Program

Day 1 – Thursday September 22, 2011
Train Canada / Ottawa Convention Centre

Registration starts at 8:00

8:30 – 11:30
Ottawa Convention Centre

• Special open door session on health data
  Discover the range of databases and health surveys at Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health information (CIHI), learn about what’s available, access options, and related products.

8:30 – 11:30
Workshops

• Introduction to using the Canadian Health Measures Survey data
  (Ottawa Convention Centre)
  
• Introduction to health survey micro-data
  (Train Canada)
  
• Analysis of health survey micro-data
  English (with bilingual presenters and hand-outs) (Train Canada)

Ottawa Convention Centre – 55 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario

12:15 to 12:45

• Posters presentations

12:45 – 1:00

• Opening remarks

1:00 – 2:10

• Opening plenary: "Bringing to Bear the Health Data We Produce"
  Dr.David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer

2:10 – 3:20

• 3 concurrent sessions

1A: Health Behaviours

• Engagement in high risk behaviours among street-involved youth in comparison to general population peers
  Jelena Ivanovic, Surveillance Data Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada
  
  
• Characteristics of vitamin D supplement users in Canada
  Kellie A Langlois, Research Analyst, Statistics Canada
  
  
• Food and nutrition surveillance: a critical tool for policy and program decision making
  Michelle Hooper, A/Manager, Food and Nutrition Surveillance, Health Canada
  
  

1B: Community Health Planning and Assessment

• Partnering with communities using community level data to progress community health planning
  Stacy Greening, Director, Community and Rural Planning, Alberta Health Services
  
  
• Community Health Assessment: Working Together for Better Data to Inform Decisions
  Heather Sparling, Health System Development Consultant, Manitoba Health
  Ales Morga, Community Health Assessment Coordinator, South Eastman Health
  
  
• Turning Data into Information: The Baseline Diabetes Dataset Initiative
  Joshua Lawson, Partner, Secor Consulting

1C: Social Determinants of Health

• Socioeconomic Determinants of Mortality in Canada
  Andrea Long, A/Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health Agency of Canada
  
  
• The contribution of individual income and neighbourhood material and social deprivation to mortality: A 22-year follow-up (1982 – 2004) of more than 500,000 Ontario residents
  Lisa Oliver, Analyst, Statistics Canada
  
  
• Declines in Distress
  Emily Maddocks, Senior Analyst, Canadian Institute for Health Information

3:20 – 3:50

• Posters viewing and break

3:50 – 5:00

• 3 concurrent sessions

2A: Health Surveillance

• Hypertension in Canada: A Comparison of Estimates and Data Sources
  Cynthia Robitaille, Epidemiologist, Public Health Agency of Canada
  
  
• Incidence trends in Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-related and HPV-unrelated oral cancers in Canada, 1992–2007
  Tonia Forte, Research Associate, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
  
  
• Statistical estimates of admissions attributable to seasonal and pandemic influenza for Canada
  Dena Schanzer, Senior Statistician, Public Health Agency of Canada

2B: Mental Health

• 30-day Readmissions Rate for mental illnesses, an indicator of coordination and continuity of services for selecting mental illness
  Yue You, Senior Analyst, Canadian Institute for Health Information
  
  
• Self-injury in Canada
  Carolyn Sandoval, Project Lead, Canadian Institute for Health Information
  
  
• Child and adolescent emergency department presentations for self-harm
  Jennifer Bethell, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

2C: Innovative Methods

• Spatial methods for calculating ecological variables in Environmental Health Research
  Paul A. Peters, Technical Specialist, Statistics Canada
  
  
• Pushing Beyond Rurality as a Measure of Access: Integrating Geographic Information System (GIS) and Rurality in the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care (MOHLTC)
  Elsa Ho, Senior Health Analyst, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  
  
• Regional disparities in Canadian old-age mortality: A comparative study based on smoothed mortality surfaces and distributions of ages at death
  Robert Bourbeau, Professor, Department of Demography, University of Montreal

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Day 2 – Friday September 23, 2011
Ottawa Convention Centre

Ottawa Convention Centre – 55 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario

8:45 – 10:30

• Panel on record linkage

Manitoba Centre for Health Policy “Dressing for Success” ~ data poised for policy environments now and in the future
Dr. Patricia J. Martens
Professor, Faculty of Medicine
Director, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
University of Manitoba

Using linked health and health administrative data at the national level
Dr. Doug Manuel
Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Senior Medical Advisor, Statistics Canada

Linking Across Borders
Dr. George Kephart
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine
Dalhousie University

10:30 – 10:50

• Posters viewing and break

10:50 – 12:00

• 3 concurrent sessions

3A: Using Record Linkage in Health Research

• Diabetes and the risk of colorectal cancer in males and females: A population based retrospective cohort study
  Khokan C. Sikdar, Senior Biostatistician, Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information
  
  
• Validating Endoscopy Data Across Different Administrative Data Sources
  John Fleming, Research Associate, Alberta Health Services
  
  
• Episodes of Care for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  Jacqueline Quail, Researcher, Health Quality Council & University of Saskatchewan

3B: Measurement of Health and Economic Burden

• Work Absenteeism Due to a Chronic Disease
  Guy Lacroix, Professor, University Laval
  
  
• The Health and Economic Impacts of Screening for Colorectal Cancer – An application of the Cancer Risk Management Model
  Sharon Fung, Biostatistician, Analytics, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
  
  
• The Direct Economic Burden of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in Canada
  Olga Milliken, Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health Agency of Canada

3C: Primary Health Care

• Diabetes at a Glance - Physician practice profiling
  Jeff Campbell, Business Analyst, New Brunswick Department of Health
  
  
• Impact of Patient Enrolment Models on Laboratory Services Utilization
  Saad Rais, Methodologist, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  
  
• Building data and research capacity by improving the quality of Primary Health Care electronic medical records data in Canada
  Patricia Sullivan-Taylor, Manager, Primary Health Care Information, Canadian Institute for Health Information

12:00 – 1:15

• Lunch (sponsored by CIHI) plus Posters viewing

1:15 – 2:40

• 3 concurrent sessions

4A: Physical Measures

• Protocols and methods, quality control in the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) (Presented in French)
  Jennifer Patry-Parisien, Health Measures Specialist, Statistics Canada
  
  
• Persistent organic pollutants and insulin resistance
  Lee Grenon, MSc student, Simon Fraser University
  
  
• Determination of selected indoor air Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Canadian residence using a passive sampling and thermal desorption GC/MS method (Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry) – a pilot study
  Jiping Zhu, Research Scientist, Exposure and Biomonitoring Division, Health Canada
  
  
• Age and sex differences in hypertension awareness or blood pressure control among Canadian adults with hypertension: results from the Canadian Health Measures Survey
  Marianne Gee, Epidemiologist, Public Health Agency of Canada

4B: Innovative Tools

• Matching health and administrative data when you have access to neither (Presented in French)
  Arnaud Casteigts, PhD, University of Ottawa
  
  
• Training the minds of future researchers – Health Data in Academia
  Jennifer Marvin, Chair, Ontario Council University Libraries GeoPortal Health Data Committee, University of Guelph
  
  
• Health Surveillance: A Case Study of the Chronic Disease Informatics Monitoring System (CDIMS)
  Dr. Shawn O’Connor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
  
  
• Data Online Tool – An Evolving Source to Injury Data in British Columbia
  Fahra Rajabali, Researcher, BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit

4C: Health System Performance

• Examining caesarean section rates among term vertex deliveries in British Columbia using the Robson classification
  Brooke Kinniburgh, Epidemiologist, Perinatal Services BC
  
  
• Driving Performance Through Data: A Strategic Healthcare Collaboration
  Isabel Tsui, Manager CAD-NACRS, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
  Stacey Colameco, Manager Data Quality, Health System Funding Policy Branch, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLT)
  
  
• Unleashing the power of data: Examples from the front-lines
  Daniella Sutton, Clinical Liaison, ER Information, Access to Care, Cancer Care Ontario
  
  
• Using data from the Canadian Organ Replacement Registry, the Discharge Abstract Database, and the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System for patient based planning and funding of chronic kidney disease in Ontario
  Graham Woodward, Director, Planning, Reporting and Evaluation, Ontario Renal Network (ORN)

2:40 – 3:00

• Posters viewing and break

3:00 – 4:00

• Final plenary: "The Transformative Trends That Will REALLY Define Our Future"
  Jim Carroll, Futurist, trend innovation expert

4:00 – 4:15

• Closing remarks