Preliminary Program
The conference will take place on Concordia's Loyola campus.
May 21, 2026
| Time | Activity | Speaker | Location |
| 8:00 - 8:45 a.m. | Registration and coffee | SP S110 | |
| 8:45 - 9:00 a.m. | Opening remarks | SP S110 | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. | Keynote talk | Rabia Khan, PhD Founder and CEO of Serna Bio |
SP S110 |
| 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. | Introduction to Indigenous Health | ||
| 10:20 - 10:45 a.m. | Break | Loyola Chapel | |
| 10:45 - 11:45 a.m. | Poster Session 1 (even numbers) | Loyola Chapel | |
| 11:45 - 12:45 p.m. | Poster Session 2 (odd numbers) | Loyola Chapel | |
| 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | Loyola Chapel | |
| 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. | Breakout sessions: |
RF - Loyola Jesuit Hall | |
A. Biomedical Science and Engineering Research |
Moderators: Christine DeWolf (CHEM) & Paula Lago (ECE) |
RF 110 | |
| 2:00 - 2:25 p.m. | Towards the Co-Existence of Robots and Humans | Christopher Yee Wong | |
| 2:25 - 2:50 p.m. | Decoding the Molecular Pore: Function, Structure and Antiviral Discovery Against Plus-Strand RNA Viruses | Anan Chen | |
| 2:50 - 3:15 p.m. | From sensors to signatures: making wearable movement technologies meaningful for health | Karina Lebel | |
| 3:15 - 3:45 p.m. | The Wonderful and Wacky World of Snot: Multiscale Molecular Modelling of Mucin Proteins and their Applications | Natalya Watson | |
B. Clinical Research and Prevention |
Moderators: Elizabeth Teel (HKAP) & Patricia Comeau (CME) |
RF 120 | |
| 2:00 - 2:20 p.m. | Transforming Drug Delivery Systems into Blood Diagnostics | Simon Matoori | |
| 2:20 - 2:40 p.m. | From Trial to Practice: Treating parent ADHD to improve outcomes for children | Joyce Lui | |
| 2:40 - 3:00 p.m. | Airborne Infection Transmission in Buildings: From Aerosol Dispersion Patterns to Risk Quantification Informed by Outbreak Evidence and Epidemic Dynamics | Fariborz Haghighat / Ali Asghar Sedighi | |
| 3:00 - 3:20 p.m | RecA deletion prevents the evolution of effective nitrofurantoin resistance | Laura Dominguez | |
| 3:20 - 3:40 p.m | Understanding the psychosocial health consequences related to behavioral weight management interventions for pediatric overweight and obesity | Juliette Lemay & Sabrina Sacco | |
| 3:40 - 4:00 p.m | TBD | Carrie Martin & Shirley Pien-Berube | |
C. Community Health Research |
Moderators: Cynthia Bruce (CATS) & Panagiotis Margaris (ECON) |
RF 130 | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. | Considering Accessibility in Health Professions Education | Cynthia Bruce | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Together We Tip the Scale: Social Norms and Body Mass | Panagiotis Margaris | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Attending to dignity and resistance in practice working with children, youth and other humans. | Catherine Richardson | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. | The COVID-19 Retirement Surge: Health Risk and Earnings Heterogeneity | Altynai Pankratov | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Awards: Networking Event & Reception | Loyola Chapel |
