Welcome to the 10th Annual Child Health and Human Development Research Day -
Friday May 9, 2025
Child Health and Human Development Research Day is an annual event organized to provide the program members and guests with information about the research spearheaded by our researchers, and to reinforce and initiate collaborations.
All CHHD members from the CTB, CORE, investigators and associate investigators are invited to participate in this event!
CHHD Trainees will be put forward as we want this event to be an opportunity for you to showcase your results to your peers, receive feedback on your work and most of all, improve your communication skills which is essential for any future researcher.
This Research Day will also allow everyone to familiarize themselves with research from our CHHD members and an Invited Speaker!
We are looking forward to seeing you at this year's CHHD research day!
Registration
Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
All attendees must register.
Every presenter is required to register before submitting an abstract.
Submission - Abstract
Deadline for submission: Friday, March 28, 2025 - NOW CLOSED
The committee will inform presenters of the type of presentation they were assigned 8 days after the submission deadline.
We will award prizes for the best performance in each category!
Poster and oral presentations
Oral Presentations
We ask that the presenters prepare an 8-minute PowerPoint presentation.
Each presentation will be followed by a 2-minute question period.
We ask that each selected presenter provide their PowerPoint presentation via email to fanny.toussaint@muhc.mcgill.ca by May 7, 2025.
Poster Presentations
Presenters will be able to put up their poster on the boards available in the Atrium starting at 8:00am on May 9, 2025.
Presenters will be required to attend their posters during the poster session to present and answer questions.
Presenters will be asked to prepare a 5-minute presentation.
Each presentation will be followed by up to 2 minutes of questions.
Awards
Oral Presentations
TBA
Junior Poster Presentations
TBA
Senior Poster Presentations
TBA
Good luck to all presenters!
Please take note that the Research Day Abstract booklet will be available at registration on May 9, 2025.
External Keynote Speaker
Elin Grundberg, PhD
Professor in Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Roberta D. Harding & William F. Bradley, Jr. Endowed Chair in Genomic Research
Originally from Sweden, Dr. Elin Grundberg trained in Human Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge UK and at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. In 2012 she joined the faculty of McGill University in Montreal, Canada as a tenured-track Assistant Professor in Human Genetics and held between 2013-2017 the Canada Research Chair in Disease Genomics and Epigenomics. In 2017, Dr Grundberg was recruited to Children’s Mercy Kansas City to establish epigenomics and single-cell programs for perinatal and pediatric translational medicine studies. She holds the Roberta D. Harding & William F. Bradley, Jr. Endowed Chair in Genomic Research and is a Professor in Pediatrics at UMKC School of Medicine. Her group is using latest sequencing approaches to pregnancy and pediatric samples to understand genetic and non-genetic (epigenetic) factors underlying disease risk. Her recent effort includes mapping parent-of-origin methylation pattern in early placental samples using long-read sequencing approaches unraveling novel imprinting signatures and related disorders.
Internal Keynote Speaker
Brett Burstein, MD, PhD, MPH, FRCPC, FAAP
Scientist, CHHD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
Clinician-Scientist, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Montreal Children's Hospital, MUHC
Dr. Brett Burstein received his M.D/Ph.D degrees from McGill University (2010) and MPH from Harvard (2018). He trained in General Pediatrics (2013) then Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2015) at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, and was subsequently appointed as Clinician-Scientist at the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) consortium, the Board of Directors for the Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) network, the Research Committee of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP), and is a Decision Editor for the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. He holds a Clinical Research Scholar career award (FRQ-S), and has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles, commentaries and book chapters with nearly 6000 career citations. His primary research interest is the emergency management of fever among infants in the first months of life, and he is the principal author of national guidelines from the Canadian Pediatric Society.
Location
McConnell Atrium and Cruess Auditorium
1001 Boulevard Décarie Montréal, QC Canada, H4A 3J1Registration period
March 3, 2025 - 00:00 until April 30, 2025 - 23:59
Submission period
March 3, 2025 - 00:00 until March 28, 2025 - 23:59
Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact fanny.toussaint@muhc.mcgill.ca .
