Symposium Resources

Symposium and presentation surveys

Thank you for attending the 2025 NSO Symposium! We appreciate your participation and invite you to share your feedback on the event and speakers.

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Presentation surveys

To receive Continuing Education Credits (CECs), please complete a survey for each presentation you attended. Click the links below to access individual surveys.

Thursday, September 18 presentations:

Privacy and the Rights of the Child - Bartha Knoppers, Ph.D, McGill University
High Res Metabolomics - Tim Garrett, Ph.D, University of Ottawa
Genomics Data - Dalia Kasperaviciute, Ph.D, Genomics England
CPHI Pillar 1 Projects and Canadian Genomics - Naveed Aziz, Ph.D, Genome Canada
Secondary Use - Robin Hayeems, ScM, Ph.D, University of Toronto
INFANT Project at NSO - Neal Sondheimer, MD, Ph.D, Newborn Screening Ontario
AI in the Clinical Laboratory - Christopher McCudden, Ph.D, Vice Chair & Professor, Dept. of Pathology & Lab. Medicine, University of Ottawa

Friday, September 19 presentations:

Weather - Scott Shone, Ph.D, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Cybersecurity - Alicia St. Hill, MBA, Executive Director, BORN Ontario
Privacy Challenge in BC - Hilary Vallance, MD, University of British Columbia
ED3N - Carla Cuthbert, Ph.D, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
All for One/National Data Sharing - Kym Boycott, MD, Ph.D, University of Ottawa

Submitted abstracts

Explore the abstracts submitted for this year's symposium. Click on any title below to view or download the PDF.

Abstract Title	Authors
Long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders: A review of newborn screening around the globe for LC-FAOD	Mauricio Morales, Ida Schwartz, Jennifer Audi, Sarah C. Grünert, Pinay Kainth, David Kasper, Tatiele Nalin, Marzia Pasquali, Iveta Sosova, Go Tajima, Kimimasa Tobita, Nicole Miller, and Vanessa Rangel Miller
Assessing the Acceptability of Genomic Profiling in Newborn Screening for Childhood Cancer: A Scoping Review Focused on French-Speaking Minority Populations in Canada	Elisha Chadha
Improvement Era: Optimizing Patient Data Storage and Team Processes in Relation to Key Performance Metrics	Meghan Fraser and Sara Elliott
Reporting of Hemoglobin Traits: 11 Years of Experience from Maritime Newborn Screening	Corey Filiaggi, Dr. Sarah Dyack, and Dr. Zaiping Liu
The development and validation of the Clinician-reported Genetic testing Utility InDEx for Newborn Screening (C-GUIDE NBS): An international initiative	Robin Z. Hayeems, Salma Shickh,Stephanie Luca, Elise Poole, Bowen Xiao, Amanda Pichini, Joanna Ziff, Katrina Stone, Zornitza Stark, Lilian Downie, Jade Caruana, Holly Peay, Heidi Cope, Casey Okoniewski, Wendy J. Ungar, Pranesh Chakraborty, and David Bick
Recommendations from the Newborn Screening Advisory Panel: Working Towards a Future Pan-Canadian Coordinated Approach for Newborn Screening	Colleen Donder
Negative Urine Results after a CMV Positive Screen on the Newborn Dried Blood Spot: A Quality Improvement Initiative	Emily Reuvers, Lauren Gallagher, Pranesh Chakraborty, Melanie Lacaria, Kristin Kernohan, Jason Brophy, Ari Bitnun, and Jessica Dunn
Untargeted Metabolomics of Dried Blood Spots Using Mass Spectrometry in Glutaric Aciduria Type 1	Stephanie M. Dobson, Aziz Mhanni, Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg, Izabella Pena, Alicia DiBattista, and Matthew Henderson
Measuring What Matters: A New Approach to Timely Newborn Screening	Benjamin Sigurdson, Philippe Morin, and Emeril Santander

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