Day 1: Sunday, November 18 |
17:00
p.m. |
Advisory Group Meeting, CCASN |
18:00 p.m. |
Registration, reception and poster viewing |
19:00 p.m. |
Welcome to participants
Jane Evans, Chair, CCASN |
19:30 p.m. |
Working Group Meetings, CCASN |
Day 2: Monday, November 19 |
8:00
a.m. |
Light breakfast |
8:30
a.m. |
Opening remarks
Reg Sauve, Chair, Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System (CPSS) |
8:45
a.m. |
Keynote presentation
Is the population background birth rate for serious congenital anomalies still 2-3%. Can we answer this question?
R. Brian Lowry, Professor Emeritus/Medical Genetics, Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System/Alberta Health, Alberta Children's Hospital |
Natural history of congenital anomalies: risk factors, morbidity and mortality throughout the lifespan.
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9:15
a.m. |
The impact of prenatal diagnosis on perinatal surveillance and perinatal
health.
KS Joseph, Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre |
10:00
a.m. |
Poster viewing1 and refreshments |
10:45
a.m. |
The cost of prematurity attributable to congenital anomalies.
Reg Sauve, Department of Community Health Services, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary |
11:30 a:m . |
Trends in mortality of serious congenital anomalies in Canada.
Russell Wilkins, Health Analysis and Measurement Group, Statistics Canada |
12:15 p.m. |
Lunch |
Costs and resource utilization of congenital anomalies
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13:15
p.m. |
Economic cost of selected congenital anomalies, 2000-2001 in British Columbia
Leslie Foster, Adjunct Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria |
14:00
p.m.
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Health Services Utilization in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.
Arianne Marelli, Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University, Director, McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease Excellence (MAUDE unit) |
14:45
p.m. |
Poster viewing2 and refreshments |
15:15
p.m. |
Determinants of Survival in Children with Congenital Anomalies
Mohammad Agha, Senior Research Associate, Epidemiologist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario |
16:15
p.m. |
Oral abstracts presentations I
3 x 15 minute abstracts |
17:00
p.m. |
Meeting adjourns |
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Day 3: Tuesday, November 20 |
08:00
a.m. |
Light breakfast |
08:15
a.m. |
Chief Public Health Officer's remarks
David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO), Public Health Agency of Canada |
Congenital anomalies research and surveillance for action |
8:30
a.m. |
Collaborative surveillance and research - An International perspective.
Lorenzo D. Botto, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah. |
9:15 a.m. |
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Birth Defects Spatial Surveillance and Research.
Russell Kirby, Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
10:00 a.m. |
Poster Viewing and refreshments |
10:30 a.m. |
Sex, gender, ethnicity and migration: What to account for in Canadian perinatal health.
Bilkis Vissandjée, Professor, University of Montreal |
11:15 a.m. |
Working group: presentations and discussions. |
12:15 p.m. |
Lunch |
12:45 p.m
- 13:30 p.m. |
Oral abstracts presentations II
3 x 15 minute abstracts |
13:45 p.m. |
Childhood disability: Health-related impacts on caregivers and the family
Jamie C. Brehaut, Scientist, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa |
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Closing remarks |
14:45 p.m. |
Jane Evans, Chair, CCASN |
- First half of presenters are available for questions at 10:10 a.m. for 20 minutes.
- Second half of presenters are available for questions at 14:40 p.m. for 20 minutes.
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This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by the Canadian Paediatric Society (11.75 credit hours).
This event is also awarded with 9.25 credits (CECs) by the Recertification Review Committee of the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors (CAGC). |
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