Program
Welcome !
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM: CMDO Scientific Steering Committee Meeting, by invitation only.
1:00 to 1:30 PM: Joint Executive Meeting of SQLNM-CMDO, by invitation only (Salle Maskoutaine 5)
1:30 to 3:30 PM: SQLNM Executive Committee Meeting, by invitation only (Salle Maskoutaine 5)
1:00 PM: Regisgration (Grand foyer)
1:00 to 4:00 PM: Pre-conference workshop MyRoad - Engagement of patient/citizen partners in research (Workshop room E, Saint-Hyacinthe, second floor)
6:00 to 6:10 PM: Opening ceremony and welcome speech (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
6:10 to 6:25 PM: Guest of honor : Director of the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
6:25 to 6h35PM: Presentation of the Prix de Marie-Lambert
6:35 to 7:30 PM: Denis Richard Prestige Conference (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
Behavior change for sustained health outcomes: How to integrate into clinic care, by Michael Vallis (Dalhousie University).
7:30 to 9:00 PM: Poster session, cocktail reception, and networking (Poster exhibition room C and D, Notre-Dame and Providence)
Thursday, February 12, 2026
7:30 AM: Regisgration (Grand foyer)
7:00 to 8:30 AM: Breakfast (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
8:30 to 10:00 AM: Symposium 1 - Paradigm shifts in nutrition associated with the advent of obesity drugs (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
Moderators: Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier and Émilie Bernier
8:30 to 9:00 AM: Marilou Côté (Université Laval) - Potential effects of incretin-targeting obesity treatments on eating behaviors
9:00 to 9:30 AM: Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier (Université Laval) - Are there any nutritional risks associated with the use of obesity drugs?
9:30 to 10:00 AM: Thierry Alquier (Université de Montréal) - Regulation of energy homeostasis by neuronal lipolysis
10:00 to 10:30 AM: Health break and visit to the kiosks (Grand Foyer)
10:30 to 11:30 AM: Jean-Davignon-CMDO Young Researcher Conference (Plenary Room A) - Lawrence Kazak (McGill University) - Mechanisms of Adipocyte Energy Expenditure (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
11:30 AM to 12:00 PM: CMDO Annual General Meeting (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
12:00 to 1:30 PM: Dinner (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
1:30 to 3:00 PM: Symposium 2 et Symposium 3
Symposium 2 - Preventing cardiometabolic diseases and obesity among the entire population (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
Moderators: Lise Gauvin and Ariane Bélanger-Gravel
1:30 to 2:00 PM: Jean Adams (Cambridge University) - Categorizing self-management requirements imposed by population-based health interventions: Development and application of the DEPTH framework
2:00 to 2:30 PM: Lise Gauvin (Université de Montréal) et Ariane Bélanger Gravel (Université Laval) - Interactive activity - Strengthening the implementation and evaluation of population-based interventions targeting cardiometabolic diseases and obesity in Quebec: relevance and integration of the DEPTH framework
2:30 to 2:40 PM: Simon Ibrahim - Defining Obesity Remission as a Clinical Outcome: Applying the 2025 Lancet Commission Framework in a Multidisciplinary Lifestyle Program
2:40 to 2:50 PM: Marianne Rochette - Portrait de la consommation d’aliments ultra-transformés chez les adultes au Québec : résultats du projet NutriQuébec
2:50 to 2:00 PM: Tannis Nelson - Health by Association: A Cluster-Based Analysis of Personal Social Networks and Health Behaviours
Symposium 3 - Imaging of type 2 diabetes (Conference room B, Maskoutaine 5)
Moderator: André Carpentier
1:30 to 2:00 PM: François Yu (Université de Montréal) - Theranostics in ultrasound imaging
2:00 to 2:30 PM: Martin Lepage (Sherbrooke University) - High-field magnetic resonance imaging
2:30 to 2:40 PM: Jae Hyun Byun - Single-cell Transcriptomic Characterization of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Instability
2:40 to 2:50 PM: Sophie Hogan-Lamarre - L’entrainement par intervalles à haute intensité augmente la captation d’acides gras alimentaires dans le muscle squelettique chez des individus vivant avec le prédiabète
2:50 to 3:00 PM: Iman Rafati - Shear and Compression Wave Attenuation for Non-Invasive Detection of Metabolic Steatohepatitis
3:00 to 3:15 PM: Health break and visit to the kiosks (Grand foyer)
3:15 to 4:30 PM: Robert Dufour Clinical Teaching Workshop and MyRoad Group Mentoring Session
-Robert Dufour Clinical Teaching Workshop - New Horizons in Lipidology: The Power of Antisense RNAs (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
Speakers:
Benoit Arsenault (Université de Laval) - From the laboratory to the patient: an introduction to antisense RNA therapies
Guillaume Marquis-Gravel (Montreal Heart Institute) - Transforming cardiovascular prevention with antisense RNA.
-MyRoad group mentoring session (Conference room B, Maskoutaine 5)
5:00 to 7:00 PM: Poster session, cocktail reception, and networking (Poster exhibition room C and D, Notre-Dame and Providence)
7:00 PM: Banquet and dance night (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
Friday, February 13, 2026
7:30 AM: Registration (Grand foyer)
7:00 to 8:30 AM: Breakfast (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
8:30 to 10:00 AM: Symposium 4 - Complexity and paradoxes of hypertension: the state of the art (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
Moderatos: Stella Daskalopoulou and Mohsen Agharazii
8:30 to 9:00 AM: Rhian Touyz (McGill University) - Médecine de précision en hypertension
9:00 to 9:30 AM: Rémi Goupil (Université de Montréal) - Les nouvelles lignes directrices d'Hypertension Canada
9:30 to 10:00 AM: Alain Milot (Université Laval) - New diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in hypertension
10:00 to 10:30 AM: Health break and visit to the kiosks (Grand foyer)
10:30 to 11:30 AM: Jean-Davignon and Paul-Lupien Founders' Award Conference 2026 - SQLNM - Catherine Mounier (Université du Québec à Montréal) - Fatty Acids in all their complexity: How their Origin, Structure, and Localization can influence their effects (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
Moderators: Marie-Claude Vohl and Benoit Arsenault
11:30 AM to 12:00 PM: Annual General Meeting of the SQLNM (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
12:00 to 1:30 PM: Dinner (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
1:30 to 3:00 PM: Symposium 5 et symposium 6
Symposium 5 - New applications of metabolomics for sub-phenotyping patients (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
Moderator: Matthieu Ruiz
1:30 to 2:00 PM: Matthieu Ruiz (Université de Montréal) - Integration of lipidomics data to refine patient stratification in cardiovascular diseases: challenges and perspectives
2:00 to 2:30 PM: Anne-Julie Tessier (Université de Montréal) - Precision Nutrition and Healthy Aging: Omics and Traditional Approaches
2:30 to 2:40 PM: Amandine Vanduyse - miR-100-5p contribue à la variabilité interindividuelle de la réponse triglycéride postprandiale en ciblant PCSK9.
2:40 to 2:50 PM: Émilie Gobeil - Une analyse protéo-génomique du foie identifie MTARC1 comme une nouvelle cible thérapeutique pour la stéatose hépatique métabolique
2:50 to 3:00 PM: Sonia Lablab - Dialogue enflammé foie-cœur : Rôle de la Sphingosine-1-Phosphate d’origine hépatique et de ses récepteurs cardiaques dans le développement de la cardiopathie métabolique liée à la stéatose hépatique
Symposium 6 - Community-based clinical research: Turning projects into tools for local and community transformation (Conference room B, Maskoutaine 5)
Moderator: Fannie Lajeunesse-Trempe
1:30 to 2:00 PM: Richard Fleet (Université Laval) - Alternative research models in rural areas
2:00 to 2:30 PM: Lydia Kaduka (Kenya Medical Research Institute) - Screening and intervening for Cardiometabolic Health in Rural Africa
2:30 to 2:40 PM: Elizabeth Boivin - Implantation d’un test génétique pour le dépistage du diabète MODY2 en soins primaires
2:40 to 2:50 PM: Raven Larocque Laliberté - Association entre l’appropriation culturelle autochtone et la santé cardiovasculaire au sein de la communauté wendat de Wendake
2:50 to 3:00 PM: Eve-Julie Tremblay - Lipides sanguins associés à la rémission du diabète de type 2 après une chirurgie bariatrique
3:00 to 3:15 PM: Health break and visit to the kiosks (Grand foyer)
3:15 to 3:30 PM: Pierre-Julien Commitment Awards Ceremony and Yves-Deshaies Rising Stars Awards Ceremony (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
3:30 to 4:00 PM: Student awards ceremony and closing ceremony (Plenary room A, Maskoutaine 6 to Grand foyer)
