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Event Recording
Watch a recording of the virtual BC COVID-19 Symposium held on April 9, 2020 by the BC Centre for Disease Control and the University of British Columbia.
Agenda
1:30 pm
Introduction and Overview
- Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer
- David Patrick, BCCDC; UBC
- Robert McMaster, UBC
1:45 pm
Diagnostics, Genomics and Transmission Dynamics
- Natalie Prystajecky
- Mel Krajden, BCCDC
- Steve Jones, GSC
- Peter Unrau, SFU
2:00 pm
Clinical Trials and Patient Management
- Josef Penninger, UBC
- Srin Murthy, UBC
- Jim Russell, UBC
- Richard Lester, UBC
2:30 pm
Epidemiology & Public Health Response
- Danuta Skowronski, BCCDC
- Manish Sadarangani, BCCH
- Caroline Colijn SFU & Michael Otterstatter
2:45 pm
Social Dynamics, Communications and Trust
- Cynthia Jardine, University of The Fraser Valley
- Yue Qian, UBC
- Kelley Lee & Julia Smith, SFU
- Emily Rempel, CDC
3:10 pm
Development of Therapeutics and Vaccines
- Bo Barnhart, AbCellera, Inc
- Artem Cherkasov, UBC
- Eric Jan, UBC
- Francois Jean, UBC
- Horacio Bach, UBC
- Sriram Subramaniam, UBC
- Wilf Jefferies, UBC
- Leonard Foster, UBC
- James Taylor, Precision NanoSystems
- Lindsay Eltis, UBC
3:50 pm
Final Discussions and Summary