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7th Annual PIRN/RRPH Meeting Recap




This past November 2025, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute hosted the 7th Annual PIRN/RRPH Meeting in Vancouver!


Together, with allied health professional, researchers, trainees, and patient partners from across Canada and Australia, we explored ways to foster interdisciplinary research partnerships, enhance connections with non-tertiary hospital centres, and improve research accessibility for participants in Pediatric Hospital Medicine.


Our 7th annual meeting saw excellent engagement, with 102 attendees representing clinician, nursing, and allied health investigators, trainees, patient partners, and research staff. Thank you to everyone who joined us. Over the two days, 40 research posters were presented. Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s poster and oral abstract presentation awards (see below)!


A huge thank you to our co-hosts, Dr. Matt Carwana and Dr. Claire Seaton for their leadership in making the meeting a great success! We are grateful to all the speakers, including Dr. Tricia Kleidon, Dr. Quynh Doan, Dr. Stephanie Glegg, Terrace Desnomie, Dr. Tom McLaughlin, Dr. Jen Smitten, Dr. Zia Bismilla, Dr. Suzette Cooke, and Dr. Karen Forbes, for sharing their time, expertise, and thoughtful presentations.

Please look forward to attending our 8th Annual PIRN/RRPH Meeting on November 11th to 13th, 2026 in Toronto at the SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning!


Sketchnotes of some of the talks by Grace Leo will be featured in a series of posts to come


Some photographs from day 1 Dinner:



 
 
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to acknowledge the land on which SickKids operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, Toronto is home to Indigenous Peoples from across Turtle Island. SickKids is committed to working toward new relationships that include First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, and is grateful for the opportunity to share this land in caring for children and their families.

Last Updated: February 2026 by the PIRN Team.

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