The two co-creators of Opal virtually presented the platform and its use during the COVID-19 pandemic in the ACFAS 2022 symposium: Enjeux de l’utilisation des technologies de l’information en santé en temps de COVID-19
On May 9th, 2022, the Quebec SmartCare Consortium held a stakeholder co-design workshop on patient-reported outcomes in Montreal. Consortium stakeholders representing patients, clinicians, researchers and industry partners participated in a very engaging day of activities in the form of interest-based negotiation.
Congratulations to Felix Mathew for an excellent and well-received oral presentation at the ImNeudos 2022 conference in Krakow, Poland. Felix presented his exploratory research project on using single-cell sequencing as a potential tool for biological radiation dosimetry. It generated chat about a fundamentally new way of doing biological dosimetry.
Felix’s talk was entitled “Using single-cell DNA sequencing as a dosimetric tool- An exploratory study”.
At the ImNeudos 2022 conference in Poland, John presented an overview of the Neutron-induced carcinogenic effects research program and the completed and ongoing work of our research team
Congratulations to James Manalad for his second post-COVID in-person conference presentation! James presented his MSc research project at the ImNeudos 2022 conference in Krakow, Poland.
Congratulations to James Manalad for his first post-COVID in-person conference presentation! James presented his poster entitled “On the Monte Carlo simulation of neutron-induced direct and indirect DNA damage to estimate neutron relative biological effectiveness”, which was the subject of his MSc project.
John Kildea and Tarek Hijal presented Opal and the Quebec SmartCare Consortium in an invited presentation at the Semaine NumériQC 2022 conference in Quebec City. John was present in person and Tarek presented virtually.
John Kildea and Kayla O’Sullivan-Steben presented the Quebec SmartCare Consortium project and the use of the mCODE data standard in Opal’s prototype radiotherapy menu to the monthly CodeX Community of Practice.
Congratulations to student Kayla O’Sullivan-Steben for winning the best visuals award at the symposium “Building Quebec’s Learning Health System together” organized by the Unité de soutien au système de santé apprenant (SSA) Québec!
The Laurie J. Hendren Scholarship is a scholarship that was created to honor the memory of Prof. Laurie Hendren who co-founded the Opal Health Informatics Group. Funding for two undergraduate students to work on projects related to the Opal patient portal is being offered by the Cedars Cancer Foundation.