News & Events

DoM Research Evening 2023

• Atlantica Hotel Halifax - Commons Room

• November 23, 2023

• Speakers

  • Dr. Cynthia Kendell

  • Dr. Alexandra Legge

  • Dr. Nabha Shetty

Best Core Resident Presentation
Jasmine Mah
“Social vulnerability and frailty associations with mortality and long‐term care placement: 10 years of follow up of older Nova Scotians who accessed home care services” (podium)

Best Subspecialty Resident Presentation
Thomas Brothers
“Social and structural determinants of injection drug use‐associated bacterial and fungal infections: A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis” (podium)

Best Undergraduate Student Presentations
Julia Paffile
“The First Use of Artificial Intelligence in CPAP Therapy” (podium)

Dylan Cooper
“Patient Characteristics and Mortality in a Large Incremental Peritoneal Dialysis Cohort” (poster)

Best Graduate Student Presentation
Gabrielle Hanson
“Characterizing Cholinergic, Neuroinflammatory, and Neuropathological Changes in Brain Regions Related to Sleep in Neurodegenerative Disorders” (poster)

Best Research Fellow Presentation
Myles O’Brien
“Feasibility of a “Walk with a Future Doc” Program in a Rural Canadian Community” (poster)

Best Research Staff Presentation
Sharon Oldford
“SARS‐CoV‐2 Vaccine Immunity is High in COVID‐Recovered Long‐Term Care Residents and Altered by CMV infection” (poster)

Best Case Report Presentation
Alex Dittrich
“A Cavitary Conundrum” (poster)

People's Choice Awards

• • Podium (Tuesday)  
    Julia Paffile, Undergraduate
    "The First Use of Artificial Intelligence in CPAP Therapy"

  • Podium (Thursday) 
    Jasmine Mah, Core Resident
    "Social vulnerability and frailty associations with mortality and long‐term care placement: 10 years of follow up of older Nova Scotians who accessed home care services"

  • Posters (Thursday): 
    Jack Quach, Graduate Student
    "Unsupervised machine learning in frailty research: A scoping review"
    Laura Jimenez, Graduate Student
    "The role of pandemic income supplementation on the prevalence of food insecurity in Canada and the impact on the social gradient of food insecurity"