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BHI Open Science Award

Due:

Dec

15

BHI Open Science Award Call

Online Event

This award recognizes outstanding efforts to implement open science practices within a BHI program. The Award is based on demonstrated commitment to the six BHI-mandated open science practices. The BHI Open Science Award recognizes outstanding contributions to advancing open science practices within their research project. BHI researchers and/or teams engaged in the promotion and implementation of open science are encouraged to self-nominate.

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Archived Events

Nov

25

Workshop: practical approaches to de-identification of medical imaging data: from metadata to pixel-level protection

The workshop highlighted real-world examples and introduced tools and workflows used to ensure compliance with privacy regulations. Topics included metadata anonymization, handling of burned-in text in ultrasound and other modalities, and defacing techniques for 3D imaging data. The session was designed to be accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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Oct

29

Workshop: A Hands-On Guide to De-identifying Biomedical Data Using SDCmicro

This interactive workshop explored effective methods for de-identifying biomedical data — a critical topic in modern research. Participants learned key principles of data anonymization, techniques for assessing re-identification risk, and gained hands-on experience through real-world examples.

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Oct

23-26

Canadian Cardiovascular Congress

Location: Centre des congrès de Québec | Quebec City, QC

Hosted by CCS, the CCC is Canada’s largest gathering of cardiovascular professionals. It brings together experts from research to patient care for cutting-edge sessions, workshops, and networking across the cardiovascular community.

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Oct

9-10

1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship

Location: Montreal

The first Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship brings together 150–200 leaders from government, academia, and research to advance open science in Canada. Hosted by Concordia University in Montreal on October 9–10, 2025, the event will focus on practical guidelines, new partnerships, and accelerating more accessible, transparent, and collaborative research.

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Oct

7

TIME

9:00am-4:30pm

The Westin, downtown Ottawa

Canadian Health Data Platform Summit

This full-day event explored opportunities to strengthen collaboration and infrastructure across Canada’s health data ecosystem while bringing together leaders from health data platforms, government, legal, privacy, and funding agencies.
We discussed key challenges and began shaping a national roadmap to better manage and use health data

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September

02

2025

Foundations of Biomedical Data Sharing & De-Identification

This lecture, given by Dr. Lisa Pilgram, Crystal Chin and Laure Proulx, explores key strategies for protecting patient privacy while enabling impactful research. Learn about de-identification, synthetic data, and practical tools for ethical data sharing. Whether you're a researcher, data scientist, or healthcare professional, this event offers a valuable foundation for understanding the privacy-preserving techniques shaping the future of biomedical data sharing

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May

12

2025

ARCHIMEDES Town Hall

On May 12th, 2025, we launched ARCHIMEDES and shared its website and data governance framework. In this town hall, we invited attendees to learn about the platform, the tools, services, and resources available, and how this system can fit a variety of needs.

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March

26

2025

Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Open Science Presentation

This lecture on the intersection of Intellectual Property and Open Science was given by Dr. Richard Gold at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute on March 26th, 2025. Dr. Richard Gold is the Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy at McGill University.

Dr. Gold spoke about ways to balance sharing and patenting to maximize patient benefits from research. He challenged common misconceptions about patents and spoke on the best pathways for researchers to achieve their goals.

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March

21

2025

Building Community to Support Data Sharing in Health Research Event

This one-day workshop at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute targeted privacy specialists, institutional legal teams, Research Ethics Boards (REB) members, research integrity offices, science policy specialists, and researchers interested in understanding pathways to foster data sharing in medicine.

The goal of the workshop was to learn, discuss and build community among experts and professionals working in research ethics, privacy, and open science spaces around best practices to support health research data sharing.

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Publications

Cyberinfrastructure for Open Science at the Montreal Neurological Institute (2017)

The C-BIG Repository: an Institution-Level Open Science Platform (2022)

My career switch from psychologist to open-science advocate (2025)

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