Upcoming Medical Conferences in Banff

Paediatric Fractures Course is organized by University of Calgary - Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development and it will be held on Jan 16, 2020 at Banff Park Lodge Resort Hotel & Conference Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Who Should Attend:  Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Other Health Professionals (Remote Practice Sites) Credits: • Mainpro+ Group Learning – 7.0 credits • MOC Section 1 – 7.0 hours AAFP American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) AND CFPC Members of the American Academy of Family Physicians are eligible to receive 7.0 prescribed credits for participation in this activity due to reciprocal agreement with The College of Family Physicians of Canada Course Description: This course is designed for rural practitioners to learn the knowledge and skills necessary in the initial management of paediatric fractures. This course will include short didactic presentations addressing the correct diagnosis of paediatric fractures and the physiologic differences between paediatric and adult fractures that affect management. Live demonstration with hands-on practice will focus on appropriate casting and splinting methods. Participants will practice on each other, including applying casts and splints. (Appropriate attire is recommended.) Course Objectives: At the end of this course, learners will be equipped to: • identify and manage difficult paediatric fractures, including pitfalls in diagnosis • review differences in management between paediatric and adult fractures • apply proper casting technique in paediatric population with emphasis on maintenance of reduction Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Diagnosing ECGs Emergently is organized by University of Calgary - Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development and it will be held on Jan 17, 2020 at Banff Park Lodge Resort Hotel & Conference Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Who Should Attend: Family Physicians, Residents and Trainees, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Paramedics and other healthcare providers working in emergency care. Credits: Mainpro+ Group Learning – 5.25 credits Course Description: This workshop includes a systematic approach to systematic interpretation, axis determination, ischemia, injury and infarction, differential diagnosis and case studies. It uses a blend of teaching with case study practice, equipping participants with a systematic approach to basic and advanced 12-lead ECG interpretation. Course Objectives: At the end of this course, learners will be equipped to: • use a systematic approach to 12-lead ECG interpretation • identify axis deviation • recognize acute coronary syndrome ACS • recognize territory and timing of ischemia • explain and act on STEMI management priorities • identify ECG mimics of cardiac ischemia. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

36th Annual Emergency Medicine for Rural Hospitals is organized by University of Calgary - Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development and will be held from Jan 17 - 19, 2020 at Banff Park Lodge Resort Hotel & Conference Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Who Should Attend:  Family Physicians, Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pre-hospital Health Professionals Credits: Mainpro+ Group Learning – 12.0 credits Course Description: This course provides the latest learning on clinical topics relevant to physicians, nurses and pre-hospital professionals in rural practice. Through a combination of plenary lectures, small group interactive sessions and hands-on workshops, led by experts with a rural perspective, participants will review current issues, guidelines and trends in the diagnosis, treatment and management of patients who present to rural emergency departments. Course Objectives: At the end of this course, learners will be equipped to: • develop and enhance their assessment, investigation and treatment skills for urgent and emergency patients presenting to the emergency department in rural hospitals • identify patients who can be optimally managed in a rural setting and those who require transfer to a larger center • exchange ideas and information with other rural health professionals during shared learning experiences Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

22nd Annual Rural Anesthesia for GP Anesthesiologists is organized by University of Calgary - Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development and will be held on Jan 17, 2020 at Banff Park Lodge Resort Hotel & Conference Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Who Should Attend? GP Anesthesiologists working in rural settings. Course Description: This intensive one-day course for GP anesthesiologists features a blend of expert-lead didactic teaching and practical skill-development workshops and offers opportunities for networking and exchange of information and ideas between leaders in the field and rural GP anesthesiologists. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Common Fractures and Dislocations is organized by University of Calgary - Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development and it will be held on Jan 17, 2020 at Banff Park Lodge Resort Hotel & Conference Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Who Should Attend: Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Other Health Professionals (remote practice sites) Credits: Mainpro+ Group Learning – 6.0 credits MOC Section 1 – 6.0 hours Course Description: This course is designed to learn hands-on skills to deal with complicated fractures and dislocations seen in the rural emergency departments. The course will include short case-based presentations on specific fractures, a discussion of diagnosis and treatment, demonstration of the applicable cast and/or splint and hands-on practice. The morning will focus on fractures and dislocation of the upper limbs and the afternoon will focus on the lower limbs. Participants will practice on each other, including applying splints and casts. Course Objectives: At the end of this course, learners will be equipped to: • determine what injuries should be treated in the rural emergency department • order appropriate x-rays according to injury presentation • perform proper techniques for reducing, splinting and casting • evaluate when to transport and refer the at-risk patient Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Cancer Evolution and Combinatorial Cancer Therapies: Concepts and Challenges (L1) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Jan 19 - 23, 2020 at Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Description Progress in understanding the clonal and sub-clonal processes driving tumor evolution, in understanding tumor heterogeneity, in defining new cancer dependencies and in understanding mechanisms of therapeutic resistance have converged to help inform more rational approaches to achieving the development of transformative combination therapeutic regimens in cancer. Nonetheless, examples of highly effective rationally elucidated combinations remains rare and the pre-clinical and clinical development challenges to this goal are substantial. As an example, the emergent role of immunotherapeutics having curative potential has led to tremendous excitement, yet increased complexity. The broad swath of empiric based clinical trials attests to the continued or growing need for improved pre-clinical means by which we identify the transformative combinations. This meeting will bring together evolutionary and computational biologists, experts in functional genomics, translational scientists, drug discovery leaders and physicians leaders in clinical development. The meeting will span the beginnings of the cancer problem starting with how evolutionary processes drive the “natural” progression of cancer and how such processes lead to the measured heterogeneous populations of cells resident in all tumors. These two related forces, driven at least in part by ongoing mutational processes, then combine to give rise to therapeutic resistance and increasingly we can robustly identify mechanisms relevant to humans in pre-clinical models. The deeper understanding of these forces can inform specific combination therapeutics, but increasingly combination hypotheses are being discovered though genome-scale functional approaches (e.g. CRISPR, shRNA). These studies now taking place in both the targeted and I/O therapeutic fields motivate a session and additional talks aimed at understanding how I/O and targeted therapeutics are similar or distinct and to seek the lessons from the clinical trial outputs in the I/O field that will emerge over the next year. Finally, clinical development paradigms for more rapidly testing and developing combinations will be considered Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Emerging Cellular Therapies: Cancer and Beyond (Q1) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Feb 08 - 12, 2020 at Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Description: After many years of fundamental research, cell-based therapies are now recognized as effective medicines for treatment of a specific subset of cancers as well as a growing list of autoimmune, degenerative and infectious diseases. This clinical progress has been propelled by exponential growth in understanding of the underlying cell biology, and increasingly sophisticated techniques for genetic engineering and for using synthetic biology to control cellular therapeutics. Cellular therapeutics are now poised for increasing impact both in cancer medicine and in the treatment of genetic, autoimmune and degenerative diseases. This conference will bring together fundamental researchers and translational scientists to discuss recent successes and highlight challenges across the spectrum of emerging cellular therapeutics. Another innovative aspect of this conference is the joint pairing with the Keystone Symposia conference on “Engineering the Genome” organized by Drs. Vic Myer and Erik Sontheimer. This unique pairing will provide an outstanding opportunity to cross-fertilize ideas and to facilitate formation of new collaborations between experts in genome engineering and experts in cell biology, cell-based therapies and synthetic biology. The conference will provide an opportunity to report emerging preclinical and clinical insights, present novel platforms, and highlight challenges related to both safety and efficacy of cell therapies. The broad disease focus will enhance collaborations between the cancer immunotherapy communities and those focused on developing cell therapies for non-malignant disease. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Engineering the Genome (Q2) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Feb 08 - 12, 2020 at Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Description Genome editing is already transforming biological science and promises to do the same for human medicine. Technological capabilities are advancing rapidly and there are expected to be more than 30 genome editing therapies in clinical development by 2020. It is therefore important that practitioners in both academia and industry have the opportunity to learn about the latest improvements and applications. This conference will bridge that gap and provide an ideal environment for scientific exchange.  In addition, participants will be educated on the growing roster and utility of genome engineering platforms. There will be sessions on genome editing’s clinical advancements and the evolution of thinking in the field regarding translational sciences. This meeting is being paired with Emerging Cellular Therapies so that participants can come together with researchers who focus on cell-based therapies. Therefore, we anticipate attendees will have a greater awareness of the full range of genome engineering tools, both established and emerging and knowledge of best practices and pitfalls in clinical advancement. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

14th Canadian Melanoma Conference 2020 is organized by Oncology Education and will be held from Feb 20 - 22, 2020 at Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Target Audience: This conference brings together medical oncologists, surgeons, dermatologists, radiotherapists, pathologists, molecular biologists, immunologists, and other allied health professionals interested in the treatment of melanoma worldwide. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Obesity and NAFLD: Mechanisms and Therapeutics (B3) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Feb 23 - 27, 2020 at Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Description Energy metabolism underlies all facets of human health. Now, with rates of obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) surging, understanding how energy metabolism is governed is of the utmost interest. Halting the progression of NAFLD into nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is considered an unmet need in human health. At this meeting, we will discuss regulatory elements underlying obesity and NAFLD, and the metabolic underpinnings of NASH. We will focus on metabolites, hormones, and cellular signaling pathways. We will also examine the leading edge of therapeutic approaches for obesity and NASH. We will bring together scientists and physicians specializing in basic, translational, and clinical research, as well as industry scientists, to create a robust exchange of ideas on how to move the field forward.  Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.