10th Annual Conference on Patient-Oriented Research Hosted by AbSPORU
2025 NorthWest SPOR Collaborative Forum
SAVE THE DATES: May 12 - 14, 2025
In 2025, AbSPORU will host our 10th Annual Northwest SPOR Collaborative Forum on Patient-Oriented Research (POR). Join us at the BMO Centre in Calgary, Alberta from Monday, May 12 to Wednesday, May 14, 2025, where you will enjoy an innovative conference focusing on 10 years of health research impact through partnerships and collaboration. This year’s special edition theme is AbSPOR & YOU: Partnership. Innovation. Impact.
Registration will open in the spring.
Whether held in-person, virtually, or both, our annual conference provides inclusive capacity development opportunities in patient-oriented research (POR) towards the shared goals of increased access to high-quality health care and improved patient outcomes. This event is open to researchers, students, clinicians, patients and caregivers, health-system professionals, policymakers, and more.
The conference provides opportunities for:
- Attendees to engage with other members of the POR community, in order to facilitate training, growth, and support in the practice of POR;
- Recognizing, showcasing, and celebrating POR success, innovation, talent, and partnerships in Alberta and beyond; and
- Furthering AbSPORU’s mandate to support Alberta-based POR and its impacts for health system transformation and enhanced patient outcomes.
Content and Learning Objectives
Each year our conference integrates Alberta-focused content and activities alongside programming delivered collaboratively with our POR partners across Western Canada. Through this, we aim to engage audiences with diverse perspectives and experiences, to enhance the conference impact for everyone.
Through a combination of keynote speakers, expert panel discussions, interactive workshops, poster presentations, and networking opportunities, conference attendees will:
- Gain practical knowledge and skills for conducting POR;
- Develop evidence-informed practices in several key areas of POR, including patient engagement, knowledge translation and synthesis, research methods, accessing data and conducting pragmatic clinical trials;
- Learn about opportunities and services that AbSPORU provides to help achieve research goals;
- Explore the impact of POR and AbSPORU on the research landscape;
- Develop a broader understanding of how to engage underrepresented interested parties in health research; and
- Offer patient and community members opportunity to learn about and further develop health research skills and to network with POR researcher and patient research partner communities.
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University of Calgary Foothills Campus
3330 Hospital Dr NW
Calgary, AB T2N 4N1
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College Plaza
1702, 8215 112 St NW
Edmonton, AB T6G 2C8
Land Acknowledgment
The Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit operates on and acknowledges the lands that are the traditional and ancestral territory of many peoples, presently subject to Treaties 6, 7, and 8. Namely: the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika – the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, and the Tsuu T’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta. This includes the Métis Settlements and the Métis Nation of Alberta. We acknowledge the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations. We make this acknowledgment as a reaffirmation of our shared commitment towards reconciliation, and as part of AbSPORU’s mandate towards fostering health system transformation.
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