Health Research Forum, May 17-18
The PEI Health Research Institute at UPEI is hosting its annual Health Research Forum at Rodd's Crowbush Resort, Lakeside, May 17-18. The Forum attracts representatives of the PEI health research community: academic researchers, students, community groups, health and education professionals, clinicians, and policy makers.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Pierre Chartrand, Vice President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research will speak about health research funding opportunities and the changing landscape of funding for health research in Canada. The audience can engage Dr. Chartrand in discussions about funding issues important to the PEI health research community.
Dr. Renee Lyons, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Promotion, Dalhousie University will highlight some key aspects of mobilizing communities for action across provincial boundaries in Atlantic Canada. She uses Atlantic Canada as her ?lab? to study how low resource areas mobilize their efforts to prevent disease and improve health. Dr. Lyons will share some of the lessons learned from their studies with their Yarmouth Stroke Project to make evidence based community support for stroke patients.
Dr. Mark Nachtigal, Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, Dalhousie University is a Canadian Cancer Society Research Scientist and Co-Chair of the Nova Scotia Cancer Research Training Program. He will talk about his research on understanding better ways to detect and treat ovarian cancer. His team is studying the role of a new enzyme called Pace4 in the development of ovarian cancer. He will also talk about the lessons he has learned in maintaining and sustaining a strong program of research in Atlantic Canada.
Forum Workshop:
A training workshop is being hosted on May 17 with Dr. Dawn Mc Arthur who is well known for successfully mentoring researchers to write high calibre, grants. She has expertise working with Tri-Council funding councils such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). During the workshop she will share her keys to successful grants with highlights from many years of experience. She will share examples from some of her work with grant writing and engage the audience with ideas and questions to consider.
Conference Link: http://www.upei.ca/peihri/html/hri_forum.html
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AGENDA
Thursday, May 17
8:30am: Successful Research Proposals: Start to Finish, Keynote Speaker - Dawn McArthur
2:00pm: Welcome, Donna Murnaghan
2:10pm: Opening Remarks, Rob Haines
2:20pm: Jo-Ann MacDonald (School of Nursing, UPEI) - Topic: Lone Mothers' Experiences in Atlantic Canada
2:40pm: Jennifer Taylor (Department of Family and Nutritional Sciences, UPEI) -Topic: Changes in School Food Environments Associated with Implementation of School Nutrition Policies in Elementary Schools in Prince Edward Island
3:00pm: Donna Murnaghan (PEI Health Research Institute, School of Nursing, UPEI) - Topic: Mapping Youth Smoking in Public Places
3:30pm: Yanwen Wang (Institute for Nutrisciences and Health, NRC) - Topic: Development of Novel Lipid-lowering Natural Products
4:00pm: Janet Bryanton (School of Nursing, UPEI) - Topic: Perception of the Birth Experience and its Relationship to Early Postpartum Parenting and Parenting Self-efficacy
7:00pm: Dinner and Keynote Speaker: Pierre Chartrand, VP Research, CIHR - Topic: CIHR: Turning research into actions that improve health
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Friday, May 18
9:50am: Debbie MacLellan (Department of Family and Nutritional Sciences, UPEI) - Topic: Enabling and Barrier Factors in the Development of Elementary and Consolidated School Nutrition Policies on Prince Edward Island
10:10am:Tim Carroll (School of Business Administration, UPEI) - Topic: From Health Management to Health Leadership: Evolving Concepts in Health Administration
10:40am: Andy Tasker (Department of Biomedical Sciences, AVC) - Topic: Shutting down cell death without shutting down the brain: A new approach to drug therapy following stroke
11:10am: Charlene Supnet (Institute of Nutrisciences and Health, NRC) - Topic: The role of ryanodine receptor-3 in Alzheimer's disease
11:30am:Marva Sweeney-Nixon (Department of Biology, UPEI) - Topic: Blueberry Diets Lower Blood Pressure in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats by Protecting the Kidneys.
1:00pm: Keynote Speaker: Mark Nachtigal, Canadian Cancer Society Research Scientist
1:50pm: Russell Kerr (Department of Chemistry, UPEI) - Topic: Marine natural products as a source of new pharmaceuticals - the promise and the challenges
2:20pm: Philip Smith (Department of Psychology, UPEI) - Topic: Socioeconomic Status and Tobacco
2:40pm: Rob Haines (Department of Chemistry, UPEI) - Topic: Precious metals with precious applications: Palladium-based potential anti-cancer compounds.
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For more information, please contact Erin McGrath-Gaudet at (902) 894-2812 or peihri@upei.ca.
