Dr. Roger Sandre is an infectious disease specialist working at Sudbury’s Health Sciences North for over 27 years. He will present us with evolving information on the COVID-19 vaccines as it is being deployed across our province. Please join us for this important session on the beginning of our community immunity!

Presenter: Dr. Roger Sandre

Dr. Sandre is a practicing Infectious Disease Specialist at Health Sciences North in Sudbury since 1994, establishing the first Infectious Disease Consultation service in Sudbury and NE Ontario. He completed his Medical School and Internal Medicine training at McMaster University and Infectious Disease training at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) at Health Sciences North, chairing the committee.

Medical Director of the Infection Prevention and Control Program (IPAC) overseeing the amalgamation of a three-site hospital IPAC program into a one site program and chairman of the IPAC committee for over 20 years.

Medical Director of the regional HIV Program in North Eastern Ontario (HAVEN Program) and involved in several HIV clinical trials in Canada.

Assistant Professor with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine – teaching both undergraduate medical students and postgraduate Internal Medicine residents.

Objectives.

By the end of the webinar, the participant will be able to describe the following:

1) The differences between vaccines available (Pfizer, Moderna) and vaccines to come (AstraZeneca, Jenssen, Others).

2) The safety concerns of those vaccines

3) The Ontario provincial strategy and compare to strategies available in other provinces and/or countries (e.g. UK)

4) The behavior expected post-vaccination (e.g. social distancing, mask wearing, return to work, etc)

We invite all multidisciplinary ICU teams to participate and ask that you please share this invite with your colleagues who are involved with critical care. To further share key learning points highlighted during each webinar, we encourage teams to schedule time to debrief and discuss how the information will inform or be incorporated into practices in your hospital. The webinars will also be recorded and made available on the CCSO website along with supporting documentation.

If you have any questions that you would like to submit ahead of the webinar please send these to info@ccso.ca with the subject line “Clinical Webinar Series”.

We look forward to you joining us.

Thank-you

OC3PR Committee

About the Ontario Critical Care Clinical Practice Rounds (OC3PR)

This webinar series is developed and informed by the OC3PR committee of critical care providers including Dr. Neill Adhikari, Dr. Bernard Lawless, Dr. David Neilipovitz, Dr. Josée Thériault and Dr. Michael Sullivan. Hosted by CCSO, the rounds will provide an opportunity for multidisciplinary critical care teams to come together to share best practices and engage in discussions with their colleagues, across Ontario’s critical care system, to inform the care of critically ill patients with an emphasis on COVID-19 patients. The series will be moderated by Dr. David Neilipovitz, a critical care intensivist in Ottawa with support from CCSO and the OC3PR committee.

Audience: Multidisciplinary critical care teams (including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, administrators and other team members involved in care of critical care patients suspected or diagnosed with COVID-19)

Goal: The goal will be to explore topics using the best available evidence to improve the care provided to critically ill patients.

Topics: The webinar will cover a broad range of topics. The first series running from November 2020 to March 2021 will be focused on COVID-19.

Format: The webinars will be scheduled through Zoom and will include a 20-minute presentation followed by a facilitated Q&A session.