Thursday, November 9, 2017

9:00 am – 4:00 pm Certified Respiratory Educator Competency & Exam Update

4:30 – 5:00 pm CNRC AGM

5:00 – 5:30 pm Welcome Reception

5:30 – 6:15 pm No Client Left Behind: New Treatments in Smoking Cessation Speaker: Robert Reid PhD MBA

6:15 – 6:45 pm Learning Theory: Not Just for the Exam Speaker: Aaron Ladd RRT MEd CRE CTE

6:45 – 7:00 pm Refreshment Break

7:00 – 8:00 pm Keynote Address Caring for the Caregiver Speaker: Michael Reist BA BEd MA(T)

Friday, November 10, 2017

8:00 – 8:45 am Breakfast Symposium Symptoms of COPD Never Sleep: Helping Patients Feel Better and Do More Speaker: Brandie Walker MD PhD FRCPC

9:00 – 9:15 am Welcome & Opening Remarks SpeakerS: Cheryl Connors CNRC Executive Director Dr. Ken Chapman CNRC President Heather Sharpe & Darrel Melvin Conference Co-Chairs

9:15 – 10:15 am Keynote Address Inspiring Healthy Behaviour Change Speaker: Victor J. Strecher PhD MPH

10:15 – 10:45 am Refreshment Break & Visit Exhibits

10:45 am – 12:00 pm Workshops 101 Asthma Case Conundrums FacilitatorS: Mary Noseworthy MD FRCPC & JP Leung MD

102 Motivating the Unmotivated: How to Use Motivational Interviewing Skills FacilitatorS: Diane Feldman RRT CRE CTE & Ana MacPherson MASc RRT CRE CTE

103 No! Try Not! Do or Do Not. There is No Try! Using CBT to Facilitate Change Facilitator: Andrea White Markham RRT CRE CTE

104 New Therapies + New Devices = New Skills FacilitatorS: Chris Haromy BSc RRT CRE & Jennifer MacKinnon BSc RRT CRE

105 Learn to Rumble with the Discharge Bundle: Discover How the COPD Discharge Bundle Impacts Care FacilitatorS: Carolyn Walker RN BN, Lesly Deuchar BScN MN & Marta Michas MSC PhD

106 Energy Management for Work & Life Facilitator: Loretta Langille BHSc CEC CTE

Friday, November 10, 2017, continued

12:00 – 12:45 pm Lunch 12:45 – 1:00 pm Breath Assess Tool Launch – Speaker: Dilshad Moosa BSc MASc RRT CRE CTE

1:00 – 1:30 pm Symposium Sub-optimal Inhaler Technique in Asthma and COPD Patients: Strategies for Improvement Speaker: Raza Zaheer PhD

1:30 – 2:00 pm Understanding Asthma COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS) Speaker: Richard Leigh MBChB MSc PhD FCP (SA) FRCPC

2:00 – 2:30 pm Symposium What’s New in Paediatric Asthma? Speaker: Mary Noseworthy MD FRCPC

2:30 – 3:00 pm Refreshment Break & Visit Exhibits

3:00 – 3:30 pm Severe Asthma – Biologics Speaker: Patrick Mitchell BBLS MB BCh BAO MRCOI

3:30 – 3:45 pm Poster Presentations – Two Minutes Two Slides

3:45 – 5:00 pm Workshops 201 Lost in Translation: Making the Most of your Time with a Professional Language Interpreter FacilitatorS: Amy Massie RRT CRE, Angela Shaw RRT CRE, Adrienne Racher RRT CRE & Taylor Kirktown RRT CRE

202 Are Meditation and Mindfulness the Next Tools in the CRE’s Toolkit? Facilitator: Mieke Fraser BSc RRT CRE

203 Nuts or No Nuts: Practical Tips on Managing Food Allergies FacilitatorS: Margot Underwood RN MN CRE CTE & Ingrid Baerg RN BScN CAE

204 Vocal Cord Dysfunction: A Great Asthma Masquerader Facilitator: Mary Noseworthy MD FRCPC & Kathy Courtney RRT CRE

205 Practical Management of Alpha1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Facilitator: Ken Chapman MD MSc FRCPC FACP FERS

206 Rolling the Dice on Pneumonia Sponsored by Facilitator: Christopher Mody MD FRCPC FCCP FACP FCAHS

6:00 pm Social Night Out at the Cochrane Ranchehouse

“A Little Bit Country & A Little Bit Rock n’ Roll”

Saturday, November 11, 2017

8:00 – 8:45 am Breakfast Symposium The Role of Palliative Care in ILD & COPD Speaker: Ken Chapman MD MSc FRCPC FACP FERS

9:00 – 10:00 am Keynote Address Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything? When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash Speaker: Timothy Caulfield BSc LLB LLM

10:00 – 10:30 am Poster Session – Refreshment Break & Visit Exhibits

10:30 – 11:00 am What’s New in Food Allergy? Speaker: Harold Kim MD FRCP

11:00 – 11:02 am Remembrance Day Moment of Silence

11:02 am – 12:30 pm Workshops 301 Marijuana Implications for CREs & CTEs FacilitatorS: Kathy Hayward BSP CDE CRE CTE, Diane Conley RRT CRE CTE and Leslie Paramchuk RRT CRE CTE

302 Asthma Tools with a Purpose FacilitatorS: Cinde Little RRT CRE, Cindy Bronconnier RRT CRE, Kathy Courtney RRT CRE, Ambris Ford RRT CRE, Val Olson RRT CRE & Shirley van de Wetering BSC MBA

303 Allergy Management for Respiratory Educators Facilitator: Harold Kim MD FRCP

304 Think Outside the Lung: The Impact of Breathing Patterns in Respiratory Disease FacilitatorS: Jessica DeMars BSc PT & Donna Turner BSc RRT CRE

305 KISS With Brief Action Planning FacilitatorS: Ana MacPherson MASc RRT CRE CTE, Sally Kirby BSc RD CDE & Diane Feldman RRT CRE CTE

306 Changing the Conversation: Adding the Art of Medicine to Asthma Management Sponsored by

FacilitatorS: Dilshad Moosa BSc MASc RRT CRE CTE & Colleen Makarowski RRT CRE CTE

12:30 – 1:30 pm A. Les McDonald Awards Luncheon

1:30 – 2:15 pm Symposium Managing Tobacco Use Disorder in the Mental Health Population Speaker: Ron Pohar BSc Pharm

2:15 – 2:45 pm Making Sense of Women’s Continued Smoking During Pregnancy Speaker: Caroline Porr BScN MN PhD

3:00 – 3:30 pm Refreshment Break & Visit Exhibits

3:15 – 4:15 pm Marijuana 101 Speaker: Peter Selby MBBS CCFP FCFP MHSc DipABAM

4:15 – 4:30 pm Respiratory Health & Marijuana – The Evidence Speaker: Ken Chapman MD MSc FRCPC FACP FERS

4:30 – 4:45 pm Marijuana Q&A with Dr. Selby & Dr. Chapman

4:45 – 5:00 pm Closing Remarks