2024 NAPCRG Annual Meeting Schedule

The following outlines the schedule for the 52nd Annual Meeting happening November 20-November 24, 2024, at the Québec City Convention Center in Québec City, Quebec, Canada. Please check back frequently for any schedule updates.

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Poster Set up and Tear Down: Please refer to the schedule below for set up times.

  • Poster Session I (11/21): Before 9am
  • Poster Session II (11/22): Before 6:45am
  • Poster Session III (11/23): Before 1:00 pm
  • Poster Session IV (11/23): Between 4:15pm-5:00pm 

Please note, there are two poster sessions on Saturday, November 23rd. If your poster is in Poster Session IV, you will not be able to set up your poster until after 4:15 pm.

Need more information about posters? Check out our presenter information page here.

Looking for CME information? View it here!

All rooms are located in the Québec City Convention Center (QCCC)

Pre-conference Activities - Wednesday, November 20th

7:00am - 5:00pm
Registration
Location: QCCC Hall 2000
Closed for lunch: 1:30pm-3:00pm

8:00am - 12:00pm
PR01: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Bootcamp 2.0
Location: QCCC 205AB

  • Fee: $105
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to all.

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8:00am - 12:00pm
PR02: CASFM Research Methods: Unveiling the Mechanisms of Effect, A Workshop on Causal Mediation Analysis
Location: QCCC 2104AB

  • Fee: $105
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to all.

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10:00am - 2:00pm
PR03: NAPCRG Trainee Pre-conference: Strengthening Primary Care through an International Lens
Location: QCCC 206A

  • Fee: $0
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to trainees and mentors.

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1:00pm - 5:00pm
PR04: CASFM: The Nature of Data
Location: QCCC 2104AB

  • Fee: $105
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to all.

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1:00pm - 5:00pm
PR05: Patient/community engaged research: characteristics of the “Just Right Research Team”
Location: QCCC 205AB

  • Fee: $0
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to all.

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1:00pm - 5:00pm
PR06: How might we cultivate equity meta-governance? A Call-to-action for NAPCRG members
Location: QCCC 205C

  • Fee: $105
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to all.

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5:00pm - 5:45pm
New Member & First Time Attendee Orientation
Location: QCCC 206AB
Thank you to our partner of the New Member Orientation, the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Opening Social Reception
Location: QCCC Hall 2000

Cash bar! Canadian dollars & credit cards accepted.

Day 1 - Thursday, November 21st

6:30am - 5:00pm
Registration
Location: QCCC Hall 2000
Closed for lunch: 12:45pm-1:45pm

7:00am - 8:00 am
Breakfast (food provided)
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

7:00am - 8:00 am
Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

  • T01: Mid-Atlantic Research Consortium
  • T02: Homelessness
  • T03: Multimorbidity Special Interest Group
  • T06: Pediatric Sleep Medicine
  • T07: Organizational Participatory Research

Other open groups to join:

  • CASFM Practice-based Research Network Work Group Meeting
    Location: QCCC 204B
  • CASFM Medical Education Work Group Meeting
    Location: QCCC 205C
  • CASFM Complexity Science Work Group Meeting
    Location: QCCC 203

8:00am - 8:30am
Welcome and Business Meeting
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

8:30am - 9:30am
Plenary Session I
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

Rediscovering Joy in Primary Care
Presented by Iona Heath, CBE, FRCGP

9:30am - 10:30am
Poster Session I
Location: QCCC 200AB

This poster session focuses on research in the following categories: Acute, emergency, and outpatient care/ Community based participatory research, patient engaged research/ Acute Respiratory infections and other infections/ Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness/ Big Data/ Cancer research (not screening)/ Cardiovascular Disease/ Child and adolescent health/ COVID-19

Refreshment break in poster hall

Thank you to our Poster Session I Sponsor: Mayo Clinic

 

Stop by our Poster Session I Author Showcase featuring Patient-Centered Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method, 4th Edition. Authors: Stewart M, Brown JB, Weston WW, Freeman TR, Ryan BL, McWilliam CL, McWhinney IR

Stop by for the opportunity to speak with a few of the authors! Read about here!

10:30am - 10:45am
Transition Break
10:45am - 12:15pm
Concurrent Sessions
  • W05
    Location: QCCC 205AB
  • W10
    Location: QCCC 204B
  • W12
    Location: QCCC 2104AB
  • W15
    Location: QCCC 205C
  • W22
    Location: QCCC 206A
  • W24
    Location: QCCC 203
  • W25
    Location: QCCC 202
  • W36
    Location: QCCC 206B
  • OP: Acute respiratory infections and other infections
    Moderator: Richard Zimmerman, MD, MA, MPH, MSc
    Location: QCCC 2105
  • OP: Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness
    Moderator: Beth Barnet, MD
    Location:     QCCC 2101
  • OP: Community based participatory, patient engaged research
    Moderator: Dea Papajorgji-Taylor, MA, MPH
    Location: QCCC 201C
  • OP: Economic or policy analysis
    Moderator: Diane Harper, MPH, MS
    Location: QCCC 204A
  • OP: Education and Training
    Moderator: Lisa Graves, MD
    Location: QCCC 201B
  • OP: Geriatrics
    Moderator: Machelle Wilchesky, PhD
    Location: QCCC 207
  • OP: Health Care Disparities
    Moderator: Robert Post MD, MS
    Location: QCCC 2102AB

12:15pm - 1:30pm
Networking Lunch (food provided)
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

Open groups to join:

  • CASFM Health Information Technology Work Group Meeting
    Location: QCCC 203
  • CASFM Participatory Health Research Work Group Meeting
    Location: QCCC 205AB

1:45pm – 3:15pm
Concurrent Sessions

  • W07
    Location: QCCC 2104AB
  • W19
    Location: QCCC 205C
  • W20
    Location: QCCC 206B
  • W26
    Location: QCCC 206A
  • W28
    Location: QCCC 205AB
  • OP: Acute respiratory infections and other infections
    Moderator: Richard Zimmerman, MD, MA, MPH, MSc
    Location: QCCC 2105
  • OP: Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness                 
    Moderator: Nora Gimpel, MD
    Location: QCCC 2101
  • OP: Economic or policy analysis & Healthcare Services, Delivery, and Financing
    Moderator: Lenard Lesser, MD, MS
    Location: QCCC 204A
  • OP: Education and Training
    Moderator: Michael Hansen, MD, MPH, MS
    Location: QCCC 201B
  • OP: Geriatrics & Acute, emergency and outpatient care & Phillips Futures Fellowship Presentations
    Moderator: Ziyue Wang, MSc
    Location: QCCC 207
  • OP: Health Care Disparities
    Moderator: Sarah Gebauer, MD, MSPH
    Location: QCCC 2102AB
  • OP: Screening, prevention, and health promotion
    Moderator: Meryeme El Balqui, BSc, MSc
    Location: QCCC 201C

1:45pm – 4:45pm

  • F01
    Location: QCCC 204B
  • F02
    Location: QCCC 203
    *Presented in French
  • F03
    Location: QCCC 202

3:15pm - 3:30pm
Refreshment Break
Location: QCCC Hall 2000

3:30pm – 5:00pm
Concurrent Sessions

  • W14
    Location: QCCC 205C
  • W21
    Location: QCCC 206B
  • W30
    Location: QCCC 206A
  • W40
    Location: QCCC 205AB
  • W45
    Location: QCCC 2104AB
  • OP: Acute respiratory infections and other infections & Acute, emergency and outpatient care
    Moderator: Patricia Huston, MD, MPH
    Location: QCCC 2105
  • OP: Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness
    Moderator: Danielle Hessler Jones, PhD
    Location: QCCC 2101
  • OP: Distinguished Trainee Research Award Session
    Moderator: Alison Huffstetler, MD
    Location: QCCC 207
  • OP: Education and Training
    Moderator: Ashley Chisholm, PhD, MSc
    Location: QCCC 201B
  • OP: Health Care Disparities
    Moderator: Wyatt Bensken, PhD
    Location: QCCC 2102AB
  • OP: Screening, prevention, and health promotion
    Moderator: Diane Harper, MPH, MS
    Location: QCCC 201C
  • OP: Women's health
    Moderator: Karen Roper, PhD
    Location: QCCC 204A
6:00pm - 7:00 pm
Trainee Reception
Location: QCCC Foyer 2
  • Open to all students, residents, fellows and mentors
  • Cash bar - Canadian dollars or credit card only

6:00pm - 7:00pm
International Global Perspectives Reception
Location: Hilton Plaines

  • All attendees welcome
  • Cash bar - Canadian dollars or credit card only

Thank you to our partner for the International Reception, Frontiers in Medicine

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Grant Generating Project (GGP) Alumni Reception
Location: QCCC 2104AB

  • Open to all GGP Alumni

Day 2 - Friday, November 22nd

7:00am - 12:15pm
Registration
Location: QCCC Hall 2000

7:00am - 8:00am
Breakfast (food provided)
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

Poster Session II
Location: QCCC 200AB

This poster session focuses on research in the following categories: Diabetes and endocrine disease/ Dissemination and implementation research/ Economic or policy analysis/ Education and training/ Geriatrics/Women's Health

Thank you to our Poster Session II Sponsor: PASSERELLE

8:00am - 9:15am
Plenary Session II
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

Your Story - and how to tell it
Presented by Frances Sellers

9:15am - 9:30am
Transition Break
9:30am - 11:00am
Concurrent Sessions
  • W06
    Location: QCCC 206B
  • W16
    Location: QCCC 2104AB
  • W31
    Location: QCCC 206A
  • W41
    Location: QCCC 205AB
  • OP: Acute, emergency and outpatient care
    Moderator: Patricia Huston MD, MPH, CCFP, FCFP
    Location: QCCC 2105
  • OP: Cardiovascular disease
    Moderator: Meryeme El Balqui, BSc, MSc
    Location: QCCC 201B
  • OP: Education and Training
    Moderator: John Epling, MD, MSEd
    Location: QCCC 204A
  • OP: Health Care Disparities
    Moderator: Meredith Vanstone, PhD
    Location: QCCC 2102AB
  • OP: Healthcare Services, Delivery, and Financing
    Moderator: Lee Green, MD, MPH
    Location: QCCC 207
  • OP: Population health and epidemiology
    Moderator: Clare MacRae, MBChB
    Location: QCCC 2101
  • OP: Practice management and organization
    Moderator: Anne Gaglioti, MD, FAAFP, MS
    Location: QCCC 201C

9:30am - 12:30pm 

  • F04
    Location: QCCC 205C
    Presented in French & English
  • F05
    Location: QCCC 204B
  • F06
    Location: QCCC 203
  • F07
    Location: QCCC 202
11:00am - 11:15am
Refreshment Break
Location: QCCC Hall 2000
11:15am - 12:45pm
Concurrent Sessions
  • W33
    Location: QCCC 206A
  • W34
    Location: QCCC 204A
  • W37
    Location: QCCC 2104AB
  • W38
    Location: QCCC 206B
  • W42
    Location: QCCC 205AB
  • OP: Acute, emergency and outpatient care
    Moderator: Stephanie Grim, MPH, MS
    Location: QCCC 2105
  • OP: Cardiovascular disease & COVID-19
    Moderator: Alison Huffstetler, MD
    Location: QCCC 201B
  • OP: Health Care Disparities
    Moderator: Krystal Kehoe MacLeod, PhD
    Location: QCCC 2102AB
  • OP: Pain Management
    Moderator: Michael Hansen, MD, MPH, MS
    Location: QCCC 207
  • OP: Population health and epidemiology
    Moderator: Diane Harper, MPH, MS
    Location: QCCC 2101
  • OP: Practice management and organization & Mixed methods research & MSK
    Moderator: Colleen Fogarty MD, MSc
    Location: QCCC 201C

12:45pm
Networking Afternoon Off

3:00pm - 4:00pm 
Listen and Learn: A Deep Dive into NAPCRG
Location: QCCC 202

Day 3 - Saturday, November 23rd

7:00am - 5:30pm
Registration
Location: QCCC Hall 2000
Closed for lunch: 12:45pm-1:45pm

7:00am - 8:00 am
Breakfast (food provided)
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

  • T04: North American Respiratory Infection Studies (NARIS)
  • T08: Refugee and Immigrant Healthcare Research SIG
  • T09: Cancer SIG
  • T10: Patient and Clinician Engagement (PaCE)
  • T12: Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Other open groups to join:

  • CASFM Research Methods Work Group Meeting
    Location: QCCC 2104AB

8:00am - 9:20am
NAPCRG Awards Ceremony
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

9:20am - 9:30am
Break 

9:30am - 10:30am
Distinguished Papers Presentations
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD
10:30am - 10:45am
Transition Break
10:45am - 11:45am
Concurrent Sessions
  • OP: Big Data
    Moderator: Wyatt Bensken, PhD
    Location: QCCC 204B
  • OP: Cancer research (not screening)
    Moderator: Courtney Pilkerton, MD, PhD
    Location: QCCC 2105
  • OP: Child and adolescent health
    Moderator: Fern Hauck, MD, MS
    Location: QCCC 201B
  • OP: Community based participatory, patient engaged research
    Moderator: Kate Vickery, MD, MSc
    Location: QCCC 2101
  • OP: COVID-19
    Moderator: Meredith Vanstone, PhD
    Location: QCCC 201C
  • OP: Diabetes and endocrine disease
    Moderator: Jodi Summers Holtrop, PhD
    Location: QCCC 203
  • OP: Dissemination and implementation research
    Moderator: Alison Huffstetler, MD
    Location: QCCC 205AB
  • OP: Education and Training
    Moderator: Cindy Sinclair, PhD, MEd
    Location: QCCC 204A
  • OP: Health Care Disparities
    Moderator: Sarah Gebauer, MD, MSPH
    Location: QCCC 2102AB
  • OP: Healthcare Services, Delivery, and Financing
    Moderator: Sebastian Tong, MD, MPH
    Location: QCCC 207
  • OP: Late-breaking Presentations
    Moderator: Tyler Winkelman, MD, MSc
    Location: QCCC 205C
  • OP: Obesity, exercise and nutrition
    Moderator: Iona Heath, MB
    Location: QCCC 206B
  • OP: Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics
    Moderator: Lauren Oshman, MD, MPH
    Location: QCCC 2104AB
  • OP: Qualitative research
    Moderator: Kathleen Rice, PhD
    Location: QCCC 202
  • OP: Secondary data analysis
    Moderator: Joseph Stanford, MD, MSPH
    Location: QCCC 206A

11:45am - 12:00pm
Transition Break

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Networking Lunch (food provided)
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

1:00pm - 2:00pm
International Plenary Session
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

Impact of integrated family physician (FP)- paediatrician care on referrals and FP paediatric care: a
randomised trial
Presented by: Lena Sanci, PhD, FRACGP, MBBS

Safety of switching from a VKA to a NOAC in frail older patients with atrial fibrillation: results of the FRAIL-AF trial.
Presented by: Linda Joosten, MD, PhD

Eczema Care Online web-based intervention: implementation planning, successes and challenges
Presented by: Miriam Santer, PhD

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Poster Session III
Location: QCCC 200AB

This poster session focuses on research in the following categories: Health Care Disparities/ Healthcare Services, Delivery, and Financing/ Mixed methods research/ MSK/ Obesity, exercise and nutrition/ Pain management

Refreshment break in poster hall

3:15pm - 3:30pm
Transition Break

3:30pm – 5:00pm
Concurrent Sessions

  • W03
    Location: QCCC 205C
  • W08
    Location: QCCC 206A
  • W09
    Location: QCCC 206B
  • W11
    Location: QCCC 205AB
  • W17
    Location: QCCC 2104AB
  • W29
    Location: QCCC 202
  • OP: Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness
    Moderator: Meryeme El Balqui, BSc, MSc
    Location: QCCC 2101
  • OP: Big Data
    Moderator: Thomas Ludden, PhD
    Location: QCCC 204B
  • OP: Child and adolescent health
    Moderator: April Wilhelm, MD, MPH
    Location: QCCC 201B
  • OP: COVID-19
    Moderator: Shehar Bano Awais, MD
    Location: QCCC 201C
  • OP: Diabetes and endocrine disease
    Moderator: Daniel Walker, PhD, MPH
    Location: QCCC 203
  • OP: Health Care Disparities
    Moderator: Michele Allen, MD, MS
    Location: QCCC 2102AB
  • OP: Healthcare Services, Delivery, and Financing
    Moderator: Lee Green, MD, MPH
    Location: QCCC 207
  • OP: Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics
    Moderator: Elisa Houwink, MD, PhD
    Location: QCCC 2105
  • OP: Qualitative research
    Moderator: Ziyue Wang, MSc
    Location: QCCC 204A

5:00pm - 5:15pm
Transition Break

5:15pm – 6:15pm
Poster Session IV
Location: QCCC 200AB

This poster session focuses on research in the following categories: Palliative and end-of-life care/ Population health and epidemiology/ Practice management and organization/ Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics/ Qualitative research/ Research Capacity Building/ Research methodology and instrument development/ Screening, prevention, and health promotion/ Secondary data analysis/ Survey research or cross-sectional study/ Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review

Refreshments available in poster hall

Thank you to our Poster Session IV Sponsor: Réseau-1 Québec

8:00pm - 11:00pm
All Attendee Evening Reception
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

Day 4 - Sunday, November 24th

7:00am - 9:30am
Registration
Location: QCCC Hall 2000

7:00am - 8:00 am
Breakfast (food provided)
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

  • T05: Climate Change and Health in Primary Care
  • T11: Research Nurses

 8:00am - 8:15am
Announcements & President's Installation
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

8:15am - 9:15am
Plenary Session III
Location: QCCC 2000ABCD

Toward Sustainable Improvements in Primary Care: What Are the Priorities on the Research Agenda?Presented by Catherine Hudon, MD, PhD

9:15am - 9:30am
Transition Break
9:30am - 11:00am
Concurrent Sessions
  • W02
    Location: QCCC 203
  • W13
    Location: QCCC 204B
  • W18
    Location: QCCC 206B
  • W23
    Location: QCCC 202
  • W44
    Location: QCCC 206A
  • OP: Community based participatory, patient engaged research & Dissemination and implementation research
    Moderator: Krystal Kehoe MacLeod, PhD
    Location: QCCC 2101
  • OP: Health Care Disparities
    Moderator: Jennifer Moss, PhD
    Location: QCCC 2102AB
  • OP: Healthcare Services, Delivery, and Financing
    Moderator: Joachim Sturmberg, MD, PhD
    Location: QCCC 207
  • OP: Research Capacity Building
    Moderator: Samantha Kling, PhD, RD
    Location: QCCC 204A
  • OP: Research methodology and instrument development
    Moderator: Carolyn Berry
    Location: QCCC 201B
  • OP: systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review
    Moderator: Joseph Stanford, MD, MSPH
    Location: QCCC 201C

9:30am - 12:45pm 

  • F08
    Location: QCCC 2104AB
  • F09
    Location: QCCC 2105
  • F10
    Location: QCCC 205C
11:00am - 11:15am
Transition Break
11:15am - 12:45pm
Concurrent Sessions
  • W04
    Location: QCCC 202
  • W27
    Location: QCCC 206B
  • W32
    Location: QCCC 205AB
  • W35
    Location: QCCC 204B
  • W39
    Location: QCCC 203
  • W43
    Location: QCCC 206A
  • OP: Dissemination and implementation research & Health Care Disparities
    Moderator: Samantha Kling, PhD, RD
    Location: QCCC 2102AB
  • OP: Healthcare Services, Delivery, and Financing & Population health and epidemiology
    Moderator: Joachim Sturmberg, MD, PhD
    Location: QCCC 207
  • OP: Late-breaking Presentations
    Moderator: Lee Green, MD, MPH
    Location: QCCC 204A
  • OP: Obesity, exercise and nutrition & Screening, prevention, and health promotion
    Moderator: Scott Strayer, MD, MPH
    Location: QCCC 201C
  • OP: Research methodology and instrument development
    Moderator: Carolyn Berry
    Location: QCCC 201B
  • OP: Survey research or cross-sectional study
    Moderator: Ijeoma Itanyi, MBBS, MPH
    Location: QCCC 2101

12:45pm
Conference Concludes

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