BC Women's Hospital Research Rounds have gone virtual! Join us the third Friday of each month from 8:00am - 9:00am to hear about the latest in women's health research.
Talk title: The best start to life: Enhancing equity through implementation science.
Presenter: Helen Skouteris
Learning Objectives:
Understand the importance of Implementation Science
Understand the limitations of Implementation Science
Consider how one might reimagine their own research and practice to move away from a deficit mindset of what society is doing poorly, leading to childhood inequities, to one that is positive about what society can achieve in relation to promoting and nurturing children’s health and wellbeing equitably
Contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca with any questions and for Zoom information check our November Eblast.
Talk title: Supporting Primary Care Practitioners to Provide Equitable Abortion Access: A National Program to Create Health Care Professional Tools
Presenter: Dr. Martha Paynter and Dr. Stephanie Begun
Learning Objectives:
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Describe recent efforts to improve abortion accessibility for underserved populations across Canada.
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Navigate public resources for professional development in family planning knowledge.
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Support patients to identify trusted sources for information about abortion and contraception.
Contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca with any questions and for Zoom information check our October Eblast.
Talk title: Exploring Postpartum Sexual Health Using Feminist Post-Structuralism
Presenter: Dr. Rachel Ollivier, PhD, NP(F), MSCP
Learning Objectives:
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To better understand the current state of literature exploring postpartum sexual health from a non-physical focus.
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To articulate the basic principles and tenets of feminist poststructuralism and discourse analysis.
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To understand the implications of the study findings for clinical practice and future research.
Contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca with any questions and for Zoom information check our September Eblast.
Talk title: Optimization of cardiovascular health among postpartum women with reproductive and pregnancy-related risk factors
Presenter: Dr. Rubee Dev and Juma Orach
Learning Objectives:
Reproductive and pregnancy-related cardiovascular risk indicators for postpartum women
CVD risk assessment in postpartum women
- Opportunities in the postpartum period to reduce cardiovascular disease risk
Contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca with any questions and for Zoom information check our August Eblast.
Lessons learned from 3 years of follow-up at a specialized Women’s Heart Clinic
Presenters: Emilie Theberge and Elizabeth Burden.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the umbrella terms of MINOCA and INOCA, distinguish their main underlying etiologies, and determine how they compare to obstructive coronary artery disease.
- Understand the interaction between mental health and (M)INOCA with regards to onset, progression, and perception of chest pain.
- Understand the components of a specialized Women’s Heart Clinic (WHC) and its impact on outcomes in women with (M)INOCA.
Contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca with any questions and for Zoom information.
Bridging Healthcare and Climate Change in Rural and Remote Communities: Supporting the Health of Young Women, Girls, and Gender-Diverse Individuals
Presenters: Dr. Maya Gislason, Angel Kennedy, Mackenzie Bosch, Adrienne Barcket
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the connection between climate change and youth mental health, specifically for young girls, women, and gender-diverse living in rural and remote areas in BC.
- Understand the current gaps in rural and remote healthcare services in supporting youth’s health in relation to climate change.
- Discuss and identify potential eco-social, strengths-based, and youth-focused healthcare approaches to mitigating these gaps.
Contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca with any questions and for Zoom information.
Doing the right things right: Can evidence-based medicine, parental preferences and quality improvement initiatives ever co-exist in the NICU?
Presenter: Dr. Souvik Mitra
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the three basic elements of evidence-based medicine
- Explain key differences between neonatal quality improvement initiatives and practice of evidence-based medicine
- State the key components of the GRADE evidence-to-decision framework for development of clinical practice guidelines.
Contact whri.communications@cw.bc.ca with any questions.
Braiding Together Evidence, Equity, and Advocacy for Cervical Cancer Prevention
Presenter: Dr. Linda Eckert
Learning Objectives:
- Have insight into equity challenges in cervical cancer prevention
- Know updated evidence of single dose HPV vaccine
- Engage in questions about potential roll of advocacy in furthering scientific and policy goals
Location Details:
Zoom:
Go to https://ubc.zoom.us/ and click on ‘Join a Meeting’.
Enter the Meeting ID: 91128 854418
Enter the passcode: 854418
In person: SHY D308 through entrance 77
Contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca with any questions.
Beyond the Clinic: The Evolution of Medication Abortion
Presenter: Dr. Katharine White
Learning Objectives
- Describe the expanded uses of mifepristone beyond 9 weeks gestation
- Understand the multiple evidenced-based options for follow-up after medication abortion
- Understand the safety of self-managed abortion options
Contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for questions
Current trends and future possibilities for abortion care in Britain: Evidence from the SACHA Study
Presenter: Dr. Rebecca French
Contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for questions
The Abortion Landscape in the UK
Presenters:
Dr. John Reynolds-Wright
NES/CSO Clinical Lecturer in Sexual and Reproductive Health
Community Sexual and Reproductive Health Specialist Registrar
Learning Objectives
Understand the division and delivery of abortion services in the UK
Understand how abortion for fetal anomaly vs ‘social’ indications is provided in the UK
Understand the differences in provision of medical vs surgical abortion in the UK
Location Details:
Zoom Information:
Go to https://ubc.zoom.us/ and click on ‘Join a Meeting’.
Enter the Meeting ID: 92458 122636
Enter the passcode: 122636
In person: SHY D308 through entrance 77
contact: whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for questions
User-centered development of educational resources on chronic pelvic pain for health care providers-in-training
Presenters:
Dr. Natasha Orr: Postdoctoral Researcher;
Rachel Langer – Patient Partner
Navjit Moore – UBC Medical Student, Student Partner
UBC School of Nursing, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Laboratory
Learning Objectives
To describe the role of central sensitization in chronic pelvic pain
To recognize the current challenges with health care provider education
To identify the importance of a user centered design approach to developing chronic pelvic pain resources
Please email whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for connection details.
Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: Clinical and Research Update
Presenter:
Dr. Mohamed Bedaiwy:
Professor & Division Head of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
UBC Department of Obstetrics & Genecology
Please email whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for connection details.
Development and Validation of a Patient-Oriented Outcome Measure for Dyspareunia
Presenter:
Dr. Paul Yong: Research Director, Endometriosis Pelvic Pain Laboratory
Nisha Marshall: Research Assistant, Patient-Oriented Research
Amna Hussain: Honours Student
Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance and utility of patient-reported outcome measures
- Learn about the PROMIS approach to development of a patient-reported outcome measure
- Learn strategies for addressing bots when recruiting through social media
Please email whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for connection details.
Stuck in the Australian Bush Without Service: Finding Pathways to Abortion Care in Rural Australia
Presenter:
Anna Noonan
Visiting Scholar, Contraception and Abortion Research Team, UBC
Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
SPHERE Centre for Research Excellence
Learning Objectives
- To become familiar with alternative neoliberal models of abortion care in otherwise like healthcare settings (Australia and Canada)
- To describe the current challenges to abortion access and provision in rural Australia
- To discuss and explore possible future strengths-based approaches to rural abortion in both settings
Please email whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for connection details.
Celebrating Intersex People and Recognizing the Unique Challenges They Face in Society.
Presenters:
Dr. Caroline Sanders, Associate Professor, UNBC
Nicky, Advocate for Intersex Care and Human rights
Emma Waite, Research Associate at the Centre for Appearance Research
Katie Garrett, Eagle Canada Community Engagement Officer
Learning Objectives
1.To become familiar with the psychosocial and lifetime health landscape for individuals with intersex
2.To describe the current challenges individuals with intersex face
3.To discuss how a trauma-informed and culturally safe narrative can support work with intersex individuals, parents of children with intersex, individuals and intersex peer support groups and advocacy organizations
Psychological and Couple-based Approaches for Treating Women’s Sexual Difficulties
Presenter:
Dr Katrina Bouchard, Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the symptoms of sexual difficulties affecting women, like painful sex and distressing low sexual desire
- Discuss the role of psychologists in providing evidence-based treatment for women’s sexual difficulties, including as part of multidisciplinary teams
- Present research evidence supporting the use of couple-based approaches for treating women’s sexual difficulties
A BC Perinatal Data Registry Spotlight
Presenter:
Dr. Ruth Habte, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Resident Physician | UBC
Dr. Sarka Lisonkova, Associate Professor | UBC
Emma Branch, Research Data Analyst | WHRI
Learning Objectives:
- To gain understanding of the B.C. PDR data and access procedures;
- To describe an overview of B.C. PDR Completed Research and Research in Progress.
Feasibility and acceptability of collecting umbilical cord tissue for prenatal cannabis research
Presenter: Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour, Associate Professor in the Midwifery Program in Department of Family Practice at UBC
Learning Objectives:
- To become familiar with the feasibility of collecting umbilical cord tissue in a tertiary hospital.
- To understand the acceptability of collecting cord tissue among a community sample of pregnant persons in BC.
- To become familiar with the implications of this research.
Achieving Elimination of Cervical Cancer: BC’s role in improving cervical cancer screening locally and beyond
Presenters: Dr. Gina Ogilvie, Amy Booth, Maryam AboMoslim, Hallie Dau
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the impact of enhanced cervical screening in the elimination strategy.
- Present findings of HPV-based self-collection work in BC.
- Present findings of the ASPIRE program projects conducted in Uganda and Rwanda.
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Update
Presenter: Dr. Luis Nacul
Learning Objectives:
- Principles of diagnosis and treatment of ME/CFS
- Advances in epidemiological and clinical research at the Complex Chronic Diseases Program (BCW and WHRI)
- Level of clinical evidence in the field
“Choice” in Childbirth in Mid-Twentieth Century Canada
Presenter: Dr. Whitney Wood
Learning Objectives:
- Provide an overview of the history of childbirth and obstetric practice in mid-twentieth century Canada
- Learn about the historical roots of ongoing health equity issues and gaps in care as they relate to maternal health and obstetric services
- Explore the limits of “choice” in childbirth from a reproductive justice perspective, as shaped by factors including gender, race, class, and location
Biobanking in the prenatal and neonatal period
Presenter: Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren, Ashton Ellis
Learning Objectives:
- What are the BCCH BioBank and BCWH Preemie Biobank?
- Identifying how and when to approach pregnant patients for research.
- How the BCCH BioBank and BCWH Preemie Biobanks can help your research.
How can my research change policy?- Lessons from the CART Sexual Health Survey quest
Presenter: Dr. Wendy V. Norman
Learning Objectives:
- Describe effective approaches to partner with policymakers for women’s health research in Canada.
- Introduce an example of integrated knowledge mobilization for women’s health research.
- Identify three ‘top tips’ for success in partnering with policy makers for women’s health research in Canada.
One year outcomes in a women’s heart health centre
Presenter: Dr. Tara Sedlak
Learning Objectives:
- To describe MINOCA and INOCA as newly recognized entities in women’s heart health
- To describe one year outcomes in a women’s heart center focusing on MINOCA and INOCA
Highlights from the 2019 Canadian Abortion Provider Survey
Presenters: Dr. Regina Renner and Dr. Madeleine Ennis
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the development of the 2019 Canadian Abortion Provider Survey and how it fits in with the Contraception and Abortion Research Team’s Program of Research
- Describe the results of the survey including the abortion workforce, clinical abortion care provided by respondents, and respondent experiences with stigma and harassment
- Describe the knowledge translation activities related to the survey results
Postpartum thoughts of infant-related harm: Relation to obsessive-compulsive disorder and infant safety
Presenter: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the nature and prevalence of postpartum thoughts of infant-related harm.
- Learn about the types of infant-related harm thoughts associated with a risk to infant safety and those that are not.
- Learn about the relationship between postpartum harm thoughts and mental health.
Fostering diversity of partners in perinatal patient-oriented research
Presenters: Julie Zhao, Summer Zhang, Shukria Ahmadi
Learning Objectives:
- To identify barriers to diversity and inclusion of participants in research related to pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period
- To identify possible strategies to improve recruitment of participants from underrepresented groups in pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pregnant Women Living with HIV and their infants
Presenter: Marisa Dorling
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the rate of perinatal and infant outcomes among women living with HIV during the pandemic period and compare these to the pre-pandemic period
- Discuss potential factors behind and increased HIV vertical transmission rate
Pillars of the Global Strategy for Cervical Cancer Elimination: Overview of two studies exploring HPV immunization and HPV primary screening in BC
Presenters: Dr. Anna Gottschlich and Dr. Sarai Racey
Learning Objectives:
- Introduce the Global and Canadian action plan for the elimination of cervical cancer.
- Provide a summary of an HPV immunization practice change project aimed at increasing HPV immunization in the school-based immunization program.
- Provide an overview of primary HPV screening through the FOCAL-DECADE study.
Using antenatal sera to map COVID-19 prevalence across Canada: the journey of the Antenatal Serostudies project
Presenter: Dr. Andrea Atkinson
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the purpose and utility of using antenatal serum for assessing seroprevalence of a disease
- Identify the limitations of PCR positive versus seroprevalence for public health monitoring of COVID-19 in Canada
- Understand the results of national COVID-19 seroprevalence data and potential future applications
Stress During Pregnancy and Sex Ratios: The Long-Term Implications of COVID-19
Presenter: Niki Oveisi
Learning Objectives:
Describe historical secondary sex ratio trends and
their influencesUnderstand the social complexities introduced by the direction of the secondary sex ratio
Describe the potential impact of COVID-19 stressors on the direction of the secondary sex ratio
Postpartum people’s experiences and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to April 2021
Presenter: Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on postpartum people during the first year of the pandemic
- To describe postpartum people’s experiences and responses to the pandemic
- To identify ways in which healthcare providers can better support this population
Epidemic of Ovulation-Disturbed, Normal-Length Menstrual Cycles during the SARS-CoV2 Pandemic
Presenter: Dr. Jerilynn Prior
Learning Objectives:
- COVID-19 & women’s cycles—what we now know
- The menstrual cycle & ovulation hypothalamic adaptation system
- Menstruation & Ovulation2 (MOS2) design, recruitment, and participant characteristics
- Results–prevalent subclinical ovulatory disturbances (SOD)
- “Experiment of Nature”—MOS (2007) vs MOS2
Opportunistic Salpingectomy for ovarian cancer prevention: Evidence of effectiveness and expanding the ‘opportunities’
Presenters: Dr. Gillian Hanley & Dr. Heather Stuart
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what opportunistic salpingectomy is and when it has been performed.
- Evaluate the evidence about its effectiveness as an ovarian cancer prevention strategy.
- Be aware of research to expand the surgical procedures where opportunistic salpingectomy is offered.
HIV Made Me Fabulous: Using Film to Disseminate Knowledge and Reduce Stigma
Presenters: Dr. Angela Kaida, Dr. Allie Carter, & Azra Bhanji
Learning Objectives:
To understand the use of arts-based methods in research dissemination
- To understand the methods used to develop a dissemination strategy and measure its impact
- To understand the impacts of film as a knowledge translation tool to affect change
Celebrating the “change of life”: Supporting women living with HIV through the menopause transition
Presenters: Dr. Elizabeth King and Shayda Swann
Learning Objectives:
Recognize menopause as an important life transitionfor women, including women living with HIV, thatneeds to be incorporated in clinical care pathways.
Understand the importance of assessing for earlymenopause/primary ovarian insufficiency in womenliving with HIV and appreciate its impacts for health.
Appreciate management of symptoms as animportant aspect of menopausal care and review HIV-specific treatment considerations.
Health Technology Safety: Challenges and Solutions
Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth Borycki
Learning Objectives:
Describe how health technology design, development, programming, implementation and maintenance influence patient safety
2. Identify models that can be used to support system implementation that is safer and more effective
3. Identify methods that can be used to test and evaluate the safety of systems before and after implementation
Fraud detection in the Canadian Abortion Provider Survey (CAPS)
Presenters: Dr. Regina-Maria Renner
Learning Objectives:
- Be able to develop fraud prevention strategies
- Be able to name a few fraud detection criteria
- Be able to develop, pilot and implement a fraud detection algorithm
Hereditary Gynecologic Cancer and Survivorship
Presenters: Dr. Janice Kwon & Dr. Lesa Dawson
Learning Objectives:
- To review hereditary cancer symptoms associated with ovarian and endometrial cancer
- To discuss risk-reducing interventions for hereditary cancer syndromes
- To explore survivorship issues after risk-reducing interventions
1:00pm – 2:00pm PST
A spotlight of trainee research from the BC Perinatal Data Registry
Join us for an afternoon of virtual rapid-fire presentations on women and newborn health-related research projects enabled by BC Perinatal Data Registry data from students, trainees, fellows and other researchers-in-training.
Impact of the Pandemic on Family Planning
Presenters: Dr. Madeleine Ennis and Kate Wahl
Learning Objectives:
- Describe changes in clinical abortion practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, including advancements in telemedicine
- Identify provider perspectives of barriers and facilitators to abortion access and practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Demonstrate the use of a medical abortion prescriber checklist
Social Determinants of HIV Treatment Engagement among Black Postpartum Women Living with HIV in South Florida, USA
Presenter: Dr. Emmanuela Ojukwu
Learning Objectives:
- Black women experience critically low rates of HIV treatment engagement postpartum
- Social determinants of health influence HIV treatment engagement at 3 months and 12 months postpartum among Black postpartum women living with HIV in Miami, South Florida
- Engagement at 3 months postpartum was a major determinant of ongoing primary care engagement at 12 months postpartum
ARE WE READY FOR GENOMIC MEDICINE?
Observations and Suggestions to Improve the Use of Genomic Variation: the Experience of Provincial Medical Genetics Program
Presenters: Dr. Hui-Lin & Dr. Noor Gazzaz
Learning Objectives:
- Genomic test results require clinical correlation and reverse-deep phenotyping to determine applicability
- Genomic test reports frequently contain findings of insufficient causality
- Application of a systematic framework helps define clinical applicability for patient diagnosis and management
- Transparent laboratory reporting, interpretive collaboration between clinicians and laboratory geneticists, and clinical functional testing improves diagnostic rates
What is stopping us? An implementation science study of kangaroo care in British Columbia’s neonatal intensive care units
Presenters: Sarah Coutts, Alix Woldring, Dr. Ann Pederson, Julie de Salaberry, Dr. Horacio Osiovich, Dr. Lori Brotto
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the value of implementation science as a research approach in BC NICUs
- Describe the contextual factors that influence the implementation of Kangaroo Care in BC
- Explore strategies to scale up and sustain the practice in BC NICUs
Risk Assessment in Women: still too risky?
Presenter: Dr. Tara Sedlak
Learning Objectives:
- To evaluate current risk assessment tools of cardiovascular disease in women and present a novel risk assessment tool with sex-specific features
- To outline assessment of MINOCA and INOCA in a women’s heart center (WHC) and present 1 year data from a WHC registry at BCWH and VGH
I fought my entire way: Experiences of declining interventions and procedures during pregnancy and childbirth in British Columbia
Presenters: Dr. Paulomi Niles and Dr. Kathrin Stoll
Learning Objectives
- Understand what tests and procedures childbearing people in BC declined and why
- Understand how care provider reactions in these situations impact childbearing people
- Understand implications of findings for clinical practice and education
Mind over Scalpel: The Optimization of Mental Health prior to Surgery
Presenter: Dr. Roxana Geoffrion
Learning Objectives:
- to review the biopsychosocial model of health and disease in surgery
- to explore sex-specific coping mechanisms and pain around the time of surgery
- to enumerate associations of pre-surgical depression/anxiety and surgical outcomes
COVID RESPONSE: COVID Rapid Evidence Study of a Provincial Population based cOhort for geNder and SEx; Results from a Population Based Survey
Presenters: Dr. Lori Brotto, Dr. Gina Ogilvie, Dr. Angela Kaida, Dr. Liisa Galea, Dr. Manish Sadarangani
Learning Objectives:
Survey data from 5000+ British Columbians will be presented, including:
- Impact of pandemic controls on mental health
- Intention to receive COVID-19 vaccinations
- Economic impacts of pandemic control, including impact on income, housing, and food security
- Impact of pandemic controls on reproductive health and access to contraception outcomes
Current dispensing and practice use patterns of ulipristal acetate (UPA) 30mg (Ella®) as emergency contraception in British Columbia
Presenter: Dr. Michelle Chan
Learning Objectives:
- ECElla: What did we do, what did we find
- What did we learn
- Knowledge translation and next steps
The experience of women and health care providers in assessing history of gender-based violence during perinatal care
Presenters: Drs. Jila Mirlashari, Ann Pederson, Lori Brotto, & Janet Lyons
- Learning Objective:
To investigate the experience of women and health care providers regarding their views on the advantages and disadvantages of assessing for the presence of Gender-Based Violence during perinatal care
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on trainees engaged in women’s health research in British Columbia
Presenter: Dr. Angela Kaida
Learning objectives:
- To learn about how COVID-19 has yielded significant disruptions to trainees’ academic, research, professional, and personal lives
- To explore trainee-led recommendations for institutional and supervisor supports
- To discuss what we can do as stakeholders in trainee success, to ameliorate impacts in the short and longer term
Self-Care Interventions for Health
Presenter: Dr. Manjulaa Narasimhan
Learning Objectives:
- WHO terminology of self-care and self-care interventions
- Key elements of WHO’s conceptual framework for self-care interventions for health
- Self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health as additional options when facility-based provision of services is disrupted
Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Wellbeing in British Columbia: Preliminary Results from a Qualitative Study
Presenter: Dr. Julia Smith
Learning Objectives:
- To explore the intersections between COVID-19 as a health crisis and the broader socio-economic determinants of women’s wellbeing
- To discuss how COVID-19 is particularly impacting women healthcare workers
- To apply gender-based analysis to policy responses to date
Women focused digital health research: Conducting digital research and case study presentation of a digital health research project
Presenters: Ciana Maher, Madison Lackie
Learning Objectives:
1. To discuss results of digital health scan and the barriers and facilitators identified in conducting digital health research
2. To learn how to incorporate patient-orientated research and user-centred design to create equitable digital health tools
3. To provide an overview of the development of a web-based resource for postpartum depression
A qualitative inquiry on pregnant and postpartum women’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
Presenter: Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour
Goals/Learning Objectives
- To learn about pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
- To identify ways in which healthcare providers can support pregnant and postpartum population during the pandemic
- To discuss the implications of these findings for practice
New mothers’ thoughts of infant-related harm: Relation to OCD and infant safety
Presenter: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother
Goals/Learning Objectives
- The nature and prevalence of new other’s thoughts of infant-related harm
- The nature and prevalance of postpartum-presenting OCD
- The relation of new mothers’ thoughts of infant-related harm and OCD with infant safety
Mindfulness: Practice and results of a clinical trial in women’s health
Presenter: Dr. Lori Brotto
Goals/Learning Objectives
- Learn about a clinical trial evaluating mindfulness versus cognitive behaviour therapy for provoked vestibulodynia
- Learn about a social media knowledge translation campaign designed to disseminate the research to women
- Be exposed to some of the mindfulness skills participants in the trial practiced
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Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: Clinical and Research Update
Presenter:
Dr. Mohamed Bedaiwy:
Professor & Division Head of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
UBC Department of Obstetrics & Genecology
Please email whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for connection details.
Development and Validation of a Patient-Oriented Outcome Measure for Dyspareunia
Presenter:
Dr. Paul Yong: Research Director, Endometriosis Pelvic Pain Laboratory
Nisha Marshall: Research Assistant, Patient-Oriented Research
Amna Hussain: Honours Student
Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance and utility of patient-reported outcome measures
- Learn about the PROMIS approach to development of a patient-reported outcome measure
- Learn strategies for addressing bots when recruiting through social media
Please email whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for connection details.
Stuck in the Australian Bush Without Service: Finding Pathways to Abortion Care in Rural Australia
Presenter:
Anna Noonan
Visiting Scholar, Contraception and Abortion Research Team, UBC
Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
SPHERE Centre for Research Excellence
Learning Objectives
- To become familiar with alternative neoliberal models of abortion care in otherwise like healthcare settings (Australia and Canada)
- To describe the current challenges to abortion access and provision in rural Australia
- To discuss and explore possible future strengths-based approaches to rural abortion in both settings
Please email whri.communications@cw.bc.ca for connection details.
Celebrating Intersex People and Recognizing the Unique Challenges They Face in Society.
Presenters:
Dr. Caroline Sanders, Associate Professor, UNBC
Nicky, Advocate for Intersex Care and Human rights
Emma Waite, Research Associate at the Centre for Appearance Research
Katie Garrett, Eagle Canada Community Engagement Officer
Learning Objectives
1.To become familiar with the psychosocial and lifetime health landscape for individuals with intersex
2.To describe the current challenges individuals with intersex face
3.To discuss how a trauma-informed and culturally safe narrative can support work with intersex individuals, parents of children with intersex, individuals and intersex peer support groups and advocacy organizations
Psychological and Couple-based Approaches for Treating Women’s Sexual Difficulties
Presenter:
Dr Katrina Bouchard, Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the symptoms of sexual difficulties affecting women, like painful sex and distressing low sexual desire
- Discuss the role of psychologists in providing evidence-based treatment for women’s sexual difficulties, including as part of multidisciplinary teams
- Present research evidence supporting the use of couple-based approaches for treating women’s sexual difficulties
A BC Perinatal Data Registry Spotlight
Presenter:
Dr. Ruth Habte, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Resident Physician | UBC
Dr. Sarka Lisonkova, Associate Professor | UBC
Emma Branch, Research Data Analyst | WHRI
Learning Objectives:
- To gain understanding of the B.C. PDR data and access procedures;
- To describe an overview of B.C. PDR Completed Research and Research in Progress.
Feasibility and acceptability of collecting umbilical cord tissue for prenatal cannabis research
Presenter: Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour, Associate Professor in the Midwifery Program in Department of Family Practice at UBC
Learning Objectives:
- To become familiar with the feasibility of collecting umbilical cord tissue in a tertiary hospital.
- To understand the acceptability of collecting cord tissue among a community sample of pregnant persons in BC.
- To become familiar with the implications of this research.
Achieving Elimination of Cervical Cancer: BC’s role in improving cervical cancer screening locally and beyond
Presenters: Dr. Gina Ogilvie, Amy Booth, Maryam AboMoslim, Hallie Dau
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the impact of enhanced cervical screening in the elimination strategy.
- Present findings of HPV-based self-collection work in BC.
- Present findings of the ASPIRE program projects conducted in Uganda and Rwanda.
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Update
Presenter: Dr. Luis Nacul
Learning Objectives:
- Principles of diagnosis and treatment of ME/CFS
- Advances in epidemiological and clinical research at the Complex Chronic Diseases Program (BCW and WHRI)
- Level of clinical evidence in the field
“Choice” in Childbirth in Mid-Twentieth Century Canada
Presenter: Dr. Whitney Wood
Learning Objectives:
- Provide an overview of the history of childbirth and obstetric practice in mid-twentieth century Canada
- Learn about the historical roots of ongoing health equity issues and gaps in care as they relate to maternal health and obstetric services
- Explore the limits of “choice” in childbirth from a reproductive justice perspective, as shaped by factors including gender, race, class, and location
Biobanking in the prenatal and neonatal period
Presenter: Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren, Ashton Ellis
Learning Objectives:
- What are the BCCH BioBank and BCWH Preemie Biobank?
- Identifying how and when to approach pregnant patients for research.
- How the BCCH BioBank and BCWH Preemie Biobanks can help your research.
How can my research change policy?- Lessons from the CART Sexual Health Survey quest
Presenter: Dr. Wendy V. Norman
Learning Objectives:
- Describe effective approaches to partner with policymakers for women’s health research in Canada.
- Introduce an example of integrated knowledge mobilization for women’s health research.
- Identify three ‘top tips’ for success in partnering with policy makers for women’s health research in Canada.
One year outcomes in a women’s heart health centre
Presenter: Dr. Tara Sedlak
Learning Objectives:
- To describe MINOCA and INOCA as newly recognized entities in women’s heart health
- To describe one year outcomes in a women’s heart center focusing on MINOCA and INOCA
Highlights from the 2019 Canadian Abortion Provider Survey
Presenters: Dr. Regina Renner and Dr. Madeleine Ennis
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the development of the 2019 Canadian Abortion Provider Survey and how it fits in with the Contraception and Abortion Research Team’s Program of Research
- Describe the results of the survey including the abortion workforce, clinical abortion care provided by respondents, and respondent experiences with stigma and harassment
- Describe the knowledge translation activities related to the survey results
Postpartum thoughts of infant-related harm: Relation to obsessive-compulsive disorder and infant safety
Presenter: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the nature and prevalence of postpartum thoughts of infant-related harm.
- Learn about the types of infant-related harm thoughts associated with a risk to infant safety and those that are not.
- Learn about the relationship between postpartum harm thoughts and mental health.
Fostering diversity of partners in perinatal patient-oriented research
Presenters: Julie Zhao, Summer Zhang, Shukria Ahmadi
Learning Objectives:
- To identify barriers to diversity and inclusion of participants in research related to pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period
- To identify possible strategies to improve recruitment of participants from underrepresented groups in pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pregnant Women Living with HIV and their infants
Presenter: Marisa Dorling
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the rate of perinatal and infant outcomes among women living with HIV during the pandemic period and compare these to the pre-pandemic period
- Discuss potential factors behind and increased HIV vertical transmission rate
Pillars of the Global Strategy for Cervical Cancer Elimination: Overview of two studies exploring HPV immunization and HPV primary screening in BC
Presenters: Dr. Anna Gottschlich and Dr. Sarai Racey
Learning Objectives:
- Introduce the Global and Canadian action plan for the elimination of cervical cancer.
- Provide a summary of an HPV immunization practice change project aimed at increasing HPV immunization in the school-based immunization program.
- Provide an overview of primary HPV screening through the FOCAL-DECADE study.
Using antenatal sera to map COVID-19 prevalence across Canada: the journey of the Antenatal Serostudies project
Presenter: Dr. Andrea Atkinson
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the purpose and utility of using antenatal serum for assessing seroprevalence of a disease
- Identify the limitations of PCR positive versus seroprevalence for public health monitoring of COVID-19 in Canada
- Understand the results of national COVID-19 seroprevalence data and potential future applications
Stress During Pregnancy and Sex Ratios: The Long-Term Implications of COVID-19
Presenter: Niki Oveisi
Learning Objectives:
Describe historical secondary sex ratio trends and
their influencesUnderstand the social complexities introduced by the direction of the secondary sex ratio
Describe the potential impact of COVID-19 stressors on the direction of the secondary sex ratio
Postpartum people’s experiences and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to April 2021
Presenter: Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on postpartum people during the first year of the pandemic
- To describe postpartum people’s experiences and responses to the pandemic
- To identify ways in which healthcare providers can better support this population
Epidemic of Ovulation-Disturbed, Normal-Length Menstrual Cycles during the SARS-CoV2 Pandemic
Presenter: Dr. Jerilynn Prior
Learning Objectives:
- COVID-19 & women’s cycles—what we now know
- The menstrual cycle & ovulation hypothalamic adaptation system
- Menstruation & Ovulation2 (MOS2) design, recruitment, and participant characteristics
- Results–prevalent subclinical ovulatory disturbances (SOD)
- “Experiment of Nature”—MOS (2007) vs MOS2
Opportunistic Salpingectomy for ovarian cancer prevention: Evidence of effectiveness and expanding the ‘opportunities’
Presenters: Dr. Gillian Hanley & Dr. Heather Stuart
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what opportunistic salpingectomy is and when it has been performed.
- Evaluate the evidence about its effectiveness as an ovarian cancer prevention strategy.
- Be aware of research to expand the surgical procedures where opportunistic salpingectomy is offered.
HIV Made Me Fabulous: Using Film to Disseminate Knowledge and Reduce Stigma
Presenters: Dr. Angela Kaida, Dr. Allie Carter, & Azra Bhanji
Learning Objectives:
To understand the use of arts-based methods in research dissemination
- To understand the methods used to develop a dissemination strategy and measure its impact
- To understand the impacts of film as a knowledge translation tool to affect change
Celebrating the “change of life”: Supporting women living with HIV through the menopause transition
Presenters: Dr. Elizabeth King and Shayda Swann
Learning Objectives:
Recognize menopause as an important life transitionfor women, including women living with HIV, thatneeds to be incorporated in clinical care pathways.
Understand the importance of assessing for earlymenopause/primary ovarian insufficiency in womenliving with HIV and appreciate its impacts for health.
Appreciate management of symptoms as animportant aspect of menopausal care and review HIV-specific treatment considerations.
Health Technology Safety: Challenges and Solutions
Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth Borycki
Learning Objectives:
Describe how health technology design, development, programming, implementation and maintenance influence patient safety
2. Identify models that can be used to support system implementation that is safer and more effective
3. Identify methods that can be used to test and evaluate the safety of systems before and after implementation
Fraud detection in the Canadian Abortion Provider Survey (CAPS)
Presenters: Dr. Regina-Maria Renner
Learning Objectives:
- Be able to develop fraud prevention strategies
- Be able to name a few fraud detection criteria
- Be able to develop, pilot and implement a fraud detection algorithm
Hereditary Gynecologic Cancer and Survivorship
Presenters: Dr. Janice Kwon & Dr. Lesa Dawson
Learning Objectives:
- To review hereditary cancer symptoms associated with ovarian and endometrial cancer
- To discuss risk-reducing interventions for hereditary cancer syndromes
- To explore survivorship issues after risk-reducing interventions
1:00pm – 2:00pm PST
A spotlight of trainee research from the BC Perinatal Data Registry
Join us for an afternoon of virtual rapid-fire presentations on women and newborn health-related research projects enabled by BC Perinatal Data Registry data from students, trainees, fellows and other researchers-in-training.
Impact of the Pandemic on Family Planning
Presenters: Dr. Madeleine Ennis and Kate Wahl
Learning Objectives:
- Describe changes in clinical abortion practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, including advancements in telemedicine
- Identify provider perspectives of barriers and facilitators to abortion access and practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Demonstrate the use of a medical abortion prescriber checklist
Social Determinants of HIV Treatment Engagement among Black Postpartum Women Living with HIV in South Florida, USA
Presenter: Dr. Emmanuela Ojukwu
Learning Objectives:
- Black women experience critically low rates of HIV treatment engagement postpartum
- Social determinants of health influence HIV treatment engagement at 3 months and 12 months postpartum among Black postpartum women living with HIV in Miami, South Florida
- Engagement at 3 months postpartum was a major determinant of ongoing primary care engagement at 12 months postpartum
ARE WE READY FOR GENOMIC MEDICINE?
Observations and Suggestions to Improve the Use of Genomic Variation: the Experience of Provincial Medical Genetics Program
Presenters: Dr. Hui-Lin & Dr. Noor Gazzaz
Learning Objectives:
- Genomic test results require clinical correlation and reverse-deep phenotyping to determine applicability
- Genomic test reports frequently contain findings of insufficient causality
- Application of a systematic framework helps define clinical applicability for patient diagnosis and management
- Transparent laboratory reporting, interpretive collaboration between clinicians and laboratory geneticists, and clinical functional testing improves diagnostic rates
What is stopping us? An implementation science study of kangaroo care in British Columbia’s neonatal intensive care units
Presenters: Sarah Coutts, Alix Woldring, Dr. Ann Pederson, Julie de Salaberry, Dr. Horacio Osiovich, Dr. Lori Brotto
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the value of implementation science as a research approach in BC NICUs
- Describe the contextual factors that influence the implementation of Kangaroo Care in BC
- Explore strategies to scale up and sustain the practice in BC NICUs
Risk Assessment in Women: still too risky?
Presenter: Dr. Tara Sedlak
Learning Objectives:
- To evaluate current risk assessment tools of cardiovascular disease in women and present a novel risk assessment tool with sex-specific features
- To outline assessment of MINOCA and INOCA in a women’s heart center (WHC) and present 1 year data from a WHC registry at BCWH and VGH
I fought my entire way: Experiences of declining interventions and procedures during pregnancy and childbirth in British Columbia
Presenters: Dr. Paulomi Niles and Dr. Kathrin Stoll
Learning Objectives
- Understand what tests and procedures childbearing people in BC declined and why
- Understand how care provider reactions in these situations impact childbearing people
- Understand implications of findings for clinical practice and education
Mind over Scalpel: The Optimization of Mental Health prior to Surgery
Presenter: Dr. Roxana Geoffrion
Learning Objectives:
- to review the biopsychosocial model of health and disease in surgery
- to explore sex-specific coping mechanisms and pain around the time of surgery
- to enumerate associations of pre-surgical depression/anxiety and surgical outcomes
COVID RESPONSE: COVID Rapid Evidence Study of a Provincial Population based cOhort for geNder and SEx; Results from a Population Based Survey
Presenters: Dr. Lori Brotto, Dr. Gina Ogilvie, Dr. Angela Kaida, Dr. Liisa Galea, Dr. Manish Sadarangani
Learning Objectives:
Survey data from 5000+ British Columbians will be presented, including:
- Impact of pandemic controls on mental health
- Intention to receive COVID-19 vaccinations
- Economic impacts of pandemic control, including impact on income, housing, and food security
- Impact of pandemic controls on reproductive health and access to contraception outcomes
Current dispensing and practice use patterns of ulipristal acetate (UPA) 30mg (Ella®) as emergency contraception in British Columbia
Presenter: Dr. Michelle Chan
Learning Objectives:
- ECElla: What did we do, what did we find
- What did we learn
- Knowledge translation and next steps
The experience of women and health care providers in assessing history of gender-based violence during perinatal care
Presenters: Drs. Jila Mirlashari, Ann Pederson, Lori Brotto, & Janet Lyons
- Learning Objective:
To investigate the experience of women and health care providers regarding their views on the advantages and disadvantages of assessing for the presence of Gender-Based Violence during perinatal care
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on trainees engaged in women’s health research in British Columbia
Presenter: Dr. Angela Kaida
Learning objectives:
- To learn about how COVID-19 has yielded significant disruptions to trainees’ academic, research, professional, and personal lives
- To explore trainee-led recommendations for institutional and supervisor supports
- To discuss what we can do as stakeholders in trainee success, to ameliorate impacts in the short and longer term
Self-Care Interventions for Health
Presenter: Dr. Manjulaa Narasimhan
Learning Objectives:
- WHO terminology of self-care and self-care interventions
- Key elements of WHO’s conceptual framework for self-care interventions for health
- Self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health as additional options when facility-based provision of services is disrupted
Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Wellbeing in British Columbia: Preliminary Results from a Qualitative Study
Presenter: Dr. Julia Smith
Learning Objectives:
- To explore the intersections between COVID-19 as a health crisis and the broader socio-economic determinants of women’s wellbeing
- To discuss how COVID-19 is particularly impacting women healthcare workers
- To apply gender-based analysis to policy responses to date
Women focused digital health research: Conducting digital research and case study presentation of a digital health research project
Presenters: Ciana Maher, Madison Lackie
Learning Objectives:
1. To discuss results of digital health scan and the barriers and facilitators identified in conducting digital health research
2. To learn how to incorporate patient-orientated research and user-centred design to create equitable digital health tools
3. To provide an overview of the development of a web-based resource for postpartum depression
A qualitative inquiry on pregnant and postpartum women’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
Presenter: Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour
Goals/Learning Objectives
- To learn about pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
- To identify ways in which healthcare providers can support pregnant and postpartum population during the pandemic
- To discuss the implications of these findings for practice
New mothers’ thoughts of infant-related harm: Relation to OCD and infant safety
Presenter: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother
Goals/Learning Objectives
- The nature and prevalence of new other’s thoughts of infant-related harm
- The nature and prevalance of postpartum-presenting OCD
- The relation of new mothers’ thoughts of infant-related harm and OCD with infant safety
Mindfulness: Practice and results of a clinical trial in women’s health
Presenter: Dr. Lori Brotto
Goals/Learning Objectives
- Learn about a clinical trial evaluating mindfulness versus cognitive behaviour therapy for provoked vestibulodynia
- Learn about a social media knowledge translation campaign designed to disseminate the research to women
- Be exposed to some of the mindfulness skills participants in the trial practiced
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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Update
Presenter: Dr. Luis Nacul
Learning Objectives:
- Principles of diagnosis and treatment of ME/CFS
- Advances in epidemiological and clinical research at the Complex Chronic Diseases Program (BCW and WHRI)
- Level of clinical evidence in the field
“Choice” in Childbirth in Mid-Twentieth Century Canada
Presenter: Dr. Whitney Wood
Learning Objectives:
- Provide an overview of the history of childbirth and obstetric practice in mid-twentieth century Canada
- Learn about the historical roots of ongoing health equity issues and gaps in care as they relate to maternal health and obstetric services
- Explore the limits of “choice” in childbirth from a reproductive justice perspective, as shaped by factors including gender, race, class, and location
Biobanking in the prenatal and neonatal period
Presenter: Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren, Ashton Ellis
Learning Objectives:
- What are the BCCH BioBank and BCWH Preemie Biobank?
- Identifying how and when to approach pregnant patients for research.
- How the BCCH BioBank and BCWH Preemie Biobanks can help your research.
How can my research change policy?- Lessons from the CART Sexual Health Survey quest
Presenter: Dr. Wendy V. Norman
Learning Objectives:
- Describe effective approaches to partner with policymakers for women’s health research in Canada.
- Introduce an example of integrated knowledge mobilization for women’s health research.
- Identify three ‘top tips’ for success in partnering with policy makers for women’s health research in Canada.
One year outcomes in a women’s heart health centre
Presenter: Dr. Tara Sedlak
Learning Objectives:
- To describe MINOCA and INOCA as newly recognized entities in women’s heart health
- To describe one year outcomes in a women’s heart center focusing on MINOCA and INOCA
Highlights from the 2019 Canadian Abortion Provider Survey
Presenters: Dr. Regina Renner and Dr. Madeleine Ennis
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the development of the 2019 Canadian Abortion Provider Survey and how it fits in with the Contraception and Abortion Research Team’s Program of Research
- Describe the results of the survey including the abortion workforce, clinical abortion care provided by respondents, and respondent experiences with stigma and harassment
- Describe the knowledge translation activities related to the survey results
Postpartum thoughts of infant-related harm: Relation to obsessive-compulsive disorder and infant safety
Presenter: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the nature and prevalence of postpartum thoughts of infant-related harm.
- Learn about the types of infant-related harm thoughts associated with a risk to infant safety and those that are not.
- Learn about the relationship between postpartum harm thoughts and mental health.
Fostering diversity of partners in perinatal patient-oriented research
Presenters: Julie Zhao, Summer Zhang, Shukria Ahmadi
Learning Objectives:
- To identify barriers to diversity and inclusion of participants in research related to pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period
- To identify possible strategies to improve recruitment of participants from underrepresented groups in pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pregnant Women Living with HIV and their infants
Presenter: Marisa Dorling
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the rate of perinatal and infant outcomes among women living with HIV during the pandemic period and compare these to the pre-pandemic period
- Discuss potential factors behind and increased HIV vertical transmission rate
Pillars of the Global Strategy for Cervical Cancer Elimination: Overview of two studies exploring HPV immunization and HPV primary screening in BC
Presenters: Dr. Anna Gottschlich and Dr. Sarai Racey
Learning Objectives:
- Introduce the Global and Canadian action plan for the elimination of cervical cancer.
- Provide a summary of an HPV immunization practice change project aimed at increasing HPV immunization in the school-based immunization program.
- Provide an overview of primary HPV screening through the FOCAL-DECADE study.
Using antenatal sera to map COVID-19 prevalence across Canada: the journey of the Antenatal Serostudies project
Presenter: Dr. Andrea Atkinson
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the purpose and utility of using antenatal serum for assessing seroprevalence of a disease
- Identify the limitations of PCR positive versus seroprevalence for public health monitoring of COVID-19 in Canada
- Understand the results of national COVID-19 seroprevalence data and potential future applications
Stress During Pregnancy and Sex Ratios: The Long-Term Implications of COVID-19
Presenter: Niki Oveisi
Learning Objectives:
Describe historical secondary sex ratio trends and
their influencesUnderstand the social complexities introduced by the direction of the secondary sex ratio
Describe the potential impact of COVID-19 stressors on the direction of the secondary sex ratio
Postpartum people’s experiences and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to April 2021
Presenter: Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on postpartum people during the first year of the pandemic
- To describe postpartum people’s experiences and responses to the pandemic
- To identify ways in which healthcare providers can better support this population
Epidemic of Ovulation-Disturbed, Normal-Length Menstrual Cycles during the SARS-CoV2 Pandemic
Presenter: Dr. Jerilynn Prior
Learning Objectives:
- COVID-19 & women’s cycles—what we now know
- The menstrual cycle & ovulation hypothalamic adaptation system
- Menstruation & Ovulation2 (MOS2) design, recruitment, and participant characteristics
- Results–prevalent subclinical ovulatory disturbances (SOD)
- “Experiment of Nature”—MOS (2007) vs MOS2
Opportunistic Salpingectomy for ovarian cancer prevention: Evidence of effectiveness and expanding the ‘opportunities’
Presenters: Dr. Gillian Hanley & Dr. Heather Stuart
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what opportunistic salpingectomy is and when it has been performed.
- Evaluate the evidence about its effectiveness as an ovarian cancer prevention strategy.
- Be aware of research to expand the surgical procedures where opportunistic salpingectomy is offered.
HIV Made Me Fabulous: Using Film to Disseminate Knowledge and Reduce Stigma
Presenters: Dr. Angela Kaida, Dr. Allie Carter, & Azra Bhanji
Learning Objectives:
To understand the use of arts-based methods in research dissemination
- To understand the methods used to develop a dissemination strategy and measure its impact
- To understand the impacts of film as a knowledge translation tool to affect change
Celebrating the “change of life”: Supporting women living with HIV through the menopause transition
Presenters: Dr. Elizabeth King and Shayda Swann
Learning Objectives:
Recognize menopause as an important life transitionfor women, including women living with HIV, thatneeds to be incorporated in clinical care pathways.
Understand the importance of assessing for earlymenopause/primary ovarian insufficiency in womenliving with HIV and appreciate its impacts for health.
Appreciate management of symptoms as animportant aspect of menopausal care and review HIV-specific treatment considerations.
Health Technology Safety: Challenges and Solutions
Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth Borycki
Learning Objectives:
Describe how health technology design, development, programming, implementation and maintenance influence patient safety
2. Identify models that can be used to support system implementation that is safer and more effective
3. Identify methods that can be used to test and evaluate the safety of systems before and after implementation
Fraud detection in the Canadian Abortion Provider Survey (CAPS)
Presenters: Dr. Regina-Maria Renner
Learning Objectives:
- Be able to develop fraud prevention strategies
- Be able to name a few fraud detection criteria
- Be able to develop, pilot and implement a fraud detection algorithm
Hereditary Gynecologic Cancer and Survivorship
Presenters: Dr. Janice Kwon & Dr. Lesa Dawson
Learning Objectives:
- To review hereditary cancer symptoms associated with ovarian and endometrial cancer
- To discuss risk-reducing interventions for hereditary cancer syndromes
- To explore survivorship issues after risk-reducing interventions
1:00pm – 2:00pm PST
A spotlight of trainee research from the BC Perinatal Data Registry
Join us for an afternoon of virtual rapid-fire presentations on women and newborn health-related research projects enabled by BC Perinatal Data Registry data from students, trainees, fellows and other researchers-in-training.
Impact of the Pandemic on Family Planning
Presenters: Dr. Madeleine Ennis and Kate Wahl
Learning Objectives:
- Describe changes in clinical abortion practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, including advancements in telemedicine
- Identify provider perspectives of barriers and facilitators to abortion access and practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Demonstrate the use of a medical abortion prescriber checklist
Social Determinants of HIV Treatment Engagement among Black Postpartum Women Living with HIV in South Florida, USA
Presenter: Dr. Emmanuela Ojukwu
Learning Objectives:
- Black women experience critically low rates of HIV treatment engagement postpartum
- Social determinants of health influence HIV treatment engagement at 3 months and 12 months postpartum among Black postpartum women living with HIV in Miami, South Florida
- Engagement at 3 months postpartum was a major determinant of ongoing primary care engagement at 12 months postpartum
ARE WE READY FOR GENOMIC MEDICINE?
Observations and Suggestions to Improve the Use of Genomic Variation: the Experience of Provincial Medical Genetics Program
Presenters: Dr. Hui-Lin & Dr. Noor Gazzaz
Learning Objectives:
- Genomic test results require clinical correlation and reverse-deep phenotyping to determine applicability
- Genomic test reports frequently contain findings of insufficient causality
- Application of a systematic framework helps define clinical applicability for patient diagnosis and management
- Transparent laboratory reporting, interpretive collaboration between clinicians and laboratory geneticists, and clinical functional testing improves diagnostic rates
What is stopping us? An implementation science study of kangaroo care in British Columbia’s neonatal intensive care units
Presenters: Sarah Coutts, Alix Woldring, Dr. Ann Pederson, Julie de Salaberry, Dr. Horacio Osiovich, Dr. Lori Brotto
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the value of implementation science as a research approach in BC NICUs
- Describe the contextual factors that influence the implementation of Kangaroo Care in BC
- Explore strategies to scale up and sustain the practice in BC NICUs
Risk Assessment in Women: still too risky?
Presenter: Dr. Tara Sedlak
Learning Objectives:
- To evaluate current risk assessment tools of cardiovascular disease in women and present a novel risk assessment tool with sex-specific features
- To outline assessment of MINOCA and INOCA in a women’s heart center (WHC) and present 1 year data from a WHC registry at BCWH and VGH
I fought my entire way: Experiences of declining interventions and procedures during pregnancy and childbirth in British Columbia
Presenters: Dr. Paulomi Niles and Dr. Kathrin Stoll
Learning Objectives
- Understand what tests and procedures childbearing people in BC declined and why
- Understand how care provider reactions in these situations impact childbearing people
- Understand implications of findings for clinical practice and education
Mind over Scalpel: The Optimization of Mental Health prior to Surgery
Presenter: Dr. Roxana Geoffrion
Learning Objectives:
- to review the biopsychosocial model of health and disease in surgery
- to explore sex-specific coping mechanisms and pain around the time of surgery
- to enumerate associations of pre-surgical depression/anxiety and surgical outcomes
COVID RESPONSE: COVID Rapid Evidence Study of a Provincial Population based cOhort for geNder and SEx; Results from a Population Based Survey
Presenters: Dr. Lori Brotto, Dr. Gina Ogilvie, Dr. Angela Kaida, Dr. Liisa Galea, Dr. Manish Sadarangani
Learning Objectives:
Survey data from 5000+ British Columbians will be presented, including:
- Impact of pandemic controls on mental health
- Intention to receive COVID-19 vaccinations
- Economic impacts of pandemic control, including impact on income, housing, and food security
- Impact of pandemic controls on reproductive health and access to contraception outcomes
Current dispensing and practice use patterns of ulipristal acetate (UPA) 30mg (Ella®) as emergency contraception in British Columbia
Presenter: Dr. Michelle Chan
Learning Objectives:
- ECElla: What did we do, what did we find
- What did we learn
- Knowledge translation and next steps
The experience of women and health care providers in assessing history of gender-based violence during perinatal care
Presenters: Drs. Jila Mirlashari, Ann Pederson, Lori Brotto, & Janet Lyons
- Learning Objective:
To investigate the experience of women and health care providers regarding their views on the advantages and disadvantages of assessing for the presence of Gender-Based Violence during perinatal care
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on trainees engaged in women’s health research in British Columbia
Presenter: Dr. Angela Kaida
Learning objectives:
- To learn about how COVID-19 has yielded significant disruptions to trainees’ academic, research, professional, and personal lives
- To explore trainee-led recommendations for institutional and supervisor supports
- To discuss what we can do as stakeholders in trainee success, to ameliorate impacts in the short and longer term
Self-Care Interventions for Health
Presenter: Dr. Manjulaa Narasimhan
Learning Objectives:
- WHO terminology of self-care and self-care interventions
- Key elements of WHO’s conceptual framework for self-care interventions for health
- Self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health as additional options when facility-based provision of services is disrupted
Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Wellbeing in British Columbia: Preliminary Results from a Qualitative Study
Presenter: Dr. Julia Smith
Learning Objectives:
- To explore the intersections between COVID-19 as a health crisis and the broader socio-economic determinants of women’s wellbeing
- To discuss how COVID-19 is particularly impacting women healthcare workers
- To apply gender-based analysis to policy responses to date
Women focused digital health research: Conducting digital research and case study presentation of a digital health research project
Presenters: Ciana Maher, Madison Lackie
Learning Objectives:
1. To discuss results of digital health scan and the barriers and facilitators identified in conducting digital health research
2. To learn how to incorporate patient-orientated research and user-centred design to create equitable digital health tools
3. To provide an overview of the development of a web-based resource for postpartum depression
A qualitative inquiry on pregnant and postpartum women’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
Presenter: Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour
Goals/Learning Objectives
- To learn about pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
- To identify ways in which healthcare providers can support pregnant and postpartum population during the pandemic
- To discuss the implications of these findings for practice
New mothers’ thoughts of infant-related harm: Relation to OCD and infant safety
Presenter: Dr. Nichole Fairbrother
Goals/Learning Objectives
- The nature and prevalence of new other’s thoughts of infant-related harm
- The nature and prevalance of postpartum-presenting OCD
- The relation of new mothers’ thoughts of infant-related harm and OCD with infant safety
Mindfulness: Practice and results of a clinical trial in women’s health
Presenter: Dr. Lori Brotto
Goals/Learning Objectives
- Learn about a clinical trial evaluating mindfulness versus cognitive behaviour therapy for provoked vestibulodynia
- Learn about a social media knowledge translation campaign designed to disseminate the research to women
- Be exposed to some of the mindfulness skills participants in the trial practiced