| 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. |
Registration, Frontenac Foyer
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| 7:30 a.m. |
Exhibitors' Floor Opens, Frontenac Foyer, Queen's Quay and Bay Rooms |
| 7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. |
Haiti – Feature Breakfast, Frontenac Ballroom |
| 8:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. |
Technology Day – Welcoming Remarks, Frontenac Ballroom |
| 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. |
Plenary Session II: Reaction to Novel Public Health Emergencies,
Gulf Oil Spill, Frontenac Ballroom
Plenary Speaker: Dr. LuAnn White |
| 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. |
Morning Break |
| 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
Concurrent Sessions II, TOPHC Breakout Rooms – Oral Presentations |
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Infectious Disease and Emergency Management, Regatta Room:
- Managing H1N1 Communications for Ontario
Presented by: Don Willison, Kevin Finnerty

- Preferences for Rapid Point-of-Care HIV Testing in a Female Family Medicine Population
Presented by: Michael Schwandt, Eileen Nicolle, Sheila Dunn

- Ranking the Burden of Infectious Diseases: the Ontario Burden of Infectious Disease Study (ONBOIDS)
Presented by: Jeff Kwong, Michael Campitelli, Sujitha Ratnasingham, Nick Daneman, Shelley Deeks, Doug Manuel, Natasha Crowcroft
- Vulnerable and At-Risk Populations During Emergencies with Public Health Significance: A Review and Analysis
Presented by: Yasmin Khan, Brian Schwartz

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Technology, Dockside 1:
- Creating healthytimiskaming.ca: A Bilingual Online Network Made by, and for, Timiskaming
Presented by: Amanda Mongeon
- SIMID: A tool for SIMulation of Infectious Disease Enabling Spatio-Temporal Visualization of the Dynamics of Influenza Outbreaks
Presented by: Eileen de Villa, Matt McPherson, Lilia Leticia Ramirez Ramirez
- Sloshed: Using Video Games to Illustrate Consequences of Binge Drinking
Presented by: Ken Hudson, Jean Terhaar
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Making Ontario the Healthiest Province in Canada, Marine Room
Presented by: Linda Stewart, Michelle Gold, Doug Manuel, Heather Manson, James Mandigo
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Moving Injury Prevention Forward in Ontario, Dockside 3
Presented by: Jennifer Lodge
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The Toronto Food Strategy: A New Approach to Bridging Community and City Government, Dockside 6
Presented by: Seodhna Keown, Len Mirander, Violetta Cardella, Brian Cook
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Managing Difficult TB Cases and Situations, Pier 2
Presented by: Elizabeth Rea, Marnie Kraguljac
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Multi-Jurisdictional Real-Time Exchange of Public Health Information: A Case for Fusion Centres, Dockside 9
Presented by: Judyth Gulden, Richard Bochenek
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Situational Assessment and Program Planning: THCU Tools that Support
the Ontario Public Health Records, Dockside 2
Presented by: Jodi Thesenvitz, Larry Hershfield |
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New Research in Alcohol Policy, Pier 3
Presented by: Norman Giesbrecht, Robert Mann, Carly Heung, Benjamin Rempel |
| 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. |
Luncheon – World Health Day, Frontenac Ballroom
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| 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
Concurrent Sessions III – Training Workshops, TOPHC Breakout Rooms |
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Applying a Population Health Approach to Planning and Decision-Making, Regatta Room
Presented by: Emily Maddocks, Lisa Corscadden

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Brief Contact Cessation Interventions: Working Together to Support Tobacco-Use Cessation, Dockside 5
Presented by: Lynn Ward, Lynn Johnston

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Don't Hazard a Guess: Learning How to Develop a Hazard-Identification Risk Assessment (HIRA) and a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) for Your Organization, Dockside 1
Presented by: Judyth Gulden, Richard Bochenek
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Evidence-Informed Public Health Decisions Made Easy: Take it One Step at a Time, Dockside 3
Presented by: Jacqueline Muresan, Kara DeCorby, Donna Ciliska, Paula Robeson, Maureen Dobbins
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Introduction to Environmental Investigations for Public Health, Dockside 6
Presented by: Rena Chung, Erin Hodge
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Knowledge Exchange and Bringing Evidence to Practice: Supporting the Foundational Standard, Marine Room
Presented by: Ingrid Tyler, Nandini Saxena, Beverly Bryant, Isabel Michel, Susan Snelling, Megan Ward, Penny Sutcliffe

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Policy Development Skills, Pier 2
Presented by: Nancy Dubois

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Public Health Planning for Mass Gathering Events – Lessons from the G8 and G20, Dockside 9
Presented by: Jessica Harris, Brian Schwartz, Charles Gardner, Mark Lysyshyn, Howard Shapiro |
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Using Social Marketing to Change Behaviour, Pier 3
Presented by: Linda Yenssen, Pat Cliché
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Ontario Public Health Innovations: Global Applications, Dockside 2
Presented by: Arlene King, Kamran Khan, Niall Wallace
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| 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. |
Afternoon Break |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Exhibitors' Floor Re-Opens, Frontenac Foyer, Queen's Quay and Bay Rooms |
| 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. |
Reception – Focus on Social Media, Frontenac Foyer and Frontenac Ballroom |

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