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Call for Abstracts: Forum 2023


Submission Deadline: April 14, 2023, 12:00 PM ET

  • Note: Canadian Forces Health Services (CF H Svcs) personnel who are considering submitting an abstract must inform LCol Gary Johnston, SSO S&T, Canadian Forces Health Services Group HQ at gary.johnston2@forces.gc.ca prior to submission.

The Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR) will be hosting its annual Forum from October 16-18, 2022, in Ottawa-Gatineau.

CIMVHR Forum provides an opportunity for researchers to showcase emerging research to academics, practitioners, government officials, and policy makers. Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for consideration for both oral and poster presentations related to military, Veteran, public safety personnel and their family’s health and well-being. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to:

  • Knowledge translation

  • Creative arts and/or recreation-based interventions/therapies 

  • Population health 

  • Peer support 

  • Homelessness 

  • Therapeutic use of psychedelics and other drugs 

  • Women’s health 

  • Cannabis and cannabinoids 

  • Sex, gender, intersectionality 

  • Opioids 

  • Families 

  • Addictions 

  • Aging and long-term care 

  • Personalized medicine 

  • Military to civilian transition 

  • Environmental and military exposures 

  • Military medicine 

  • COVID-19 

  • Military and Veteran adaptive sport 

  • Chronic health conditions, disease burden 

  • Veteran employment, education, volunteering 

  • Prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries 

  • Public Safety Personnel 

  • Chronic pain prevention/management 

  • Cognitive assessment, processing, function 

  • Prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury 

  • Prevention and treatment of moral injury 

  • Prevention and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder 

  • Prevention and treatment of operational stress injury

The program will enable participants to discuss and understand key research activities that can influence research development, policy development, programs, clinical practice, and implementation.

CIMVHR will accept research and program/intervention evaluation abstracts for poster , podium and symposia presentations from early February 2023 to April 14, 2023, 12:00 pm noon (Eastern Time). Abstract submissions will not be accepted thereafter.

For all inquiries about abstracts please contact Michelle Daigle at michelle.daigle@queensu.ca or by telephone 613-533-6000 ext. 75709.

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