
Yusuf and Pocock
More than 100 investigators, research program staff, and operational employees from PHRI came together last week to brainstorm new horizons, and to hear more about the impactful work underway and planned at the annual research retreat, held at the beautiful Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario.
The plenary session on evolving approaches to analyzing clinical trial outcomes such as win ratios and recurrent events, was given by Stuart Pocock, medical statistician from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK. (The day before, June 15, he was featured in an informal, open stats discussion at PHRI.)
At the retreat, PHRI researchers shared their findings, and questions, in the areas of brain health, CVD prevention, obesity, heart failure, optimization of clinical trials, proteomics, blood biomarkers, and more. PHRI Senior Scientist Pierre Amarenco, a visiting professor from University de Paris, spoke on addressing residual risk of stroke and brain health, such as investigating antithrombotic treatment in OCEANIC-STROKE.

Pierre Amarenco
(The following are other retreat highlights; you don’t need a Twitter account to click through and read these tweets.)
#PHRI Investigator Raed Joundi presents on #physicalactivity and #brainhealth at PHRI Research Retreat 2023
Appears better #cognitive performance with #recreationalactivity Vs non-recreational physical activity #PUREstudy #CAHHM #SDoH pic.twitter.com/HEmdrgaLLdβ PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2023
#PHRI Investigator β¦@jess_spence13β© presents on the problem of #delirium at todayβs PHRI Research Retreat #brainhealth #dementia #publichealth pic.twitter.com/JM7K44aAmH
β PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2023
#genomics #PRS #polygenicriskscore pic.twitter.com/OofCywZVks
β PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2023
#PHRI Associate Scientist β¦@KatherineMorri6β© β¦@MacMODRβ© presents on #childhoodobesity and #metabolic abnormality #CANPWR #pediatric weight registry #obesity
At PHRI Research Retreat 2023 pic.twitter.com/hMV9QjxD8Mβ PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2023
#PHRI Scientist Jorge Wong on health effects of #metabolicsurgery for patients with #obesity
at PHRI Research Retreat.
He is a co-PI on #bariatricsurgery #RCT:https://t.co/wcVgxrEJj2 pic.twitter.com/AX9DaQRVpVβ PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2023
#PHRI Scientist β¦@hvanspallβ© presents on evolving concepts & management of #HF at PHRI Research Retreat 2023#heartfailure pic.twitter.com/kcZAycnZ6C
β PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2023
@DarrylLeong #frailty #handgrip #aging #ageing
At #PHRI Research Retreat 2023#PUREstudy @clsa_elcv @dr_alexandrap @GERAScentre pic.twitter.com/PcHBWnZR4Wβ PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 17, 2023
#PHRI Research Retreat 2023:
PHRI Scientist Jason Roberts presents on treatments for #rarediseases – the example of #ARVC#RCT for #tideglusib in patients with ARVC#EPeeps pic.twitter.com/yuF75CwRVdβ PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2023
#PHRI Research Retreat 2023:
PHRI Scientists Philip Joseph and JD Schwalm present on gaps in #CVDprevention and how to overcome those gaps such as #HOPE4 community-based #NHCP-delivered interventions https://t.co/HsH7QL8kP0 pic.twitter.com/Bwnh94OCZqβ PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2023
#PHRI Scientist Jackie Bosch presents on #strokecare in #LMICs at PHRI Research Retreat 2023https://t.co/JMqBlQp8lA#stroke pic.twitter.com/x2RD5YEh8B
β PHRI.ca Population Health Research Institute π¨π¦ (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2023