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Meetings & Workshops

Upcoming Meetings & Workshops

Full day thematic workshops organized on a yearly basis on topics that span the various research themes.

Respiratory Research Day

Annual Respiratory Research Day
Monday, April 29, 2024

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 2, 2024
Registration Deadline: April 26, 2024

KEYNOTE LECTURE
Dr. Esra Tasali, University of Chicago
Title:”Sleep and Energy Metabolism Research Highlights

2023 Respiratory Research day and Meakins 50th anniversary symposium

Annual Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar


Friday, May 31, 2024

Details to be announced

8th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Summer Seminar


July 18 & 19, 2024
Palmer-Howard Amphitheatre of the McIntyre Medical Building, Montréal, Québec and via Zoom

8th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Summer Seminar

Past Meetings and Workshops

RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day
August 11, 2023
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium

7th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Summer Seminar
July 27 & July 28, 2023
Palmer-Howard Amphitheatre of the McIntyre Medical Building & via Zoom, Montréal, Québec

33rd Annual Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar: Climate Crisis, Air Pollution, and Respiratory Health
June 19, 2023
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre

Meakins-Christie Laboratories 50th Anniversary & Respiratory Research Day
May 17-18, 2023
InterContinental Hotel, Montreal

RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day
August 12, 2022
Hybrid Event: Zoom & in person Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC –
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium
Participation from the 8 RI-MUHC Research Programs. In collaboration with the Desjardins Centre for Advanced Training.

6th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Summer Seminar
Virtual Seminars: July 20, July 27, August 3, August 10, 2022

31st Respiratory Research Day
June 10, 2022
Hybrid Event: Zoom & in person Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC –
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium
Macklem Lecture by Patricia J Sime, MD

5th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Summer Seminar
Virtual Seminars: July 21, July 28, August 4, August 11, 2021

22nd Meakins-Christie Laboratories Workshop Lipid Biology in Respiratory Diseases
June 21-22, 2021
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre – virtual event
Christie Lecture by William S. Powell

Rare Disease Research Day 2020: We CARe – We Care About Rare
February 28, 2020
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC –
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium

Summer Student Research Day
August 13, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre ES1.1129

3rd Annual Montreal Oscillometry Seminar
July 25-26, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre ES1.1129

30th Annual RI-MUHC Respiratory Research Day
June 3, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre ES1.1129 
Keynote Christie Lecture by Dr. David Gozal

32nd Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar
Neuromuscular Disorders and Respiration
May 31, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre,
1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre ES1.1129 
Organized by the McGill Respiratory Division
Keynote Wiselberg Lecture by Professor Anita Simonds

21st Annual Meakins-Christie Laboratories Workshop
March 24-25, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre
Macklem Lecture by Dr. Graham Barr

MUHC Consortium for Rare Disease Research: Rare Disease Research Day – Research & Reach Out
February 28, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC

2018 Summer Student Research Day
August 13, 2018
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC, Cruess Amphitheatre

FOT Seminar
August 2, 2018
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC

31st Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar: Asthma
June 4, 2018
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre 
Organized by the McGill Respiratory Division 

29th Annual RI-MUHC Respiratory Research Day 
May 28, 2018
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal – Cruess Amphitheatre and Atrium
Keynote Christie Lecture by Dr. Manuel Cosio

20th Annual International Meakins-Christie Workshop
March 14-17, 2018
InterContinental, Dubai Festival City, UAE
in collaboration with the Gulf Thoracic Congress 2018

19th Annual International Meakins-Christie Workshop: Systems biology approaches to pulmonary host-pathogen interactions
October 30, 2017
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC

2017 Joint Summer Student Research Day
August 10, 2017
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, RI-MUHC Auditorium and Atrium

FOT Unit Seminar
July 26, 2017
FOT Unit, Centre for Innovative Medicine, RI-MUHC
Glen B0.5243.2, CIM Conference Room 

2017 Wiselberg Seminar: Tuberculosis
June 19, 2017
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
Organized by the McGill Respiratory Division

2017 Respiratory Research Day
June 6, 2017
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – RI-MUHC Auditorium

FOT-QCT & Clinical Respirology Research Group Seminar
April 24, 2017
FOT Unit, Centre for Innovative Medicine
Glen B04.5243.2, CIM Conference Room

2017 Cystic Fibrosis Research Day – Jointly organized by the Meakins and the McGill Cystic Fibrosis Translational Research Centre
April 3, 2016
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre,
1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – RI-MUHC Auditorium

Monocyte Macrophage Biology Symposium: Cracking the Macrophage Code in Host Defense and Disease
November 14, 2016
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
view photos here

Joint CHHD – Meakins/RESP RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day
August 25, 2016 
Research  Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
view photos here

2016 Wiselberg Seminar: Sleep
June 6, 2016 – Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
In Collaboration with the McGill Respiratory Division

18th Annual Meakins-Christie International Workshop in Collaboration with the Strauss Severe Asthma Program: Asthma COPD Workshop
March 19-20, 2016
Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, 1050 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, QC
view photos here

Rare Respiratory Diseases Workshop
October 22-23, 2015
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC

17th Annual Meakins-Christie International Workshop in Collaboration with the Strauss Severe Asthma Program
February 8-9, 2015 
Château Bromont
90 Stanstead St, Bromont, QC

McGill-Grenoble Workshop on Sleep-Disordered Breathing, COPD and Hypoxia
February 2-3, 2015
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC

Asthma and COPD: Similarities and Differences
November 3, 2014 
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC

Severe Asthma: What do we know and what are the unmet needs?
June 9, 2014 
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC

16th Annual Meakins-Christie – McGill University International Workshop: Advances in the pathogenesis and management of asthma and COPD
March 14-15, 2014 
Grand Hyatt Dubai Hotel
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Severe Asthma and COPD: Similarities and Differences
October 21, 2013 
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC

Immune Tolerance in Allergic Disease
November 27-28, 2013 
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC

Immune Tolerance in Allergic Disease
November 14, 2012 
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC

40th Anniversary MCL Symposium
October 15, 2012 
Hotel Omni Mont-Royal
1050 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, QC

Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction in the Critically Ill
October 4-5, 2012 
Goodman Cancer Centre
McGill University, Montreal, QC

15th Annual Meakins-Christie/MUHC-RI International Workshop
February 4-6, 2012
Château Vaudreuil Suites Hotel
21700 route Transcanadienne, Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC