Upcoming Conferences and Events

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: In search of the elusive behavioural phenotype

  • Kelly Nash, MA Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Neuroscience and Mental Health Program
  • Erin Sheard, PhD, Neuroscience and Mental Health Program
  • Sara Stevens, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Neuroscience and Mental Health Program
  • Dr. Joanne R Rovet, Senior Scientist, Neurosciences & Mental Health Program, The Hospital for Sick Children; Professor of paediatrics and psychology, University of Toronto.

Laboratory Update

  • Quantifying the rates of prenatal alcohol exposure amongst newborns in a high risk obstetric unit
    Ingrid Goh, Motherisk Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
  • Measurement of FAEE in adult hair as a marker of excessive maternal drinking in pregnancy
    Netta Fulga, Motherisk Laboratory, Clinical Pharmacology Division, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

Location: Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC
Contact: Susan Santiago
E-mail: susan.santiago@sickkids.ca
Tel: 416-813-8084
Fax: 416-813-7904


9th Annual Fetal Alcohol Canadian Expertise (FACE) Research Roundtable

Français

September 9, 2008

Tuesday, September 9th 2008
Montreal, Quebec
Holiday Inn - Midtown
420 Sherbrooke West

Preliminary Program

TIME EVENT
7:30 a.m. Delegate Check in
8:15 a.m. Welcome and Update
Gideon Koren, MD, FRCPC, Director, Motherisk Program, Hospital for Sick Children
9:00 a.m. A Message from Dr. Richard Brière, Assistant Director, Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA), Canadian Institutes of Health Research
WOMEN AND ALCOHOL
9:15 a.m. Women and the Context of Alcohol Abuse
Louise Nadeau, PhD, MA, Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Scientific Director, Centre Dollard-Cormier University Institute on Dependencies
10:00 a.m. Announcement of the inaugural Canadian Foundation on Fetal Alcohol Research
(CFFAR) Grant Winners
Louise Nadeau, PhD, MA, Chairperson, CFFAR
Gideon Koren, MD, FRCPC, Head, Scientific Review Committee, CFFAR
Ian Faris, President and CEO, Brewers Association of Canada & Board Member, CFFAR
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break (with possible media)
10:45 a.m. Alcohol and Pregnancy: What Pregnant Women Say Nicole April, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Direction développement des individus et des communautés, Institut national de santé publique du Québec
11:15 a.m. Q & A
SCREENING TOOLS
11:30 a.m. Public Health Agency of Canada and the FASD National Strategic Projects Fund
Mary Johnston
Manager, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Team
Division of Childhood & Adolescence, Public Health Agency of Canada
11:50 a.m. Should we be screening for FASD? If so, how do we do it?
Albert E. Chudley. MD, FRCPC, FCCMG, Medical Director,
WRHA Program in Genetics and Metabolism, Professor, University of Manitoba
12:20 p.m. Screening and Recording Alcohol Use in Pregnancy
Moumita Sarkar BSc. Hons., MSc.
Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
12:50 p.m. Q & A
1:15 p.m. Lunch
BRAIN AND CNS RESPONSES TO ALCOHOL
2:30 p.m. Neurotoxicity of Formic Acid and Possible Therapeutic Effects of Folic Acid
Bhushan Kapur, Department of Clinical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
3:00 p.m. Impaired Eyeblink Conditioning in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Sandra Jacobson, PhD Professor and Director of the Child Development Research Division, Department of Psychiarty and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine
3:30 p.m. Q & A
3:45 p.m. Coffee Break
POPULATION RESEARCH UPDATE
4:00 p.m. Neonatal Screening for Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Past, Present, and Future Studies
Joey Gareri, MSc, Director, Motherisk Laboratory, Hospital for Sick Children,Toronto
4:30 p.m. Quantifying the Rates of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Amongst Newborns in a High Risk Obstetric Unit
Ingrid Goh, Motherisk Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
5:00 p.m. Q & A
5:15 p.m. Announcement of 2008 Scientific Poster Competition Winners
5:30 p.m. Wrap Up

Simultaneous translation (English/French) throughout the day. Register Early!

The 2008 FACE Research Roundtable will also feature a Scientific Poster Contest. Download the Call for Poster Abstracts. Poster abstract submission deadline is July 31, 2008.

The 2008 FACE Research Roundtable is organized by the Motherisk Program in cooperation with the Public Health Agency of Canada, with financial support from Health Canada and the Brewers Association of Canada.

For more information contact susan.santiago@sickkids.ca

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