CAHNference 2023 Program
This year, for the second year in a row, CAHN is collaborating with the International Network on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU) to hold CAHNference 2023 adjacent to INHSU’s Intervention Implementation Symposia.
Friday, Sep 29, 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
INHSU Intervention Implementation Symposia
Friday, Sep 29, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT (INHSU & CAHN delegates are invited)
INHSU & CAHN Networking Event
Friday, Sep 29, 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
INHSU Intervention Implementation Symposia
- The format will be similar to 2022 with updated content. Topics are currently being planned. More information coming soon!
Friday, Sep 29, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT (INHSU & CAHN delegates are invited)
INHSU & CAHN Networking Event
Friday, Sep 29, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT (Included in paid registration for CAHN’s program)
CAHN Dinner & keynote speakers
19:30 - 20:00: Update to low-risk drinking guidelines 2023- where do we go from here? - Dr. Catherine Paradis - Canadian Centre for 20:00 - 20:30: Substance Use and Addiction, Ottawa ON
CAHN Dinner & keynote speakers
19:30 - 20:00: Update to low-risk drinking guidelines 2023- where do we go from here? - Dr. Catherine Paradis - Canadian Centre for 20:00 - 20:30: Substance Use and Addiction, Ottawa ON
- Stigma and Liver Disease/Update to low-risk drinking guidelines: a patient perspective - Ryan Juhasz
Saturday, Sep 30, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT
CAHN Program
8:00-8:05: Opening
What is the meaning of True Reconciliation?
8:05-8:30: What is the meaning of true reconciliation, A Perspective on True Reconciliation - Kacheena Naytowhow, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
8:30-8:55: A Perspective on True Reconciliation - Leonard Benoit, RN, University Health Network, Toronto ON
8:55-9:05: Q&A
Liver health in Indigenous populations
9:05-9:25: Viral Hepatitis: Thinking of the whole family - Kate Dunn, RN, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
9:25-9:45: Fatty Liver: metabolic disorders and nutrition from an Indigenous perspective – Speaker TBD
9:45-10:05: Autoimmune Liver Disease: opportunities to care for Indigenous communities across Canada - Dr. Surain Roberts, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON
10:05-10:10: Q&A
Provision of care in remote communities
10:10-10:40: Adopting strategies to engage communities - approach to liver disease - Bonnie Weasel Mocassin, RN, Blood Tribe Department of Health, Cardston, AB
10:40-10:55: Break
Structurally marginalized populations: Viral hepatitis screening and newcomers to Canada
10:55-11:20: Primary care lens: screening and linkage to care - Vanessa Wright, NP, Crossroads Clinic, Women's College Hospital, Toronto ON
11:20-11:35: Specialty lens: access to specialty care and treatment – Speaker TBD
11:35-11:50: Research lens: Quebec cascade of care - Ana Maria Passos de Castilho, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, QC
11:50-11:55: Panel discussions
Planetary health and liver health- what is the role of hepatology nurses?
11:55-12:15: Concepts of planetary health and priorities for liver nurses in Canada - Megan Tomlinson, RN, Positive Wellness North Island, Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, BC
12:15-12:35: Priorities for planetary health and liver nurses: a global perspective - Michelle Clayton, RN, British Liver Nurses Association, Leeds, United Kingdom
12:35-12:40: Panel discussions
12:40-13:25 Lunch
Cirrhosis Care
13:25-13:45: Barriers/successes of management of decompensated liver disease in rural communities – Speaker TBD
13:45-14:00: RN-led paracentesis model in an outpatient ambulatory liver clinic - Molly McDonald, RN, University Health Network, Toronto, ON Fatty Liver
14:00-14:05: Q&A
Models of hepatology nursing care: RN-led NAFLD clinics across Canada
14:05-14:20: The original RN-led NAFLD Clinic: 8 years later - Wendy Schaufert, RN, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
14:20-14:35: RN-led NAFLD Clinic: 1 year later - Carmen Fang, RN, University Health Network, Toronto, ON
14:35-14:50: RN-led NAFLD Clinic: community-based model - Fraser Jordan, RN, Positive Wellness North Island, Campbell River, Vancouver Island, BC
14:50-14:55 Q&A
14:55-15:15 Break
Fatty Liver
15:15-15:50: Weight loss strategies: conversations with your patient with fatty liver disease - Dr. Michael Vallis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
15:50-16:25: Pharmacological therapies for fatty liver - Dr. Jeffrey Habert, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
16:25-16:50: Lived experience with fatty liver disease – Speaker TBD
CAHN Program
8:00-8:05: Opening
What is the meaning of True Reconciliation?
8:05-8:30: What is the meaning of true reconciliation, A Perspective on True Reconciliation - Kacheena Naytowhow, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
8:30-8:55: A Perspective on True Reconciliation - Leonard Benoit, RN, University Health Network, Toronto ON
8:55-9:05: Q&A
Liver health in Indigenous populations
9:05-9:25: Viral Hepatitis: Thinking of the whole family - Kate Dunn, RN, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
9:25-9:45: Fatty Liver: metabolic disorders and nutrition from an Indigenous perspective – Speaker TBD
9:45-10:05: Autoimmune Liver Disease: opportunities to care for Indigenous communities across Canada - Dr. Surain Roberts, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON
10:05-10:10: Q&A
Provision of care in remote communities
10:10-10:40: Adopting strategies to engage communities - approach to liver disease - Bonnie Weasel Mocassin, RN, Blood Tribe Department of Health, Cardston, AB
10:40-10:55: Break
Structurally marginalized populations: Viral hepatitis screening and newcomers to Canada
10:55-11:20: Primary care lens: screening and linkage to care - Vanessa Wright, NP, Crossroads Clinic, Women's College Hospital, Toronto ON
11:20-11:35: Specialty lens: access to specialty care and treatment – Speaker TBD
11:35-11:50: Research lens: Quebec cascade of care - Ana Maria Passos de Castilho, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, QC
11:50-11:55: Panel discussions
Planetary health and liver health- what is the role of hepatology nurses?
11:55-12:15: Concepts of planetary health and priorities for liver nurses in Canada - Megan Tomlinson, RN, Positive Wellness North Island, Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, BC
12:15-12:35: Priorities for planetary health and liver nurses: a global perspective - Michelle Clayton, RN, British Liver Nurses Association, Leeds, United Kingdom
12:35-12:40: Panel discussions
12:40-13:25 Lunch
Cirrhosis Care
13:25-13:45: Barriers/successes of management of decompensated liver disease in rural communities – Speaker TBD
13:45-14:00: RN-led paracentesis model in an outpatient ambulatory liver clinic - Molly McDonald, RN, University Health Network, Toronto, ON Fatty Liver
14:00-14:05: Q&A
Models of hepatology nursing care: RN-led NAFLD clinics across Canada
14:05-14:20: The original RN-led NAFLD Clinic: 8 years later - Wendy Schaufert, RN, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
14:20-14:35: RN-led NAFLD Clinic: 1 year later - Carmen Fang, RN, University Health Network, Toronto, ON
14:35-14:50: RN-led NAFLD Clinic: community-based model - Fraser Jordan, RN, Positive Wellness North Island, Campbell River, Vancouver Island, BC
14:50-14:55 Q&A
14:55-15:15 Break
Fatty Liver
15:15-15:50: Weight loss strategies: conversations with your patient with fatty liver disease - Dr. Michael Vallis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
15:50-16:25: Pharmacological therapies for fatty liver - Dr. Jeffrey Habert, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
16:25-16:50: Lived experience with fatty liver disease – Speaker TBD
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