POPCORN Conference 2025
Conference Agenda:
You can find this year’s conference agenda and breakout sessions below.
You can find this year’s conference agenda and breakout sessions below.
| Time | Session | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 AM – 09:00 AM | Governance Committee Meeting (GC members only) | Eleni Galanis |
| 08:30 AM – 09:30 AM | Breakfast & Registration: Lobby | |
| 09:30 AM – 09:35 AM | Welcome/Opening Remarks | Caroline Quach-Thanh |
| 09:35 AM – 10:35 AM | Keynote: 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 (virtual) |
| 10:35 AM – 10:50 AM | POPCORN Updates | Caroline Quach-Thanh & Marianne Rufiange |
| 10:50 AM – 11:05 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 11:05 AM – 11:20 AM | Baseline Characteristics and Disease Severity in Acute COVID-19 Cases: A POPCORN Study | Carlee Feinstein |
| 11:20 AM – 11:35 AM | Perinatal Health Update | Isabelle Boucoiran |
| 11:35 AM – 11:50 PM | PICU Ventilation | Chatila Ibn Hadj Hassine |
| 11:50 PM – 12:05 PM | PRESTO Study | Des Pernica |
| 12:05 PM – 12:20 PM | SNaCCC Study | Rishi Ganesan |
| 12:20 PM – 01:00 PM | Lunch: Lobby | |
| 01:00 PM – 01:15 PM | AMR Surveillance Study | Manish Sadarangani |
| 01:15 PM – 01:30 PM | Upcoming Potential Projects: • BOBBie • RSV PIPELINE: A Potential POPCORN Trial |
Manish Sadarangani Shaun Morris |
| 01:30 PM – 02:00 PM | BUTTER & iCARE | Shelly Bolotin |
| 02:00 PM – 02:30 PM | Indirect Consequences Update | Nadia Roumeliotis & Matt Carwana |
| 02:30 PM – 03:15 PM | PE Training Project | Isra Amsdr, Cedar Davidson, Abby McCluskey, Bukola Ibitoye |
| 03:15 PM – 03:45 PM | The Building Blocks of Patient Engagement: What Makes Partnerships Work? | Sunny Dong & Carla Southward |
| 03:45 PM – 04:05 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 04:05 PM – 05:30 PM | Breakout Sessions (in-person only):
• PE & EDI+I & KM Meeting: Monville 1 • Data/Future Projects: Monville 2 • Coordinator Meeting: Lobby • Mental Health & Indirect Consequences: Bleury Room (2nd floor) |
Moderated by: Ananya Banerjee
Moderated by: Caroline Quach-Thanh Moderated by: Andrea Linares & Sarah Ahira Moderated by: Ève Pouliot, Nadia Roumeliotis & Matt Carwana |
| 05:30 PM – 07:30 PM | Cocktail Hour: Terrace |
| Time | Session | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 AM – 09:00 AM | Executive Committee Meeting (EC members only) – Bleury Room (Breakfast served in Bleury) | Caroline Quach-Thanh |
| 08:00 AM – 09:00 AM | Breakfast & Registration: Lobby | |
| 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM | Keynote: Impact of US on Public Health and Research in Canada | Pierre Gerlier Forest |
| 09:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Crowdsourcing Systematic Reviews: From Hackathon to Hackathon
Disparities in Care among children hospitalized with Bronchiolitis: A systematic Review |
Dayre McNally & Katie O’Hearn
Olivier Drouin & Tamara Perez |
| 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 PM | Mentorship Program | Jennifer Tam & Evelyn Constantin (virtual) |
| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Abstract Presentation Session
• Rachel Deulceux: Fragility and Resilience in Mental Health in Pandemic Situations: A Qualitative Study • Emma Boisvert: Patterns of acute care visits for lower respiratory tract infections in children across Canada • Eisha Arvikar & Shlok Panchal: The Prevalence of Hypertension and Blood Pressure Patterns in Canadian Children of South Asian Descent • Kalina Georgieva: Effects of Lifestyle Interventions on Pediatric Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis • Nardin Kirolos: Risk Factors for Severe Disease in Children Hospitalized with RSV-associated Acute Respiratory Infections in 2022/2023 • Peter Gill: Performance of the WHO SARI case definitions in hospitalized children and youth: cross-sectional study |
Moderated by: Jennifer Tam |
| 12:30 PM – 01:10 PM | Collaborations Around Pandemic Preparedness | Fahad Razak & Angela Crawley |
| 01:10 PM – 01:30 PM | Discussion – Next Steps for POPCORN | Caroline Quach-Thanh |
| 01:30 PM – 02:30 PM | Lunch: Lobby *Lunch can be taken to go* |
| Location | Session | Moderator | Attendees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monville 1 | PE & EDI+I & KM Meeting | Ananya Banerjee |
Abby McCluskey Ananya Banerjee Bukola Ibitoye Carla Southward Cedar Davidson Francine Buchanan Isra Amsdr Lisa Knisley Megan Bale-Nick Michelle Quinlan Olivier Drouin Sarah Mooney Sunny Dong |
| Monville 2 | Data/Future Projects | Caroline Quach-Thanh |
Ahmed Mater Angela Crawley Anupam Sehgal Brett Burstein Bruce Wright Bryan Griffin Carlee Feinstein Caroline Quach-Thanh Chatila Hassine Danny Farrar Dayre McNally Eleni Galanis Élise Fortin Elodie Portales-Casamar Fahad Razak Isabelle Boucoiran Jean-Luc Kaboré Jeannette Comeau Jeffrey Pernica Jennifer Tam Karin Kushniruk Katie O'Hearn Marc-André Langlois Marianne Rufiange Mamadou Diop Manish Sadarangani Pamela Thiell Patricia Fontela Peter Gill Pierre-Gerlier Forest Renee-Claude Lalande Rick Watts Rishi Ganesan Robyn Harrison Sandra Isabel Shelly Bolotin Yasmine Khelil Eisha Arvikar Shaun Morris Shlok Panchal Kalina Georgieva Nardin Kirolos |
| Lobby | Coordinator Meeting | Andrea Linares & Sarah Ahira |
Andrea Linares Candice McGahern Daniela Carvalho Davy Eng Jamie Corbett Zineb Laghdir Cydney Rimok Rim Nazar Srinidhi Srinivasan Sarah Ahira Tamara Perez |
| Bleury | Mental Health & Indirect Consequences Meeting | Ève Pouliot, Nadia Roumeliotis & Matt Carwana |
Baudouin Forgeot d'Arc Britt Udall Emma Boisvert Ève Pouliot Matthew Carwana Nadia Roumeliotis Melissa Braschel Sylvana Côté Quynh Doan Jesse Papenburg Rachel Deulceux Ankita Ankita |
