KARLENE AUSTRALIE

1999-2000 academic year
Clinical supervision of Genetic counselling students - 1- Year I student and 4-Year II students.
Supervision of students for Journal club and case presentations as part of the genetic counselling M.Sc. training program - Montreal Children's Hospital.

November 1999
Lecture on cancer genetics to 1st year Genetic counselling students

September - October 1999
Small group tutorials - medical students year I and Medical students year II-Risk analysis and prenatal diagnosis.

October 1999
Annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Case presentation: Medical Genetic Rounds

VALERIE DESILETS

May 1999
International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Annual Meeting Carlisle, England
Title: Assessment of the contribution of confined placental mosaicism to the pathogenesis of intrauterine growth retardation

May 1999
Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Quebec Annual Meeting (AOGQ) Sherbrooke
Invited Speaker
Title: Screening for trisomy 21

June 1999
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada Annual Clinical Meeting (SOGQ) Ottawa
Invited Speaker
Title: Practical Genetic Screening in Gynecology

September 1999
Canadian Association of the Genetic Counsellor's Annual Meeting Montreal
Invited Speaker
Title: Fist trimester screening for trisomy 21

ELEANOR ELSTEIN

April 23, 1999
Genetics Rounds Montreal Children's Hospital
Title: Genetic Determinants of Cardiac Transplant Atherosclerosis

1999
CBC Radio Noon Interview
Title: Ventricular Assist Devices

WILLIAM D. FOULKES

April 24, 1999
4th McGill International Symposium on reproductive endocrinology and infertility Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre, McGill University, Montreal
Title: Hereditary ovarian cancer.

May 12, 1999
Surgical Grand Rounds Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal
Title: Recent advances in breast and ovarian cancer genetics

August 25, 1999
Obstetrics and Gynecology Rounds Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal
Title: The role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast and ovarian cancer.

September 23, 1999
Workshop on the Genetics of Cancer Royal College of Physicians of Canada Montreal

December 13, 1999
Medical Grand Rounds Sir M.B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal
Title: Genetics and Adult Onset diseases: A changing role for medical genetics. (with Prof. D. Rosenblatt )

January 12, 2000
Montreal Cancer Research Group, McGill Cancer Centre, Montreal,
Title: Genetic predisposition and outcome from cancer.

BRIAN M. GILFIX

June 23, 1999
Medical Grand Rounds Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
Title: Tripping On Troponins: Use And Misuse.

November 23, 1999
Inter-Hospital Medical Biochemistry Seminar Series Royal Victoria Hospital
Title: Hemochromatosis.

January 7, 2000
Genetics Seminar Montreal Children's Hospital
Title: Genetic Risk Factors For Thrombosis.

THOMAS HUDSON

April 14, 1999
Montreal Molecular Genetics Group Meeting, McGill Cancer Center Montreal Invited Speaker
Title: DNA Chip Applications in Molecular Biology

April 20-23, 1999
Co-chair for a Chip Technology Workshop, Canadian Genetic Diseases Network 2nd Annual Meeting Collingwood, Ontario

May 18, 1999
Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Charles & Ellen Collis Genome Laboratory Symposium on the Genetics of Complex Traits Boston
Oral presentation
Title: Complex traits in the young founder population of Canada

June 8, 1999
Genetics Society of Canada Annual Meeting McGill University
Oral presentation
Title: Human Genetics in a Post-Genome World

August 31, 1999
National Research Council of Canada Halifax
Invited Speaker
Title: Human Genetics in a Post-Genome World

October 12, 1999
Canadian GeneCure Foundation
Invited Speaker
Title: Jeans for Genes Day

November 15, 1999
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal Montréal
Invited Speaker
Title: Human Genetics in the Post-Genome World

December 1, 1999
Alliances for the new millennium-workshop-Innovation Canada Conference Ottawa
Oral presentation
Title: Canadian genomic research: a commitment to excellence

LIDIA KASPRZAK

October 19-23, 1999
49th Annual Meeting - American Society of Human Genetics San Francisco, CA
Poster presentation
Title: Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma and prominent corneal nerves associated with a codon 804 germline mutation of the RET gene.

November 26, 1999
McGill Genetics Rounds - case presentations Montreal General Hospital, Montreal
Title: Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma and prominent corneal nerves.

March 15, 2000
Medical Grand Rounds Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
Title: Genetics and Cancer: How mutation analysis affects clinical management.

KENNETH MORGAN

May 5-6, 1999
Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Project Meeting, Toronto
Title: Transmission-ratio distortion and genetic analysis in founder populations.

November 13-14, 1999
Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Bio-medical Theme Meeting Toronto, Ontario
Title: Population genetic modeling in Canadian founder populations.

DAVID S. ROSENBLATT

May 1-4, 1999
Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting San Francisco, California

May 21-23, 1999
Foundation Science for Medicine in the 21st century Burlington, Ontario
Invited Speaker
Title: The Evolution of Medicine; A Geneticist's View

June 17-18, 1999
Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada Meeting of Specialty Committee in Genetics Ottawa, Ontario

July 25-29, 1999
The AACC 1999 Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo New Orleans, LA
Invited Speaker
Title: Genetic Abnormalities Associated with Homocysteine

December 1, 1999
Dairy Farmers of Canada National Symposium Diet & Health: Chewing the Facts about Fat.
Invited Speaker
Title: Homocysteine - Nature and Nurture. Calgary, Alberta

December 2, 1999
Dairy Farmers of Canada National Symposium Diet & Health: Chewing the Facts about Fat.
Invited Speaker
Title: Homocysteine - Nature and Nurture. Vancouver, BC

December 2, 1999
Biochemical Diseases Rounds, BC Women's and Children's Hospitals Vancouver, BC
Invited Speaker
Title: Nature and Nurture-lessons from vitamin B12 and Folate Metabolism.

December 4, 1999
Dairy Farmers of Canada National Symposium Diet & Health: Chewing the Facts about Fat. Toronto, Ontario
Invited Speaker
Title: Homocysteine - Nature and Nurture.

December 4, 1999
Title: Nature and Nurture-lessons from vitamin B12 and Folate Metabolism. Toronto, Ontario

March 9-12, 2000
Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting incooperation with 31st Annual March of Dimes - American College of Medical Genetics Poster Presentation
Title: Vitamin B12-responsive methylmalonic aciduria due to a new inborn error of adenosylcobalamin synthesis, cblH.

March 15-17, 2000
2000th Annual Meeting American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics with Canadian Society for Clinical Pharmacology Century Plaza Hotel & Tower, Los Angeles, CA
Invited Speaker
Title: Nature, Nurture and Common Disease-Lessons from Vitamin Metabolism.

GUY ROULEAU

April 21, 1999
Co-Chair, Neurogenetics Session, American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting Toronto, Ontario

October 3-6, 1999
Annual Brazilian Genetics Society Gramado, Brazil
Invited Speaker

October 5-9, 1999
Symposium on Multiple Approaches to the Pathogenesis of the Restless Legs Syndrome, Third International Congress, World Federation of Sleep Research Societies Dresden, Germany
Invited Speaker

PATRICIA N. TONIN

July 22-23, 1999
The Familial Cancer Program Retreat Vermont Regional Cancer Center, Vermont
Title: Review: Founder BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations in the French Canadian Breast and Ovarian Cancer Families.

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