6th Annual Paediatric In-Patient Research Network Meeting 2024
Welcome!
The Canadian Paediatric Inpatient Research Network (PIRN) annual meeting committee is delighted to invite you to 6th Annual meeting in Montreal!
PIRN was established in 2019 to achieve the best quality of care and health outcomes for children hospitalized in general paediatric settings. Our annual conference hosts parent and youth partners, PIRN members, researchers, methodologists, and clinicians caring for hospitalized children to share and plan impactful and collaborative research to improve practice in paediatric hospital medicine.
Objectives
This year's meeting aims to explore how PIRN can advance learning health systems in paediatric hospital medicine through quality improvement, implementation science, research, and education.
Meet our Keynote Speakers
Dr. Suni Kaiser MD, MSc
Dr. Suni Kaiser is a pediatric hospitalist at the University of California, San Francisco, coordinating and managing the care of infants and children hospitalized for severe or chronic illnesses. She is the Chair of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Setting (PRIS) Network and Chief of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Kaiser's research focus areas include: 1) growing and synthesizing the evidence base around care of common diagnoses among hospitalized children, 2) accelerating the pace at which evidence is broadly implemented into care, and 3) better leveraging quality improvement efforts to advance health equity.
Dr. Christopher Bonafide MD, MSCE
Dr. Chris Bonafide is an Associate Professor, pediatric hospitalist, and implementation scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Chris serves as Associate Chief of General Pediatrics, Associate Director for Implementation Science at Clinical Futures (a Center of Emphasis in the CHOP Research Institute), and Director of Pediatric Implementation Research at the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE). Within implementation science, he is especially interested in finding the best strategies to deimplement ineffective practices in pediatric hospital care. He currently co-leads a type 3 hybrid effectiveness-deimplementation trial focused on Eliminating Monitor Overuse (The EMO Trial) and is a co-investigator for a type 1 hybrid trial focused on reducing unnecessary follow-up visits to primary care after hospitalization (the FAAN-C, or “fancy” trial). He collaborates and consults on numerous other implementation science trials through the PRIS Network (the US equivalent of PIRN), for which he serves as Strategy and Operations Officer. An avid mentor, Chris also serves as Co-Director on the Pediatric Hospital Epidemiology and Outcomes Training (PHEOT) T32 program and mentors several K awardees.
Dr. Amy Shawanda, PhD
Amy Shawanda is a proud Odawa Kwe from Manitoulin Island's Wikwemikong Unceded Territory. She is an educator, storyteller, and health advocate. She is an Assistant Professor in Indigenous health at McGill University's Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Currently, she is the Theme Lead and Indigenous sleep expert for the project entitled “Towards Sleep Equity: Understanding and Addressing Intersectional Risk and Resilience Factors in the Promotion of Healthy Sleep”. Amy’s primary research interest is on sleep, nutrition, physical exercise, mental health, and the Indigenous Commercial Determinants of Health. She is community-driven, generationally inspired, and social justice-oriented. Dr. Shawanda has a focus on strengthening Indigenous ways being, doing, knowing, and healing through education.
Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh MD, MSc, FRCPC
Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh is a pediatrician, microbiologist-infectiologist, and professor in the Department of Microbiology, Infection and Immunology at Université de Montréal. She is the doctor responsible for the prevention and control of infections at CHU Sainte-Justine. She is also the doctor-advisor for the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) in the Biological Risk Unit (immunization and infection prevention). Dr. Quach-Thanh is the POPCORN director and NPA since the network’s inception in 2022.
Her research interests are immunization, understanding the risk factors and prevention of hospital-acquired infections, and the prevention of antibiotic resistance, particularly in vulnerable populations (premature babies, immunocompromised patients, cystic fibrosis).
Dr. Trey Coffey MD FRCPC FAAP
Dr. Trey Coffey is Associate Chief Medical Officer for Quality and Medical Affairs at the Hospital for Sick Children. She has led research on topics including medication reconciliation, disclosure of adverse events, epidemiology of adverse events, and teamwork and communication.
She was a co-author on the landmark 2012 Canadian Paediatric Adverse Events Study and 2014 I-PASS Handoff study. Currently, Trey is collaborating on research around QI education, and leading research to evaluate the impact of large-scale QI networks on safety, as well as implementation of high reliability practices in healthcare.
Dr. Zia Bismilla MD (CaPTEN Group)
Dr. Zia Bismilla is a Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, and Associate Staff Physician in the Division of Paediatric Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is a passionate Clinician Educator and acts as the Track Director of the Paediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship as well as the SickKids Learning Institute Simulation Fellowship Program. Dr. Bismilla leads a research team focusing on medical education and is the Chair of the Canadian Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine Training and Education Network (CaPTEN), whose goal is to advance Pediatric Hospital Medicine Education in Canada.
Dr. Claire Seaton MD (CaPTEN Group)
Dr Claire Seaton is a hospitalist general pediatrician at B.C. Children’s Hospital (BCCH), Pediatrician within the BCCH Asthma Clinic, Program Director for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her pediatric training in Oxford and London, UK led to a respiratory fellowship at BCCH, and she has been at BCCH since 2016.
Dr Seaton’s clinical work and research interests have intersected to focus on Knowledge Translation, Quality Improvement and Education, with a particular focus on common pediatric respiratory conditions. In 2020, she founded the PHM fellowship program at BCCH and has been excited to collaborate with fellow PHM programs across the country through the CaPTEN (Canadian PHM Training and Education Network) to create national educational opportunities for PHM fellows.
Dr. Suzette Cooke MD (CaPTEN Group)
Dr. Suzette Cooke, MD, FRCPC, PhD is a hospital pediatrician at the Alberta Children's Hospital. She is also an associate professor, clinician educator and researcher in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Dr. Cooke enjoys the diversity of clinical work in the pediatric hospital medicine setting. Dr. Cooke’s clinician educator responsibilities include training undergraduate medical students, pediatric residents and fellows in the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship program.
She co-leads a national initiative with the CaPTEN consortium to develop an area of focused competence in Pediatric Hospital Medicine with the RCPSC. Dr. Cooke also teaches in the Precision Health Medicine program at the University of Calgary and supervises graduate students. Dr. Cooke has served as the principal investigator or co-investigator for several medical education grants and clinical research grants, presented research findings at national and international conferences and has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals.
Location
Montreal Children's Hospital
1001 Boulevard Décarie Montréal, QC Canada, H4A 3J1Registration period
July 26, 2024 - 11:35 AM until November 13, 2024 - 11:59 PM
Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact keenjal.mistry@sickkids.ca .
