Expanding access to Evidence-based intervention for autism
Thursday, August 28, 2015
9:00am – 12:00pm
Consultation
For Community partners (closed)
With Connie Kasari University of California, Los Angeles
Our previous international consultation has highlighted significant barriers to the implementation and scalability of evidence based approaches in many communities, especially models emerging in the last decade. A recent report by INSESS (Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux) shows that the range of intervention approaches utilized in Quebec remains limited and suggests a disconnect form up to date research. Our local findings confirm that and many families currently do not have access to timely support, specialized or otherwise, which is at odds with Quebec’s vision for advanced, family-centred, and coordinated care for this population. The consultation will support exchange among leading researchers and service providers in our local community towards achieving this long term vision.
Engaging Autism in a community setting
Thursday, August 27, 2015
9:00am – 4:00pm
Professional Development Workshop
For Educators and school professionals
By Connie Kasari University of California, Los Angeles
A workshop for educators and in-school professionals in autism to promote integration of the best available evidence for social skills training within inclusive environments and special needs schools.
Translating Genomic Research into personalized medicine
Friday, June 12, 2015
9:00am – 10:00am
Medical Education
By Stephen Scherer Hospital for Sick Children (video conference)
The annual Medical Genetics Rounds on autism at the Montreal Children’s Hospital will host Dr. Stephen Scherer who will share advances in scientific discovery, and how these advances are impacting clinical care.
GENERAL PAEDIATRICS EVIDENCE-BASED ROUNDS ASD CONFERENCE
Friday, April 24, 2015
9:00am – 12:30pm
Medical Education
By Nathalie Garcin, Julie Scorah, and Mayada Elsabbagh
This medical education conference was hosted in partnership with the General Paediatrics Evidence-based Rounds. The conference presented relevant research and shared best practices that facilitate early identification of autism by community paediatricians and allied health workers.
AUTISM IN INDIA: RESEARCHING THE UNKNOWN
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
8:00am – 9:00am
Donald Cohen Childhood Autism Lecture
By Vikram Patel London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr. Vikram Patel delivered the Annual Donald Cohen Childhood Autism Lecture and the Montreal Children’s Hospital Pediatric Grand Rounds. He presented an overview of recent advances in autism research focused on developing and implementing low-cost intervention in low- and middle-income countries.
GLOBAL INNOVATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Café Scientifique (Open to the public)
With Vikram Patel
Global mental health is a relatively recent field focusing on the advancement of care delivery in regions with health or social inequities. Despite progress in this area, identification and treatment for mental health conditions and for developmental disorders remain a major challenge in most world communities. Dr. Vikram Patel, a pioneer in global mental health conversed with members of the public on emerging innovations in mental health globally. Joining the conversation was the Hon. Mike Lake, MP who shared his personal experience as the father of Jayden, who has autism.
GLOBAL IS LOCAL: WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO ADVANCE COMMUNITY-BASED MENTAL HEALTH GLOBALLY?
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
9:00am – 4:00pm
Expert Consultation
Experts in mental health discussed how to advance community-based implementation of mental health in a diverse setting. Our goal is to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on global mental health with models and experiences of diverse communities to identify future research, practice, and policy options.
GOLD-STANDARD DIAGNOSIS IN DIVERSE AND MULTICULTURAL SETTINGS
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
8:30am – 12:30pm
Professional Development Workshop
Workshop leaders: Catherine Lord, Rebecca Simon
This professional development workshop was designed for practitioners involved in the diagnosis of autism, including medical doctors, psychologists, and psychoeducators. The workshop focused on the use of gold-standard diagnostic tools in the Quebec community.
TREATMENT DEVELOPMENT AND OUTCOME IN AUTISM
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Research Lecture
By Catherine Lord from Weill Cornell Medical College
For Researchers and professionals.
Dr. Catherine Lord, Director of Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at Weill-Cornell Medical College, delivered a research seminar on treatment development and outcome in autism. The seminar was organized by the Division of Child Psychiatry and covered recent advances in research on intervention.
MONTREAL AUTISM IN MOTION CONFERENCE AND EXHIBIT
Sunday, March 22, 2015
8:00am - 4:00pm
The conference featured top international speakers including Simon Baron-Cohen, John Elder Robison, and Randy Lewis, who touched on a variety of topics of interest for the Autism community around the theme Human Diversity. The event also included a Café scientifique featuring community researchers.
LAUNCH OF THE 2014-15 DONALD COHEN SERIES WITH SPECIAL COMEDY EVENT
Friday, October 17, 2014
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Comedy Event
Michael McCreary, 18-year-old comic who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the age of five, is realizing his dream of becoming a stand-up comedian. Accompanied by his inspirational family, he is taking his show on the road and will be making a documentary about the trip. Michael will be interviewing families across Canada, highlighting their stories of positive experiences and messages of hope to help change the stereotype of autism. Their goal is to create a better understanding of autism by showing the diversity within the spectrum and help to create a united voice for families affected by ASD.
Are we delivering family-centred care for autism in Quebec? Lessons from the national Pathways study
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Café Scientifique
For ASD families, researchers, practitioners, and members of the public
Findings from the national Pathways study suggest that families affected by autism experience delays and difficulties in accessing and sustaining evidence-based care. Quebec lags behind all other provinces in delivering timely support around the period of diagnosis. In this community forum, we invited experts from public sector services to discuss these findings and to engage with members of the wider community in identifying necessary short and long-term policy transformation.
The PACT Social Communication Intervention for early Autism: Current Progress and Future Prospects
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
8:00am - 9:00am
2014 Donald Cohen Lecture & Montreal Children's Hospital Pediatrics Grand Rounds
By Jonathan Green, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Manchester & Honorary Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s Hospitals University NHS Trust.
For Health and social care professionals
The 2014 annual Donald Cohen Lecture was delivered by Dr. Jonathan Green, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Manchester and Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre. His research focuses on clinical trials of theoretically driven interventions for child mental
health. The aim of these is both to identify useful clinical interventions for practice and also to use clinical trials as a way of investigating basic science questions.
Pre-School Autism Communication Therapy (PACT)
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014
9:00am
Professional Development Workshop
By Jonathan Green and Carol Taylor
For Therapists working with 2- to 5-year-olds with ASD or clinical researchers
This workshop offered training opportunities for exceptional community professionals and trainees on the PACT early intervention model. PACT is an evidence-based social communication approach to working with the parents of children with autism. Read more about PACT
THE IMPACT of ADVANCES IN GENOMICS ON HEALTH CARE: WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - Sunday, March 8, 2014
10:00am
Second Consultation on Translation of Genomic Advances into Health Applications
By Mayada Elsabbagh, Stephen Scherer, Ilina Singh, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum & Margaret Spoelstra
For A group of 50 basic, clinical and social scientists, health practitioners, ethicists, economists and community stakeholders from the UK and Canada.
Building on a previous workshop held in Toronto in 2010, our consultation brought together experts from a range of disciplines. The consultation continued dialogue around health-systems and policy options that will support effective and ethically-sound translation of new scientific discoveries and rapidly evolving technologies for genetic analysis to be used in clinics and hospitals. Read the 2014 conference report here for more info.
