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CTTG Lecture Series

Course Objective: Assist CTTG membership in designing, conducting and publishing the results of clinical trials in the field of transfusion medicine.

Target Audience: Transfusion medicine trainees and early career investigators (but open to all).

Format: Monthly 1-hour lectures (noon on third Thursday of every month).

Date Topic (Click on topics below for youtube recording) Speaker
May 26, 2022 Pragmatic Trial Design Dean Fergusson
Sept. 14, 2023 Statistical Significance in Science Lehana Thabane
Dec. 7, 2023 Avoiding Bias Richard Haspel
Feb. 8, 2024
Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials George Tomlinson
Mar. 14, 2024 Umbrella, Basket and Platform trials John Marshall
April 11, 2024
Data Integrity Nadine Shehata
May 9, 2024 Health Data Sharing in Canada Chaim Bell
Jun. 13, 2024 Community-Based Research Jennie Haw
Jul. 11, 2024 Systematic Reviews and Meta Analysis Dean Fergusson
September 19, 2024 Reviewing the literature Rich Haspel
October 17, 2024 Qualitative vs. quantitative research Tori Lenet
November 21, 2024 Explanatory vs pragmatic trials (Cancelled)
December 19, 2024 Quasi-experimental trial design Monica Taljaard
January 16, 2025 Adaptive and platform trials Ryan Zarychanski
February 20, 2025 Statistical considerations Robert Balshaw
March 20, 2025 Assembling the research team Rena Buckstein
April 17, 2025 Retaining the patient perspective Jennie Haw
May 15, 2025 Sourcing funding Keyvan Karkouti
June 19, 2025 Piloting the protocol Shane English
July 17, 2025 Conducting the trial Nadine Shehata
August 21, 2025 Publishing the results Paul Hebert
September 18, 2025 Formulating your Research Question Donald Arnold
October 16, 2025 Qualitative Methods and Transfusion Medicine Kelly Holloway
November 20, 2025 Explanatory vs pragmatic trials Deb Siegel
December 18, 2025 Cluster and step-wedge trials design Monica Taljaard
January 15, 2026 Adaptive trial design Ryan Zarychanski
February 19, 2026 Statistical considerations Robert Balshaw
March 19, 2026 TBD
April 16, 2026 Patient/community engagement Julia Abelson
May 21, 2026 Sourcing funding Keyvan Karkouti
June 18, 2026 Piloting the protocol Shane English
July 16, 2026 Conducting the trial Nadine Shehata
August 20, 2026 Knowledge translation Susan Nahirniak