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Conference Program

Program (September 12-13, 2024)
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Keynote Address


Presented by The Hon. Jane Philpott, Former Minister of Health, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University

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Known as a changemaker with impeccable integrity, the Honourable Jane Philpott lives to serve the greater public good. Her desire to create a healthier, more just world has been the driving force throughout her career which has seen her work as a family doctor in West Africa and Ontario, as a Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister, a health sciences academic, and a daring leader. As a driving force behind the national conversation on improving access to primary health care, she delivers compelling talks on building a healthier future for Canada.

From 2015-2019, Philpott served as Canada’s Minister of Health, Minister of Indigenous Services, President of the Treasury Board, and Minister of Digital Government. During this time, she played a lead role in policies that shaped Canada on a national level, including bringing Syrian refugees to Canada, legislating Medical Assistance in Dying, negotiating a health accord with resources for mental health and home care, improving infrastructure for First Nations to provide clean water on reserves, and reforming child welfare to reduce the over-apprehension of Indigenous children.

Today, Philpott is the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the School of Medicine at Queen's University. She is also the CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization. Prior to politics, Philpott spent the first decade of her medical career in Niger, West Africa. She was also a family doctor for 17 years and served as the Chief of Family Medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital in 2008.



Coaching Workshops


Available on Day One and Two (September 12-13, 2024)

Get individual Peer Leader coaching with a Peer Leader who uses your EMR.  Peer Leaders can provide support and advice on how to best utilize your EMR and other digital health tools to enhance your office workflow and ease administration burden. Peer Leader appointments can be booked and limited slots are available.



Available on Day Two (September 13, 2024)

These semi-private (up to 2 people at each table) coaching sessions are designed to provide you with a practical approach and guidance on leveraging your practice data and other available data sources to create and implement a Practice Improvement Plan. These sessions will be beneficial to any clinicians and their staff who are working on their quality improvement projects, including CPSO QI initiatives. The sessions are limited in availability.



Available on Day Two (September 13, 2024)

These 75-minute round table workshops will allow you to learn from OntarioMD Peer Leaders in a group environment. Ask Questions, network with other colleagues who are dealing with similar workflows. Get tips and tricks to improve practice efficiency and ease administrative burden. Peer Leaders using Accuro EMR, OSCAR PRO and PS Suite EMR will be accessible to you.



Streams


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Presented by Kelley Zwicker, MD, OMD Specialist Physician Peer Leader, and Sean Keerkland, Systems & Software, East Ottawa Kids Care Clinic & Kids Come First


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In this session, learn about the free, point-of-care for preventive care for older people (PCOP) tool from the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP). By easily integrating with TELUS PS Suite Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and facilitating the latest evidence into practice, it can help clinicians provide fulsome preventive care for aging patients. Health behaviours (physical/sedentary activity, social isolation, loneliness), fall prevention, cardiovascular health, cancer screening, fragility fractures, immunizations and more will be discussed.

Presented by Amy Freedman MD, CCFP (COE), FCFP, Family Physician, St. Michael’s Academic Family Health Team and Baycrest, and, Makayla Gomes, MHIS, BHSc, Project Coordinator, Centre for Effective Practice (CEP)


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In this session, explore emerging tools that enhance daily clinical decision making related to mental health. The session will focus on the Evidence2Practice (E2P) tool for anxiety disorders and major depression in adults, its support for primary care clinicians and lessons learned from its initial implementation phase.

Presented by:

  • Dr. Trish Rawn, Clinical Service Director, Centre for Effective Practice (CEP)
  • Sharon Bal, MD, Family Physician, Lead of the Delta Coronation FHO
  • Dr. Angela Coderre-Ball, Project Manager, Evidence2Practice Ontario, Centre for Effective Practice (CEP)


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In this session, discover how implementing a cervical screening toolbar can help reduce delays and close the care gap. The session will address the importance of effective and timely cervical screening, follow-up, and treatment of women’s health.  

Presented by Rebecca Wray, MD, Family Physician, Regional Primary Care and Cancer Screening Lead, Central East Regional Cancer Program, and Shannon Bourke, Director, Regional Programs, Central East Regional Cancer Program


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In this session, learn how physicians in all health-care settings can use data from Ontario Health practice reports to improve patient outcomes. The session will share details of the learning modalities that support data usage for quality improvement (QI) and expand on future opportunities as the evolution of primary care data reports continues.

Presented by Stacey Bar-Zig, Manager, Clinical Quality Improvement, Ontario Health, and Aiman Hameedi, Senior Quality Improvement Specialist, Ontario Health

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In this session, understand the true value in bringing together a community of local primary care providers with a passion for digital health innovations. Glean transferable insights to build your own digital health community of practice.

Presented by Jeremy Chad, MD, MD, MSc, CCFP, Primary Care Digital Co-Lead, North York Toronto Health Partners


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In this session, participants will hear insights from The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids Hospital) on designing, implementing, and optimizing a remote care management (RCM) program for paediatric patients. Using concrete examples of how to use app-based educational and monitoring parameters for patients at home, the session will illustrate the value of an RCM program in optimizing the patient and provider experience.

Presented by Daniel Rosenfield, MD and Co-Lead, Virtual Care, Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Sick Kids Hospital; Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto; and Ashley Graham, Senior Clinical Manager, Digital and Virtual Care, Sick Kids Hospital


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In this session, discover how to balance work – paper, computer, and otherwise. Learn how to avoid distractions and use AI in your EMR to minimize charting pain.

Presented by John Crosby, MD, OntarioMD Physician Peer Leader, Assistant Professor of Medicine



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At the end of this session, participants will explore the transformative potential of AI Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on practical applications for clinical workflows and data management. The session will focus on how AI LLMs can be leveraged to generate custom clinical templates, data mining within the EMR, and understanding the power and limits of AL LLMs as a tool.

Presented by Ian Pun, MD, Family Physician, Rouge Valley FHO, Scarborough



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In this session, discover how AI tools can save you time by completing routine (yet essential) tasks in clinic workflows. Hear results from pilot studies and real-world applications on the value of streamlining tasks, including task/tickler and inbound fax processing, to fulfill more value-added work and reclaim time for you and clinic staff.

Presented by Shane Teper, MD, Chief Medical Officer, WaiveTheWait, and Shreyansh Anand, Chief Executive Officer, WaiveTheWait


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In this session, hear about our health-care system inefficiencies, the common causes, potential solutions, and suggestions for physicians on maximizing productivity.

Presented by Omar Gheriani, MD, President, Dr. Inbox


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In this session, learn about how online appointment booking (OAB) will replace standard methods like phone, fax, and traditional mail. Hear how aggregating OABs into a Jurisdictional Scheduler, with a single patient access point, could simplify appointment tracking for patients and allow physicians to continue maintaining their own systems.

Presented by Jonathan Marcus, MD, Primary Care Physician, Empower Health


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In this session, explore the benefits of blending agile methodologies into a team-based practice. Gain knowledge of tools that optimize workflows, enhance team collaboration, support continuous quality improvement and improve the patient experience, at the same time.

Presented by Antonio Rodriguez, Founder and CEO, Relay Care

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