Lifelong learning and quality education opportunities.
2021 Webinars.
As a number of events, conferences and meetings moved online last year, MICYRN began hosting webinars and presentations to bring research and information directly to our community. Recordings of a number of these webinars can be viewed below.
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Platform Trials Workshop
Presenters: Craig Campbell, Craig McDonald, Srinivas Murthy, Martin Offringa, Nicola Worsfold, Co Pham, Kim Pronovost, Mihaela Mates, Mark Lundie, Breanne Stewart
Date Recorded: February 16, 2022
This workshop highlights the challenges with novel therapy development, focusing on platform trial methodology. Presenters outline novel approaches to clinic trial design, and discuss how to initiate an action plan to address platform trial methodology in Canada. Understanding the perspective from patient and families, regulator, REB, and industry is important throughout all stages.
Clinical Investigation Unit — The French Model
Presenter: Evelyne Jacqz-Aigrain, MD, PhD (Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré)
Date Recorded: February 9, 2021
This presentation provides an overview of a clinical investigation unit in a French children’s hospital.
Health Canada’s New Pediatric Drug Action Plan: Insights and Feedback
Presenters: Alysha Croker, PhD (Health Canada), Andrea Gilpin, PhD, MBA (GPFC), Catherine Litalien, MD, FRCPC (GPFC), Charlotte Moore-Hepburn, Medical Advisor (CPS)
Date Recorded: February 4, 2021
This webinar provides an overview and feedback of Health Canada’s Pediatric Drug Action Plan (PDAP). Highlights of the PDAP are presented, and a summary from initial feedback from the pediatric community is shared. Click HERE to download a copy of the PowerPoint presentation.
Risk-based Approach for Pediatric Clinical Trials
Presenters: Dr. Carole Legare and Dr. Daniel Keene (Health Canada)
Date Recorded: January 21, 2021
This webinar explores the impact of risk categorization on clinical trial oversight and management, and how levels of risk should be defined.
Demystifying Privacy: Research Uses of Administrative Data
Presenters: Holly Longstaff (PHSA), Donna Curtis Maillet (New Brunswick Institute for Research Data and Training), and Charles Burchill (University of Manitoba)
Date Recorded: January 20, 2021
This webinar explores modern approaches to research privacy for administrative data in Canada, with a focus on consent and administrative data access and use.
From Trials to Treatments: Why the Selection, Measurement, and Reporting of Outcomes Is Key in Pediatric Clinical Research
Presenter: Dr. Nancy Butcher (SickKids)
Date Recorded: January 19, 2021
In this StaR Child Health seminar, the various roles of health outcomes in clinical research are examined, with an overview of recent developments that will define the next ten years of study design in child health research.
Engaging Youth and Parents as Partners in Clinical Research
Presenters: Katie Birnie (SKIP), Dawn Richards (CTO), Katherine Stevens (YPAG Kidscan)
Date Recorded: January 18, 2021
This webinar explores youth and parent engagement in clinical research, highlighting resources and strategies that can be used to engage youth and parents in clinical research design, execution, and translation.
I-ACT Quality Improvement Program
Presenter: Angie Price (Institute For Advanced Clinical Trials For Children)
Date Recorded: January 12, 2021
Audience: MICYRN Clinical Trial Consortium
Angie Price, the project director at I-ACT presents the Pediatric Improvement Collaborative for Clinical Trials & Research (PICTR) program.