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Cafe Scientifique Vancouver
September 25, 2018 - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Free
Cafe Scientifique warmly welcomes you to our next event, featuring the Director of BC Children’s Hospital BioBank, Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren.
Dr. Vercauteren is a hematopathologist and associate head of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at BC Children’s Hospital. She obtained her MD and PhD at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and did her residency in hematological pathology at the University of British Columbia.
Since 2013 Suzanne has been the director of the BC Children’s Hospital BioBank, the first institutional pediatric biobank in Canada to allow for a standardized approach of patients and sample collections and ensuring high quality samples and data and reduce consent burden for patients.
“My research includes ethical issues as well as public engagement and education in biobanking. I believe that a systematic approach for the collection of patient specimens and data is allowing groundbreaking research that can quickly be translated into improved diagnosis and clinical care in many areas of research.”
She has published several papers regarding pediatric biobanking and consenting and is a member of the Canadian Tissue Repository Network Management Committee. She received several grants to study public perception on (pediatric) biobanking topics.
Suzanne’s presentation is entitled ‘Giving patients, the public, and health-care providers a voice in pediatric biobanking’.
Join us on Tuesday, 25th September, 7:30pm at Yagger’s Downtown to find out more. As always, all are welcome and attendance is free.
