• CIHR “Ask me anything” – Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition

    CIHR is hosting “Ask Me Anything” sessions designed to answer the questions researchers have about the Fall 2020 Project Grant competition. There will be 3 sessions, 2 in English and 1 in French. You can join the meeting via Microsoft Teams or submit your question via Sli.do. For the Microsoft Teams meeting link and Sli.do […]

  • Webinar: Online Poster Presentations- What; How; Why?

    The BC SUPPORT Unit is hosting a webinar to help poster presenters and conference attendees navigate virtual poster presentations at conferences. This webinar will focus on: • A scan of how the poster session is being navigated at other research meetings • Highlighting some key considerations and opportunities of virtual posters (including the #betterposter movement) […]

  • Guidance on authorship with and acknowledgement of patient partners in POR

    The Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit's Patient Engagement Journal Club will be discussing, "Guidance on authorship with and acknowledgement of patient partners in patient-oriented research", a recent publication in BMC Research Involvement and Engagement. The discussion will be co-hosted by co-authors Dawn Richards, Lesley Singer, and Kathryn Birnie. You can find the article here. Register here […]

  • BC Kidney Days

    BC Kidney Days is an annual conference, hosted by BC Renal and BC Transplant, that brings together clinicians, administrators and patient partners from across BC, other parts of Canada and the United States to discuss the latest research, trends, clinical treatments and surgical breakthroughs in kidney patient care. This year, the conference is completely virtual. […]

  • Webinar: De-mystifying Privacy: Research Uses of Administrative Data

    The Maternal Infant Child Youth Research Network (MICYRN) is hosting a webinar on research uses of administrative data. Speakers will include Holly Longstaff (Provincial Health Services Authority BC), Donna Curtis Maillet (New Brunswick Institute for Research Data and Training), and Charles Burchill (University of Manitoba) This webinar explores modern approaches to research privacy for administrative […]

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  • CNTN Spring Virtual Research Symposium

    Join us on Wednesday April 21st starting at 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern for our Spring Virtual Research Symposium, which will take place over Zoom. Speakers: Dr. Maoliosa Donald and patient partner Dwight Sparkes will present on their project, "My Kidneys My Health website: developed by patients for patients" Dr. Melissa Schorr will present her proposal, "Diuretic use in patients […]

  • Clinical Trials BC – ASK US: Communicating Study Results with Clinical Trial Participants

    Clinical Trials BC - ASK US: Communicating Study Results with Clinical Trial Participants – Best practice recommendations and toolkit for clinical research teams Description: Many clinical trial participants are left with unanswered questions both during and at the end of the research study.  A provincial working group has created a toolkit to communicate their best […]