November 4th, 2023
Caesars Windsor
Clementa Stan shared her lived-experience as a caregiver in research.
Five diverse invited speakers shared about their research
Over $1,800 was given to top presenters in the Poster Session and Rapid Fire session!
PhD RN Assistant Professor, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University Registered Nurse, Emergency Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre
Dr. Amanda McIntyre is a Registered Emergency Medicine Nurse at London Health Sciences Centre and Assistant Professor at Western University in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing. She conducts health systems and health service delivery research across the continuum of care (emergency, acute, rehab, long-term care, and community) exploring gaps in patients’ transitions through care settings. Within a health equity lens, she examines access to care, delivery and adequacy of health services, and follow-up trajectories. Professor McIntyre has research expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including several review techniques. Her clinical practice is in emergency nursing.
Professor, PhD, P.Eng. Canada Research Chair in Mobile Computing (Tier 1) Dept. of Computing and Software McMaster University
Rong Zheng received her Ph.D. degree from Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned her M.E. and B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, P.R. China. She is now a Professor in the Dept. of Computing and Software. Rong Zheng’s research interests include mobile computing, data analytics and networked systems. She is currently Tier-1 Canada research chair in Mobile Computing and the director of the NSERC CREATE Smart Mobility for the Aging Populations program. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006 and was a Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow from 2015 - 2018. Dr. Zheng has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile computing, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Dr. Zheng was on the organization committee of MobiSys 2020 and SenSys 2019 and served as Technical program co-chair of WASA’12, CPSCom’12, MobileHealth’14, CrowdSenSys’17, IEEE Smart IoT'20, SenSys 2021, and general co-chair of EUC’16. She serves on the technical program committees of leading networking and mobile computing conferences including SenSys, INFOCOM, ICDCS, ICNP, RTSS, IPSN etc.
Oncologist, General Surgery Ottawa Hospital Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa
Dr. Angel Arnaout is a Breast Surgical Oncologist at the Ottawa Hospital, Clinical Investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. In addition to her clinical and scientific research interests, her passion as a surgeon is to aggressively treat breast cancer but with minimal side effects and cosmetic detriment, recognizing the importance of body image on the breast cancer patient. As such is also the pioneer in Oncoplastic Surgery in Ottawa; a new minimally invasive breast surgical technique that combines breast cancer surgery with plastic surgical techniques.
Associate Professor, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
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Edward S. Thomas Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Vice President for Translational Science and Clinical Research Innovation, Wayne State University, Chief Innovation Officer, Wayne Health
Phillip Levy, MD, MPH is the Edward S Thomas endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University where he currently serves as Associate Vice President for Translational Sciences. Dr. Levy is also Director of the Wayne Health Mobile Unit Program, which he founded in April 2020. A fellow of multiple professional societies including the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Levy is a leading health equity researcher with a focus on cardiovascular disease risk reduction who has overseen more than 110 funded studies from various entities since his arrival at Wayne State in 2002 including current grant support from the NIH, CDC, and American Heart Association.
In addition to the delivery of acute and emergent care, Dr. Levy brings extensive expertise in deep community phenotyping using integrated, multidimensional data, and design as well as execution of targeted intervention programs. Related to the latter, Dr. Levy is leading for the State of Michigan, overseeing the development and deployment of the Michigan Mobile Health Corps, a program that will bring universal access to free cardiometabolic prevention screenings in the community with remote delivery of clinical and social support services using mobile units.
Mental Health Advocate
Clementa is a mental health advocate and the brainchild behind the Caring for the Caregiver project, a joint initiative between Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Nursing, and WE-SPARK Health Institute designed to research the needs and experiences of families caring for loved ones living with mental illness in Windsor-Essex and providing support to them.
Assistant Director, Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit
John Riley currently works as the Assistant Director at the Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit (OSSU), a SPOR SUPPORT Unit co-funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health, five Ontario-based research institutions and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
Prior to OSSU, John held senior executive leadership roles with several national research networks funded under the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE), most notably with the Canadian Arthritis Network, and at The Arthritis Society, Canada’s leading arthritis charity. He has over 23 years of experience working in patient partnership in research and often consults with research teams on new funding opportunities. John also worked for the Ministry of Health and in the hospital sector in British Columbia. He holds undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Medical Laboratory Science as well as a Master’s in Health Administration from the University of British Columbia.
Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Windsor
Dr. Edward Cruz is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Windsor. He completed a PhD in Development Education at Central State Luzon University in the Phillipines, and a Master’s in Nursing at York University. He is currently working on his second PhD in Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Toronto.
Professor in the Department of Biology and the Associate Dean Research & External Relations in the Faculty of Science, at McMaster University
Dr. Juliet Daniel is a Professor in the Department of Biology and the Associate Dean Research & External Relations in the Faculty of Science, at McMaster University. She is also an associate member of the Department of Oncology and Francombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute at McMaster. Dr. Daniel received her B.Sc. from Queen’s University and her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. She spent six years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Tennessee (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital & Vanderbilt University) before joining the Department of Biology at McMaster University in 1999 to establish her own research laboratory.
Researcher and Student at the University of Windsor
As someone managing multiple chronic conditions, she is deeply committed to patient-centered research. She has actively participated in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) focused advisory boards and has led their own study on the lived experiences of individuals diagnosed with IBD.
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