Events 2014
Canadian Prenatal Genomic Microarray and Sequencing Symposium; Working Towards a Consensus
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
PGCRL Auditorium, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario
The following documents and presentations are available in Acrobat format.
- Program and agenda
- Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jim Stavropoulos, PhD, FCCMG
Clinical Lab Director, Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto - Observations on Clinical Genomics From the Sidelines
Steve Scherer, PhD
Director McLaughlin Centre and The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto - Prenatal Diagnosis in Ontario - Past Present and Future
David Chitayat, MD, FABMG, FACMG, FCCMG, FRCPC
Head, The Prenatal Diagnosis and Medical Genetics Program, Mount Sinai Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto - Prenatal Array CGH in CHU Ste-Justine: 5 Years of Experience
Frédérique Tihy, PhD, FCCMG
Cytogénéticienne, Service de génétique médicale CHU Ste-Justine, Montreal - Preicting the Challenges of Prenatal Microarray from the Postnatal Experience
Abdul Noor, PhD
CCMG Cytogenetics Fellow, The Hospital for Sick Children - Born in the USA: The American Approach to Prenatal Arrays
Marsha Speevak, PhD, FCCMG, FACMG
Genetics Laboratory Director, Trillium Health Partners, CVH, University of Toronto - Challenges of Consent in the Changing Prenatal Genetic Landscape
Kerry W. Bowman, PhD
Clinical Ethicist, Mount Sinai Hospital - Prenatal Genetics Going Array
Hana Sroka, M.SC., CCGC, CGC
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Hospital - Prenatal Array in the UK; Achieving a Consensus?
Bronwyn Kerr, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPCH, FRCP
Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Associate Medical Director
Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine - Prenatal Microarray: the Belgian Consensus
Bettina Blaumeiser, MD, PHD
Gynaecologist/Clinical Geneticist, Centrum Medische Genetica UZA/UZ - Summary (Prenatal genomic microarray and sequencing in Canadian medical practice)
Janet A. Buchanan, Elena Kolomietz, Hin C. Lee, Stephen W. Scherer, Marsha D. Speevak, Hana Sroka, Dimitri J. Stavropoulos - Prenatal Genomics Symposium, Survey Summary