MEETINGS & PRESENTATIONS 1996/1997

CHARLES ADJALLA
BENEDICTE CHRISTENSEN
ELEANOR ELSTEIN
WILLIAM D. FOULKES
BRIAN M. GILFIX
THOMAS HUDSON
LIDIA KASPRZAK
KENNETH MORGAN
DAVID S. ROSENBLATT
CORINNE SERRUYA
PATRICIA N. TONIN
DAVID WATKINS

CHARLES ADJALLA

September 25-29, 1996
Annual Meeting of Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Title:
A common mutation in mut- methylmalonic aciduria.

BENEDICTE CHRISTENSEN

May 7-10, 1996
Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting Washington, DC
Title: New mutation identified in four unrelated patients with methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency.

ELEANOR ELSTEIN

December 4-7, 1996
Sixth International Alexis Carrel Conference on Graft Atherosclerosis and Chronic Rejection.
Title: Genetic modulation of cardiac allograft rejection.

January 27, 1997
Cardiology Research Rounds, Division of Cardiology, McGill University
Title: Polymorphisms in genes coding for the renin angiotensin system and vasoactive peptides as markers of risk for cardiac allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant recipients.

February 25, 1997
CardioRespiratory Rounds, Royal Victoria Hospital
Title: Responsiveness of the pulmonary vasculature to nitric oxide in the selection of heart transplant recipients.

WILLIAM D. FOULKES

May 8-10, 1996
Head and Neck Cancer Genetics Workshop, Lyon, France

June 18-19, 1996
Génétique humaine au Québec: Qui fait quoi? Le Réseau FRSQ de Médecine Génétique Appliquée. Montreal, Quebec

October 29- November 2,
1996 American Society of Human Genetics San Franscico, CA

December 2-3, 1996
First International Prostate Cancer Genetics Consortium Meeting Bethesda, Maryland

BRIAN M. GILFIX

May 21, 1996
Hellenic Medical Association of Quebec
Title: Primary Prevention Studies of Coronary Artery Disease and How They Translate Into Clinical Practice.

September 6 - 8,
1996 DNA Sampling. Human Genetic Research: Ethical, Legal and Policy Aspects. Montreal, Quebec

September 18, 1996 Medical Grand Rounds Royal Victoria Hospital
Title: Diarrhea, Weight Loss, and a Very Interesting Problem.

October 15, 1996
Hematology Journal Club Montreal General Hospital
Title:
Homocysteine.

November 6, 1996
Medical Grand Rounds Royal Victoria Hospital
Title:
Genetics of Thrombosis.

November 6, 1996
Pathology Research and Review Conference William Beaumont Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
Title:
Genetics of Thrombosis.

November 27, 1996
Oncology Research Conference Royal Victoria Hospital
Title: Genetics of Drug Metabolism.

January 10, 1997
Obstetrics and Gynecology Rounds Royal Victoria Hospital
Title: Genetics of Thrombosis.

February 28, 1997
Invited Speaker Hôpital Santa Cabrini, Montreal, Quebec
Title: The Role of LDL In Atherosclerosis: Primary and Secondary Prevention.

THOMAS HUDSON

October 9, 1996
Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University Invited Speaker
Title: Human Genetics in a Post-Genome World.

November 21, 1997
Montreal General Hospital Research Institute Invited Speaker
Title: Human Genetics in a Post-Genome World.

January 14, 1997
Department of Molecular Medicine University of Toronto Invited Speaker
Title: Human Genetics in a Post-Genome World.

January 23, 1997
McGill Cancer Centre Invited Speaker
Title: Human Genetics in a Post-Genome World.

March 10, 1997
Montreal Children’s Hospital Invited Speaker
Title: Human Genetics in a Post-Genome World.

May 2, 1997
Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, California Invited Speaker
Title: Genotyping Applications Using Microchips.

May 28, 1997
Ottawa Civic Hospital, Loeb Research Institute Invited Speaker
Title: Human Genetics in a Post-Genome World.

LIDIA KASPRZAK

March 29, 1996
McGill Genetics Rounds: Case Presentations Royal Victoria Hospital
Title: Germline mutations in p16 and the risk of cancer.

April 18, 1996
Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal Career Exploration Program.

September 20-22, 1996
McGill Open House McGill University
Title: Genetic Susceptibility for Breast and Ovarian Cancer.

October 23, 1996
Genetic Counselling Practicum (521-600D) Montreal Children's Hospital Introduction to cancer genetics

October 28, 1996
Adult Genetics Case Presentation Montreal Children’s Hospital
Title: An intriguing constellation of multiple primary neoplasms in a patient initially suspected to have NF-1.

June 26-27, 1996
ABGC Certification Exam Chicago, IL,

September 6-7, 1996
Continuing Education Course Washington, DC
Title:Hereditary Breast Cancer - An update for Clinicians.

September 25-27, 1996
Calgary Conference & Annual Meeting Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors Calgary, Alberta

October 25-29, 1996
National Society of Genetic Counsellors 15th Annual Education Conference San Francisco, CA

October 29-November 2, 1996
The American Society of Human Genetics 46th Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA,

KENNETH MORGAN

April 12, 1996
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
Title: Genetic epidemiology of susceptibility to tuberculosis.

June 18-19, 1996
Génétique humaine au Québec: Qui fait quoi? Le Réseau FRSQ de Médecine Génétique Appliquée. Montreal, Quebec
Title: Heritability of X-chromosome inactivation skewing.

November 18, 1996
Whitehead Institute, Center for Genome Research Boston, Massachusetts
Title: Genetics of the Hutterite population, a young isolate.

February 4, 1997
Molecular Medicine Program Seminar Series Departments of Medicine, Medical Genetics and Microbiology, and Institute of Medical Science Toronto, Ontario
Title: Prospects for the genetic analysis of complex diseases in a human isolate.

DAVID S. ROSENBLATT

May 3-6, 1996
First Annual Meeting of the Molecular Medicine Society, Washington, DC

May 6-10, 1996
Society for Pediatric Research Washington, DC

August 3-8, 1996
FASEB Summer Research Conference Saxton River, VT Invited Speaker
Title: Mutation analysis in the inborn errors of cobalmin metabolism: a beginning.

September 26-29,
1996 Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada Halifax, Nova Scotia

September 27- 29, 1996
Biologie Prospective Symposium Satellite Vitamines et Biofacteurs, Nancy, France Invited Speaker
Title: Diagnosis of inherited disorders of folate and coblamin metabolism.

October 1, 1996
Académie Nationale de Médecine Paris, France Invited Speaker
Title: Etude moléculaire de l’acidurie méthylmalonique: corrélations structure-fonction.

October 29- November 2, 1996
American Society of Human Genetics San Franscico, CA
Title: Six novel mutations in mut methylmalonic aciduria.

February 19, 1997
Medical Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine Royal Victoria Hospital
Title: Vitamin B12-New perspectives on an old vitamin.

March 30 - April 2, 1997
Site visit to Chelsea & Westminister Hospital London, England

CORINNE SERRUYA

December 5, 1996
McGill Combined Endocrine Rounds Montreal General Hospital
Title: Impact of Genetic Studies on the Management of Familial Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.

February 28, 1996
Oncology Rounds Royal Victoria Hospital
Title: Genetic Counselling of Hereditary Cancer Families.

September 6-7, 1996
Hereditary Breast Cancer: An Update for Clinicians Washington, DC

PATRICIA N. TONIN

April 29, 1996
Research Institute Seminar Series Montreal Children’s Hospital Invited Speaker
Title: Recent advances in breast cancer suceptibility genes: BRCA1 and BRCA2.

November 25, 1996
Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine Jewish General Hospital Invited speaker
Title: Familial cancer.

March 19, 1997
Grand Rounds, Vermont Cancer Center Burlington, VT Invited speaker
Title: Strategies for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation detections in high risk breast/ovarian cancer families.

March 25, 1997
Department of Urology Royal Victoria Hospital Invited speaker
Title: Genetic links between breast and prostate cancer.

DAVID WATKINS

September 25-29, 1996
Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada Halifax, Nova Scotia
Title: Complementation analysis of abnormal cobalamin metabolsim in methionine dependent melanoma cell line MeWoLC1.


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