KBHN Second Virtual Conference
The Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) is excited to be hosting its second virtual conference on November 8-9, 2021. The theme for this year’s conference is Realizing Change through Partnerships and Research Innovation. We are looking forward to highlighting the outstanding research and practice being done across Canada in the field of children-focused neurodevelopmental disabilities.
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Call for submissions
Deadline for submissions: July 30, 2021, by 4 p.m. EST
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Confirmation of KBHNConf2021 Invitation: August 13, 2021
Deadline for Poster Presenter to Accept: August 20, 2021
The Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) is excited to be hosting its second virtual conference on November 8-9, 2021. The theme for this year’s conference is Realizing Change through Partnerships and Research Innovation. We are looking forward to highlighting the outstanding research and practice being done across Canada in the field of children-focused neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Why submit an abstract?
The KBHN conference brings together trainees, researchers, practitioners, educators, family members and people with lived experience to exchange and share their experiences, practice, and research results on all aspects of children-focused neurodevelopmental disabilities. The theme of partnerships is embedded throughout the conference, enabling knowledge sharing and strengthening our most valuable resource: our community of research partnership. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform to present and discuss the most recent research in neurodevelopmental disabilities.
The conference provides opportunities:
- To network with researchers, community workers, policy makers, clinicians, clinician-scientists, advocates, people with lived experience, parents and families, and organizations in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities.
- To keep up-to date with knowledge in research methodology and findings from brain health research. You will hear about the bridges between organizations in the community, highlights and/or major strides made in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities, and hear patient and family perspectives.
- To support and enhance the knowledge translation of your work and/or findings.
- To share and learn from each other’s research and research partnership experience to evolve and strengthen family engagement methodology.
- Receive feedback about your work through knowledge sharing, engagement, and networking.
- Build your CV through professional development opportunities. Prizes and certificates will be awarded to the best E-posters and lightening talks presented at the conference.
Who can submit an abstract?
We are seeking contributions for e-posters and lightening talks that span all disciplines and all levels of experience (e.g., trainees, early career and senior researchers and clinicians, community partners, people with lived experiences, family members, and professionals). We encourage presenters from diverse backgrounds and training levels to submit an abstract, including non-academic researchers and community advocates. Teams of parents or youth and trainees, early career, senior researchers, and clinicians are also encouraged to submit abstracts together.
What types of abstract to submit?
The selection committee is particularly interested in receiving abstracts for e-posters and/or lightening talks that address the following themes:
- Basic/Clinical Research Study abstracts:
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- Basic Science Research: Projects that model neurodevelopmental disorders to elucidate underlying mechanisms or projects that develop screening protocols or putative interventions and test their utility;
- Clinical/Community Research: Investigating novel interventions or innovations in clinical practice undertaken in a pediatric population with a focus on improving neurodevelopmental health outcomes;
- Knowledge Mobilization/Community Education & Program Promotion abstracts:
Projects or activities from researchers and community members that promote improved awareness and/or understanding of key issues for neurodevelopmental disabilities across stakeholder communities; - Family Partnership Community of Practice abstracts **NEW THIS YEAR**:
With the theme of this year’s conference focusing on partnerships in research, the KBHN Family Partnership Community of Practice will offer an opportunity to showcase the evolution of research partnerships and how they impacted the research project. These projects must be co-presented by at least 1 family member/individual with lived experience and 1 researcher. We encourage teams to focus on presenting on how the research engagement relationship has evolved and how joint decisions changed the research project. We hope that by offering an opportunity to present this methodology to the wider scientific community, that presenters will refine their articulation of family engagement in research principles and illuminate barriers and facilitators in effective research partnerships.
How to submit?
All submissions must be made online by July 30th, 2021.
Please contact us at conference@kidsbrainhealth.ca with any questions.
