John Kildea took part in a lively panel discussion on access to health data at the Effervescence 2024 conference at the Bonsecours Market in Montreal. The panel, moderated by Cécile Petigand discussed various aspects of health data access in research and clinical care.
Kelly Agnew and John Kildea participated in the 21k de Montréal and raised funds for the Laurie J Hendren scholarship fund at the Cedars Cancer Foundation. Both finished with faster times than in 2023!
In early April, Benoit Charbonneau, an undergraduate student in Computer Science at the Université de Sherbrooke completed his 3-month internship with the Opal Health Informatics Group. Benoit was a great addition to the team and we wish him the best for his remaining studies!
The Kildea lab was well represented at the COMP 2022 meeting in Quebec City.
We had two talks in the prestigious Young Investigators Symposium (Hossein Naseri and Kayla O’Sullivan-Steben), two of just ten students from across Canada.
We also had four posters on the floor - by Haley Patrick, Felix Mathew, James Manalad and John Kildea.
And, we were joined in Quebec by summer student Nicolas Desjardins-Proulx. Overall a great conference! We are looking forward to CARO-COMP in Montreal 2023!
Haley M. Patrick, Felix Mathew, and James Manalad each presented a poster on their reearch projects and John Kildea presented a poster on the CodeX accelerator.
Hossein and Kayla were among 10 finalists from across Canada presenting their PhD research projects in the Young Investigators Symposium.
Hossein presented his project on “Development and testing of an NLP and radiomics-based predictive model of pain for patients with thoracic spinal bone metastases”.
Kayla presented her project on “Design and implementation of a prototype radiotherapy menu in a patient portal to reduce patient anxiety and facilitate data sharing”.
John Kildea was interviewed by Tarah Schwartz on CJAD Radio and the Health Matters podcast about Opal and the benefits of giving patients access to their medical data.