MEETINGS & PRESENTATIONS 1997/1998

ELEANOR ELSTEIN
WILLIAM D. FOULKES
BRIAN M. GILFIX
THOMAS HUDSON
LIDIA KASPRZAK
KENNETH MORGAN
JENNIFER OZAKI
DAVID S. ROSENBLATT
GUY ROULEAU
PATRICIA N. TONIN

ELEANOR ELSTEIN

April 18, 1997
Presented-Quebec Society of Nephrology annual session.
Title: Niveaux de cyclosporine 2 heures post dose: un nouvel outil pour le suivi therapeutique du neoral.

November 20,1997
Presented - Association of Medical Biochemists of Quebec annual meeting.
Title: Génétique des maladies cardiovasculaires.

January 22, 1998
Medical Resident’s Seminar, Royal Victoria Hospital.
Title: Update on Congestive Heart Failure.

WILLIAM D. FOULKES

February 20, 1997 Endocrinology Rounds, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec.
Title: Genetics and epidemiology of non-medullary thyroid cancer.

March 20, 1997
Montreal Cancer Research Group, McGill Cancer Centre, Montreal, Quebec.
Title: Methods and recent results in the genetics of cancer susceptibility.

June 1997
Terry Fox Cancer Genetics Meeting, Toronto, Ontario.

October 24, 1997
Annual Congress of the Quebec ORL Association, Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City, Quebec.
Title: A gene for familial multinodular goitre maps to chromosome 14q.

October 28 - November 2, 1997
American Society of Human Genetics Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.

November 13, 1997
Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - Fall Seminar Series, McGill University.
Title: The genetics of breast cancer.

November 20, 1997
Annual Scientific Meeting - Clinical Biochemists of Quebec, Hotel Vogue, Montreal, Quebec.
Title: The genetics of breast cancer.

November 24, 1997
Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Royal Victoria Hospital.
Title: Female cancer and genetics.

December 5, 1997
Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Sir M.B.Davis-Jewish General Hospital.
Title: Female cancer and genetics.

December 10, 1997
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Royal Victoria Hospital.
Title: Recent advances in cancer genetics.

December 15, 1997
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Sir M.B.Davis -Jewish General Hospital.
Title: Breast cancer: endocrine and genetic factors. (with Professors M. Pollak and L. Pinsky)

February 5, 1998 Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, Montreal General Hospital.
Title: Genetics of breast and colorectal cancer.

February 13, 1998
Department of Human Genetics Seminar, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Title
: Epidemiological and clinical studies of cancer genetics in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.

February 17, 1998
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Montreal General Hospital.
Title: Cancer genetics: an introduction.

March 12, 1998
Department of Epidemiology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Title: The genetics of breast cancer in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.

March 12, 1998
Department of Endocrinology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Title: Familial multinodular goitre and hereditary non-medullary thyroid cancer.

May 1, 1998
Department of Human Genetics. A "genetics of human cancer" course lecture, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Title: Endocrine cancers

BRIAN M. GILFIX

April 22, 1997 Interview: Montreal On Line - CFCF TV, Montreal, Quebec.
Title: Cholesterol: Myth or Reality.

June 1, 1997
Featured Speaker, RVH Foundation Lecture Presentations, Heathy Aging in the 90’s, Royal Victoria Hospital.
Title: Genetics of Alzheimer ‘s Disease: Is it Inherited?

July 6, 1997
Invited Discussant, 41st Annual Meeting - Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Workshop - Quality Assurance Issues in the Clinical Determination of Circulating Homocysteine.

October 30, 1997 Faculty Presenter - Teleconference, American Society of Clinical Pathologists.
Title: Genetics of Thrombosis.

THOMAS HUDSON

April 11, 1997
Sujets d'actualité en biologie moléculaire", Programme de biologie moléculaire, Faculté des Études supérieures, Université de Montréal.
Title: La génétique humaine après le projet génome.

September 27, 1997
Poster presentation, Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation, Vancouver, B.C.
Title: Human genome maps: tools for disease gene identification.

October 23, 1997
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
Title: Genetic epidemiology of complex diseases. (With Kenneth Morgan)

February 26, 1998
Montreal General Hospital Research Institute, Genetics Lab Meeting.
Title: Progress Report on DNA Chips.

March 21, 1998
Peripatetic Club Meeting, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal.
Title: Human Genetics in the Post-Genome Era

LIDIA KASPRZAK

May 31-June 1, 1997
Canadian Collaborative Group for Cancer Genetics, Terry Fox Workshop, Toronto, Ontario.

June 25-28, 1997
Sixth International Workshop on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands.

September 17-20, 1997
Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors, Conference & Annual Meeting, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

October 16, 1997
Small Group Tutorial Session for Medical Students, Genetics-Unit8, McGill University, Prenatal Diagnosis and Genetic Counselling.

October 28-November 1, 1997
American Society of Human Genetics 47th Meeting - Baltimore, MD

November 26, 1997
Genetic Counselling Practicum (521-600D), Cancer Genetics I, Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

December 3, 1997
Genetic Counselling Practicum (521-600D), Cancer Genetics II, Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

February 18, 1998
Case Presentation - Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

KENNETH MORGAN

June 17, 1997 Central Research Division, Pfizer, Inc. Groton, CT.
Title: Human Genetics Workshop (co-presenter, Arthur Burghes, Ohio State University)

October 23, 1997
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University.
Title: Genetic Epidemiology of Complex Diseases. (Thomas J. Hudson, co-presenter).

February 25, 1998
OGHRI Research Seminar, Ottawa General Hospital Research Institute.
Title: Prospect for the genetic analysis of complex disease in a founder population.

JENNIFER OZAKI

May 31 - June 1, 1997
Terry Fox Cancer Genetics Meeting, Toronto, Ontario.

October 24-28, 1997
National Society of Genetic Counsellors Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.

October 29 - November 1, 1997
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.

November 26, 1997 McGill Genetic Counselling students.
Title: Cancer Genetics Course. Presented by Jennifer and Lidia.

December 3, 1997
McGill Genetic Counselling students.
Title: Cancer Genetics Course. Presented by Jennifer and Lidia.

DAVID S. ROSENBLATT

March 30 - April 2, 1997
Visit to Vitamin B12 Unit, Chelsea & Westminster Healthcare, London, England.

May 19-25, 1997
Seventh International Congress of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Vienna, Austria.
Title: Mutations in mut methylmalonic aciduria.

September 25-28,1997
Symposium speaker - CCMG & CHS, Symposium on Inherited Disorders of Hypercoagulability, Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada, Vancouver, Victoria, BC.
Title:
Hyperhomocysteinemia: Lessons from inborn errors of folate and cobalamin metabolism.

November 6, 1997
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McGill University.
Title: The Genetics of Homocysteine and Folic Acid.

December 5-11, 1997
Académie Nationale de Médecine - Cours de la Séance Solennelle, Paris, France

February 2-5, 1998
Vitamin B12 Taskforce Meeting, Chelsea & Westminster Healthcare, London, England

February 24-25, 1998
The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.

GUY ROULEAU

April 11, 1997
Riluteck et sclérole amyotrophique: de la théorie à la pratique, Journées de Neurologie de langue Francaise, Strasbourg, France.
Title: Données récentes sur la génétique de la SLA.

May 5, 1997
New Developments in Prenatal Diagnosis and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
Title: The molecular genetics of ataxias.

November 17, 1997
Research seminar, Montreal Children’s Hospital.
Title: Genetics of Epilepsy.

PATRICIA N. TONIN

March 19, 1997
Grand Rounds, Vermont Cancer Center, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Strategies for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Detection in High Risk Breast/Ovarian Cancer Families.

March 25, 1997
Department of Urology, Royal Victoria Hospital.
Title: Genetic Links Between Breast and Prostate Cancer.

April 10, 1997
Online Montreal - CFCF12, Television.
Discussion: Genetic testing in women at risk for hereditary breast cancer.

April 14, 1997
Women's Federation of Federation CJA, Montreal, Quebec.
Title: Breast cancer and the Jewish Woman: Heredity and the Environment.

April 17, 1997
Corriere Canadese - The Italian Daily News.
Title: Mastectomies for tumour prevention

October 9, 1997
CBC Radio Canada.
Title: Quebec Breast cancer in the French Canadian Population.


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