CMA Health Summit Series
Date: Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 pm, EST
Location: Online
There is an urgent need to stabilize the health care system – as well as growing calls for its transformation. Solutions are not in short supply. But getting from now to next depends on bold choices.
The CMA is hosting a series of events to tackle those choices, bringing together physicians with other health stakeholders for candid debate.
With federal, provincial and territorial Health Ministers set to meet in November, our first event will focus on how to pay for better health care in the short and long term, and how to ensure accountability for the results.
CMA President Dr. Alika Lafontaine will host a panel featuring:
Christy Clark, former premier of British Columbia
Christy led Canada’s third largest province from 2011 to 2017. Throughout her term, she demonstrated strong economic growth, fiscal management and job creation. Christy retired in 2017 as the longest serving female premier in Canada and the only female Canadian premier to be re-elected.
Today, Christy is a senior advisor at Bennett Jones LLP in Vancouver. She also chairs, advises, and directs several non-profit and corporate boards. In 2018, she was recognized by the Women’s Executive Network as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and was inducted into their Hall of Fame.
Chantal Hébert, political raconteur/columnist
Chantal is a veteran journalist whose work appears in The Toronto Star and the magazine L’Actualité. She is part of CBC The National’s weekly political panel “At Issue.” And she is the author of two books: The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was, with Quebec broadcaster Jean Lapierre, and French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date.
Chantal is currently a Senior Fellow with Massey College at the University of Toronto and holds honourary degrees from a dozen Canadian universities. In 2012, she was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2019, her Parliamentary Press Gallery peers awarded her the Charles Lynch Award for long-standing coverage of national issues.
Stephen McNeil, former premier of Nova Scotia
Stephen served two terms as premier of Nova Scotia, from 2013 to 2021, before retiring from provincial politics. His government passed five consecutive balanced budgets and led the province through the COVID-19 pandemic. He also served as the dean of Canadian premiers during this time.
A former small business owner, Stephen spent 18 years as an elected official, representing the riding of Annapolis. He was leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party from 2007 to 2021. Stephen is currently a strategic business advisor in Halifax with law firm Cox & Palmer.
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The 14th Annual Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology
The 14th Annual Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology: (COPHy) taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, March 24-25, 2023.
Date: March 24- 25, 2023
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
The great success of the previous COPHy Congresses, held across Europe in Prague, Barcelona, Istanbul, Budapest, Lisbon, Sorrento, Warsaw, Madrid, Athens and Dublin as well as the enthusiastic feedback received from the most recent virtual congresses, confirmed the need for proceeding with the 14th edition of this dynamic Congresses.
COPHy in Lisbon will follow the theme of our previous congresses and will be devoted to evidence-based debates and discussions amongst session moderators, speakers and the audience, all of whom will examine and analyze the most relevant and controversial issues within the field of ophthalmology. This educational Congress will continue to discuss controversies in retina, as well as other areas of ophthalmology, such as neuro-ophthalmology and uveitis.
Allowing ample time for speaker-audience discussion, the Congress aims at reaching up-to-date recommendations to ongoing debates even when data remains limited, through evidence-based medicine, including expert opinion. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in this vibrant meeting which will facilitate discussions on the shared experiences and opinions of leading local and international experts.
61st Annual Ophthalmology Update Walter Wright Symposium
Title: Walter Wright 20/20+2: Cornea, Anterior Segment and Refractive Surgery
Date: December 2nd – 3rd
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON
Guest Speakers: Drs. Anthony J. Aldave, James Chodosh, Sadeer B. Hannush, Carol L. Karp, Terry Kim, Christopher J. Rapuano, Elmer Tu, Stephanie Watson
This year’s Walter Wright program will showcase an exciting and relevant presentation of cornea, anterior segment and refractive surgery. Diagnostic and therapeutic tools for corneal disorders and recommendations on the diagnosis and management will be presented. We will take a closer look at infections and inflammation, keratoconus and ectasia, surgical cornea, ocular surface and limbal stem cell disease, cataract and anterior segment surgery and refractive surgery. We welcome an internationally recognized panel of speakers to share their knowledge and experience. With a combination of lectures and case presentations, this meeting promises to be a high yield, academically exciting conference. Aimed towards the comprehensive ophthalmologist, we look forward to having you join us.
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DOVS RESIDENT TEACHING – IN PERSON SESSION – Management of Scleritis: 2022 and Beyond AND Retinal Vasculitis: Diagnosis and Management
Date: Friday October 21, 2022
Time: 8:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Kensington Gardens – 45 Brunswick Ave., Toronto, M5S 3M3
*Please arrive early to perform at Rapid Antigen Test at the door, or you may perform one at home prior to arriving and take a date/time-stamped picture of your result*
Room: Multi-purpose Room
Topic: Management of Scleritis: 2022 and Beyond AND Retinal Vasculitis: Diagnosis and Management
Speaker: Dr. Quan Dong Nguyen
VPP DOVS GRAND ROUNDS – Top Five Commonly Made Mistakes in the Management of Uveitis
Date: Friday October 21, 2022
Time: 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
Topic: Top Five Commonly Made Mistakes in the Management of Uveitis
Speaker: Dr. Quan Dong Nguyen
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OBJECTIVES:
1. To present and discuss the principles employed in the diagnosis of uveitis
2. To recognize the importance of combination of laboratory testing and clinical judgement in the management of uveitis
3. To appreciate that non-uveitic entities can often masquerade as uveitic entities
DOVS CORNEA ROUNDS – Ocular Surface Disease: Medical Optimization and Surgical Interventions Part 2
Date: Thursday October 20, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Topic: Ocular Surface Disease: Medical Optimization and Surgical Interventions Part 2
Speakers: Drs. Mimouni, Trinh, Din, Chan, AlShaker
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OBJECTIVES:
1. Review Mackie classification of neurotrophic keratopathy
2. Discuss approach to contact-lens related and autoimmune stem cell disease
3. Discuss approach to corneal neovascularization 4. Discuss simple limbal epithelial transplantation (SLET) and use of amnion in Steven Johnson Syndrome
DOVS CORNEA VIDEO LEARNING SERIES – What Has DSO Only Taught Us
Date: Thursday November 10, 2022
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Topic: What Has DSO Only Taught Us
Speaker: Dr. Greg Moloney
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VPP DOVS GRAND ROUNDS – Updates in Neuro-Ophthalmology: Recent Findings That Will Change Your Practice Tomorrow
Date: Friday October 14, 2022
Time: 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
Topic: Updates in Neuro-Ophthalmology: Recent Findings That Will Change Your Practice Tomorrow
Speaker: Dr. Neil Miller
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Objectives:
1. To describe the differences in clinical presentation between idiopathic/MS-related optic neuritis and optic neuritis caused by anti-aquaporin 4 and anti-myelin oligodendrocyte antibodies and how these entities differ in management
2. To discuss the disorder known as chronic relapsing inflammatory neuropathy (CRION) and its most common cause
3. The optimum management of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension
DOVS CORNEA ROUNDS – Ocular Surface Disease: Medical Optimization and Surgical Interventions Part 1
Date: Thursday October 13, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Topic: Ocular Surface Disease: Medical Optimization and Surgical Interventions Part 1
Speakers: Drs. Chan, Gendler, Mimouni, AlShaker, Slomovic, Gouvea
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Objectives:
1. Review lid margin disease and management approach
2. Discuss toxic soup conjunctivitis
3. Discuss in-office therapies, use of blood products and dehydrated amnion