• Abstracts from the 2020 Sebastian K. Littmann Research Day 

  Patten, Scott B. (Cumming School of Medicine, Psychiatry, University of Calgary, 2020-03-06)

  These are the abstracts from the 33rd Annual Sebastian K. Littmann Research Day, held on March 6, 2020.

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: What is the Role of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Audiologists, Nurses and Speech Language Pathologists According to Academic Literature and Canadian Newspaper Coverage? 

  Villamil, Valentina; Deloria, Rochelle; Wolbring, Gregor (Cumming School of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 2020-01-20)

  Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) increasingly influences products and processes used by social workers, occupational therapists, audiologists, nurses and speech language pathologists (health professionals ...

• Comparing the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patients with non-cancer and cancer diagnoses in a tertiary palliative care setting 

  Bandeali, Suhair; des Ordons, Amanda Roze; Sinnarajah, Aynharan (Cumming School of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, Critical Care Medicine, Family Medicine, Medicine, Oncology, University of Calgary, 2019-11-27)

  OBJECTIVE: The purpose was to describe the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patients with non-cancer serious illness diagnoses compared to those of patients with cancer. METHOD: We conducted a ...

• Description of Continuous Palliative Sedation Practices in a Large Health Region and Comparison with Clinical Practice Guidelines 

  Abdul-Razzak, Amane; Lemieux, Laurie; Snyman, Maggie; Perez, Grace; Sinnarajah, Aynharan (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2019-09-03)

  Background: Published reports of continuous palliative sedation therapy (CPST) suggest heterogeneity in practice. There is a paucity of reports that compare practice with clinical guidelines. Objectives: To assess adherence ...

• A population-based study of the associations between neighbourhood walkability and different types of physical activity in Canadian men and women 

  Nichani, Vikram; Vena, Jennifer E.; Friedenreich, Christine Marthe; Christie, Chelsea; McCormack, Gavin R. (Cumming School of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 2019-11-05)

  Few Canadian studies have examined whether or not associations between neighbourhood walkability and physical activity differ by sex. We estimated associations between perceived neighbourhood walkability and physical ...

• Risks of Dysglycemia Over the First 4 Years After a Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy 

  Wen, Chuan; Metcalfe, Amy; Anderson, Todd; Sigal, Ronald J; Johnson, Jo-Ann; Carson, Michael; Nerenberg, Kara A (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2019-07-25)

  Women with the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) (preeclampsia [PE] and gestational hypertension [GHTN]) have increased risks of future diabetes. Postpartum glycemic testing offers early identification and treatment ...

• Acellular pertussis vaccine effectiveness and waning immunity in Alberta, Canada: 2010–2015, a Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) study 

  Bell, Christopher A.; Russell, Margaret L.; Drews, Steven J.; Simmonds, Kimberley A.; Svenson, Lawrence W.; Schwartz, Kevin L.; Kwong, Jeffrey C.; Mahmud, Salaheddin M.; Crowcroft, Natasha S. (University of Calgary, University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta Health Services, Alberta Ministry of Health, University of Toronto, Public Health Ontario, University of Manitoba, Post-print, 2019-06-01)

  Background Pertussis is still frequently reported in Canada. In Alberta, pertussis incidence ranged from 1.8 to 20.5 cases per 100,000 persons for 2004–2015. Most cases occurred in those aged <15 years. In Alberta, acellular ...

• Antigenic variation in the Lyme spirochete: detailed functional assessment of recombinational switching at vlsE in the JD1 strain of Borrelia burgdorferi 

  Verhey, Theodore B; Castellanos, Mildred; Chaconas, George (Wiley, Cumming School of Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/self-archiving.html, Post-print, 2019-01)

  Borrelia burgdorferi is a causative agent of Lyme disease and establishes long-term infection in mammalian hosts. Persistence is promoted by the VlsE antigenic variation system, which generates combinatorial diversity of ...

• METRICS: a pattern language of scholarship in medical education 

  Ellaway, Rachel H.; Topps, David A. (Cumming School of Medicine, Other, University of Calgary, Publisher's version, 2017-11-07)

  Scholarly activity in health professions education has been growing steadily but despite the broad interest, quite what is considered to be scholarly activity in medical education has remained vague. Boyer’s classes of ...

• Abstract booklet from the 2019 Sebastian K. Littmann Research Day 

  Patten, Scott B. (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2019-03-01)

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