For Researchers

Presentations:

1. Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder- Gina Schmidt, Katie Hooper & Gary Hotson;

2. An Inter-professional Approach to Developing a Breast Cancer Survivorship Care Plan - Janice Chobanuk;

3. Quality of Life in Patients w/Hemiglossectomy: Comparision of the EORTC QLQ-H & N35 and a Semi-Structured Interview - Irene Loewen;

4. Nicotine Withdrawal: An Under-treated Mental Health Disorder - Charl Els;

5. Toward Patient-centered Addictions Care in a Socio-economically Disadvantaged Urban Population: A Community-based Knowledge Translation Project - Ginetta Salvalaggio;

6. FASD, Secondary Disabilities and Improving Community Outcomes: 3C - Corrections and Connections to the Community - Sharon Brintnell;

7. A Tale of Two Cultures: Specialists and Generalists Sharing the Load - Donna Manca;

8. An Exploratory Study on Improving the Diagnosis and Management of Demential in Primary Care using an Innovative and Collaborative Approach - Jasneet Parmar;

9. Comparison of Mesh and Primary Repair of Paraesophageal Hernias - Cliff Sample;

10. Children's Mental Health Crisis & Addiction Services Pilot Project - Marie Rahe, April Nelson Siu, Mark Schmidt;

11. Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Oral Docusate in the Treatment / Presentation of Constipation in Hospice Patients - Yoko Tarumi;

12. End of Life Care, As Needed and Provided in Hospital - Donna Wilson, Amy Thurston;

13. Medication Management in Older Adults seen in Geriatric Outpatient Clinic at the Misericordia Hospital - Alexandra Marin;

14. Waiting in Hospital for Placement in a Nursing Home: Insights from Those Who Wait - Donna Wilson;

15. Communication Accessibility: Speech-Language Pathology Consulting Services in Seniors Health Edmonton Zone - Rhonda Kajner, Sophie Kollias;

16. The Dark Night Journey of the Dying: A Retrospective Phenomenological Study - Zinia Pritchard;

17. The Challenge of Doing Research in Mental Health Promotion/Prevention - Dianne Drummond;

18. Elder Abuse Prevention in Geriatric Psychiatry - Leslie Pisani.

Lightening Presentations & Posters:

1. Attitudes and Beliefs of Emergency Department Health Care Providers When Caring for Adults/Adolescents with Alcohol-related Presentations: A Systematic Review. – poster attended by Neelam Mabood and Hansen Zhou;

2. Children's Mental Health Crisis & Addiction Services Pilot Project - Marie Rahe; April Nelson Siu; Mark Schmidt

3. Clinical Research Coordination Core, WCHRI (Women and Children's Health Research Institute) – Shelley McKenna;

4. Communication Accessibility: Speech-Language Pathology Consulting Services in Seniors Health Edmonton Zone – poster attended by Rhonda Kajner, Sophie Kollias;

5. Development of a Patient-Centered Health Care Navigation Booklet for a Socioeconomically Disadvantaged, Addicted Population – Taryn Brown;

6. Health-related Quality of Life Over Time: Five-year Longitudinal Data from NARCOMS;

7. Implementing a Nutrition Med-Pass Program in an Acute Care Facility – Alice Lee;

8. Is it Valid and Reliable to Ask Patients w/Chronic Heart Failure Whether They are Supported by Their Family – poster attended by Mehri Karimi-Dehkordi;

9. Predictors of Length of Stay in the Acute Care Setting in Patients w/Dementia based on the Retrospective Chart Reviews of Patients w/Dementia Hospitalized on the Medicine Ward of the Misericordia Hospital – Stephen Lee;

10. Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Use of Neurofeedback for Children Anxiety and Affective Disorders: A Pilot Study – Marcia Buhler;

11. Screening and Primary Prevention in Primary Care in Patients with Co-morbid Depression: Evidence Review and Tool Identification for The BETTER Coalition – poster attended by Ginetta Salvalaggio;

12. Secure, Supported and Sustainable Data Collection, WCHRI – Rick Watts;

13. Variance in Health-related Quality of Life explained by Socio-Demographic and MS-related Factors: Data from NARCOMS;

"Improving Mental Health Practice - Sharing the Evidence"