Please join us for this research symposium featuring presentations from residents, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and undergraduate students engaged in child health research at USask.

12:30 pm: Keynote speaker presentation

The winding road of research

Keynote speaker:

Dr. Patrick Brophy

Dr. Patrick Brophy is the William H. Eilinger Professor and Department Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center/Physician-in-Chief Golisano Children’s Hospital. He is the past President of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN) and recently came off of the board of directors of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). He is also a member of the Association of Medicine School Pediatric Department Chairs (AMSPDC) and serves on the finance committee of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS).

He is the immediate past Program Chair for the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS), a group of academic professional organizations composed of; 1) The American Academy of Pediatrics, 2) The Society for Pediatric Research 3) The American Pediatric Society and 4) The American Pediatric Association. In this role he oversees the annual PAS conference which is one of the largest Pediatric Academic Meetings in the world. Prior to this he was the division Director of Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation at the University of Iowa. He has held cross appointments in the Department of Surgery and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics. He was awarded a master’s in healthcare delivery sciences from the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth in 2013.

He is a clinician and researcher with work focusing on neonatal and congenital genetic renal anomalies, Acute Kidney Injury, and critical care nephrology. His work has resulted in over 150 peer-reviewed publications. He has significantly impacted care management of patients requiring acute dialysis and those with Acute Kidney Injury in addition to some seminal discoveries in the basic science mechanisms of renal development. He has held grants from the NIH, USDA, AAMC and several other foundations. His research has received more than 6,000 citations by researchers all around the globe and has been published in leading journals like the New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Pediatrics.

Zoom link: https://usask-ca.zoom.us/j/96867168547?pwd=UTZBbU1ZeUt5QVY1L1NtNmNKdGZoZz09 

Event Details

When:
Time:
12:00 PM - 04:00 PM CST
Location:
Louis Loft, USask Campus and virtual
File:
Poster

Contact

Tova Dybvig

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