26 Sep CPS Offers Virtual Conference for Fall 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic made it necessary to cancel this year’s CPS annual conference – for the first time since 1923 – members will still have an opportunity to learn from the many speakers who had planned to present.
Abstracts selected for this year’s conference have been published and are availalbe on the Paediatrics & Child Health website: academic.oup.com/pch/supplements.
Live online education sessions
Over a 12-week period this fall, the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) will feature 12 educational sessions originally scheduled to take place at the Vancouver 2020 conference.
From September 10 until November 24, 2020, these accredited (MOC Section 1) sessions will be offered live every Tuesday at 12 p.m. Eastern time.
The first session in the series – available at no cost to everyone – will be a panel discussion called After Covid-19: Next Steps.
For more details about the virtual conference online sessions, including featured speakers, schedule, costs and information about how to register:
2021 Annual Conference
The CPS 2021 Annual Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver from June 23-23, 2021.
Dr. Ojha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the Western University, Ontario and in 2014 became an Academic Paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre. He earned his Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical degrees from India. He completed his Fellowship in Paediatrics from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and worked at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia. He served as a lecturer at Sydney Medical School- Nepean (University of Sydney) before moving to Canada. Dr. Ojha has vast clinical and teaching experience in the field of Paediatrics. He has worked as a Paediatric specialist in India and served the Ministry of Health in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Gwen is a Perinatal Professional Practice Consultant with the MNCYN – Regional Perinatal Program. She received her BScN from the University of Western Ontario in 1980. Gwen has dedicated her career to perinatal nursing. She was employed for several years on the antenatal, labour/birth, mother/baby care units and the NICU at St. Joseph’s Health Care London, which was the tertiary perinatal centre for southwestern Ontario at the time. Gwen has been a nurse consultant with the Regional Perinatal Program since 1987. In this role, she has also facilitated a Maternal Newborn Nursing course as a joint venture between the MNCYN and Fanshawe College and has worked alongside her physician colleagues to provide ongoing professional education and consultation regarding the care of mothers and infants.
Jocelyn has been a Registered Nurse since 2007, and IBCLC certified since 2015. She is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick-Humber Bachelor of Nursing program, and a current student in the Masters of Nursing Program at Athabasca University. Jocelyn is a Fetal Health Surveillance instructor and will be contributing to regional perinatal nursing education through MNCYN, while also working part-time as a staff nurse in rural maternal, and child nursing and maintaining a small private practice in lactation consulting. Jocelyn is a homeschooling mom of four and lives on a hobby farm in Grey Count
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