr. Ahmed is a Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. The recipient of the 2022 Hypertension Canada Senior Investigator Award, she is a nephrologist and clinician-scientist with a focus on sex and gender differences in human cardiovascular/kidney physiology and clinical outcomes. Dr. Ahmed is the Vice Chair (Research) for the Department of Medicine, Lead of the Libin Institute Women’s Cardiovascular Health Research Initiative at the University of Calgary and Lead of the Alberta Strategy for Patient Oriented Research Capacity Development Platform. Dr. Ahmed is an Advisory Board member for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Gender and Health, a member of the Canadian Medical Association Journal Governing Council and the President-Elect for the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences.
r. Christopher Nguan is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Urological Sciences, Surgical Head of Kidney Transplantation at Vancouver General Hospital and the Director of the Surgical Technologies Experimental Laboratory & Advanced Robotics (STELLAR) facility at Vancouver General Hospital.
r Caroline Lamarche is a clinician scientist and transplant nephrologist at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. She is an assistant clinical professor at the Université de Montréal. After her nephrology training at the Université de Montréal (2015), she completed a Master degree on the use of adoptive immunotherapy to treat/prevent BK nephropathy in kidney transplant recipients. She then pursued a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Megan Levings at the University of British Columbia on the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) regulatory T cells (Tregs) to induce transplant tolerance. Her lab is working on the development of adoptive immunotherapy in nephrology and understanding Treg dysfunction.
Dr. Tandon is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Co-Director of the Cirrhosis Care Clinic, Transplant Hepatologist and lead of the Cirrhosis Care Alberta quality improvement program. She obtained her training at the University of Alberta, the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona and Yale University. Her clinical practice and research are focused on cirrhosis with research interests including cirrhosis related complications, malnutrition, frailty, exercise therapy, palliative care, integrative health approaches such as meditation and knowledge translation. It is her career goal to provide wholistic, interdisciplinary, evidence based, patient-centered care through education, empowerment, engagement and team-work.
Emily is a PhD student at the University of Alberta, where she completed her Master of Science (MSc) degree in medicine. With a passion for patient-oriented research and a commitment to improving health outcomes, Emily’s doctoral project focuses on EMPOWER, a 12-week online mind-body wellness program designed for adults living with chronic health conditions.
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Dr. Victor Ferreira is an Assistant Scientist in the Ajmera Transplant Centre at the University Health Network (UHN) and the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI). He is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP). He completed his PhD in Medical Sciences – Infection and Immunity Specialization at McMaster University in 2014 and post-doctoral training at UHN. His research program is focused on three pillars: I) using systems vaccinology to reveal insights into vaccine responses in immunocompromised individuals like transplant recipients; II) characterizing the impact of chronic viral infection on host immune responses; and III) developing novel methods for eliminating latent viruses in human organs. His work has been cited >2,500 times and is published in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Immunology, the Lancet Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, the American Journal of Transplantation and Journal of Infectious Diseases.