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Weekly Bulletin Archive Check out the Department of Pediatrics past Weekly Bulletins on our website by pressing here. |
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Featured Publications
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- A longitudinal seroepidemiology study to evaluate antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 virus infection and vaccination in children in Calgary, Canada from July 2020 to April 2022: Alberta COVID-19 Childhood Cohort (AB3C) Study - Emily J. Doucette, Joslyn Gray, Kevin Fonseca, Carmen Charlton, Jamil N. Kanji, Graham Tipples, Susan Kuhn, Jessica Dunn, Payton Sayers, Nicola Symonds, Guosong Wu, Stephen B. Freedman, James D. Kellner
- Are We Consulting, Sharing Care, or Taking Over? A Conceptual Framework - Jose Pereira, Christopher Klinger, Hsien Seow, Denise Marshall, Leonie Herx
- COVID-19 vaccine confidence, concerns, and uptake in children aged 5 and older in Calgary, Alberta: a longitudinal cohort study - Emily J Doucette, Leah Ricketson, Tarannum Tarannum, Isabella Alatorre, Joslyn Gray, Cora Constantinescu,Susan Kuhn, Jessica K E Dunn, James D Kellner
- Development and evaluation of virtual simulation games to increase the confidence and self-efficacy of healthcare learners in vaccine communication, advocacy, and promotion - Emily J. Doucette, Madison M. Fullerton, Margaret Pateman, Alyssa Lip, Sherilyn K. D. Houle, James D. Kellner, Jenine Leal, Shannon E. MacDonald, Deborah McNeil, Jane Tyerman, Marian Luctkar-Flude, Sandra Davidson & Cora Constantinescu
- Impacts of COVID-19 on mothers’ and newborns’ health outcomes in regional Canada: A cross-sectional analysis - Stefan Kurbatfinski, Aliyah Dosani, Carlos Fajardo, Alexander Cuncannon, Aliza Kassam, Abhay K. Lodha
- Mapping primary and generalist palliative care: Taking a closer look at the base of the pyramid - Jose Pereira, Leonie Herx, Jennifer Simoni, Christopher A Klinger
- Pediatric antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 after infection and vaccination in Calgary, Canada - Leah J. Ricketson, Emily J. Doucette, Isabella Alatorre, Tarannum Tarannum, Joslyn Gray, William Booth, Graham Tipples, Carmen Charlton, Jamil N. Kanji, Kevin Fonseca, James D. Kellner
- Prediction of post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation trajectory using a growth mixture model in preterm infants - Musiime GM, Mohammad K, Momin S, Kwong GPS, Riva-Cambrin J, Scott J, Zein H, Hendson L, Leijser LM
- Real-World Biomarkers for Pediatric Takayasu Arteritis - Lieselot Peremans, Marinka Twilt, Susanne M. Benseler, Silviu Grisaru, Adam Kirton, Kimberly A. Myers, Lorraine Hamiwka
- Real-world evidence of sotrovimab effectiveness for preventing severe outcomes in patients with COVID-19: A quality improvement propensity matched retrospective cohort study of a pan-provincial program in Alberta, Canada - Gregory Farmer, Khokan C. Sikdar, TKT Lo, John Conly, Jeremy Slobodan, Jordan Ross, Samantha James, Hussain Usman, Kyle Kemp, Kristi Baker, Karen Doucette, Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, Lynora M. Saxinger, A. Mark Joffe
- "You can push these conversations, but don’t push your patient away”: healthcare learner perspectives on virtual simulation games as an educational approach to address vaccine hesitancy - Emily J. Doucette, Margaret Pateman, Madison M. Fullerton, Alyssa Lip, Sherilyn K. D. Houle, James D. Kellner, Jenine Leal, Shannon E. MacDonald, Deborah McNeil, Sandra Davidson, Cora Constantinescu
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New Overhead Rates for Industry-Funded Research Projects As of September 1, 2024, the overhead rate for industry-funded research projects will increase from 25% to 40% to reflect similar rates at comparable U15 institutions. Overhead rates for government and not-for-profit sector-funded research will remain at 25%. Industry-funded clinical trials and technical service agreements will remain the same. |
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New Mandatory Research Security Requirements for CIHR Project Grants
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has implemented mandatory research security requirements for the 2024 Fall Project Grant Competition. These requirements must be completed prior to submission of your application.
To ensure requirements are met, all nominated principal applicants MUST complete the following questionnaire prior to Monday, August 19, 2024. The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.
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Grant Basics: How to submit your research grant
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Location via Zoom
Planning to submit a research grant this fall? This short webinar will help you (and your staff) submit your research grant application without a hitch. Members of the CSM Grant Development team will remain on the line following the presentation to answer your questions.
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Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation commits $9.9M to support the next chapter of Owerko Centre The Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation (ACHF) has committed $9.9 million to see the Owerko Centre — a multi-faculty research collaboration in neurodevelopment and child mental health — through its next phase of growth and development. A generous $10-million gift from Stan and Marge Owerko to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation led to the creation of the Owerko Centre in 2015. |
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WCHRI Research Cluster: Realizing Healthier Pregnancies Presentation Wednesday, August 7, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Location via Zoom The Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Realizing Healthier Pregnancy Research Cluster welcomes the participation of all pregnancy researchers to discuss Indigenous wellness and community care approaches focusing on rural and remote care. Contact WCHRI Grants [email protected] to present your pregnancy research. |
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One Child Every Child Trainee Competitions Consultation All researchers affiliated with UCalgary are invited to participate in a consultation session on Thursday, September 5, 2024, from 2:00 – 3:30 PM via Zoom, for the One Child Every Child (OCEC) Trainee Excellence Awards Competitions. There is more than $1 million available for OCEC Trainee Awards in 2024/2025. This session offers an opportunity to provide feedback on the draft Terms of Reference and application criteria, as well as to engage with the Transdisciplinary Training Accelerator Co-Leaders, who will facilitate the competitions. The awards categories include:
- Indigenous Community-Based Excellence Award
- Inclusive Excellence Awards
- Graduate Future Leader Awards
- Postdoctoral Future Leader Awards
- Program-Based Clinical Transformative Excellence Awards
- Graduate Transformative Learning Internship Awards
Questions? Email the OCEC Transdisciplinary Training Accelerator team at [email protected]. |
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The ACHRI & OCEC Research Retreat
The Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) & One Child Every Child (OCEC) Research Retreat on Thursday, November 21, and Friday, November 22, 2024, at MacEwan Hall in the University of Calgary.
This in-person event will focus on our collaborative work on child health and wellness research priorities within ACHRI and the One Child Every Child initiative. The retreat will feature keynote presentations, interactive working sessions, trainee presentations and the ACHRI annual general meeting.
Planning is underway with more details to come.
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The 2024 Peter Lougheed Research Award Competition The Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) welcomes applications for The 2024 Peter Lougheed Research Award Competition. Funds will benefit excellence in health research in Alberta, by providing salary and research support to exceptional young researchers thereby encouraging them to continue their career in the province. This competition is opened to all junior investigators with primary appointments (or to be recruited to a primary appointment) in the CSM. A Junior Investigator (researcher early career) as defined by Tri-Council (CIHR) is a researcher within five years of the date of their first independent research-related appointment (see here for exceptions). Amount: up to $64 750 for one year Deadline for submission to the Office of the Associate Dean of Research: Wednesday, September 4, 2024 |
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E.coli Outbreak Food Safety and Licensed Facility-Based Child Care Review Panel
Please take a moment to view the Government of Alberta's press release and final report on food safety and the daycare E.coli outbreak via the button below.
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Thank you to Dr. James Kellner who was on the review panel. The panel was tasked with reviewing food safety in licensed child-care facilities and the kitchens that serve them.
There have been exceptional efforts recognized on page 8 of the report, by the physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers and staff at the Alberta Children's Hospital, Peter Lougheed Centre, South Health Campus, and Alberta Precision Laboratories Public Health Laboratory (ProvLAb)!
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Spring 2024 CIHR Project Grant Competition
Dr. Maria J Santana is one of the CSM Project Grant Awardees! CSM faculty members were awarded 19 full grants and 4 priority announcement grants as nominated principal applicants, worth a total of $15.2M.
You can view the full Spring 2024 Project Grant results on Canadian Institutes of Health Research's website.
Congratulations Dr. Santana!
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Listeria Outbreak
An outbreak of Listeria that is linked to various Silk and Great Value plant-based refrigerated beverages has been declared at a national level by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
While healthy individuals can fall ill from a Listeria infection, the disease can be fatal for unborn babies, newborns, individuals over age 60, and those with weakened immune systems.
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Calgary Zone Pediatric Referral Information
Please view the Calgary Zone Pediatric Referral Information - Urgent, Acute and Routine Referrals via the button below.
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Opportunities to Attend Optimization Training
Please view Connect Care's CMIO Optimization August Newsletter for upcoming classes in August via the button below.
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Develop Your Podcaster Potential
We’re launching a Department of Pediatrics podcast with the Pediatric Resident Training Program and seeking department members to mentor and co-host episodes with senior residents.
This podcast will highlight fascinating stories and groundbreaking work in our department, exploring diverse career paths in pediatrics and spotlighting colleagues who deserve more recognition.
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| If you’d like to help showcase our colleagues and their contributions, please send an email to [email protected]. |
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UCalgary Profiles
The University of Calgary (UCalgary) has created a new central web profile system! The great news is as a member/faculty you can access your own web profile and update it as needed – this profile is like your very own mini-website where you can share your contact information and highlight your research, teaching, biography, awards, etc.
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| Getting started: If you have a UCalgary email, simply login to https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/user
If you do not have a UCalgary email, we can set up your profile using your AHS email! Please send an email to [email protected] or [email protected]. Please note that all ACHRI member profiles have been unpublished and all ACHRI members have been notified. We will only use UCalgary profiles moving forward. |
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| Have news or content that you would like to be featured? Please send us an email at [email protected] by Tuesday at 11:00 AM for it to be included in that week's issue or the appropriate week's feature. Learn more about each week's themes here. |
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For all events, please visit the Department of Pediatrics
calendar
All events are in MST (Mountain Standard Time), unless otherwise stated
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| ACHRI/Owerko Summer Student Research Symposium 2024 Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Location(s): Clara Christie Theatre, Health Sciences Centre & HRIC Atrium, Health Research Innovation Centre
This symposium provides a great opportunity for young researchers to share the amazing summer research projects they have been working on! The ACHRITA (Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute Trainee Association) organizing committee is seeking graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and clinical fellows to review abstracts and serve as judges. Judges evaluate student presentations during dedicated sessions:
- 9:20 – 10:50 AM – Oral Presentations
- 12:05 – 2:15 PM – Poster Presentations
- 2:15 – 3:45 PM – Elevator Pitch Presentations
Register here to serve as a reviewer and/or judge Judges are not required to attend the entire symposium – of course, we would be pleased if you do wish to attend. When you register, please indicate if you will be joining us for lunch. If you have any questions, please contact Education Co-Directors Anamika and Aliza. |
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Youth: A Workshop for Pediatricians and Mental Health Therapists Friday, October 4, 2024 | 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Blue Room at the University of Calgary The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education has developed this workshop in partnership with the Tourette OCD Alberta Network, a registered charity. This workshop is approved by The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) for continuing professional development credits. The workshop will feature three experts in the treatment of these conditions, child psychiatrists Dr. Paul Arnold and Dr. Iliana Ortega, and psychologist Dr. Felicity Sapp. |
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| Darwish Symposium 2025 Thursday, February 27, 2024 | 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM Location: Kinsmen Learning Centre Auditorium, 4th Floor Alberta Children’s Hospital The Darwish Symposium is an annual event. This year's theme is Neuro-Oncology. It is an important topic in the specialized field of medicine. This event is open to everyone interested in neurology, oncology and dermatology. Dr. Khakoo will be presenting at the Paediatric Grand Rounds on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 8:30 - 9:30 AM with the topic: Emergencies in pediatric neuro-oncology: new agents, new challenges |
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| Click on the following positions for complete posting details
Deputy Department Head - Clinical Affairs
- FTE 0.15
- Type: Part-time
- Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
- Application Deadline: September 9, 2024
Newborn Critical Care Site Lead
- FTE 0.1
- Type: Part-time Practice
- Location: Rockyview General Hospital
- Start Date: September 1, 2024
- Application Deadline: September 30, 2024 (posting has been extended)
Pediatrician Locum for Eating Disorders Inpatients
- FTE 0.25
- Type: Long-term Locum
- Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
- Start Date: September 1, 2024
- Application Deadline: August 12, 2024 (posting has been extended)
Pediatric Sleep Physician
- FTE 1.0
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
- Start Date: July 1, 2024
- Application Deadline: August 12, 2024 (posting has been extended)
Pediatrician Locum, October Start for Eating Disorders Inpatients
- FTE 0.25
- Type: Long-term Locum
- Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
- Start Date: October 1, 2024
- Application Deadline: August 12, 2024 (posting has been extended)
Adolescent Medicine Specialist
- FTE 1.0
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
- Start Date: July 1, 2025
- Application Deadline: August 19, 2024
Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Associate Locum
- FTE 0.5
- Type: Long-term Locum
- Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
- Application Deadline: August 30, 2024
Pediatric Endocrinologist
- FTE 1.0
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
- Start Date: January 1, 2025
- Application Deadline: September 1, 2024
Medical Geneticist
- FTE 0.50
- Type: Long-term Locum
- Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
- Application Deadline: September 9, 2024 (posting has been extended)
Newborn Critical Care Clinical Associate
- FTE: 1.0 (may be filled by more than one physician)
- Type: Part-time
- Location: Foothills Medical Centre and all other NICU sites
- Application Deadline: Open until a suitable candidate is found
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Explore these other job boards for more current opportunities with our department, the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services below. |
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