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Tuesday May 12, 2015
8:30
8:45
9:15
Welcome
Jeff Dovyak, Winnipeg LOC Chair
Opening Address (Title TBD)
Dr. Daniel Lindsay, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Manitoba
Keynote Address
Bob McDonald
Coffee
10:15
International Session
It's a small world after all
Ballroom C
10:45
Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Perspectives on the National Academy of Sciences
Report
Barbara Hamrick, Health Physics Society
11:15
International Commission on Radiological Protection - Committee Three Overview and Updates
Dr. Sandor Demeter, International Commission on Radiologicla Protection (ICRP)
11:35
ICRP Work on Radiation Protection and Ethics - Update
John Takala, Cameco Corporation
11:55
UNSCEAR Global Survey on Medical Radiation Usage and Exposure
Narine Martel, Health Canada
12:15
Lunch
Social Media Session
YouTube and Facebook and Twitter, oh my!
Ballroom C
13:30
Managing the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s digital presence
Marc Drolet, CNSC Strategic Communications Directorate
14:00
#PleaseSendHelp!
Michelle Finley, City of Winnipeg
14:30
Title TBD
Katherine Fox, Winnipeg Health Sciences Center
15:00
Coffee
Remediation
Standards & Guidelines
For a cleaner future
New and Improved
Campaign A
Unique Challenges in Radiological Remediation – the
15:30
Deloro Mine Story
Liz Krivonosov, KRMC Inc.
15:50
16:10
May 9, 2015
Ballroom C
Updates of the FPTRPC working groups and the dose
change request procedure
Lothan Doehler, FPTRPC
Gamma Survey for Uranium Mine Site Reclamation
Michael Stoicescu, Cameco Corporation
Laser Safety Calculations
Sandu Sonoc, University of Toronto
Modernizing the CNSC's Regulations
Kevin Lee, CNSC
Revision of Health Canada's Guidelines for Protective
Actions during a Nuclear Emergency
Laura Bergman, Health Canada
Wednesday May 13, 2015
Incidents
Duck and Cover!
8:30
8:50
9:10
9:30
10:00
Ballroom C
What if the 3rd millennium was more ‘human’?
Stéphane Jean-François, Radioprotection Inc.
Assisting a Consignor and Carrier with a Dangerous Goods Incident
Daniel Lapkoff, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Non-Routine Radionuclide Therapy Situations Part III
Jeff Dovyak, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Management of Uranium Intakes from Upset Conditions
Kari Toews, Cameco Corporation
Poster Session & Coffee (Ballroom A & B)
Entrepreneurship Panel
Imaging Dose & Quality Assurance
Great ideas can make a great business
Down with Dose!
Campaign A
Ballroom C
10:30
10:50
11:10
11:30
12:00
Entrepreneurship Panel
Liz Krivonosov, KRMC
Stéphane Jean-François, Radioprotection Inc.
Harry Johnson and Pam Warkentin, Radon Matters
Alina Martin, Danatec
PET/CT Dose Optimisation through a Provincial Tour
Manon Rouleau, CECR
Radiation Protection and the Manitoba Quality
Assurance Program
Dr. Ian Wilkinson, Director, Manitoba Quality Assurance
Program
Quality and Diagnostic Imaging
Ms. Jan Connon, Manitoba Quality Assurance Program
The evolution of CT doses, in Quebec, from 2008 to
2014
Manon Rouleau, CECR
Lunch
Innovation
Let's make something new
Ballroom C
13:00
13:20
13:40
Measuring Radiation with Mobile Phone Cameras
Kai Kaletsch, Environmental Instruments Canada Inc.
Managing Radiation Monitoring Data at Canada’s Largest Uranium Producer
Morgan Bradford, Cameco Corporation
Ruminations from the Shop Floor; Every Frankenstein needs an Igor
Chad Harris, CancerCare Manitoba
Anthony J. MacKay Student Paper Content Winner:
14:00
May 9, 2015
Hongyan Sun, University of Manitoba
Turning Noise into Numbers: Simultaneous estimation of the radioactivity distribution and electron density map from
scattered coincidences in PET
Thursday May 14, 2015
A morning with the CNSC
Everyone play nice…
Ballroom C
CNSC Special Focus Session: Events & Follow up
Various Presenters
8:15
10:15
Coffee
10:45
Title TBD
André Régimbald, CNSC
11:15
Various Panelists
CNSC Panel
Ballroom C
Lunch
12:30
13:30
13:50
Waste Disposal & Biology
Source Characterization & Dose
Be careful what you get rid of…
What's really going on in there?
Campaign A
Ballroom C
Disposal of the Small Sealed Sources
Sandu Sonoc, University of Toronto
Monte Carlo simulation of the McMaster 4π NaI(Tl)
coincidence spectrometer for low level 60Co analysis
Ishan Patel, McMaster University
Optimizing McMaster Universities Radioactive Waste
Management Program
Suketu Patel, McMaster University
14:10
14:30
15:00
15:30
15:50
May 9, 2015
Estimating the health risks of chronic low-dose
gamma and tritium exposures by measuring
chromosomal rearrangements occurring in pKZ1
mice
Laura Bannister, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
Examination of Secondary Electrons Generated by
Encapsulated Gamma Sources to Improve Contact
Dosimetry Estimates
Eric Heritage, UOIT
Measurement of the spatial and energy neutron
fluence distribution of a P 385 D-D Neutron Generator
and an isotopic neutron source at the UOIT
irradiation facility using a Nested Neutron
Spectrometer
Gloria Orchard, UOIT
Coffee
Linear Accelerator and Cyclotron Production of Medical Isotopes for Canada: Progress and Status
Kennedy Mang'era, Ph.D, Winnipeg Health Sciences Center
Toronto 2016 Presentation
Toronto LOC Chair
Conference Closing
Jeff Dovyak, Winnipeg LOC Chair