Events
The IDIGH program organizes many scientific and socializing events. This section presents all the events.
- Details
- Category: Scientific Events
- Also available: FR
- Start: 2022-05-30 08:00
- End: 2022-05-30 17:00
- Website: https://www.mcgill.ca/summerinstitute-globalhealth/courses/institute-infectious-diseases-and-global-health/
- Notes: Returning for its seventh year the Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health is offering 9 engaging courses in 2022! (external event)
- Details
- Category: Work in progress
- Also available: FR
- Title:
Evaluating the role of RIPK3 on the Immune Response in an Induced Murine Model of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Speaker: Céleste Pilon
- Start: 2022-05-25 12:00
- End: 2022-05-25 13:00
- Location: Online
- Lab/host: Joyce Rauch
- Details
- Category: Scientific Events
- Also available: FR
- Start: 2022-05-20 09:00
- End: 2022-05-20 14:30
- Location: Online
- Website: https://idigh.ca/RD2022
- Notes: A trainee-led event!
- Details
- Category: Work in progress
- Also available: FR
- Title:
Identification of IL-13 SecretingPathogenic T Cell PopulationsIn Refractory Adult Atopic Dermatitis
- Speaker: Harshita Patel
- Start: 2022-05-11 12:00
- End: 2022-05-11 13:00
- Location: Online
- Lab/host: Carolyn Jack and Ciriaco Piccirillo
- Details
- Category: Work in progress
- Also available: FR
- Title:
The implication of the T/B cell crosstalk in childhood idiopathic nephrotic syndrome indicates a humoral autoimmune origin of disease
- Speaker: Tho-Alfakar Al-Aubodah
- Start: 2022-04-20 12:00
- End: 2022-04-20 13:00
- Location: Online
- Lab/host: Ciriaco Piccirillo
- Details
- Category: IDIGH Seminars
- Also available: FR
- Title:
Can digital Solutions plug health service delivery gaps for HIV/Sexually transmitted infections? Evidence from Canada, India and South Africa
- Speaker: Dr. Nitika Pant Pai
- Start: 2022-04-13 12:00
- End: 2022-04-13 13:00
- Location: Online
- Website: https://nitikapantpai.com/
Dr. Nitika Pant Pai’s (MD, MPH, PhD) global implementation research program is based in Canada, India and South Africa. She is primarily focused on synergies of rapid diagnostics and digital health for HIV and associated co-infections (Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, HPV, bacterial STIs). She develops and incorporates innovation, implementation science, digital health and artificial intelligence, to generate solutions that plug health service delivery gaps. She strives to generate clinical, public health and social impact. Her innovations are being evaluated and implemented nationally & internationally. She has advised on many technical working groups for health agencies: WHO, Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics (Geneva), PSI (Washington), Gates Foundation (Seattle), ASLM (Africa), CDC/PEPFAR (Atlanta). She has received research and innovation awards, ASAP award from Google, Plos & Wellcome Trust, Chanchalani award, and Maude Abott Award, among others. Her work has been featured by the MacLeans, The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Times now, Times, CTV, CBC, BBC, Al Jazeera, Radio-Canada, Changemakers of the Economist and most recently, The Wall Street Journal. She is also on the list of Canadian women leader in Global Health (2018, 2020). Her website is nitikapantpai.com.
Join the webinar at https://idigh.ca/webinars.
- Details
- Category: Work in progress
- Also available: FR
- Title:
High Frequencies of Adaptive NK Cells are Associated with Absence of Coronary Plaque in Cytomegalovirus Infected People Living with HIV (PLWH)
- Speaker: Khlood Alsulami
- Start: 2022-04-06 12:00
- End: 2022-04-06 13:00
- Location: Online
- Lab/host: Nicole Bernard
- Details
- Category: IDIGH Seminars
- Also available: FR
- Title:
Lifestyle and pharmacologic interventions for Metabolic-associated Fatty Liver Disease
- Speaker: Dr. Giada Sebastiani
- Start: 2022-03-30 12:00
- End: 2022-03-30 13:00
- Location: Online
- Website: https://rimuhc.ca/-/giada-sebastiani-md
Giada Sebastiani is Associate Professor of Medicine at McGill University and Clinician Scientist at the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada. She received a medical degree and specialized in internal medicine at the University of Padua, Italy. She trained in clinical and basic research at Harvard Medical School (US), University College of London (UK), University of Bordeaux (France) and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (Montreal, Canada). Her work focuses on fatty liver disease, liver fibrosis and non-invasive diagnostic tools in liver disease, with a current focus on at-risk populations, including people living with HIV, diabetics, patients with inflammatory bowel diseases and women with polycystic ovary syndrome. She is author of 132 articles in peer-reviewed journals (including Lancet Digital Health, Lancet HIV, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, Clinical Infectious Diseases; h-index=40, total number of citations 6,400), 13 book chapters, 200 conference publications at national and international congresses. She is founding and steering committee member of the Canadian NASH Network and panel member in the Consensus on Models of Care in fatty liver disease of the International Liver Foundation. Dr Sebastiani is the sole North American representative in the guidelines of the prestigious European AIDS Clinical Society. Dr Sebastiani has been invited speaker in 80 international congresses and universities, including European, Asian Pacific, Mexican, Italian and Canadian Associations for the Study of the Liver. She was awarded the prestigious Senior Clinical Research Salary Award from Fonds Recherche Sante Quebec. Her research program is funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research, the Fonds Recherche Sante Quebec, the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, The CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network.
Join the webinar at https://idigh.ca/webinars.
- Details
- Category: Work in progress
- Also available: FR
- Title:
The Intradermal Hypochlorous Acid-Treated Mouse Does Not Recapitulate Key Features of Systemic Sclerosis
- Speaker: Arina Morozan
- Start: 2022-03-23 12:00
- End: 2022-03-23 13:00
- Location: Online
- Lab/host: Dr. James Martin and Dr. Ines Colmegna
- Details
- Category: Work in progress
- Also available: FR
- Title:
Changes in Hepatic Steatosis and Cardiometabolic Manifestations After Hepatitis C Virological Cure
- Speaker: Mohamed Shengir
- Start: 2022-03-09 12:00
- End: 2022-03-09 13:00
- Location: Online
- Lab/host: Dr. Giada Sebastiani
Subcategories
IDIGH Seminars
Our Wednesday noon seminar series consist of presentations (in rotation) from IDIGH program members (Fundamental, Clinical and Epidemiology & outcomes) and invited distinguished guest speakers.
Work in progress
The IDIGH Work In Progress (WIP) seminars are organized by the IDIGH Trainee Committee. The graduate students as well as post-docs of the program are encouraged to present their latest and exciting research at these seminars.
Scientific Events
Our members are very active and organize many scientific events such as research days, conferences or training sessions. This section lists all these events, from local events to major international events.
Social Events
Many social events and achievement celebrations are organized in order to create interactions between IDIGH members within the program and across RI-MUHC centres.