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CME Events

CME Rounds 2024


November 22, 2024

Title: Lactation Medicine Support for OBGYN Grand Rounds
Speakers: Dr. Shawna Lamond and Dr. Lexie Curry

Objectives:

  • Explore why lactation is important and relevant to OB GYNs from an individual to global level 
  • Understand how lactation support is a risk reduction strategy when delivered with trauma informed care 
  • Identify the maternal features and complications that can increase risk of lactation challenges  
  • Increase awareness of antenatal consults and the benefits they provide for your patients  
  • Discuss hot topics emerging in Lactation Medicine   
  • Where to refer and how to refer to lactation clinics in Calgary and surrounding area

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November 15, 2024

Title: The Levator Ani Muscles, Our Supportive Friend
Speakers: Dr. Ann Rowan

Objectives:

  • Understand the anatomy and function of the levator ani muscles 
  • Appreciate their importance in pelvic organ prolapse and recurrence risk 
  • Their relevance to obstetric practice 

CME Event

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November 08, 2024

Title: Policy Updates on Maternal Substance Use
Speakers: Dr. Sumantra Monty Ghosh & Keith Goertzen

Objectives:

  • Discuss addiction and management of opioid use disorder in pregnant females.
  • Discuss new practices in supporting baby and mother.
  • Describing the Child Youth and Family Enhancement Act and the Duty to Report
  • Discussing the role of the healthcare team in supporting families prior to, during and after a report to Children and Family Services.
  • Indigenous Governing Bodies.
  • As we roll out a new Child Intervention Practice Guidance, what supports are needed in your area?

CME Event

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November 1, 2024

City-Wide Surgical Rounds - No recording due to privacy issues

October 25, 2024

Title: Multidisciplinary Approach to Complex Pelvic Pain Conditions and Surgery
Speakers: Dr. Tinya Lin

Objectives:

  • Multidisciplinary approach to complex pelvic pain conditions.
  • The role of the pain exam in determining who to operate on and setting post-op expectations.
  • Timing of surgery – should surgery be reserved for a specific time point in one’s treatment plan? 

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October 18, 2024

Title: OROV and RSV Two viruses to know about!
Speakers: Dr. Eliana Castillo and Dr. Vreni Kuret

Objectives:

  • Describe Oropouche virus and the impact of this emerging viral illness on pregnancy
  • Discuss case reports describing the potential effects of Oropouche virus on pregnant individuals and the fetus
  • Develop an approach to management of Oropouche virus in pregnancy
  • Describe the Burden of Infant RSV Disease in Canada
  • Compare the TWO newly “available” options for the Prevention of Infant RSV Morbidity and Mortality
  • Discuss Useful Strategies for Vaccine Communication During Pregnancy

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October 11, 2024

Title: Transitional Pain Service: an opportunity to change the pain trajectory
Speaker: Dr. Magali Robert
Objectives

  • Seamless pain care for individuals 
  • Appreciate the complexity of perioperative pain management 
  • Be able to identify individuals who are at risk of developing post-surgical chronic pain 
  • Implement strategies to modify the perioperative pain experience 

CME Event

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October 04, 2024

City-Wide Surgical Rounds - No recording due to privacy issues

September 27, 2024

Title: Advances in the Medical Management of Endometriosis and Uterine Fibroids
Speaker: Dr. Ally Murji
CME Event

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September 20, 2024

Title: Alberta Provincial Surveillance Program for Moderate to Severe Neonatal Hypoxic-ishcemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Wood
CME Event

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September 13, 2024

Title: Are Obstetrical Forceps Obsolete?
Speaker: Dr. Colin Birch
CME Event

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September 6, 2024

City-Wide Surgical Rounds - No recording due to privacy issues

June 28, 2024

Title: Gynecologic Pathologies in Pregnancy: Obstetrical Complications of Endometriosis and Adenomyosis
Speaker: Dr. Michael Secter
CME Event

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June 21, 2024

Title: The SOGC Wants You on Our Team
Speakers: Dr. Diane Francoeur, Dr. Lynn Murphy-Kaulbeck, Dr. Jocelynn Cook
CME Event

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June 14, 2024

City-Wide Surgical Rounds - No recording due to privacy issues

June 07, 2024

Title: Appetite for Integration: Fostering Improvements in Gastric Cancer Outcomes
Speaker: Dr. Trevor Hamilton
City-Wide Surgical Rounds - No recording due to privacy issues

May 31, 2024

Title: Hearing Loss: a Primer
Speaker: Dr. Rosaleen Chun
CME Event

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May 24, 2024

Title: VTE in Fibroids and Benign Gynecology: Preventing clots and managing bleeding
Speaker: Dr. Lauren Andrew
CME Event

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May 17, 2024

Title: Myomectomy in Pregnancy: An Analysis of the Evidence
Speaker: Dr. Paxton Ting
CME Event

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May 10, 2024

Title: Sacral Neuromodulation
Speaker: Dr. Shunaha Kim-Fine
CME Event

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May 03, 2024

No Grand Rounds Due To Research Day

April 26, 2024

Title: New Perspectives on Type 1 Diabetes in Pregnancy
Speaker: Dr. Serena Wang
CME Event

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April 26, 2024

Title: New Perspectives on Type 1 Diabetes in Pregnancy
Speaker: Dr. Serena Wang
CME Event

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April 19, 2024

Title: Inclusive Teaching Practices
Speaker: Dr. Amy Gausvik and Dr. Tito Daodu
CME Event

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April 12, 2024

Title: Fundamentals of Vulvar Conditions in Skin of Colour

Speaker: Dr. Shola Vaughn

UofA Rounds

No Recording Due to Privacy Issues

April 5, 2024

Title: 50 Years in Surgery and Many Lessons Learned

Speaker: Dr. C. Vaughan A. Bowen

City Wide Surgical Rounds

No Recording Due to Privacy Issues

March 22, 2024

Title: Connect Care: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Speaker: Dr. Kristin Ambacher 

CME Event

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March 15, 2024

Title: Improving Endometriosis Care Through Targeted Ultrasound

Speaker: Dr. Liane Belland, Dr. Lauren Andrew, Dr. Stephanie Nguyen, and  Dr. Danny Ng

CME Event

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March 08, 2024

Title: Inclusive Medicine: Transforming Medical Education through Language and Imagery Diversity

Speaker: Dr. Shaleeza Kaderali

CME Event

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March 01, 2024

Title: CPSA: Working with Physicians for a Healthier Alberta

Speaker: Dr. Jaelene Mannerfeldt, Dr. Richard Buckley and Dr. Dawn Hartfield

CME Event

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February 23, 2024

Title: A Glimpse into the World of Fetal Transfusions

Speaker: Dr. Gabrielle Bonneville

CME Event

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February 16, 2024

Title: To “Hyst” or Not to “Hyst”: Uterine Preservation in Contemporary Urogynecology

Speaker: Dr. Allison Edwards and Dr. Alison Carter Ramirez

CME Event

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February 9, 2024

Title: Fertility Preservation: Navigating the Gynecologic Needs of Assigned Females at Birth Requiring Gonadotoxic Therapies

Speaker: Dr. Kristina Arion

CME Event

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February 2, 2024

Title: Effective Communication for Surgeons in the Age of Misinformation

Speaker: Dr. Mojola Omole

City Wide Surgical Rounds

 No Recording Due to Privacy Issues

January 26, 2024

Title: Preventing the Preventable: Why Changing our Approach to Preeclampsia Can Save Mothers

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Cooper

CME Event

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January 19, 2024

Title: Medical Management of Jehovah’s Witnesses – A Collaborative Approach

Speaker: Grant Duda and Thomm Bokor

CME Event

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January 12, 2024

Title: Neurology of Pregnancy

Speaker: Dr. Bradley Jack Stewart 

CME Event

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January 05, 2024

Title: Benefits of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in Pregnancy and Adnexal Pathology

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Wilson

CME Event

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CME Rounds 2022

  1. New SOGC update on late preterm antenatal corticosteroids

    CME Event

  1. Headship Rounds held November 29, 2022

    Special Headship Rounds

    Dr. Erin Brennand, candidate for Department Head, Obstetrics and Gynecology, shares her vision for the department.  

  1. Contemporary Evidence Mandates Contemporary Guidelines: BSO at Benign Hysterectomy

    CME Event

  2. Trauma following forceps and vacuum delivery in Canada: time to change the narrative.

    CME Event

  3. Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy in Obs/Gyne

    CME Event

  1. PMS and PMDD: Diagnosis and Management

    CME Event

  1. Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorder

    CME Event

  1. Central Triage

    CME Event

  2. At the heart of pregnancy

    CME Event

  1. Management of Tubo-Ovarian Abscess

    CME Event

  2. Psychological Safety in our Learning Environments: Implications for Learning and Patient Outcomes

    CME Event

  1. Umbilical Cord Blood Cellular Therapy for Brain Injury

    CME Event

  2. SNACS: Our single dose versus double dose antenatal corticosteroid Randomized Control Trial

    CME Event

  1. Reducing postoperative Caesarean section infections in Calgary. Can we do better?

    CME Event

  2. Updates in Fetal Surgery

    CME Event

  1. Can we Eliminate Cervical Cancer Yes we Can

    CME Event with U of A

  2. Quality Improvement in Action: Reducing Delays to Surgery in ER Cases of Adnexal Torsion

    CME Event

  3. COVID in Pregnancy Webinar

    CME Event

  4. Nexplanon: the next frontier

    CME Event

  5. Endometriosis-associated ascites: Strategies for diagnosis and management.

    CME Event

Special Headship Rounds

Headship Rounds held November 29, 2022

Dr. Erin Brennand, candidate for Department Head, Obstetrics and Gynecology, shares her vision for the department.  

CME Rounds 2021

  1. ACCP: A Safe Alternative to hospital for high-risk pregnancies.

    CME Event

  2. Handling Avoidance in Pelvic Pain Treatment

    CME Event

  1. Diet and Endometriosis

    CME Rounds

  2. Severe Mat Morbidity FMC

    CME Event

  3. Genetics and Stillbirth

    CME Event 

  1. Covid-19 Update: Maternal Management

    CME Event

  2. Pitocin in Motion: Oxytocin dosing strategies in TOLAC patients

    CME Event

  3. Reducing Trauma from Birth – COVID Edition

    CME Event

  1. Health in Color: Black Women, Racism, and Maternal Health

    CME Event

  1. Clinical Pearls in Obesity for OBGYN

    CME Event

  2. ASPIRE PLUS: Practice Assessment in Uterine Fibroids.

    CME Rounds

  1. Too Much of a Sugar High

    CME

  2. Growing Pains: The Fetal Growth Curve Dilemma

    CME

  3. 'Covid in Pregnancy - Management decisions from home to ICU. A case based approach'

    CME 

  4. COVID in Pregnancy

    CME

  1. COVID-19 VACCINATION IN PREGNANCY IN ALBERTA – UPDATE Spring 2021CME – UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

    CME Rounds

  2. Hypertension following Pregnancy – a local perspective

    CME Rounds

  3. Can olanzapine reduce nausea for our post-operative patients?

    CME

  4. Paper of the Month: Dienogest for the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea

    CME Rounds

  1. Pediatric Gynecology for the Generalist

    CME Rounds

  2. Female Reproductive Health in Kidney Disease

    CME Rounds

  1. Score Cards in Gynaecology

    CME Rounds

  2. Aspirin – Miracle Drug to Prevent Preterm Birth?

    CME Rounds

  3. Neuropathic Pain in Women’s Health

    CME Rounds

  1. Prolapse, Prisoners, and Preemies: an update on pessary use in pregnancy.

    CME Rounds

  2. Perioperative anemia and iron deficiency

    CME Rounds

  3. Management of Twin Pregnancies: SOGC Guidelines

    CME Rounds

CME Rounds 2020

  1. Long(-er) term gonadotropin suppression in endometriosis, adenomyosis, and fibroids

    Rounds

  2. Covid Round Table

    Rounds

  1. Cannabis use in Pregnancy. Not a crime, but not the time.

    Rounds

  2. Trial of Labour after Myomectomy: TOLAM or not TOLAM

    Rounds

  3. Staying Out of Headlines: Patient Refusal of Care for Dummies

    Rounds

  4. Post Cesarean Section Analgesia: Is there a magic formula?

    Rounds

  1. The Gender Pay Gap - how it exists in fee for service

    Rounds

  2. Caring for COVID-19 Mother-Infant Dyads – Update & Local Experience

    Rounds

  3. Beyond the Pill: A Hormonal Contraceptive Update

    Rounds

  4. Implementation of Routine First Trimester Combined Screening for Preeclampsia

    Rounds