2007 Health Canada Science Forum

Health Canada Office of the Chief Scientist
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November 8-9, 2007
Ottawa, Ontario

Integration of Science, Regulation and Policy for Healthier Canadians

November 8-9, 2007

Marriott Hotel
100 Kent Street
Ottawa, Ontario

Program

Day 1 - November 8, 2007

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Poster Set-Up (Cartier and Albert Salons)

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Registration (Capital/Carleton Room) and Continental Breakfast (Foyer of the Victoria Ballroom)

8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks (Victoria Ballroom)

Wendy Sexsmith, Acting Chief Scientist and Chair of the Health Canada Science Forum 2007

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

ADMs Panel on the Integration of Science, Regulation and Policy

Chair: Morris Rosenberg, Deputy Minister of Health Canada

Abby Hoffman, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Policy Branch

Karen Dodds, Executive Director, Pest Management Regulatory Agency

Susan Fletcher, Assistant Deputy Minister, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch

9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Break

9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Plenary Session: Emerging Science and Technologies (Victoria Ballroom)

Moderator/Chair: Paul Glover, Director General, Safe Environments Program, HECSB

Dr. Paul A. White, Research Scientist, Safe Environments Program, HECSB

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

Session A: Emerging Science and Technologies - Safety of Nanomaterials (O'Connor Room)

Chair: Vern Seligy, Research Scientist, HECSB, and Trevor Stocki, Research Scientist, HECSB

Towards a Nanotechnology Risk Management Framework, (Abstract 1.13), Delara Karkan, HPFB

How Should we Evaluate Potential Health Risks from Nano-Materials Involving Metals? A Stable Isotope Tracer Approach for Possible Application to Metal-Containing Nano-Materials in an Animal Model, (Abstract 1.12), Mike Inskip, HECSB

In Vitro Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes in A549 Human Lung Epithelial Cells, (Abstract 1.17), Premkumari Kumarathasan, HECSB

Session B: Interactions between Health and the Environment - Healthy Living and Public Safety (Alta Vista Room)

Chair: Judy Snider, Manager of Surveillance, HECSB

Severity of Murine Innate Immune Response Differentiates Potentially Harmful From Safe Pseudomonas Strains, (Abstract 2.42), Azam Tayabali, HECSB

The Canadian Total Diet Study - Research with a History, (Abstract 2.10), Bob Dabeka, HPFB

The Potential for Pathogen Cross-Contamination of Foods with Gloved Hands: Experiments with Feline Calicivirus as a Surrogate for Human Enteric Viruses, (Abstract 2.31), Kirsten Mattison, HPFB

Session C: Knowledge Transfer and Translation - Knowledge Synthesis and Its Impact on Health (Rideau Room)

Chair: Erling Rud, Senior Scientific Advisor, HPFB

Development of Canadian Standards for Working with Foodborne Viruses: The Microbiological Methods Committee's (MMC) Technical Group on Virology, (Abstract 3.21), Franco Pagotto, HPFB

A Probabilstic Approach to Information Synthesis for Informing Nutrition Policy as Applied to Healthy Eating and Prostate Cancer, (Abstract 3.27), William Ross, HPFB

Measuring Efficiency and Effectiveness in Healthcare Sector: Issues and Challenges, (Abstract 3.15), Hu Lu, HPB

Session D: Scientific Integrity at Health Canada: What are the Issues? (Wellington Room)

Chair: Stéphane Lessard, Director, Health Research Secretariat, OCS

Facilitator: Mr. Marc Terreau

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Plenary Session: Interactions between Health and the Environment (Victoria Ballroom)

Moderator/Chair: David Clapin, Branch Science Advisor, HPFB

Environmental Transitions and Inuit Health, Dr. Grace Egeland, Center for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment and School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University

Exploring Environmental Contaminants Influences on First Nations and Inuit Health, Constantine Tikhonov, Chief, Environmental Contaminants Research, FNIHB

2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Break

2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Distinguished Chief Scientist Guest Lecturer (Victoria Ballroom)

Moderator/Chair: Wendy Sexsmith, Acting Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist

Converging Technologies and the Canadian Mosaic: Finding Level Ground to Build Strategic Advantage in a Turbulent Global Environment, Dr. Michael Mehta, Associate Director of the Population Research Laboratory and Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta

3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Poster Sessions (Judging) - View the Posters and Meet the Authors (Cartier Salons)

4:30 p.m.

Adjournment

Day 2 - November 9, 2007

7:00 a.m. - 8:10 a.m.

Registration (Capital/Carleton Room) and
Continental Breakfast (Foyer of the Victoria Ballroom)

8:10 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.

Welcome from the Forum Chair (Victoria Ballroom)

Wendy Sexsmith, Acting Chief Scientist and Chair of the Health Canada Science Forum 2007

8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Plenary Session: Knowledge Transfer and Translation (Victoria Ballroom)

Moderator/Chair: Dawn Walker, Executive Director, FNIHB

Addictions: Rhetoric vs Reality, Mr. Edgar F. Kaiser, Chairman Emeritus of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Dr. William Ross, Director, HPFB

9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Break

9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Health Canada Science and Technology Strategy

Information Session on the Health Canada Science and Technology Strategy, Ellen Birnbaum, Manager, Horizontal Science Strategies, Policy, Planning and Partnerships, Office of the Chief Scientist

10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Tri-Council Discussion

Moderator/Chair: Iain Stewart, Director General, Policy Branch, Industry Canada

Tri-Council Session: How they increasingly work together in funding research in health

Ian Graham, Vice-President of Knowledge Translation of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Gisèle Yasmeen, Vice-President of Partnerships, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Janet Walden, Vice-President of the Research Partnerships Programs, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Poster Sessions (Judging) - View the Posters and Meet the Authors (Cartier and Albert Salons)

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Best Poster Awards Ceremony

Moderator/Chair: Tony Myres, Scientist Emeritus

1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Excellence in Science Winners:

Moderator/Chair: Suzanne Vinet, Associate Deputy Minister

Most Promising Scientist - From the Bench to Policy: Good People Make Good Science, Franco Pagotto, HPFB

Excellence in Natural Science - Improved In Vitro Model to Assess Drugs (Chemicals) Release Characteristics of Products for their Absorption from Human Gastrointestinal Tract, Saeed A. Qureshi, HPFB

Excellence in Regulatory Science - Methodological Advances Associated with the Prioritization and Assessment of Existing Substances in Canada, Kathy Hughes, HESCB

3:15 p.m. - 3:30

Presentation of the Scientist Emeritus

Moderator/Chair: Wendy Sexsmith, Acting Chief Scientist

Recipient: Dr. George Douglas

3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

Session A: Emerging Science and Technologies - Cutting-Edge Technologies to Advance Research (O'Connor Room)

Chair: Anu Shukla, Laboratory Technician, HPFB and Rémy Aubin, Research Scientist, HPFB

The Development of Regulatory Policy on the Use of Human Embryos for Research under the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA), (Abstract 1.21), Zubin Master, HPB

Microelectrode Array Characterization of Pharmacological Responses of Cryopreserved Neonatal Rat Cardiomycytes in Culture: Cardiac Cell Chip, (Abstract 1.37), Teresa Tam, HPFB

The Effects of Water, Phosphate Buffered Saline, of HL-60 cells on the Degradation of the PLGA 85/15 Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering, (Abstract 1.07), Joseph N. Daka, HPFB

Session B: Interactions between Health and the Environment - Protection of Human Health and the Environment (Alta Vista Room)

Chair: Phil S. Shwed, Research Scientist, HECSB

Human Health Risk Assessment as a Scientific Tool in Federal Environmental Assessments, (Abstract 2.34), Nellie Roest, HECSB

A Preliminary Radon Map for Canada in the Unit of Health Regions, (Abstract 2.06), Jing Chen, HECSB

Session C: Knowledge Transfer and Translation - Gender and Lifestyle Related Issues in Health Care (Rideau Room)

Chair: Kirsten Mattison, Research Scientist, HPFB, and Kisalaya Basu, Senior Technical Advisor, HPB

Addressing Sex and Gender in Systematic reviews: A Challenge for Knowledge Transfer and a Case for Integrating Sex and Gender Based Analysis (SGBA), (Abstract 3.37), Sari Tudiver, HPB

Working Conditions of Nurses and Absenteeism: Is There a Causal Relationship? An Empirical Investigation of National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses, (Abstract 3.22), Sameer Rajbhandary, HPB

Well Defined "Healthy Lifestyle" Reference Groups are Needed in the Design of Clinical Evaluations of New Drugs in Type 2 Diabetes, (Abstract 3.01), Marie-Madeleine Bernard, HPFB

Session D: Scientific Integrity at Health Canada: What are the Issues? (Wellington Room)

Chair: Stéphane Lessard, Director, Health Research Secretariat, OCS

Facilitator: Mr. Marc Terreau

4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks (Victoria Ballroom)

Health Canada's Acting Chief Scientist, Wendy Sexsmith

5:00 p.m.

Adjournment