Program

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

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Monday, May 25, 2009

08:00-19:00 Conference registration
09:00-12:00 Workshop #1 - Cancelled.  See S4 on Tuesday, May 26.
09:00-12:00 Workshop #2 by the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
Causal Inference in Epidemiology
Speaker: Dr. Robert Platt, McGill University and Statistical Society of Canada
09:00-12:00 Workshop #3 by OAHPP in conjunction with ESRI (this workshop is free)
Putting Public Health on the Map: An Introduction to GIS for Public Health Epidemiologists
This Workshop will be held at the GIS lab at the University of Ottawa (Room TBD)
Speakers:     Dr. Mike Sawada, GIS Lab, University of Ottawa
                        Ms. Victoria Ng, The Australian National University, Canberra 
                        Ms. Melanie Zahab, University of Ottawa
                        Dr. David Fisman, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
13:00-16:00 Workshop #3 by OAHPP in conjunction with ESRI (this workshop is free and is a repeat of the morning workshop)
13:00-16:00 Workshop #4 by the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
Introduction to Bayesian Methods
Speaker: Dr. Michael Escobar, University of Toronto
13:00-16:00 Workshop #5 by ESRI
Spatial Statistics for Public Health Applications
Speaker: Dr. Lauren Scott, ESRI Canada
17:00-20:00 Welcome reception

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

07:15-08:15           CSEB Board Meeting

07:15-08:15
LOC Meeting
07:30-17:00 Conference registration
08:00-17:00 Poster session #1
Posters to be displayed at 8:00 and removed at 17:00.
Poster presenters will be expected to be in attendance at their poster during the morning and afternoon coffee breaks as well as from 1200-1230.
08:30-09:00 Welcoming Remarks
Co-Chairs: Dr. J Gomes and Dr. M Bienefeld
Speakers: Dr. Colin Soskolne, President, CSEB
Joanna Oliver, President, APHEO
The Hon. Allan Rock, President, University of Ottawa
Dr. Julian Little, Chair of Dept. of Epidemiology and Community Medicine
                                 Dr. Nicholas Birkett, Chair, Scientific Program Committee
09:00-09:30 Welcoming address    
Speaker: Dr. David Butler-Jones, Public Health Agency of Canada
Topic: TBC
09:30-10:30 Keynote Session (KS1): Enthusiasm Versus Science in Screening Policy
Speaker: Dr. Vivek Goel, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
10:30-11:00 Stretch Break - Posters and Exhibits
11:00-12:00 Plenary Session (PS1): Epidemiology of Food-Borne Illness
Speakers: Dr. David Waltner-Toews, University of Guelph
Anne Arthur, Toronto Public Health
12:00-13:30    Lunch break - Posters and Exhibits
(
Lunch is sponsored by SAS Canada)
12:30-13:15 Lunch time symposium (LS1): Expanding your SAS Tool Kit for Health Research: Some tips and tricks you may not have known 
(Sponsored by SAS Canada)
Mr.  Tim Trussell, SAS Canada
12:30-13:15 Lunch time symposium (LS2): Town Hall forum to discuss CIHR funding for epidemiological research
Session Leader: Jack Siemiatycki, University of Montreal    
12:30-13:15 Lunch time symposium (LS3): The Canadian Health Measures Survey
Speaker: Mr. Marc St-Denis, Statistics Canada
13:30-15:00 Concurrent sessions (slot #1)
CS1: Infectious Disease Epidemiology 1
13:30 Contamination of private water sources with Escherichia coli (E. coli): Ontario & Alberta, 2004-06
Brenda Coleman*, Kristen McLeod, Norman Neumann, Allison McGeer, Marie Louie
13:45 An epidemiological investigation into a foodborne outbreak of Escherichia Coli O157:H7 associated with a restaurant in North Bay, Ontario, 2008
Louise Gagné*, Joanne Tataryn, Jennifer Cutler
14:00 Sexually transmitted infections in British Columbia: a population-based study comparing risk by geography and age
Kathleen Deering*, Mark Tyndall, Mieke Koehoorn
14:15 A Large Community-Based Outbreak of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease in Thunder Bay, Ontario Associated with an Emerging-type: Description, Response, and Implications for Public Health Practice
Lee Sieswerda*, Leah Vanderploeg, Kathleen Dooling, Maritia Gully, Linda Panaro, Greg Tyrrell
14:30 Mortality among British Columbians testing for Hepatitis C Antibody, 1992-2004
Amanda Yu*, Mel Krajden, Jane Buxton, John Spinelli
14:45 A Proposal for Early Identification of Widespread Influenza Activity
Dena Schanzer*, Joanne Langley, Cecile Viboud, Samina Aziz, Trevor Dummer  
CS2: Cancer epidemiology 1
13:30 Alberta Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Prevention Trial: Estrogen and Androgen Changes in a Year-long Exercise Intervention among Postmenopausal Women
Christine Friedenreich*, Anne McTiernan, Christy Woolcott, Rollin Brant, Kerry Courneya
13:45 Case-Control Study of Lifetime Physical Activity and Endometrial Cancer Risk
Christine Friedenreich*, Kerry Courneya, Linda Cook, Anthony Magliocco
14:00 The Relationship between Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Recurrence and Breast Cancer-Specific Survival
Martin Tammemagi, Chad Tosevski*
14:15 Barriers as Predictors of Usual Approach to Colorectal Cancer Screening for Average Risk Patients
S Elizabeth McGregor*, Robert J Hilsden, Huiming Yang
14:30 Relation of Occupational Physical Activity and Malignant Melanoma Risk 
Tim Lee*, Amy MacArthur, Richard Gallagher, Mark Elwood
14:45 Understanding Late Diagnoses in Oral Cavity Cancer
Patti Groome*, Susan Rohland, Stephen Hall, Jon Irisn, William Mackillop, 
Brian O'Sullivan
CS3: Addictions/mental health/Social Epidemiology
13:30 Why is Childhood Maltreatment Associated with Adolescent Substance Abuse? A Critical Review and Implications for Prevention
Wendy Hovdestad*, Christine Wekerle, Lil Tonmyr, Tiffany Thornton
13:45 Physical symptoms and psychiatric disorders among adolescents in primary care settings
Nancy C Low*, Sok S Lee, Jeffrey G Johnson, Guillaume Galbaud du Fort,  Emily S Harris
14:00 An Inception Cohort of Young People Presenting to the Emergency Department for Deliberate Self-Harm
Jennifer Bethell*, Anne Rhodes, Sue Bondy, Astrid Guttmann, Wendy Lou
14:15 Inter-ethnic difference in the expression of psychological distress: Should epidemiologists be concerned?
Aline Drapeau*
14:30 Relationships between income inequality and health in Canada
Afshin Vafaei*, Mark Rosenberg, William Pickett
14:45 The Ottawa Neighbourhood Study: Neighbourhood disparities in social determinants of health
Elizabeth Kristjansson*, Katherine Russell, Amira Ali
S1: Preparing Epidemiologists to Contribute to Health Policy
Chair: Dr. Robert Spasoff, University of Ottawa

  • Ms. Jennifer Siushansian, Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Dr. Robert Spasoff, University of Ottawa
  • Dr. Vivek Goel, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
  • Dr. Duncan Saunders, University of Alberta
S2: Linking Information for Health Research
Chair: Dr. Jillian Oderkirk, Director, Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada

  • Using linked data to examine excess days in hospital for smokers
    Ms. Kitty Wilkins, Statistics Canada
  • Are there health region variations in treatment and survival after heart attack?
    Ms. Julie Bernier, Statistics Canada
  • What is the future burden of heart attack and what could be done to reduce it?
    Mr. Bill Flanagan, Statistics Canada
15:00-15:30 Stretch Break - Posters and Exhibits
15:30-17:00 Concurrent sessions (slot #2)
CS4: Maternal & child health 1
15:30 Obstetrical and neonatal factors and risk of autism
Linda Dodds*, Deshayne Fell, Sarah Shea, B. Anthony Armson, Alexander Allen, Susan Bryson
15:45 Risk of autism spectrum disorder associated with infections from birth to age two
Anne Spencer*, Susan Bryson, Sarah Shea, B Anthony Armson, Alexander Allen, Linda Dodds
16:00 A comprehensive assessment of outcomes in pregnancies conceived by in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection
Shi Wu Wen*, Arthur Leader, Ruth White, M-C Léveillé, Valie Wilkie, Jia Zhou, Mark Walker
16:15 Developing an innovative surveillance system to monitor infant feeding practices at the local health unit level
Fangli Xie*, Karen Campbell, Sherri Deamond, Shawna Eagles, Dianne Elliott, Mary-Anne Pietrusiak
16:30 Development Assessment by Using Ages and Stages Questionnaires in Transdermal Nitroglycerin Trial Follow-up Studies
Yanfang Guo*, Rihua Xie, Shiwu Wen, Mark C Walker, Graeme Smith
16:45 Development of an electronic content management system to evaluate a community based maternity centre
William Montelpare*, Jodie Murphy-Oikonen, Moira McPherson
CS5: Cancer epidemiology 2
15:30 Vitamin D, from dietary intake and sunlight exposure, and breast cancer risk: A population based case-control study in Ontario
Laura N. Anderson*, Michelle Cotterchio, Patrick Brown, Julia Knight, Reinhold Vieth
15:45 Use of tanning equipment and risk of multiple primary melanoma: Why is Australia different?
Loraine Marrett*, Saira Bahl, Diane Nishri, Beth Theis, Marianne Berwick
16:00 Dietary Intake of Antioxidants and Risk of Four Histological Subtypes of Lung Cancer: a Population-Based Case-Control Study
Martine Shareck*, Marie-Claude Rousseau, Jack Siemiatycki, Marie-Elise Parent
16:15 Endocrine disrupting chemicals and prostate cancer: a review and meta-analysis
Linlu Zhao*, Noémie Robert Lajeunesse, Cindy Lajeunesse, James Gomes
16:30 Risk of prostate cancer for occupations with exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals
Noémie Robert Lajeunesse*, Linlu Zhao, Cindy Lajeunesse, James Gomes
16:45 Seroprevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 antibodies and its relationship with cervical HPV infection and precancerous lesions: Results from the Ludwig-McGill Cohort
Ramanakumar V Agnihotram*, Patricia Thomann, Andrea Trevisan, Helen Tottier, Luisa L Villa, Eduardo L Franco
CS6: Clinical Epidemiology/Knowledge Transfer/Systematic reviews
15:30 Knowledge Transfer in Public Health: How the Skills Enhancement for Public Health Program Can Help
Brenda Guarda*, Kerri Watkins
15:45 Strategies for Communicating Health Research Findings to Members of an Arctic Aboriginal Community
Janis Huntington*, Karen Goodman, Rachel Munday, Glen Gordon, Chris Fletcher
16:00 Canadian family physician knowledge regarding breast cancer risk assessment
Mary-Kathryn Tighe*, Richard Birtwhistle, Patti Groome, Harriet Richardson
16:15 How to conduct and limit sources of bias in high-quality systematic reviews
Hanieh Rahimi*, Tom Mara, Richard Bohay, Mark Speechley, John Costella
16:30 Previous respiratory diseases and risk of lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Darren Brenner*, John McLaughlin, Rayjean Hung
16:45 Decision analysis of the effectiveness of lung cancer screening using autofluorescence bronchoscopy and computed tomography
Joseph Tota*, Martin Tammemagi
S3: Biostatistics issues in clinical epidemiology
(Co-sponsored by CANNeCTIN)
Chair: George A. Wells, University of Ottawa and Ottawa Heart Institute
  • Issue with Noninferiority designs in RCTs
    Ms. Janice Pogue, McMaster University
  • Design and Analysis Issues of Randomized Controlled Trials of Computer Decision Support Systems in Primary Healthcare
    Dr. Lehana Thabane, McMaster University
  • Methods for addressing left-truncation and incomplete covariates when evaluating risk factors using clinical trial data
    Dr. Richard Cook, University of Waterloo
  • Indirect Treatment Comparisons for Health Care Interventions
    Dr. George A. Wells, University of Ottawa and Ottawa Heart Institute
S4: Prion Diseases in Canada: Risk Assessment and Management
Chair: Dr. Shalu Darshan, University of Ottawa

  • BSE in Canada
    Dr. Noel Murray, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  • Risk Projection Models for BSE in Canada
    Dr. Mustafa Al-Zoughool, University of Ottawa
  • Expert Evaluation of Prion Disease Risks
    Dr. Tamer Oraby, University of Ottawa
18:00-23:00 Social event with supper
The National Arts Centre.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa

07:15-08:15 CSEB Board Meeting
07:15-08:15 LOC Meeting
08:00-17:00 Poster session #2
Posters to be displayed at 8:00 and removed at 17:00.
Poster presenters will be expected to be in attendance at their poster during the morning an afternoon coffee breaks as well as from 1200-1230.
08:30-09:00 The Geoffrey R. Howe Distinguished Contributions Award - Recognition of sustained and outstanding contribution to epidemiology
Dr. Christine Friedenreich, Alberta Health Services
09:00-10:00 Keynote Session (KS2): Gene-Environment Interaction in Human Disease: from Discovery to Population Health Impact
Speaker: Dr. Muin Khoury, National Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
10:00-10:30 Stretch Break - Posters and Exhibits
10:30-12:00 Concurrent sessions (slot #3)
CS7: Biostatistics
10:30 Estimation of health-related quality of life (HRQL) trajectories: assessing cohort effects, mortality effects and the determinants of health using Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) - an eight-year longitudinal study
Keiko Asakawa*, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, David Feeny, Jeffrey Johnson, Darryl Rolfson
10:45 A latent class approach to the association between socioeconomic trajectories and work-limiting disability
John Snelgrove*, Andrea Willson, William Avison
11:00 Including variables strongly associated with missing outcome in multiple imputation models can enhance statistical efficiency in longitudinal studies
Adefowope Odueyungbo*, Lehana Thabane, Marek Smieja
11:15 Using estimates of Regression-Adjusted Mortality over Standardized Mortality Ratios for hospital profiling
Lynne Moore*, James A. Hanley, André Lavoie, Alexis F. Turgeon
11:30 Linear regression methods in genetic association studies
Amina Barhdadi*, Marie-Pierre Dube
11:45 A multi-level analysis of risk factors for Schistosoma japonicum infection in China
Jianzhou Yang*, Daniel Krewski, Shi Wu Wen
CS8: Obesity/Nutrition
10:30 Obesity as a Determinant of Physical and Relational Bullying in Canadian Youth
Atif Kukaswadia*, William Pickett, Wendy Craig
10:45 Built environment and weight-related disease: a critical review of evidence
Jane Y. Polsky*, Richard H. Glazier
11:00 Eating dinner with parents and child obesity
Jian Liu*, Terry Wade, John Hay, Brent Faught, John Cairney, Anwar Merchant, Maurizio Trevisan
11:15 The Effect of Weight Loss on the Subsequent Need for Knee Replacement Surgery
Alice Aiken, Mark Harrison, Brenda Brouwer, Dianne Groll*, Caroline Pukall
11:30 Obesity subtypes and success of programming fetal growth phenotypes
Hamisu Salihu*, Amina Alio, Alfred Mbah, Jennifer Kornosky, Karen Bruder,  Victoria Belogolovkin
11:45 Fetal macrosomia and adolescence obesity: results from a prospective cohort study in China
Shi Wu Wen*, Ersheng Gao, Jungqin Wu, Yan Wang, Jia Zhou, Qiuying Yang, Mark Walker, Majambo Mbikay, Ron Sigal, Rama C. Nair
LB1: Late Breaker Session 1
10:30

Bicycle helmet use four years after the introduction of helmet legislation in Alberta, Canada
Mohammad Karkhaneh*, Brian H. Rowe, L. Duncan Saunders, Donald Voaklander, Brent Hagel

10:45 Adherence to safety standards reduces socioeconomic disparities in playground equipment related injuries
Alison Macpherson*, Jennifer Jones, Linda Rothman, Colin Macarthur, Andrew Howard
11:00 Examining high preterm birth rates within a Central Ontario health unit
Angela Mask*, Sherri Deamond, Mary-Anne Pietrusiak
11:15 The “Flu Zoonotic” Study:  Objectives, design & pilot results
Margaret Russell*, Julia Keenliside, Richard Webby, Kevin Fonseca, Pam Singh, Mark Loeb
11:30 Documentation of Occupational Exposure History in Medical Charts of Primary Healthcare Patients with Asthma, Hand or Arm Dermatitis, or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Uswa Shahzad*, Elena Talovikova, Mohamad Alshurafa, Ted Haines
11:45 Systematic review of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the treatment of non-healing diabetic ulcers
Anjori Pasricha*, Natasha Burke, Kaitryn Campbell, James Bowen, Ron Goeree, Daria O'Reilly
S5: Safer Injection Sites: Evidence Base and Issues in Transfer to Practice
  • An historical perspective on safer injection sites and harm reduction
  • Do safer injection sites reduce harm in intravenous drug users?  A review of the evidence
  • Transfer to practice: The politics and challenges of implementing a safer injection site 
S6: Applications in Cancer Control
(Sponsored by Canadian Partnership Against Cancer)
Chair: Mr. Les Mery, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
  • Cancer Control in Canada: An Overview
    Dr. Heather Bryant, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
  • Team Networks in Surveillance and Epidemiology
    Dr. Loraine Marrett, Cancer Care Ontario
  • The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Knowledge Management Platform
    Ms. Lee Fairclough, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
12:00-13:30 Lunch break and time to visit posters
12:30-13:15 Lunch time symposium (LS4):
Title: Childhood leukemia: insights into the incorporation of molecular biology in epidemiologic studies
Speaker: Dr. Patricia Buffler, University of California, Berkeley
12:30-13:15 Lunch time symposium (LS5):
Title: Update on the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS) on Research Ethics Guidelines
Speaker: Ms. Susan Zimmerman, Secretariat on Research Ethics
13:30-15:00 Concurrent sessions (slot #4)
CS9: Infectious Disease Epidemiology 2
13:30 Tattoo and Risk of Hepatitis B and C: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Siavash Jafari*, Souzan Baharlou, Mahyar Etminan, Ray Copes
13:45 Trends in Reported AIDS Defining Illnesses (ADIs) among Participants in a Universal Antiretroviral Therapy Program
Siavash Jafari*, Keith Chan, David Moore, Viviane Lima, Benita Yip, Julio Montaner, Robert S Hogg
14:00 Distribution and genotype-concordance of human papillomavirus infections among couples in new sexual relationships: Baseline results from the HITCH Cohort Study
Ann Burchell*, Pierre-Paul Tellier, James Hanley, François Coutlée, Eduardo Franco
14:15 Local application of C-EnterNet, a surveillance system
Popy Dimoulas-Graham*, Nancy Sittler, Barbara Marshall
14:30 Community-driven research on H pylori infection in a Canadian Arctic hamlet
Karen Goodman, Rachel Munday, Janis Huntington*, Justin Cheung, Sander van Zanten, Andre Corriveau, CANHelp Workgroup
14:45 Description of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination rates among newborns in the province of Québec: A step towards assembling retrospective cohort studies
Marie-Claude Rousseau*, Khady Kâ, Mariam El-Zein, Marie-Élise Parent
CS10: Maternal & child health 2/Injury epidemiology
13:30 Development of a Perinatal Surveillance System for the Northwest Territories, Canada: A Database Pilot Project
Karolina Machalek*, Susan Chatwood, Lesley Paulette, Gisela Becker
13:45 Prevalence of Anemia as a Determinant of Early Childhood Health across Caste/Ethnic Groups in Nepal, 2006
Drona Rasali*, Shanthi Johnson
14:00 The Effects of Provincial Bicycle Helmet Legislation on Bicycle Helmet Use and Bicycle Ridership in Canada
Jessica Dennis*, Ryan Zarychanski
14:15 Family matters: An examination of the association between family structure and youth non-sports injury
Helen Scott*, Mary Chipman, William Pickett, Sue Bondy, Pierre Côté
14:30 An internet based system for injury surveillance in ice hockey
William Montelpare*, Brent Faught, Moira McPherson, Joseph Baker, Paul Corey
14:45 Operational exposures as determinants of machinery-related injury on Saskatchewan farms
Gopinath Narasimhan*, William Pickett, Paul Peng, Trever Crowe, Louise Hagel, James Dosman
LB2: Late Breaker Session 2
13:30 Use of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Prostate Cancer Risk:A population-based nested-case control study
Salaheddin Mahmud*, Eduardo Franco, Robert Plat, Armen Aprikian
13:45 Incidence trends for thyroid cancer in Ontario, Canada: 1985-2004
Elisa Candido*, Loraine Marrett
14:00 Melanoma incidence and mortality trends among young adults in Ontario, Canada (1970-2004): boom or bust?
Michelle Costa*, Loraine Marrett
14:15 Occupational Epidemiology Cohort Studies: To Do or Not to Do?
Nancy Lightfoot*, Colin Berriault
14:30 Ontario's Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC)
Aaron Blair*, Shelley Harris, Erin Pichora, Janet Brown, Loraine Marrett
S7: Data mining methods applied to pharmacovigilance
Chair: Dr. Nagarajkumar Yenugadhati, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa
  • Identification of Pharmaceutical Risks
    Dr. Nigel Rawson, GlaxoSmithKline Canada
  • Statistical Methods for Signal Detection in Pharmacovigilance
    Dr. Chris Gravel, Carleton University 
  • Mining Pharmacogivilance Data using Bayesian Logistic Regression with James-Stein Type Shrinkage Estimation
    Dr. Lihua An, Statistics Canada

The issue of pharmacovigilance and drug safety will be explored in more depth in a satellite meeting which will take place immediately after the main CSEB/APHEO conference.  Click here for more information and to register.

S8: Environmental Tracking systems in the US and Canada
Chair: Dr. Philippa Holowaty, Halton Region Health Department

  • The CDC National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
    Dr. Heather Strosnider, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
  • Monitoring and Surveillance activites under Canada's Chemicals Management Plan - and an overview of where we are going in Canada
    Mr. Doug Haines, Health Canada
  • Air quality tracking in relation to health outcomes and the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - an example of a system that works in Canada
    Dr. Rick Burnett, Health Canada
15:00-15:30 Stretch Break - Posters and Exhibits
15:30-17:00 Concurrent sessions (slot #5)
CS11: Methods
15:30 A Comparison of Parkinson’s Disease Prevalence Estimates Derived from Multiple Ascertainment Methods
M. Anne Harris*, Mieke Koehoorn, Steve Morgan, Stephen Marion, Joseph Tsui, Kay Teschke
15:45 Evaluation of germline genomic profiling for colorectal cancer screening and risk prediction in data from the Assessment of Risk for Colorectal Tumors in Canada (ARCTIC) study
Julian Little*, Steven Hawken
16:00 Sensitivity analysis in follow-up studies when the event of interest is defined by two sub-events: the case of HIV treatment failure
Leah J. Martin, Yutaka Yasui, Stan Houston, L. Duncan Saunders*
16:15 Development and cognitive testing of the Sedentary Time and Activity Reporting Questionnaire (STAR-Q)
Ilona Csizmadi*, Ruth Ullman, Heather Neilson, Paula Robson
16:30 Development of the Job and Environmental Exposure Matrix (JEEM): an update
Linlu Zhao, James Gomes
16:45 New Products in the Core Indicators Project
Mary-Anne Pietrusiak*, Harleen Sahota*
CS12: Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
15:30 Air Pollution at an International Border Zone: The Case of Windsor, Ontario
Garrett Mosey, Ali Artaman*, Elizabeth Haugh, Allen Heimann
15:45 Using the Rapid Inquiry Facility to investigate the association between lung cancer incidence and air borne pollutants from steel and iron foundries
Susitha Wanigaratne, Eric Holowaty*, Todd Norwood, Billy Chang, Patrick Brown
16:00 The Associations between Asbestos-Exposure, Pulmonary Function and Computed Tomography Found Pulmonary Fibrosis
Marina Stegne*, Martin Tammemagi, Geoffrey Liu, Heidi Roberts
16:15 Ionizing Radiation Exposure and Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Study of Ontario Uranium Miners
Minh Do*, Loraine Marrett, James Purdham, Jennifer Payne
16:30 Influence of polymorphisms in the thymidylate synthase gene on total plasma homocysteine concentrations
Vikki Ho*, Will D. King, Thomas E. Massey
16:45 Eco - Epidemiological model of Salton Sea - a realistic approach
Qamar Khan*
S9: My Risk, Your Risk, Their Risk - What's Wrong with Telling the Public?
(Co-presented by the Canadian Science Writers' Association)
Chair: Mr. Peter Calamai, Carleton University
  • Mr. Peter Calamai, Carleton University
  • Mr. Tim Lougheed, Canadian Science Writers' Association
  • Ms. Hannah Hoag, Canadian Science Writers' Association
S10: HPV vaccination for cervical cancer prevention: Facts for evidence-based policy
(Sponsored by Merck)
Chair: Dr. Eduardo Franco, McGill University

  • Epidemiology of HPV infection and associated diseases and the efficacy of HPV vaccination
    Dr. Laura Koutsky, University of Washington
  • HPV vaccination and the health economics of cervical cancer prevention
    Dr. Marc Brisson, Laval University
  • Policy and ethical aspects of universal HPV vaccination
    Dr. Patricia Buffler, University of California, Berkeley
17:00-18:30 APHEO General Meeting
17:00-18:30 CSEB Biennial General Meeting
19:00-22:00 Special invited event: Meeting of Epidemiology department chairs

Thursday, May 28, 2009

07:15-08:15            CSEB Board Meeting

07:15-08:15            LOC Meeting
08:00-09:30 Concurrent sessions (slot #6)
CS13: Health Services Research/Bone & Joint/The Built Environment
08:00 Association Between Cigarette Smoking and Chronic Low Back Pain in Adult Canadian
Fahad Alkherayf*, Yue Chen, Charles Agbi
08:15 Measurement Testing of an Exercise Intentions Questionnaire in a Group of Patients 5-11 Years After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Jason Essue*, Paul Marks, Monique Gignac, Cornelia Borkhoff, Xingshan Cao, Lawrence White, Mark Hurtig, Iris Weller
08:30 The effect of built environment factors on physical activity
Raymond Fang*, Andrew Kmetic, Tannis Cheadle, Louise Masse, Lydia Drasic, John Millar
08:45 A Canadian province-level risk factor analysis of prescribing patterns of antimicrobial drugs within the macrolide and lincosamide subgroup (2000-2006)
Shiona Glass*, David Pearl, Scott McEwen, Rita Finley
09:00 Dramatic Reduction in Neonatal Care Cost Associated with Transdermal Nitroglycerin Use for Preterm Labour
Yanfang Guo*, Rihua Xie, Shiwu Wen, Mark C Walker, Graeme Smith
09:15 The Impact of Emergency Department Admission Delays on Hospital Care Outcomes
Ching Huang*, Amardeep Thind, Greg Zaric
CS14: Chronic Disease
08:00 Self-reported Co-morbidities of Various Chronic Conditions in Diabetic and Hypertensive Adults, Saskatchewan, 2007
Drona Rasali*, Valerie Mann, Winanne Downey
08:15 Disability and depression among people with diabetes: a community study in Quebec
Norbert Schmitz*, Lyne Messier, JianLi Wang, Ashok Malla, Alain Lesage, Genevieve Gariepy, Danit Nitlka, Richard Boyer, Irene Strychar
08:30 Use of cardioprotective drugs in newly treated individuals with type 2 diabetes aged under 65
Anis Ben Abdeljelil*, Jocelyne Moisan, Jean-Pierre Grégoire
08:45 Gender and socioeconomic inequities in health and functional status among individuals with heart disease or stroke in Ontario: Insights from the POWER Study
Naushaba Degani*, Beth L Abramson, R. Liisa Jaakimainen, Moira Kapral, Nahid Azad, Ruth Hall, Gladys Honein, Arlene Bierman
09:00 Development of a Chronic Disease Risk Factor Inventory Matrix
Joanna Oliver*, Amira Ali, Mary Lou Decou, Anne Marie Holt, Crystal Palleschi, Nancy Ramuscak, Renate van Dorp, Kim Bergeron, Mary-Pat Dressler
09:15 Dichotomy in gender-related seroprevalence of silent/latent celiac disease "Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy" in UAE national Adults in Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE
Yousif Abu-Zeid*, Waheeba Jasem, Gehad ElGhazali, Miodrag Lukic
S11: Environmental epidemiology
(Sponsored by Health Canada)
Chair: Dr. Pierre Band, Health Canada
  • Extended follow-up and spatial analysis of the American Cancer Society Study linking particulate air pollution and mortality
    Ms. Michelle Turner, University of Ottawa
  • Controlling Air Pollution: Is the Pain Worth the Gain?
    Dr. Rick Burnett, Health Canada
  • Lung cancer risk from expousre to residental radon
    Dr. Jan Zielinski, Public Health Agency of Canada
S12: Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS 2.2): Opportunities for Nutritional Epidemiology
Chair: Dr. Lynn McIntyre, University of Calgary
  • Introduction to Nutrition Surveillance in Canada: Is the CCHS 2.2 worth the wait after 30 years?
    Dr. Lynn McIntyre, University of Calgary
  • Measuring Dietary Quality in Adults: Application to the CCHS 2.2
    Dr. Theresa Glaville, Mount Saint Vincent University
  • Using CCHS 2.2 to Estimate Prevalences of Dietary Inadequacies and Excesses in the Canadian Population
    Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick, University of Calgary
  • The value of the CCHS 2.2 for studying diet quality and obesity in children
    Ms. Melissa Potestio, University of Calgary
  • The role of population-based national food surveys in improving dietary intake assessment methods in epidemiology
    Dr. Ilona Csizmadi, University of Calgary  
09:30-10:30 Keynote Session (KS3)
Speaker: Mr. Ken Ogilvie, Pollution Probe
Topic: Environmental Exposures and Child Health Risk: Update and implications of the strategy document prepared by the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment
10:30-11:00 Stretch Break
11:00-12:30 Plenary Session (PS2)
Speakers: Dr. John Last, University of Ottawa
Dr. Colin Soskolne, University of Alberta
Dr. Neil Arya, University of Waterloo
Topic: Misleading metaphors and stupid strategies
12:30-12:45 Presentation of Awards and Prizes
Chairs: Dr. James Gomes and Dr. Monica Bienefeld

CSEB Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Loraine Marrett
Winner: Richard Gallagher, BC Cancer Agency

APHEO Award of Excellence
Ms. Joanna Oliver, APHEO President

Student Awards for posters and podium presentations 
Dr. Colin Soskolne, CSEB President
12:45-12:50 Invitation to CSEB/SER 2011 Joint Conference
Rebecca Fuhrer, McGill University
12:50-13:00 Concluding Remarks
Dr. Nicholas Birkett, Chair, Scientific Planning Committee
Dr. James Gomes, Conference Co-Chair
Dr. Monica BienefeldConference Co-Chair
13:00 End of meeting
13:00-17:30 CSEB Retreat - The Willow Group