Dear member,
Please join us on Monday, June 3 from 5:30 – 9 p.m. for a special guest lecture and our Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Ryerson University. This will be a wonderful opportunity to network with fellow NRIG members and learn about Dr.Grundy’s exciting program of research that explores industry influence in health and health care and the implications for health information, health-care delivery and scientific evidence. NRIG members who are unable to attend in person will be able to access an archived video link of the event on the NRIG website following the AGM. Please feel free to share the attached poster within your networks.
The evening will include dinner, a guest lecture presentation, acknowledgment of the 2019 NRIG scholarship and grant recipients and AGM business.
To register for this event, please visit the following link: https://myRNAO.ca/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=678
The deadline to register is Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 5 p.m.
Special guest lecture information:
Dr. Quinn Grundy is an assistant professor with the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto and honorary senior lecturer with the School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Center at the University of Sydney. Dr. Grundy’s research explores the commercial determinants of health and their impact on the delivery of health services, health evidence, and consumer health information. She is a member of the international Evidence, Policy, and Influence Collaborative at The University of Sydney. Dr Grundy is the author of Infiltrating Healthcare: How Marketing Works Underground to Influence Nurses (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), which details the first in-depth study of the ways that registered nurses interact with pharmaceutical and medical device company representatives. She has further authored and co-authored numerous publications in leading medical, bioethics, and health policy journals. Her latest book will be available for purchase at the NRIG AGM and is also available for purchase online at: https://www.amazon.ca/Infiltrating-Healthcare-Marketing-Underground-Influence/dp/1421426757
The title of Dr. Grundy’s presentation is: Research integrity and early career nurse researchers: Navigating authorship, conflicts of interest and industry funding. In her presentation, Dr. Grundy will discuss three common ethical issues with implications for research integrity: authorship criteria, conflicts of interest and industry funding, and strategies to help navigate potential pitfalls.
Cost:
NRIG members: $40/person
Non-NRIG members: $50/person
Location and agenda:
The AGM will be held at Ryerson University, POD-250. A map of Ryerson University can be found at https://www.ryerson.ca/maps/. The agenda for the AGM is:
5:30 p.m. - registration opens
6 p.m. - networking opportunity & dinner
6:45 p.m. - guest lecture presentation
7:45 p.m. - question and answers
8:30 p.m. - AGM business including acknowledgement of 2018 NRIG research grant and scholarship recipients
9 p.m. - end of AGM
If you have any questions about the AGM, please contact Barbara Chyzzy, NRIG past chair at barbara.chyzzy@utoronto.ca