| Monday, 21 November 2016 | |||
| 7:30 am | Vanity Fair Foyer | Breakfast | |
| 7:30 am | Lobby Lounge (main floor) | Registration | |
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Sovereign Ballroom | Welcome [More Info] Speaker: Casey Jonathan, Councillor, Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation | |
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Sovereign Ballroom | Opening: HIV in Ontario 2016 [More Info] Speaker: Sean Rourke, Scientific and Executive Director, Ontario HIV Treatment Network | |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Sovereign Ballroom | How Syndemics Drive HIV [More Info] Moderator: Barry Adam, Director of Prevention, Ontario HIV Treatment Network, and University of Windsor Speaker: Matthew Mimiaga, Professor, Behavioural & Social Health and Epidemiology, and Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behaviour , Brown University Speaker: LaRon Nelson, Associate Director of International Research, Center for AIDS Research, University of Rochester Medical Center Speaker: Earl Nowgesic, Assistant Professor, Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division , University of Toronto Speaker: Zack Marshall, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo | |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Vanity Fair Foyer | Break | |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | Knightsbridge | Syndemic factors driving HIV in ACB communities [More Info] Moderator: Valerie Pierre-Pierre, African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario Speaker: Amrita Daftary, Assistant Professor, McGill University Speaker: Liviana Calzavara, Professor, University of Toronto Speaker: Wangari Tharao, Program and Research Manager, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Speaker: Erica Lawson, Western University (London, ON) | |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | Vanity Fair Ballroom | Syndemic factors driving HIV in gay men and other men who have sex with men [More Info] Moderator: Robb Travers, Wilfrid Laurier University Speaker: Barry Adam, Director of Prevention, Ontario HIV Treatment Network, and University of Windsor Speaker: Nathan Lachowsky, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria Speaker: Olivier Ferlatte, Postdoctoral Research fellow, University of British Columbia Speaker: Ruth Cameron, AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area Speaker: Simon Coulombe, Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University | |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | Belgravia | Visioning Health: Understanding syndemic factors affecting Indigenous women [More Info] Moderator: Anita Benoit, University of Toronto Speaker: Tracey Prentice, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) Speaker: Doris Peltier, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) | |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | Kensington | Syndemic factors driving HIV in other populations [More Info] Moderator: Zack Marshall, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo Speaker: Carmen Logie, University of Toronto Speaker: Yasmeen Persad, Women’s College Research Institute Speaker: Taylor McLinden, PhD Candidate, McGill University Speaker: Marilou Gagnon, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa | |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | Pall Mall | Community Initiatives to Address Syndemics and Build Resilience [More Info] Moderator: Suzanne Paddock, Toronto PWA Speaker: Molly Bannerman, Rittenhouse Speaker: Bill O'Leary, University of Toronto Speaker: Chilombo Olawole, The Teresa Group Speaker: Dorothy Odhiambo, The Teresa Group Speaker: Anna Demetrakopoulos, AIDS Bereavement and Resiliency Program of Ontario Speaker: Rene Boucher, Elevate NWO | |
| 11:45 am - 12:45 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | Taking a Big Picture View to Stop Syndemics and Build Resilience [More Info] Speaker and Moderator: Josephine Wong, Associate Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Ryerson University Speaker: David Stuart, Substance Use Lead, 56 Dean Street Speaker: Janet Smylie, Associate Professor, Epidemiology Division and Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division , University of Toronto | |
| 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm | Vanity Fair Foyer | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | Syndemics, Resiliencies and Successful Aging among Gay Men [More Info] Moderator: Trevor Hart, Ryerson University Speaker: Ron Stall, Director of the Center for LGBT Health Research, University of Pittsburgh | |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Vanity Fair Ballroom | Understanding resilience [More Info] Moderator: Ron Rosenes Speaker: Trevor Hart, Ryerson University Speaker: Paul MacPherson, Research Scientist, Chronic Disease Program , The Ottawa Hospital Speaker: Alan Li, Regent Park Community Health Centre Speaker: Desmond Deng-Min Chuang, Regent Park Community Health Centre Speaker: Josephine Wong, Associate Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Ryerson University Speaker: Ciro Bisignano, Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment (CAAT) | |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Pall Mall | Listening to community voices [More Info] Moderator: Joanne Lindsay Speaker: Muluba Habanyama, Community activist Speaker: Denise Baldwin, Oahas Speaker: Gemma Georgina Bisessar, Toronto Public Health Speaker: Celeste Bilbao-Joseph, HIV/AIDS Mental Health Clinical Counsellor, Centre for Spanish-Speaking People Speaker: Gerardo Betancourt, Sexual Health Education & CBR Evaluator HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, Centre for Spanish-Speaking Peoples | |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Belgravia | Engaging peers [More Info] Moderator: Tsi Tsi Tegere Speaker: Alan Li, Regent Park Community Health Centre Speaker: Ciro Bisignano, Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment (CAAT) Speaker: Isabel Nantaba, Community Health Worker, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Speaker: Tracey Conway, The Ontario CHIWOS National PRA Representative, CHIWOS | |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Knightsbridge | Gender, sexual agency and HIV risk for vulnerable groups of women and men: community-based perspectives [More Info] Speaker: Lance McCready, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Speaker: Winston Husbands, Senior Scientist, Ontario HIV Treatment Network Speaker: Yasmin Lalani, Independent Researcher Speaker: Wangari Tharao, Program and Research Manager, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands | |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Kensington | Culture as intervention: holistic healing and wellness with First Peoples communities [More Info] Speaker: Carol Hopkins, Executive Director , Thunderbird Partnership Foundation Moderator: Tracey MacKinnon, Blue Sky Community Healing Centre | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Vanity Fair Ballroom | Understanding HIV through Art [More Info] Moderator: Darien Taylor Speaker: Andrew Zealley, Artist, Researcher, Educator, Disco Hospital Speaker: Syrus Ware, Coordinator, Art Gallery of Ontario Youth Program, Art Gallery of Ontario Speaker: Alison Duke, Multi-Media Artist , Goldelox Productions | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Vanity Fair Foyer | Break and Poster Session | |
| 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | Comprehensive Strategies to Reduce Risk [More Info] Moderator: David Brennan, University of Toronto Speaker: Thomas Kerr, Director, Urban Health Research Initiative, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Speaker: Brian Mustanski, Director, Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Northwestern University Speaker: Leo Wilton, Professor, Binghamton University | |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Vanity Fair Ballroom | Exploring risk and prevention [More Info] Moderator: Ayden Scheim, Western University Speaker: Maya Kesler, University of Toronto Speaker: Paul Shuper, Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Speaker: Patrick O’Byrne, Associate Professor, Ottawa University Speaker: Steven Morrison, Medical Student, University of Toronto Speaker: Trevor Hart, Ryerson University | |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Kensington | Evidence to guide prevention programs [More Info] Moderator: Glen Walker, Positive Living Niagara Speaker: Francisca Omorodion, Professor, University of Windsor Speaker: Sandra Chu, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Speaker: Emily Van der Meulen, Ryerson University Speaker: Miya Narushima, Brock University Speaker: Dimple Bhagat, Regent Park Community Health Centre Speaker: Doe O'Brien Teengs, Lakehead University Speaker: Josephine Etowa, Ottawa University | |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Knightsbridge | Managing the new normal in substance use outreach [More Info] Moderator: Yvette Perrault, AIDS Bereavement and Resiliency Program of Ontario Speaker: Paula Tookey, South Riverdale Community Health Centre Speaker: Natalie Basaraba, Harm Reduction and Outreach Coordinator, ARCH Speaker: Alana Martin, PROUD Study | |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Belgravia | 2Shawls [More Info] Speaker: George Georgievski, University of Toronto Speaker: Tony Nobis, OAHAS | |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | Do Black Lives Matter? Social Justice & Theorizing Syndemics: The Implications for reducing HIV disparities in African, Caribbean and Black Communities [More Info] Moderator: LLana James, High Impact Field Based (HiFi) Interventions Lab Speaker: Idil Abdihalli, Ryerson University Speaker: Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto Speaker: Leo Wilton, Professor, Binghamton University Speaker: Sannie Tang, Assistant Professor, York University Speaker: Ciann Wilson, Wilfrid Laurier University | |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Pall Mall | Workshop: Building-in Engagement: Exploring activity-based community advisory committees in HIV CBR [More Info] Speaker: Sarah Switzer, York University Speaker: Soo Chan Carusone, Research Lead, Casey House | |
| 6:00 pm | Vanity Fair Ballroom | Reception [More Info] Speaker: Tomson Highway, Author | |
| Tuesday, 22 November 2016 | |||
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Vanity Fair Foyer | Breakfast | |
| 7:45 am - 8:15 am | Kensington | Special breakfast session: Counselling clients about PrEP [More Info] Speaker: Isaac Bogoch, Clinical Researcher, Toronto General Health Research Institute | |
| 8:30 am - 9:45 am | Sovereign Ballroom | Where Community Meets Clinic: Improving Engagement, Retention and Adherence [More Info] Moderator: Paul MacPherson, Research Scientist, Chronic Disease Program , The Ottawa Hospital Speaker: Julia Hidalgo, Research Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management , George Washington University Speaker: Seth Kalichman, Professor, Department of Psychology , University of Connecticut | |
| 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Kensington | Care engagement: barriers and strategies [More Info] Moderator: Beth Rachlis, Researcher in Residence, Ontario HIV Treatment Network Speaker: Maureen Owino, Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment Speaker: Maxime Charest, Clinical Research Assistant, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Speaker: Desmond Miller, Community Research Coordinator, weSpeak: Straight Black Men Building Resilience to HIV in Ontario | |
| 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Belgravia | Taking up Indigenous research in the HIV endgame [More Info] Speaker: Renée Masching, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) Speaker: Marni Amirault, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) Speaker: Tracey Prentice, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) | |
| 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Sovereign Ballroom | The Path to Care: A Linkage Worker’s Intervention [More Info] Moderator: Vibhuti Mehra, Executive Director, AIDS Committee of York Region Speaker: Julia Hidalgo, Research Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management , George Washington University | |
| 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Vanity Fair Ballroom | Directions for Gay Men's Research in Ontario [More Info] Speaker: David Brennan, University of Toronto Speaker: Trevor Hart, Ryerson University Speaker: Paul MacPherson, Research Scientist, Chronic Disease Program , The Ottawa Hospital | |
| 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Knightsbridge | Visualizing narratives: Recounting masculinity and HIV in “The Test” and “iAMwill” [More Info] Speaker and Moderator: Wesley Oakes, Research Coordinator, Africans in Partnership Against AIDS Speaker: Winston Husbands, Senior Scientist, Ontario HIV Treatment Network Speaker: Henry Luyombya, Ontario HIV Treatment Network Speaker: Richmond Obeng, Filmmaker and producer, Creative Haus | |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Vanity Fair Foyer | Break | |
| 11:00 am - 12:45 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | Responding to Mental Health and Addiction Issues [More Info] Moderator: Trevor Hart, Ryerson University Speaker: Reed Siemieniuk, Ph.D. Candidate, Health Research Methodology , McMaster University Speaker: Travis Lovejoy, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology , Oregon Health and Science University Speaker: David Stuart, Substance Use Lead, 56 Dean Street Speaker: Roberta Timothy, Co-Director, Continuing Healing Consultants, University of Toronto | |
| 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm | Vanity Fair Foyer | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community [More Info] Moderator: Earl Nowgesic, Assistant Professor, Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division , University of Toronto Speaker: Andrew Jolivette, Professor and Interim Executive Director of the San Francisco American Indian Community Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | The Art of Adoption: How to Implement Evidence-based Programs/Interventions [More Info] Moderator: LaRon Nelson, Associate Director of International Research, Center for AIDS Research, University of Rochester Medical Center Speaker: Seth Kalichman, Professor, Department of Psychology , University of Connecticut Speaker: Maureen Scahill, Nurse Practitioner, Trainer/Public Health Specialist, University of Rochester | |
| 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Vanity Fair Foyer | Break | |
| 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Knightsbridge | Integrating Research and Public Health/Program Practice to End the HIV Epidemic in African, Caribbean and Black Communities [More Info] Moderator: LaRon Nelson, Associate Director of International Research, Center for AIDS Research, University of Rochester Medical Center Speaker: Dawn Scarlett, Peel HIV/AIDS Network (PHAN) Speaker: Lawrence Mbuagbaw, McMaster University Speaker: OmiSoore Dryden, Thorneloe University Speaker: Gillian Strudwick, PhD Student, University of Toronto | |
| 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Vanity Fair Ballroom | What should an Ontario-wide periodic survey of the syndemics that drive HIV among GB2M look like? [More Info] Speaker and Moderator: Aidan Ablona, Investigaytors Research Coordinator, University of Toronto Speaker: David Arron, Investigaytors Project, OHTN and Cruise Lab Speaker: Anthony Boni Speaker: Nathan Gibson Speaker: Moosa Jamal Speaker: Dakin McDonald Speaker: Eugene Nam Speaker: Mac Stewart | |
| 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | Workshop: What’s Hot with PRAs? [More Info] Speaker: James Watson, Coordinator, CBR and Peer Training, Ontario HIV Treatment Network | |
| 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Belgravia | HIV and Indigenous Voices in Ontario: Strength and Wisdom [More Info] | |
| 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Kensington | Strategies for caring for people who use substances during hospital admissions [More Info] Moderator: Jason Altenberg, South Riverdale Community Health Centre Speaker: Adrian Guta, Assistant Professor, University of Windsor Speaker: Carol Strike, University of Toronto Speaker: Soo Chan Carusone, Research Lead, Casey House Speaker: Darrell Tan, University of Ottawa & The Ottawa Hospital Speaker: Ann Stewart, Casey House | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | HIV Stigma: Is there an Answer? [More Info] Speaker and Moderator: Winston Husbands, Senior Scientist, Ontario HIV Treatment Network Speaker: Carmen Logie, University of Toronto Speaker: Josephine Wong, Associate Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Ryerson University Speaker: Alan Li, Regent Park Community Health Centre Speaker: Alessandro Bisignano, Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment (CAAT) Speaker: Rachel MacLean, Project Officer, Canadian Public Health Association Speaker: Arthur "Dave" Miller, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) | |
| 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Sovereign Ballroom | Closing Discussion: What will it take to get to the HIV endgame? [More Info] Chair: Tony Di Pede Chair: Mary Mwalanda | |
| 5:00 pm | Kensington | Community Debriefing Circle for Recent Multiple Losses [More Info] Moderator: Anna Demetrakopoulos, AIDS Bereavement and Resiliency Program of Ontario Moderator: Rene Boucher, Elevate NWO | |
