Presentations
Our members regularly present their research at conferences. This list features conference presentations from January – June 2018 involving various department members.
Division of Geriatric Medicine
| Title | The Importance of Age, Sex and Frailty in Preclinical Studies of the Heart |
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| Authors | Howlett SE. |
| Presented | York University, Toronto, Ontario. January 12, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | Biomarkers of Frailty: Can We Get It Together? |
| Authors | Rockwood K. |
| Presented | Canadian Frailty Network Biomarkers of Frailty Workshop (Toronto, ON). January 15, 2018 (Invited Presentation). |
| Title | Overview of Biomarkers with Respect to Frailty |
| Authors | Howlett SE. |
| Presented | Canadian Frailty Network Biomarkers Expert Panel Workshop, Toronto, Ontario. January 15, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | The Pictorial Fit-Frail Scale |
| Authors | Theou O, Squires E, McGarrigle L, Wallace L, Goldstein J, Andrew M, Rockwood K. |
| Presented | International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (Miami Beach, FL). Mar 2018. J Frailty Aging, 2018; 7(S1): 116. |
| Title | How Does Frailty Influence Who Gets Dementia? |
| Authors | Wallace L, Theou O, Godin J, Andrew M, Rockwood K. |
| Presented | International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (Miami Beach, FL). Mar 2018. J Frailty Aging, 2018;7(S1);77-78. |
| Title | Frailty in Older People: Lessons from Canada |
| Authors | Rockwood K. |
| Presented | Sun-Life Symposium on the challenge of frailty for the Japanese people and health care (Nagoya, Japan). March 27, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | A Mouse Model of Frailty Based on Deficit Accumulation: Clinical Relevance and Applications for Basic Research |
| Authors | Howlett SE. |
| Presented | The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. April 9, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | Assessment of Ageing in Preclinical Models: Current and Future Models and Their Clinical Relevance |
| Authors | Howlett SE. |
| Presented | British Toxicology Society Congress, Newcastle, UK. April 17, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | Defining Clinically Important Differences in Frailty: Results from Community-Dwelling People and Emergency Department Patients. |
| Authors | Eendebak RJAH, Theou O, van der Valk AM, Godin J, Rockwood K. |
| Presented | 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (Montreal, QC). April 2018 (poster). |
| Title | Relationship of Nutrients Intake, Blood Levels and Anthropometric Measurements with Frailty and Morality. |
| Authors | Jayanama K, Theou O, Cahill L, Rockwood K. |
| Presented | 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (Montreal, QC). April 2018 (poster). |
| Title | Comparing the Ability of Three Frailty Tools to Predict Mortality in Emergency Department Patients Referred To Medicine |
| Authors | Rockwood K, van der Valk AM, Lines K, Howlett S, Theou O. |
| Presented | 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (Montreal, QC). April 2018 (poster). |
| Title | Mapping the Literature of Frailty in Acute Care |
| Authors | Theou O, Squires E, Mallery K, Lee J, Fay S, Goldstein J, Armstrong JJ, Rockwood K |
| Presented | 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (Montreal, QC). April 2018 (poster). |
| Title | Major Neurocognitive Disorders and Delayed Discharge. |
| Authors | Plante J, Kröger E, Marcotte M, Nadeau S, Doyle E, Latulippe K, Rockwood K. |
| Presented | 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (Montreal, QC). April 2018 (poster). |
| Title | Twitter to Tenure, Blogging to Bold Action: Social Media for Education and Advocacy in Geriatrics |
| Authors | Frank C, Rockwood K, Sinha S, Gardhouse A, Cheung B, Dr. Wong C (Chair). |
| Presented | 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (Montreal, QC). April 2018 (workshop). |
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| Authors | Mallery L. |
| Presented | Annual NICE Knowledge Exchange, April 30 and May 1, 2018, Toronto, ON (invited presentation) |
| Title | The Challenge of Dementia in Canada: Health Systems and Responses |
| Authors | Rockwood K. |
| Presented | The National Dementia Conference (Ottawa, ON). May 14, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | Studying Aging in China: A National Mission |
| Authors | Rockwood K. |
| Presented | Inaugural scientific address, The National Center for Gerontology of China (Beijing, China). May 18, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | Identifying Frailty in Older Adults at The Front Door: Screening and Initial Assessment |
| Authors | Rockwood K. |
| Presented | Chinese Geriatrics Society Annual Conference and Yellow River Geriatric Summit (Tiayuan, China). May 19, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | How Frailty and Sex Affect Heart Disease Risk and Expression in Ageing Humans and Mice |
| Authors | Rockwood K. |
| Presented | The International Society for Heart Research (Halifax, NS). May 31, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | Frailty and Ventricular Function: Sex Differences in the Results of Intervention Studies |
| Authors | Howlett SE. |
| Presented | International Society for Heart Research, Halifax, Nova Scotia. May 31, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | Development of a Novel Cellular Reporter Assay to Measure Anticholinergic Activity |
| Authors | Trenaman SC, Andrew MK, Goralski K. |
| Presented | Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Toronto, Canada). May 2018 (poster). |
| Title | Age, Sex and Genetic Considerations in the Use of Anticholinergic Drugs in Geriatric Populations |
| Authors | Trenaman SC, Goralski K. |
| Presented | 2018 CADTH SYMPOSIUM: Managing Health Technologies: Supporting Appropriate, Affordable, and Accessible Care (Halifax, NS). April 2018 (poster). |
| Title | Biomarkers of Frailty in a Naturally Aging Mouse Model |
| Authors | Howlett SE. |
| Presented | AGE Meeting 2018, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. June 29, 2018 (invited presentation). |
| Title | Diabetes Educator Course |
| Authors | Mallery L. |
| Presented | Future Inn Hotel & Conference Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 14 &15, 2018 (invited presentation). |
Division of Medical Oncology
| Title | A Real World Multicenter Study of First (1L) and second (2L) Line Treatment Patterns and Outcomes in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (APC) |
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| Authors | Yu IS, Spratlin JL, Tang PA, Lee-Ying RM, Goodwin RA, Meyers BM, Ramjeesingh R, Armstrong DW, Vickers MM, Zhang H, Kim C, Cheung WY. |
| Presented | American Society of Clinical Oncology 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, June 1st-5th 2018. J Clin Oncol 36, 2018 (suppl; abstr e18729). |
| Title | The Impact of Palliative Care Consultation on Overall Survival and Aggressive Care at the End-Of-Life in Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer |
| Authors | Lees C, Weerasinghe S, Younis T, Lamond N, Ramjeesingh R. |
| Presented | American Society of Clinical Oncology 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, June 1-5, 2018. J Clin Oncol 36, 2018 (suppl; abstr e18729). |
| Title | Comparing Outcomes of Second Line Axitinib or Everolimus in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients: Results from the Canadian Kidney Cancer Information System |
| Authors | Naveen S Basappa, Georg Bjarnason, Aaron Hansen, Daniel Heng, Anil Kapoor, Christian Kollmannsberger, Eric Lévesque, Austin Kalirai, Haocheng Li, Ranjena Maloni, M Neil Reaume, Denis Soulières, Lori Wood. |
| Presented | Canadian Urological Association Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS, June 23-26, 2018. (poster presentation) |
| Title | Cytoreductive Nephrectomy in Metastatic Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results from the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium (IMDC) |
| Authors | Jeffrey Graham, Connor Wells, Frede Donskov, Jae-Lyun Lee, Anna Paola Fraccon, Felice Pasini, Camillo Porta, I. Alex Bowman, Georg A. Bjarnason, D. Scott Ernst, Sun Young Rha, Benoit Beuselinck, Aaron Richard Hansen, Scott A North, Christian K. Kollmannsberger, Lori Wood, Ulka N Vaishampayan, Sumanta K. Pal, Toni K Choueiri, Daniel Yick Chin Heng. |
| Presented | Genitourinary Cancers (GU) American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), San Francisco, CA, February 8-10, 2018. (oral presentation) |
| Title | Application of Canadian Hereditary Renal Cell Carcinoma Risk Criteria to a Population Database |
| Authors | Igal Kushnir, Leah Kirk, Ranjeeta Mallick, Raymond Kim, Gail E Graham, Rodney H Breau, Jean-Baptiste Lattouf, Philippe Violette, Stephen E Pautler, Melanie Care, Anil Kapoor, Michael AS Jewett, Lori Wood, Simon Tanguay, Daniel Yick Chin Heng, Naveen S Basappa, Alan I So, Frederic Pouliot, M Neil Reaume. |
| Presented | GU ASCO, San Francisco, CA, February 8-10, 2018. (poster presentation) |
| Title | Impact of Tumor Size on Survival Outcome in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients (MRCC) Treated with Targeted Therapy |
| Authors | Wanling Xie, Renzo DiNatale, A Ari Hakimi, Frede Donskov, Camillo Porta, M Neil Reaume, Naveen S Basappa, Aaron Richard Hansen, Brian I Rini, Benoit Beuselinck, Georg A Bjarnason, Sandy Srinivas, James Brugarolas, Sun Young Rha, Lori Wood, Aly-Khan A Lalani, Dominick Bosse, Audrey Duquette, Daniel Yick Chin Heng, Toni K Choueiri. |
| Presented | GU ASCO, San Francisco, CA, February 8-10, 2018. (poster presentation) |
| Title | Real World Outcomes of Nivolumab and Cabozantinib in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results from the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium (IMDC) |
| Authors | Igor Stukalin, J Connor Wells, Jeffrey Graham, Takeshi Yuasa, Benoit Beuselinck, Christian K. Kollmannsberger, D. Scott Ernst, Neeraj Agarwal, Tri Le, Frede Donskov, Aaron Richard Hansen, Georg A. Bjarnason, Sandy Srinivas, Lori Wood, Ajjai Shivaram Alva, Ravindran Kanesvaran, Simon Yuen Fai Fu, Ian D. Davis, Toni K. Choueiri, Daniel Yick Chin Heng. |
| Presented | GU ASCO, San Francisco, CA, February 8-10, 2018. (poster presentation) |
| Title | Increased Paired Basic Amino Acid-Cleaving Enzyme 4 (PACE4) Expression Correlates with Better Survival in Primary and Metastatic Colorectal Cancer |
| Authors | Ren KYM, Bocicariu A, Orr C, Song K, Maritan S, Peng Y, O’Callaghan C, Ramjeesingh R, Hammad N, Biagi J, Nicol C, Mulligan LM, Day R, Feilotter HE, Hurlbut D, Davey S. |
| Presented | 2018 United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, March 17-23, 2018. Abstract# pending (poster presentation) |
| Title | Isolated Tumor Cells in Sentinel Lymph Nodes for Primary Breast Cancer: A Cohort Analysis. |
| Authors | Karkada MA, DeCoste RC, Barnes PJ, Rayson D, Bethune GC. |
| Presented | Canadian Association of Pathologists’ annual scientific meeting, Quebec City, QC, July 7-10, 2018. |
| Title | Incidence and Relevance of Isolated Tumor Cells in Primary Invasive Breast Cancer: A Cohort Analysis. |
| Authors | Karkada MA, Bethune GC, DeCoste RC, Barnes PJ, Rayson D. |
| Presented | Medical Science Program Research Day, Dalhousie. |
Division of Palliative Medicine
| Title | A Feasibility Study of Home-Based Palliative Care Telemedicine in Rural Nova Scotia |
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| Authors | Robert Horton, Claire Slavin-Stewart (RIM student). |
| Presented | Poster presentation. Advanced Learning in Palliative Medicine conference, Toronto. May 31-June 2, 2018. |
| Title | Bringing Residential Hospice to Nova Scotia – A Community Partnership in Action |
| Authors | Robert Horton, Stephanie Connidis. |
| Presented | Poster presentation. NSHA Quality Symposium. |
DoM New Brunswick
| Title | A Descriptive Analysis of the Effectiveness of Direct Acting Antiviral Therapies at Achieving SVR12 in Chronic HCV Patients with Various Comorbidities and Characteristics in NB |
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| Authors | Matthew Stewart, Daniel Smyth, Stefanie Materniak, Alyssa Margeson, Meaghan O’Brien, Duncan Webster. |
| Presented | Poster Presentation. 7th Canadian Symposium on HCV & Canadian Liver Meeting. February 9-11, 2018. Toronto, ON. |
| Title | Mental Health, Risk Behaviors and Substance Use Profiling of Patients Infected or At-Risk of Acquiring Hepatitis C Seen in Community and Hospital Care Settings in New Brunswick |
| Authors | Samantha Bland, Daniel Smyth, Alyssa Margeson, Stephanie Materniak, Meghan O’Brien, Duncan Webster. |
| Presented | Poster Presentation. 7th Canadian Symposium on HCV & Canadian Liver Meeting. February 9-11, 2018. Toronto, ON. |