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POPCORN Conference 2025

The 2025 POPCORN conference was held in beautiful Montréal, QC at the Hôtel Monville in the heart of the Quartier international de Montréal, at the junction of Old Montréal and downtown.

Some key highlights from the 2025 conference are:

  • Two Keynotes:

    • How Did the UK Recruit Over 2 Million People to Pandemic Trials in the First 2 Years of the Pandemic? RECOVERY, Vaccine Trials, and More (Saul Faust)

    • Impact of US on Public Health and Research in Canada (Pierre Gerlier Forest)

  • Presentation on POPCORN Needs Assessment Results and Mentorship (Evelyn Constantin & Jennifer Tam)

  • Presentation on Upcoming Potential Projects:

    • Better Outcomes in Babies with Bacterial Meningitis, a randomized controlled trial (BOBBi) (Manish Sadarangani)

    • Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) PIPELINE: A Potential POPCORN Trial (Shaun Morris)

  • Presentation on the Patient Engagement (PE) Training Project (Isra Amsdr, Cedar Davidson,
    Abby McCluskey, Bukola Ibitoye)

  • POPCORN Updates and Next Steps

  • Presentations on:

    • Crowdsourcing Systematic Reviews: From Hackathon to Hackathon (Dayre McNally &
      Katie O’Hearn)

    • Disparities in Care Among Children Hospitalized with Bronchiolitis: A Systematic Review (Olivier Drouin & Tamara Perez)

Photos from the 2025 POPCORN Conference

The Impact of Coming Together & What People are Saying

Testimonials

Thanks for all the hard work done to build this platform and giving me an opportunity to grow with POPCORN.

Thank you to the amazing staff who organized the conference; they did an incredible job!

Thank you Sarah and team for the planning! Would not have been possible without you.

I loved being able to see the research and meet the faces behind the names. Really helps to understand the the scope of the work we do.

I enjoyed meeting people from across the POPCORN network!

The speakers were enthusiastic and there was a wide variety of topics covered.

The venue was great, networking was amazing.

I enjoyed the opportunity to meet and converse with others in the network, as well as the variety of topics presented and the diverse career stages of the presenters.

I enjoyed the variety of topics and collaborative approach, as well as the emphasis on patient partner engagement.