Registration for Niagara Health Knowledge Institute Research Day on Thursday, May 2, is now open.
The fourth annual edition of the event, where healthcare researchers from throughout Niagara, Hamilton and the Greater Toronto Area gather to share their work, happens at Niagara College’s Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
This year’s theme is Inclusion of Equity-deserving Groups in Research. Event highlights will include a keynote speaker, research poster presentations showcasing work that achieves the vision of a healthier Niagara in the hospital and in the community. In addition, one staff research award and one physician research award will be presented to Niagara Health team members.
Niagara Health is a leader in community hospital research and is involved in multi-centre studies and clinical trials in cardiology, critical care medicine, emergency medicine, hematology and transfusion medicine, neurology, oncology and thrombosis.
Research Day is organized by the Niagara Health Knowledge Institute Research Day Planning Committee, which also includes our partners Brock University, Niagara College, McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine – Niagara Regional Campus and the Niagara Health Foundation.
Bernice Downey.
Keynote speaker announced
The Niagara Health Knowledge Institute is honoured to welcome Bernice Downey, Associate Dean of Indigenous Health at McMaster University as the 2024 Research Day keynote speaker.
Bernice Downey is a woman of Ojibwe (Saulteaux) and Celtic heritage, a mother and a grandmother. She is a medical anthropologist and joined the School of Nursing at McMaster University in March 2017.
Downey is cross-appointed with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and was recruited as the Indigenous Health Lead for the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster. She holds a Heart & Stroke Foundation - Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Chair in Indigenous Women’s Heart and Brain Health. In 2021, Downey was appointed as the inaugural associate dean of Indigenous Health.
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