Canadian PACT

The deadline to register for the PACT meeting is Wednesday, June 7.

The meeting will be held on  June 22nd in Niagara Falls, ON.

To find out more about the meeting or to register, please contact canadianpact@gmail.com.

Keynote Speaker: The keynote speaker at the PACT meeting will be Dr. Ryan Zarychanski, He is a Critical Care physician, hematologist, and clinician scientist at the University of Manitoba and CancerCare Manitoba. His topic is “Meta-analysis for researchers: More than the sum of each part?”

This session will explore how systematic reviews, and both conventional and cutting-edge procedures in meta-analyses, may be used to inform the design and conduct of your research programs.

The Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials group gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Association of Canadian University Departments of Anesthesia.

We are pleased to announce the dates of the next SUMMER meeting of the Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials (PACT) group will be held  June 22nd, 2017 in Niagara Falls, ON.

Keynote Speaker: The keynote speaker at the PACT meeting will be Dr. Ryan Zarychanski, He is a Critical Care physician, hematologist, and clinician scientist at the University of Manitoba and CancerCare Manitoba. His topic is “Meta-analysis for researchers: More than the sum of each part?”

This session will explore how systematic reviews, and both conventional and cutting-edge procedures in meta-analyses, may be used to inform the design and conduct of your research programs.

To find out more about the meeting, please contact canadianpact@gmail.com.

The Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials group gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Association of Canadian University Departments of Anesthesia.

Join your colleagues from across the country on Feb. 3 at the Westin Ottawa for the Winter PACT Meeting. The meeting is once again in collaboration with the LUCAS 2017 conference.

Dr. Dean Fergusson will speak about Innovative Pragmatic Trials. Given the need of comparative effectiveness trials and the many logistical and regulatory challenges facing traditional clinical trials, there is an urgent and vital need for the development and implementation of innovative trial methods and approaches.

An innovative pragmatic trial platform enables researchers to compare established, funded standard of care treatments where clinical equipoise exists and address relevant patient-focused questions not answered through the current trials model and mindset.  Such innovative pragmatic trials challenge the fundamental processes of traditional trial performance across the spectrum from design (patient-centred, patient-determined, simple unrestrictive eligibility criteria, pragmatic endpoints), methodology (oral consent, randomisation with mobile apps in the clinic, harnessing big data and digital technologies to collect data) – all with the aim of reducing the amount of time needed to answer research questions. In doing so, innovative pragmatic trials increase the relevance and generalizability of research findings to patients, health care providers and policy makers.

Consider presenting

Attendees are encouraged to consider presenting. Those interested in presenter should contact Heather Butler by January 3. New protocol presenters will be provided a template presentation to guide the talk.

For more information on the event, including how to book your accommodations, email Heather Butler.

Read the article “Can we create a Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials Group? We review the first five years and glimpse into the future” to learn more about PACT’s journey to date.

We are pleased to announce the dates of the next WINTER meeting of the Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials (PACT) group: Friday, February 03, 2017 in Ottawa, ON at The Westin Ottawa (http://www.thewestinottawa.com/ ).

To find out more about the meeting, please contact canadianpact@gmail.com.

The Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials group gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Association of Canadian University Departments of Anesthesia.

The Canadian Journal of Anesthesia has published an editorial by Chair Dr. Rick Hall and the steering committee on the launch of the PACT network in the December 2010 issue.  You can read the article here:  CJA Editorial or directly from SpringerLink.