Can-GARD hosts and co-sponsor special invited speakers series, rounds and symposiums.

2025 Can-GARD/CCMG National Grand Rounds – The Leading Strand Series

January 31, 2025

tbd

Nicola Brunetti-Pierri, MD
Professor of Medical Genetics, Dept. of Translational Medicine, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Principal Investigator, Molecular Therapy Program, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine

March 28, 2025

tbd

Martine Tetreault, PhD
Associate professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of Montreal, Canada
Researcher, CHUM Research Centre (CRCHUM)

April 25, 2025

tbd

Philippe Campeau, MD, FCCMG
Medical Geneticist, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Montreal
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Paediatrics Université de Montréal

May 30, 2025

tbd

Anne O’Donnell-Luria, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Mendelian Genomics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA
Faculty Member, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA

 

 

2024 Can-GARD/CCMG National Grand Rounds – The Leading Strand Series

January 26, 2024

Novel Outcome Measures For Genomic Medicine

Robin Hayeems, ScM, PhD
Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, SickKids Research Institute
Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

 

March 22, 2024

Genetic Medicine For Rare Neurogenetic Disease

James Dowling, MD, PhD
Staff Clinician, Division of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Professor, Departments of Paediatric and Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Genetics and Genome Biology Program, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto

 

April 26, 2024

The Cardiac Genome Clinic: Using the Genome to Enhance Care for Patients and Families with Heart Disease

Rebekah Jobling, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor,Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto
Co-director, Cardiac Genome Clinic, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research
Associate Director, Genome Diagnostics Laboratory
Staff Physician, Clinical Metabolic Genetics, SickKids, Toronto

 

May 31, 2024

Development of Gene Therapy for GM2 Gangliosidosis and Creatine Deficiency Disorders

Dr. Jagdeep Walia, MBBS, FRCPC, FCCMG
Clinician Scientist, KGH Research Institute
Professor, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences

 

 

2023 Can-GARD/CCMG National Grand Rounds – The Leading Strand Series

January 27, 2023 

New Adventures in neurogenetics

James Dowling, MD, PhD
Senior Scientist, Program of Genetics and Genome Biology, SickKids Research Institute
Staff Clinician, Division of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children
Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto

 

March 31, 2023 

Genetic Test Interpretation From Pathogenicity to Variant Function

Dennis Lal, PhD
Associate Staff at Cleveland Clinic Genomic Medicine Institute and Neurological Institute, Cleveland, OH, US
Assistant Professor in Molecular Medicine Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, US
Visiting Scientist at Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T., Cambridge MA, US
Group Leader, University of Cologne, Köln, NRW, Germany

 

April 28, 2023

Tandem DNA Repeat Expands our Understanding of Complex Disorders

Ryan Yuen, PhD
Senior Scientist, Program of Genetics and Genome Biology, SickKids Research Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto

 

May 26, 2023 

The Health Impact of Founder Mutations In The French Canadian Population of Quebec: A Historical Perspective

Bernard Brais, M.D.C.M., M.Phil., PhD, FRCP(c)
Neurogeneticist
Professor of Neurology, McGill University
Co-director of the Rare Neurological Disease Group, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

 

 

2022 Can-GARD/CCMG National Grand Rounds – The Leading Strand Series

January 28, 2022 

Genomic Evolution and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Health and Disease

Sarah A. Tishkoff, PhD
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor
Departments of Genetics and Biology
Director, Penn Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

 

March 25, 2022
Diagnostic Strategies in Genetic Neuromuscular Diseases

Jodi Warman Chardon, MD, MSc, FRCPC (Neurology)
Director, NeuroMuscular Centre, The Ottawa Hospital
Neuromuscular, Ottawa Hospital I Associate Scientist, OHRI
Neurogenetics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario I Scientist, CHEORI

 

April 29, 2022

 

May 27, 2022

*webinar not recorded

 

February 26, 2021

Malformations caused by somatic mutation

Matthew Warman, MD
Director, Orthopedic Research Laboratories
Professor, Orthopedic Surgery
Boston Children’s Hospital

*webinar not recorded

 

March 26, 2021

Common and rare regulatory variation in genetic disease

Stephen Montgomery, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University

*webinar not recorded

 

April 30, 2021

Lafora disease:  from residency to therapy

Berge Minassian, M.D.
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Chief of Child Neurology, UT Southwestern, Neuroscience Center at Children’s Health, Dallas

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2020 Can-GARD/CCMG/CIHR National Grand Rounds – The Leading Strand Series

January 31, 2020

Model Systems to predict response to CFTR directed therapies?

Felix Ratjen, MD
Division Chief, Respiratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children
Head & Senior Scientist, Transplational Medicine, SickKids Research Institute
&
Christine Bear, PhD
Senior Scientist, Molecular Medicine, SickKids Research Institute

 

April 24, 2020

DNA: From Diagnosis to Therapy

Aneal Khan, MD, M.Sc., FRCPC, FCCMG
Professor, Medical Genetics and Paediatrics
Univesrity of Calgary
Alberta Children’s Hospital

 

May 29, 2020

A new paradigm to support clinicians in patient-specific rare disease research

Anna Lehman, MD, CCMG, FRCPC

Associate Professor of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia
Investigator, British Columbia Children’s and Women’s Hospital Research Institutes
Clinical Geneticist, Adult Metabolic Diseases Clinic, Vancouver General Hospital

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2019 Can-GARD/CCMG/CIHR National Grand Rounds – The Leading Strand Series

January 25, 2019

Clinical utility of RNA sequencing for rare disease and childhood cancer

James Dowling, MD, PhD
Senior Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology Program, SickKids Research Institute
Neurologist, Department of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children
&
Adam Shlien, PhD, FCCMG
Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology Program, SickKids Research Institute
Associate Director, Translational Genetics Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children

Talk Location: Daniels Hollywood Theatre, SickKids, 555 University

 

February 22, 2019

Phenotyping with and without typing: Capturing and sharing RD data for the 21st century genetics clinic

Michael Brudno, PhD
Senior Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology, SickKids Research Institute
Program Director, Centre for Computational Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Talk Location: Robert B Salter Auditorium, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning

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April 26, 2019

FGF23-Mediated Hypophosphatemia: From Discovery to Therapy

Leanne Marie Ward MD FRCPC
Professor of Pediatrics, Research Chair in Pediatric Bone Health, University of Ottawa
Medical Director, Pediatric Bone Health Clinical and Research Programs, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario

Talk Location: Event Room 3a/b, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning

 

May 31, 2019

Identifying neural signaling networks in Autism

Karun Singh, PhD
Scientist and Neural Program Lead, Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
McMaster University
Talk Location: Robert B Salter Auditorium, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning

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June 28, 2019
Implementation of clinical genomic DNA methylation testing for patients with neurodevelopmental presentations and congenital anomalies

Bekim Sadikovic, PhD
Associate Professor, Western University
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London
&
Deanna Alexis Carere, ScD, C/CGC
Genome Analyst, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine London Health Sciences Centre