North American Primary Care Research Group NAPCRG 2015
The 43RD North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Annual Meeting took place in Cancun, Mexico from October 24 – 28, 2015. The Department of Family Medicine and the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine were well represented.
At the conference, Dr. Moira Stewart co-led an International Forum: Think-Tank on Outcomes for Patient-Centered Interventions for Persons with Multimorbidity. The summary, by Stewart, was quoted by Domhnall MacAuley in the CMAJ Blog.
Forum
Martin Fortin, Moira Stewart, Elizabeth Bayliss, Maxime Sasseville, Paul Little, Stewart Mercer, John Furler, Marjan van den Akker, Susan Smith.
Think-Tank on Outcomes for Patient-Centered Interventions for Persons with Multimorbidity
Poster Presentations
Rachel Simmons, Jon Salsberg, Gillian Bartlett, Peter Nugus, Linda Stanley, Stewart Harris.
Community Knowledge Mobilization and the Community Readiness Model Tool: A Case Study of Diabetes in Selected First Nations Communities in Canada
Richard Birtwhistle, Richard Glazier, Michael Green, Simone Dahrouge, Eliot Frymire, David Barber, Michelle Greiver, Amanda Terry.
Linking Electronic Medical Records With Administrative Data: Diabetic Control and Hospital and Emergency Room Utilization
Richard Birtwhistle, Richard Glazier, Michael Green, Simone Dahrouge, Michelle Greiver, Amanda Terry, David Barber, Ken Martin, Eliot Frymire.
Lessons Learned in Linking an EMR With Health Administration Data: The Case of ICES and CPCSSN
Michelle Levy, Sudha Koppula, Judith Brown.
The Transition into Academia of New Family Medicine Faculty
Oral Presentations
Simone Dahrouge, Laura Muldoon, Roberta Heale, Michael Green, Joan Tranmer, Michelle Howard, Amy Mark, Monica Taljaard, Judith Brown, Sharon Johnston, Gina Agarwal.
Creating Meaningful Composite Scores for Primary Care
Judith Brown, Sonja Reichert, Susan Webster-Bogaert, Rosie Caruso, Stewart Harris
Living with Hypoglycemia: Patients’ Emotions, Hopes and Actions
Judith Brown, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Bridget Ryan, Luan Januzi, Bayero Boubacar Diallo, Tarek Bouhali, Moira Stewart, Martin Fortin.
Facets of Interventions Associated With Outcomes of Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Programs in Two Canadian Provinces: A Realist Synthesis
Conferences: Invited Speakers
WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors) 20th Europe Conference October 22-24, Istanbul
Dr. Tom Freeman was one of two invited panelists at the 20th WONCA Europe Conference October 22-24 in Istanbul. His invited presentation was on "Patient-Centeredness and Community-Centeredness − How to Deal with Diversity".
Dr. Moira Stewart gave an invited panel presentation on "Translational Research and Complexity of Care" at the 20th WONCA Europe Conference in Istanbul Turkey on October 23, 2015.
University of Toronto “Moving Forward with Behavioural Medicine: Teaching for the Future”
Judith Belle Brown, PhD was an invited plenary speaker at the “ Moving Forward with Behavioural Medicine:Teaching for the Future” one day conference hosted by the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine , Continuing Professional Development on October 30. Her presentation, “ What Helps Learners Become Patient-Centred? “given to over 100 teachers of behavioural medicine in family medicine examined the research evidence supporting this premise, as well as the powerful parallels between being patient-centered and learned-centered.
Announcements
As of November 1, 2015, Judith Belle Brown begins a two year elected term as the Vice Chair of the program committee for NAPCRG and serving on the board. The role includes planning for future meetings and meeting logistics.
