Community and Research Engagement

Video includes:

• opening remarks
• ceremonial prayer and acknowledgment
• Keynote 1: "How to Tackle Head Injuries in Rugby" presented by Dr. Ben Jones
• Symposia 1: Tackling Injury in Rugby - A Focus on Girls and women
  • Speakers
    • Dr. Isla Shill - "Preventing injury and concussion in girls' rugby: What do we know and where are we going?"
    • Dr. Kathryn Dane - "Coaching Safe Tackling: Bridging Performance and Safety"
    • Dr. Danielle Salmon - "Concussions and their Mechanisms: The New Zealand Rugby Community Experience"
  • Abstract presenters
    • Eric Gibson - "Exploring Injury and Concussion Epidemiology in Canadian Male High School and Club Rugby Union"
    • Gavin McLennan - "Injuries and Concussions in Canadian Adolescent Club Rugby: Tackling the Issue Head-On"
    • Abby Heron - "Optimizing Adherence and Utilization Fidelity in a Neuromuscular Training Warm-Up in Girls' Rugby"
  • Panel members: Dr. Isla Shill, Dr. Kathryn Dane, Dr. Danielle Salmon, Sammy Poetker, Angie Tetley
• Keynote 2: "Amplifying the Voices of Women and Girls in Sport" presented by Dr. Tara-Leigh McHugh and Taylor McPherson

Video includes:

• Symposia 2: Redefining Injury Prevention for Women and Girls Sport
  • Speakers
    • Dr. Matthew Jordan - "Keeping Them in the Game: A New Approach to ACL Injury and Reinjury Prevention in Women's University Sport"
    • Dr. Brooke Patterson - "Engaging with community partners to implement evidence-informed injury prevention"
    • Dr. Jackie Whittaker - "The importance of sex, gender & intersectionality for injury prevention for women and girls sport"
  • Abstract presenters
    • Clara Soligon - "Tackling female health in rugby, one cycle at a time: Do menstrual cycle regularity and concussion history inform concussion prevention?"
    • Elizabeth Fletcher - "Tackling the physiology question: The influence of acute and season-long rugby participation on prefrontal cortical oxygenation in adolescent female players"
    • Jada Kiss - "Site-specific bone mineral density and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport in female adolescent artistic athletes"
  • Panel members: Dr. Matthew Jordan, Dr. Brooke Patterson, Dr. Jackie Whittaker, Julia Paulgaard, John Paton
• Symposia 3: Concussion Prevention in Youth Sport
  • Speakers
    • Dr. Paul Eliason - "Heads up! Using Injury Surveillance to Inform Concussion Prevention"
    • Emily Heming - "Through the lens of prevention: Using video analysis to gain a greater understanding of concussion prevention across sports"
    • Pamela Fuselli - "Guidelines, Policies, Protocols & Legislation: Applying the Evidence"
    • Dr. Shelina Babul - "Concussion Care in British Columbia - Have We Made Progress?"
  • Abstract presenters
    • Ash Kolstad - "Tackle Football Helmet Fit and Concussion: A Nested Case-Control Study"
    • Dr. Ian Shrier - "A first concussion likely increases the risk of subsequent concussion in adolescent ice hockey only among those who return to play without medical clearance"
    • Josh Burkart - "Development of a novel upper-body protocol for post-concussion exercise testing: The Calgary Adapted aRm Ergometer (CARE) concussion exertion test"
  • Panel members: Dr. Paul Eliason, Emily Heming, Pamela Fuselli, Dr. Shelina Babul, Dr. Cheryl Barnabe, Regan Meier
• Closing remarks