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CCASN Workshops/Scientific Meetings - 8th CCASN Scientific Meeting
Environmental & Nutritional Vulnerability
for Congenital Anomalies
November 17-19, 2010
Lord Elgin Hotel
Ottawa, Ontario
Program
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Meeting Chair |
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| Day 1: Wednesday, November 17 | Location | |
| 16:00 |
Business Meeting of the Communications & Scientific Meetings Working Group (CSMWG members only) |
Pearson Room |
| 17:00 | Business Meeting of the CCASN Advisory Group (Advisory Group members only) |
Pearson Room |
| 17:30 | Registration begins | Mezzanine |
| 18:00 | Welcome to participants and CCASN update Jane Evans, Chair, CCASN (Open to all) |
Pearson Room |
| 18:15 - 19:15 |
Keynote presentation (Open to all): Epidemiologic musings on nutrients, related-genes, and risks of human birth defects Gary Shaw, Stanford University, CA, USA |
Pearson Room |
| 19:15 - 20:00 |
Poster viewing & networking (Open to all) | Mezzanine |
| This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. It has been approved by the Canadian Paediatric Society for 13 credit hours and by the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors (CAGC) for 10.5 CECs. | ||
| Day 2: Thursday, November 18 / Location: Pearson Room | |
| 8:00 | Opening Remarks Government of Canada - Health Portfolio Officials Howard Morrison, Director, Science Integration Division Catherine McCourt, Director, Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division |
| Session 1: Maternal and Socio-Demographic Factors | |
| Moderator: Brian Lowry, Alberta Children’s Hospital, AB | |
| 08:15 | Maternal characteristics associated with gastroschisis Erik Skarsgard for CAPSNet, University of British Columbia, BC |
| 08:45 |
Maternal race/ethnicity and nativity as risk factors for congenital anomalies Russell Kirby, National Birth Defects Prevention Network, University of South Florida, FL, US |
| Session 2: Environmental Exposures | |
| Moderator: Laura Arbour, University of British Columbia, BC | |
| 09:30 | Current Canadian studies: Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals (MIREC) & Plastics and Personal-care Product use in Pregnancy (P4) Tye Arbuckle, Health Canada, ON |
| 10:15 | Poster Viewing and refreshments |
| 10:30 | Chlorination by-products in public drinking water supplies and birth defects Linda Dodds, IWK Health Centre, NS |
| Session 3: Abstract Communications: Oral Presentations and Posters | |
| Moderators: Julian Little and James Gomes, University of Ottawa, ON | |
| 11:00 | Birth prevalence of congenital heart disease in rural and urban Alberta, Canada: 2003-2007. Tanya Bedard, Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System, AB |
| 11:15 | Arthrogryposis and multiple congenital contractures: prevalence in Alberta, Canada and a proposal for new classification and coding systems. R. Brian Lowry, Alberta Children’s Hospital, AB |
| 11:30 | Food fortification and decline in the prevalence of neural tube defects: Does public intervention reduce the SES (Socioeconomic Status) gap in prevalence? Mohammad Agha, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, ON |
| 11:45 | Folate supplementation during pregnancy and lactation programs bone metabolism in mouse offspring. Jovana Kaludjerovic, University of Toronto, ON |
| 12:00 | Effect of folic acid intake on female reproductive outcomes across multiple generations. Amanda MacFarlane, Health Canada, ON |
| 12:15 | Synthesis of poster abstracts |
| 12:20 | Lunch & poster viewing |
| Session 4: Nutritional Deficiencies and Excesses | |
| Moderator: Aideen Moore, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, ON | |
| 13:30 | Nutritional deficiencies: Vitamin B12 & neural tube defects in Canada Joel Ray, St. Michael's Hospital, ON |
| 14:00 | Folate status of Canadians post folic acid fortification of the food supply: Too high for some? Debra O’Connor, Hospital for Sick Children, ON |
| 14:30 | Poster viewing and refreshments |
| 14:45 | A review of key micronutrients in pregnancy: Current evidence and concerns for congenital anomalies Joe Leigh Simpson, Florida International University, FL, USA |
| Session 5: Environmental, Nutritional and Genetic Interactions | |
| Moderator: Michiel Van den Hof, IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University, NS | |
| 15:30 | Genetic, nutrient & environmental determinants of congenital heart defects in Inuit children and their mothers Laura Arbour, University of British Columbia, BC |
| 16:15 | Pre-pregnancy obesity and risk for birth defects Sonja A Rasmussen, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), GA, USA |
| 17:00 | Closing remarks Jane Evans, Chair, CCASN |
| Day 3: Friday, November 19 / Location: Pearson Room | |
| Regional Reporting and Current Topics (open to all) | |
| Moderators: Jane Evans, University of Manitoba, MB & Juan Andrés León, Public Health Agency of Canada, ON |
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| 08:30 | Canadian Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System – Progress update Maternal & Infant Health Section, Public Health Agency of Canada, ON |
| 08:45 |
Program reporting from jurisdictions participating in congenital anomalies surveillance enhancement activities
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| 09:45 | Updates from other programs or jurisdictions
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| 10:15 | Break and refreshments |
| 10:30 | Current topics discussion: Privacy assessments and ethics approvals |
| 11:30 | CCASN involvement opportunities and possible working groups |
| 12:00 | Meeting adjourns |
| CCASN Business Meetings | |
| 12:05 | CCASN Working Lunch (offsite) |
| 13:00 | Business Meeting of the CCASN Surveillance Implementation Committee (IC) (IC members only) |
| 14:30 | Working meeting adjourns |
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