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Event Recap

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Expert Knowledge Exchange

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Bridging the Gaps

Recently, we had the great pleasure of hosting our annual CANet Expert Knowledge Exchange at Le Westin Hotel in Montreal, Quebec!

We thank our Patient Partners, Trainees, Allied Health professionals/Research professionals, Network Investigators, and Speakers for joining us from across Canada.

We would also like to thank our speakers for exchanging their expert knowledge with our fantastic audience who travelled across Canada to participate in this event.

We give special thanks to our excellent speakers:

Sickboy — Jeremie Saunders, Taylor Macgillivary and Brian Stever; Julie Gerber; Dr. Katie Allan; Dr. Varinder Kaur Randhawa; Pam Husband; Craig Hasilo; Danaka Porter; Bianca Mammarella; Dr. Alexandra King; Dr. Malcolm King; Dot Beaucage-Kennedy; Carrielynn Lund; Carol McGregor; and Amelia McGregor!

Thank you to the Chair of CANet’s Training and Education Committee, Dr. Katherine Allan, and the additional members of the TEC for their hard work in the planning of this event: Brianna Davies, Shannon Kelly, Joel Sherwood, Danaka Porter, Tigana Runte, Bianca Mammarella, Dr. Varinder Randhawa, and Dr. Santokh Dillon. Your work is greatly appreciated.

Details about our event, including speaker bios and presentation abstracts, can be found here.

October 24 — 25, 2023

Le Westin Montreal
Montreal, Québec

Omar Elbardisy, CHAT Oral Presentation award winner with Dr. Katie Allan, Chair, CANet’s Training and Education Committee

CHAT Oral Presentation Competition

Congratulations to Omar Elbardisy for winning in the Scientific category!

Scroll down to see all the finalists and winners.

Questions about this event?

Sarah Whibley
Training and Education Coordinator 
[email protected]

CHAT Poster and Oral Presentation Competitions

During the Expert Knowledge, CANet held two competitions, CHAT Poster and CHAT Oral Presentation, for its trainees.

CHAT Poster Award Winners

Our CHAT Poster competition allowed trainees to showcase their research and present their posters to a panel of scientific, allied health, and patient partner judges.

Scientific Category

  • 1st place
    Jacquie Baker
    University of Calgary
  • 2nd place
    Shaun Ranada
    University of Calgary
  • 3rd place
    Kathleen Charlong
    University of Calgary

General Interest

  • 1st place
    Damyen Henderson-Lee Wah
    University of Toronto
  • 2nd place
    Brianna Davies
    University of British Columbia
  • 3rd place
    Aileen Davis
    Nova Scotia Health

Patient Selected

  • 1st place
    Jacquie Baker
    University of Calgary
  • 2nd place
    Aishani Patel
    University of Calgary
  • 3rd place
    Jaspreet Randhawa
    London Health Sciences Centre

CHAT Oral Presentation Winners

Our CHAT Oral Presentation Competition allowed finalists in the general interest and scientific category to showcase their research to all event attendees and a panel of either scientific or general interest judges and patient partner judges.

General Interest

Finalists

  • Katie Kawulka
    Nova Scotia Health
  • Janel Dhooma
    London Health Sciences Centre
  • Suzanne Greeley
    Nova Scotia Health

 

Winners

  • General Interest:
    Janel Dhooma
    London Health Sciences Centre
  • Audience-Selected:
    Janel Dhooma
    London Health Sciences Centre
  • Patient-Selected:
    Suzanne Greeley
    Nova Scotia Health

Scientific

Finalists

  • Omar Elbardisy
    University of Toronto
  • Katherine Mason
    University of Ottawa
  • Sophie Sigfstead
    University of Alberta

 

Winners

  • Scientific:
    Omar Elbardisy
    University of Toronto
  • Audience-Selected:
    Omar Elbardisy
    University of Toronto
  • Patient-Selected:
    Omar Elbardisy
    University of Toronto

Thanks again for attending!

We hope you all had a wonderful time with the opportunities to grow your networks and gain valuable knowledge at our EKE.

Thank you, and we hope to see you at our next event soon!