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Registration Is Now Open!

Child Health Research Day

Agenda

Main Conference Room: Kenny Theatre, located in the Darryl J. King Student Life Centre at King's University College
Breakout Rooms: Labatt Hall (LH) 100, 101
Poster Displays: Labatt Hall (LH) 105

Dynamic Agenda: Please be aware that the conference agenda is currently under construction and subject to change. As we continue to receive new information and updates, we will make adjustments to ensure the most relevant and timely content is presented. We appreciate your understanding and flexibility as we strive to provide the best possible experience for all attendees.

Click on a presentation title for further details.

9:30

Registrant Check-In Table Opens, Refreshments

Room: LH 101

10:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Room: Kenny Theatre

10:10
10:20

Select Abstract – Surgical Winner

Room: Kenny Theatre

Presented by:

10:30

Flash Poster Presentations (1- to 2-minute rapid-fire presentations)

Room: Kenny Theatre

11:10

Networking, Poster Presentation, Judging

Room: Labatt Hall, Main Floor

11:45

Lunch

Room: Labatt Hall, Main Floor

12:30

Breakout Session

Breakout Session A: Clinical / Quaiity Improvement (QI)

Room: LH 100

12:30

Virtual Reality for Procedural Distress in Children Undergoing Port-a-Cath Access: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Presented by:
Rossalex Suarez

12:40

Building Readiness in Inclusive and Diverse Gender-affirming Education: A Quality Improvement Project (BRIDGE-QI)

Presented by:
Shamez Kachra

12:50

Functional Brain Connectivity in Healthcare Providers Immediately and in the Days after a 24-hour-on-call Shift

Presented by:
Sujitha Srinathan

1:00

Pediatric Foreign Body Ingestions in London, Ontario: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

Presented by:
Luxshikka Canthiya

1:10

Structure-Function Coupling for Epileptogenic Zone Network Identification and Connectivity Analysis in Paediatric Focal Epilepsy

Presented by:
Adetunji Oremakinde

1:20

Primary Care Involvement in the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Scoping Review

Presented by:
Fatima Mela

Breakout Session B: Basic Science

Room: LH 101

12:30

Pancreatic Beta-cell Plasticity: Trans- differentiation of Delta- to Beta-cells during Pregnancy

Presented by:
Bavina Thirunavukarasu

12:40

CTCF haploinsufficiency biases embryonic ventral lineage allocation toward striatal neurons programs in single-cell multi-omics

Presented by:
Alireza Ghahramani

12:50

Therapeutic rescue of pathogenic asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase alleles

Presented by:
Tristan Samuels

1:00

Toward Early Diagnosis of Preeclampsia and FGR Through Integrated Placental and Circulating Signatures

Presented by:
Chloe Jang

1:10

Higher buccal-epithelial mitochondrial DNA copy number is associated with early childhood caries and adverse developmental health and functioning

Presented by:
Luis Limo

1:20

Loss Of Osteopontin Improves Uterine Vascular Function In Hypertensive Pregnancy

Presented by:
Megan Lave

1:30

Networking Break and Refreshments

Room: Labatt Hall, Main Floor

1:45

Introduce and Present Award to Marla Dubinsky

Room: Kenny Theatre

4:00

Networking Break, Judging, Wine and Cheese

Room: Labatt Hall, Main Floor

Contact Us

For more information or questions regarding:

Child Health Research Day / Poster Session

Megan Dykstra
Email:
Phone: 519-685-8500 *77566

Child Health Symposium

Meaghan McKillop
Email:

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