CME Events

May 09, 2025

Title: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: What Is It and How Is It Actually Useful?

Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Mamdani, PharmD, MA, MPH ("he, him")

Objectives:

• Describe basic concepts in artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine
• Discuss current and emerging applications of AI in medicine
• Summarize key opportunities and challenges in the use of AI solutions in clinical practice and provide examples of AI in obstetrics and gynaecology

view recording

May 02, 2025 City-Wide Grand Rounds

City-Wide Grand Rounds

Cancelled

April 25, 2025

Title: Didn't Earn It: The Myth of Meritocracy – Part II: Who Cares About Equity Diversity and Inclusion?

Speakers: Dr. Pamela Chu and Gauri Taneja

Objectives: 

• Define meritocracy: what it is and why it is perceived as fair​
• Understand the hidden curriculum: how informal social networks, ​mentorship, and sponsorship influence opportunities
• Describe structural barriers: how race, gender, socioeconomic status, and disability can impact career advancement
• Bias in evaluations: review research on disparities in performance evaluations, letters of recommendations, and promotions

CME Event

view recording

April 18, 2025

Grand Rounds Cancelled

April 11, 2025

Topic: Skin Deep: Problem Scars and their Management

Speaker: Dr. Steven A. Hanna 

Objectives: 

• Understand the basic principles of wound healing
• Understand the pathophysiology of hypertrophic/keloid scars
• Understand current management of problem scars and indications 

CME Event

view recording

April 04, 2025

Topic: Give Yourself Room To Breathe: Mindfulness Practices in Surgery

Speaker: Dr. Carol Hutchison

No recording due to privacy issues

CME Event

March 28, 2025

Topic: Who cares about equity, diversity and inclusion? Part I: The evolution of inequity in women's health 

Speaker: Dr. Pamela Chu

Objectives:

• Understand the historical context of inequity in women's health with a specific focus on the Canadian and Albertan context.
• Explore the impacts of this history on contemporary language, practices, and attitudes that perpetuate inequity in women's health.

CME Event

view recording

March 21, 2025

Topic: Sleep in Pregnancy - Review of common issues and questions

Speaker: Dr. Allan Kember

Objectives:

• To review the state of knowledge and guidelines for three common sleep disorders in pregnancy (sleep-disordered breathing, insomnia, and restless legs syndrome).
• To understand the characterization, prevalence, risk factors, associations, outcomes, screening, diagnosis, and management of three common sleep disorders in pregnancy.
• To introduce the social determinants of sleep and principles of sleep hygiene.
• To identify two frameworks for inferring causality using observational data.
• To discuss the corpus of evidence relating to evidence of mechanism and statistical evidence vis á vis maternal sleeping posture, fetal growth, and late stillbirth risk.
• To combine the above learning points with RCOG’s guideline to be able to answer patients’ common and advanced questions about sleeping posture in pregnancy.

*Due to technical issues, no recordings of this presentation have been made*

CME Event

March 14, 2025

Title: The Unknown Bug: Examining a rare case of Clostridium Sordellii infection in a postpartum patient

Speakers: Dr. Gabrielle Wagner and Dr. Katherine Lo 

Objectives: 

• Provide an overview of C. sordellii infections and highlight learning opportunities through review of a rare case of postpartum C. sordellii toxic shock syndrome
• Review the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and management of C. sordellii infections 
• Compare and contrast toxic shock syndromes caused by other bacterial infections
• Discuss preventive strategies and opportunities for change in current practice 

No recording due to privacy issues

CME Event

March 07, 2025

No Grand Rounds – Clara Christie Day Event

February 28, 2025

Title: Placental Pathologies: A clinically practical guide to common and rare pathologies

Speaker: Dr. Gabrielle Bonneville

Objectives: 

• List important placental structures and functions  
• Understand the main pathological findings, ultrasound findings and clinical outcomes in each of the following pathological entities:  
  • Maternal vascular malperfusion (MVM) 
  • Fetal vascular malperfusion (FVM) 
  • Villitis of unknown etiology (VUE) 
  • Chronic histiocytic intervillositis (CHI) 
  • Massive perivillous fibrin deposition (MPVFD) 
• Review current literature on recurrence risk and potential preventative strategies   

CME Event

view recording

February 21, 2025

Title: The Importance of an Obstetrical Survey System Learnings from the PPQAC

Speaker: Dr. Philippa Brain

Objectives: 

• To understand the critical incident review process
• To review quality safety
• To review a case of maternal mortality
• To understand local reviews
• To see the value of individual cases 
• To learn future improvements

CME Event and Educational Case Rounds

No recording due to privacy issues

February 14, 2025

Title: Current Insights on GSM Management and Treatment Advances

Speaker: Dr. Shunaha Kim-Fine

Objectives: 

• Provide an overview of the genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM)
• Review the pathophysiology of vulvovaginal atrophy & sex hormone deficiency in menopause
• Summarize the latest GSM guidelines
• Introduction to novel therapeutic option for vulvovaginal atrophy management in postmenopausal women
• Review of pivotal safety and efficacy clinical studies.

CME Event

view recording

February 07, 2025

Title: Are We Ready for AI in Medical Education? Perspectives from the Royal College Taskforce on AI

Speaker: Dr. Tanya Horsley

City-Wide Rounds – No recording due to privacy issues

CME Event

January 31, 2025

Title: Legal Information with Field Law, Part II: An update on birth injury law in Canada and demystifying the state of women's reproductive legal rights in a post Roe v. Wade world

Speakers: Justine Blanchet and J. Mark Jackson, K.C.

University of Alberta welcomes Field Law partners Mark and Justine on January 31st, 2025. For this presentation, they will provide an update on birth injury laws in Canada, and will unpack the legal impact on women's reproductive rights following the US Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade. 

UofA Event – Cancelled

January 24, 2025

Title: Perioperative considerations for gender-affirming surgery in transgender men and non-binary patients

Speaker: Dr. Carmen Soltys

Objectives:

Describe the effect of exogenous testosterone on the gynecologic organs. 
Manage unwanted or abnormal uterine bleeding in transgender and non-binary patients. 
Implement an approach to the consult for gender affirming hysterectomy and oophorectomy, including discussion regarding: 

• Management of perioperative testosterone
• Fertility preservation
• Long-term health consequences of bilateral oophorectomy
   

CME Event

view recording

January 17, 2025

Title: Bones Are (Not) Hard: Osteoporosis for Obstetricians

Speaker: Dr. Laura Hinz

Objectives:

• Define osteoporosis and state why it is important 
• Discuss screening, diagnosis, and treatment options for post-menopausal osteoporosis 
• Evaluate the role of BMD and FRAX in premature ovarian insufficiency 
• Describe the effect of aromatase inhibitors on bone 
• Recognize the entity of Pregnancy and Lactational Osteoporosis 
• Consider the role of BMD in ovarian suppression (GnRH use)  

CME Event

view recording

January 10, 2025

Title: The Return of M&M ROUNDS!

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Cooper

Objectives:

• Introduce the concept of bias in adverse outcome analysis 
• Evaluate system level issues that may lead to severe maternal adverse outcome 
• Identify learning opportunities by review of a case of septic shock in Obstetrics 

CME Event

view recording