The APA Scientific Conference objectives are to examine, consider and appraise current diagnostic and clinical guidelines and practices to enhance patient care; to explore, consider and interpret the meaning of change from biological, psychological, and social perspectives for our patients and in our professional relationships with them; to reflect upon and discuss integrating change in our personal and professional lives as well as in the systems within which we work.
Please note: Conference Schedule is subject to change.
- 17:00Registration / Information Desk Open
17:00 - 19:00, Wildrose Prefunction Area18:00APA Executive Meeting
18:00 - 22:00, Bluebell
Depression in the Workplace: Getting back to Work and being Productive
18:30 - 20:00, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Pratap Chokka - 07:00Registration / Information Desk Open
07:00 - 17:00, Wildrose Prefunction Area
Hot Buffet Breakfast
07:30 - 08:00, Bluebell08:00ADHD in Women: Puberty, PMS, Pregnancy to Peri-Menopause
08:00 - 09:00, Wildrose Salon A/B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Sara Binder09:00National Opioid Guidelines
09:00 - 10:00, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Ron Lim10:00Refreshment Break
10:00 - 10:20, Bluebell
Keynote Presentation: Multi-Modal Imaging: Neural Circuits and Mood Disorders: New Neural Targets for Novel Interventions.
10:30 - 11:30, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Mary L. Phillips11:00Lunch Symposium: Schizophrenia and Drug Addiction: What can we do?
11:30 - 13:00, Wildrose Salon A/B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Bill MacEwan13:00Presidential Keynote Speaker "Challenges of knowledge translation in a climate of medical marijuana and impending legalization of cannabis"
13:00 - 14:00, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Oyedeji Ayonrinde14:00Presentation: Developing a National Neuroscience Curriculum - Progress on Planning for the Future of Psychiatry.
14:00 - 15:00, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Michael Travis
Brain to Mind to Mindfulness: A Clinician's Guide to Neural Development
14:00 - 15:00, Hawthorn A - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. David Lovas15:00Refreshment Break
15:00 - 15:30, Wildrose Prefunction Area
SCAP "Meet 'N' Greet"
15:00 - 15:30, Hawthorn C
CPD Institute: The Importance of Motivation and Energy in Improving Functional Outcomes for Patients
15:30 - 16:30, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Atul Khullar
SCAP AGM
15:30 - 16:30, Hawthorn C16:00The Book Every Psychiatrist Should Read – 3 Minute Talks
16:30 - 18:00, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session18:00Family Fun Night
18:30 - 22:00, Wildrose Salon A/B21:00Resident's Reception
21:30 - 23:59, Divas Martini Lounge - 07:00Registration / Information Desk Open
07:00 - 16:00, Wildrose Prefunction Area
Hot Buffet Breakfast
07:30 - 08:00, Wildrose Salon A/B08:00Breakfast Symposium: Clinical Relevance of "Trait-like" Impulsivity in Bipolar Disorder: to treat or not to treat.
08:00 - 09:00, Wildrose Salon A/B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Joseph R. Calabrese09:00Keynote Speaker: Relational Health at Home: Personal Relationships, Burnout, and the Joy of Connection
09:00 - 10:00, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Eran Magen10:00Refreshment Break
10:00 - 10:30, Wildrose Prefunction Area
Workshop: The Other "Therapeutic Alliance": Building Strong Relationships with Your Colleagues and Trainees
10:30 - 12:00, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Eran Magen
CPD Institute: The 2017 Canadian Schizophrenia Guidelines
10:30 - 12:00, Hawthorn A - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Thomas Joseph Raedler12:00Lunch Symposium: CANMAT/ISBD 2018 Guidelines for Management of Bipolar Disorder
12:00 - 13:30, Wildrose Salon A/B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Yatham13:00Choosing Wisely: Wise Choices in Psychiatry
13:30 - 14:30, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Douglas Urness
Chamomile Extract as a potential replacement for benzodiazepines in the treatment of anxiety and sleep disturbance.
13:30 - 13:50, Hawthorn B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Kevin W. Morin
RESIDENT: Impact on Workflow and Patient Safety of Standardized Psychiatry Admission Orders at a Tertiary Care Emergency Department
13:30 - 13:45, Hawthorn C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Alex Dyck
RESIDENT: Validity of the PHQ-9 In Neurological Populations
13:30 - 13:45, Bluebell - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Nathalie Jette, Dr. Scott B. Patten, Mr. Michael Sanderson, Dr. Kimberly Williams
RESIDENT: Maintenance Intranasal Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Case Series
13:45 - 14:00, Hawthorn C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Shaina Archer, Vincent Lee
RESIDENT: Promoting Shared Care and Improving Access for Community Mental Health Services in the Edmonton Zone
13:45 - 14:00, Bluebell - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Michele Foster
Suicide is Illegal! Challenges and Rewards on the journey to mental health education in Tanzania
13:50 - 14:10, Hawthorn A - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Rachel Grimminck, Dr. Suneina Mohan, Dr. Roy Turner
Effects of Concussive and Sub-Concussive Events on Psychiatric Symptoms and Syndromes.
13:50 - 14:10, Hawthorn B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. David Baron14:00RESIDENT: Prevalence Rates and Correlates of Likely Psychiatric Disorders in Residents of Fort McMurray Six and Eighteen Months after a Wildfire
14:00 - 14:15, Hawthorn C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Shahram Moosavi
RESIDENT: The effectiveness of Group CBT and Exercise in management of Depression: A three arm randomized controlled pilot trial
14:00 - 14:15, Bluebell - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Mojtaba Yekrang Safakar
Dying with Dementia, what are patients' needs…
14:10 - 14:30, Hawthorn A - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Olutade Olajitan
Academic Performance and Student Mental Health
14:10 - 14:30, Hawthorn B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Jacquelyn Paquet
RESIDENT: eHealth for Mental Health: Optimizing information delivery between providers and patients in suicide assessment
14:15 - 14:30, Hawthorn C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Eric Chan Tai Kong
RESIDENT: Rapid effectiveness of intravenous ketamine for ultraresistant depression in a clinical setting and evidence for baseline anhedonia as a clinical predictor of effectiveness
14:15 - 14:30, Bluebell - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Rejish K. Thomas
The Pregnant Brain
14:30 - 14:50, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Jean-Michel Le Melledo
CanREACH, Mental Health Literacy in Primary Care: the Art and Science of Implementation.
14:30 - 14:50, Hawthorn A - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Sam Chang, Dr. Geraldine Farrelly, Dr. Abdul Rahman
Psychopharmacology 2018 - what is new, what is coming?
14:30 - 14:50, Hawthorn B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Thomas Joseph Raedler
RESIDENT: “Can it be Cured?!”: An Approach to Rapidly Progressive Dementia
14:30 - 14:45, Hawthorn C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Antonia Cappella
RESIDENT: Feedback for Psychiatry Training in Alberta
14:30 - 14:45, Bluebell - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Andrew Dutcher, Dr. Patricia Maron
RESIDENT: Eating Disorders in Late Life
14:45 - 15:00, Hawthorn C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Catherine Cheng
RESIDENT: Impact of Oil Recession on Community Mental Health Service Utilization in an Oil Sands Mining Region in Canada
14:45 - 15:00, Bluebell - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Ogechi Igwe
Prediction and Understanding of Resilience in Albertan Families. Longitudinal Study of Disaster Responses.
14:50 - 15:10, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Shui Jiang
Neuroplasticity as a Potential Therapeutic tool for the Brain and the Body
14:50 - 15:10, Hawthorn A - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Eleanor Stein
Sport Related Concussion Correlates with Lower Post-Concussion Psychiatric Outcomes and Overall Symptom Burden: A Retrospective Chart Review
14:50 - 15:10, Hawthorn B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Cormac Southam15:00RESIDENT: A Case Study of Cognition in a Euthymic Bipolar Patient: An objective measurement of cognitive ability before and after their diagnosis and their subjective experience.
15:00 - 15:15, Hawthorn C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Eric Gee
RESIDENT: Enhancing peer-support experience for patients discharged from acute psychiatric care: Protocol for a randomized controlled pilot trial
15:00 - 15:15, Bluebell - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Allen Fu
Lessons from the History of Psychiatry
15:10 - 16:00, Wildrose Salon C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Roger Bland
Getting UNSTUCK: Exposure Therapy for OCD
15:10 - 16:00, Hawthorn A - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Janet Caryk, Dr. Wes Miller
Food For Thought: A look at diet and mental health
15:10 - 16:00, Hawthorn B - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Jennifer Swainson
RESIDENT: The effects of the compositional ratio of THC/CBD in cannabis products, and implications in the future of Canadian Cannabis Legislation
15:15 - 15:30, Hawthorn C - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Ian King
RESIDENT: Improving mental health: a process evaluation using qualitative and quantitative analysis of a psychiatry education intervention in Mwanza, Tanzania for medical students
15:15 - 15:30, Bluebell - Evaluate the session
Speaker(s): Dr. Jadah Johnson, Dr. Jordan Li, Dr. Susan Poon16:00APA Annual General Meeting
16:10 - 17:10, Wildrose Salon C18:00President's Gala
18:30 - 23:59, Wildrose Salon A/B - 07:00Registration / Information Desk Open
07:00 - 12:00, Wildrose Prefunction Area08:00Hot Buffet Breakfast
08:00 - 08:30, Wildrose Salon A/B
APA and Section of General Psychiatry Annual General Meeting
08:30 - 10:30, Wildrose Salon C10:00Refreshment Break
10:30 - 11:00, Wildrose Prefunction Area11:00APA and Section of General Psychiatry Annual General Meeting Continued
11:00 - 12:00, Wildrose Salon C