Conflict of Interest
Pearl Abdulkadir
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Cassie G Ackerly
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Brian P Alcock
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Geneviève Amaral
Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Guiva Annane
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Francis Anokye
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Melisa Avaness
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Brianna Ball
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Lisa Barrett
Speaker
Payment: HCV treatment in vulnerable populations – speaker at national meeting; self developed slides and honorarium; Abbvie; Ad board: Advisory board for COVID vaccine – GSK; travel and honorarium
Corrie Belanger
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Byron Berenger
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Isabelle Bernaquez
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Bazlin Binti Ramly
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette
Speaker, Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Danielle Brabant-Kirwan
Central Planning Committee Member, Scientific Planning Committee Member, Abstract Reviewer Co-Chair
No conflict to declare
Zayn Brar
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Jason Brophy
Speaker
Ad board: ViiV Healthcare – pediatric antiretroviral treatment advisory board member; Grant: Operating grants from Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Ana Cabrera
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Marthe Charles
Speaker
Payment: Bruker, Hologic, Biomerieux, Copan (Honoraria); Ad Board: Bruker, Hologic, Biomerieux, Copan (Speakers’ Bureau)
Justin Chen
Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Jeanette Comeau
Speaker
Grant: DynaVax, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Moderna, Pfizer, PATH, Sanofi Pasteur, VBI vaccines, Entos Pharmaceuticals, CanSino Biologics, VIDO
Will Connors
Central Planning Committee Member, Scientific Planning Committee Member, Abstract Reviewer Co-Chair
Payment: Paladin pharmacueticals; British Columbia Lung Foundation; University of British Columbia; Making Education Matter for Everyone (Honoraria); Grant: Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute/Providence Research
Cora Constantinescu
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Payment: Sanofi, GSK, bioMerieux; Ad board: Sequirus
François Coutlée
Speaker
Grant: 1) CIHR – for the project ‘Clinical study on the screening of transmissible blood infections in donors’ – reimbursed the clinical laboratory fo the cost of serology testing for transmissible viral diseases
2) Micronostyx for Copan – for the project évaluation de l’autoprolevement pour la détection de VPH en dépistage primaire – provided free of charge dry flocked swabs
3) Roche Diagnostic – provided Cobas PCR media as well as Cobas HPV reagent for the study.
4) Ministère de la Santé et des services sociaux du Québec, direction de la cancérologie. Discussion of the protocole and Financial support for the évaluation (mainly salaries for the research nurses and assistants, and for the laboratory technologists.
David Croitoru
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Soma Dalai
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Peter Daley
Speaker, Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Tanis Dingle
Speaker, Abstract Presenter
Payment: Editor Stipend: Clinical Microbiology Newsletter and Journal of Clinical Microbiology; Other: Voting Member of the CLSI Antimicrobial Susceptiblity Testing Subcommittee and the CLSI Antifungal Susceptiblity Testing Subcommittee
Van Dong Nguyen
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Rebecca Druken
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Philippe Dufresne
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Jessica Dunn
Speaker
Ad Board: CMV Canada medical advisory board member
Ibrahim El-Haffaf
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Zareen Fatimah
Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Ramzi Fattouh
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Central Planning Committee Member, Scientific Planning Committee Member
Kieffer Ferraris
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Emma Finlayson-Trick
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Clare Fogarty
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Jessica Forbes
Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Catalina Friesen
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Jeff Fuller
Central Planning Committee Member, Sponsorship Committee Co-Chair
No conflict to declare
Scott Fung
Speaker
Payment: GSK, Gilead Sciences, Novo Nordisk, Abbvie, Lupin; Ad board: GSK, Gilead Sciences, Novo Nordisk, Abbvie
Jodi Gilchrist
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Payment: I have received honoraria from Hologic Inc. for my time for preparation and delivery of presentations at national meetings.
Don Graham
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Michael Groeschel
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Ron Grossman
Speaker
Payment: GSK, Merck, Pfizer, Valeo; Ad Board: GSK, Merck, Moderna, Pfizer, Valeo
Rubayet Hasan
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Todd Hatchette
Speaker
Payment: Honorarium from Hologic for talks on Bacterial vaginosis and STI testing self collection, Speaker fee from Alberta Pharmacy association – Lyme talk, Speaker fee from College of family Physicians of Canada – Lyme program; Grants: Grant funding from CIHR, NIH, Genome Atlantic, NSHRF, Dalhousie Pharmacy Endowment fund and Drug Evaluation Alliance of NS; Other: Committees at the provincial and National level including: DEG, CPHLN various committees, NACSTBBIs
Samuel F Hatchette
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Catherine Hogan
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Payment: Inflammatix
Susy Hota
Central Planning Committee Member
Payment: Ferring Pharmaceuticals – received honoraria for helping to develop educational program, for presentations to Ferring leadership; Ad board: Ferring Pharmaceuticals – Advisory Board participation
Geraldine Huynh
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Agatha Jassem
Central Planning Committee Member, Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Sanjana Kalra
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Kumudhavalli Kavanoor Sridhar
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Adam Komorowski
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Payment: Honoraria for editorial mentorship and freelance editorial work for Clinical Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases Society of America; travel funding for fungal research, ESCMID, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Netherlands; travel funding for creation of risk of bias tool for non-pharmacologic pandemic interventions, Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK; Grants: Co-investigator, CIHR, Prevention of Infections in Cardiac Surgery (NCT02285140); co-investigator, CIHR, AeroVax phase 2 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine clinical trial (NCT06381739); co-investigator, CIHR, optimization of bioinformatics pipelines for avian influenza; principal investigator, McMaster University, Pneumocystis jirovecii diagnostic study; Other: Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Clinical Infectious Diseases; Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Robert Kozak
Central Planning Committee Member, Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Philippe Lagacé-Wiens
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Advisory Board: Moderna
Sophia Laird
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Selena Landry
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Ian Langleben
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Valerie Le Sage
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Todd Lee
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Erin Leonard
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Heidi Li
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Yves Longtin
Speaker, Central Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Christopher Lowe
Central Planning Committee Member
Payment: GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (Honoraria for leading a workshop on quantitative HBsAg (May – Oct, 2025)), Roche (Funding for travel to a meeting (October, 2024))
Bonnie Lu
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Jeanne Marrazzo
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Natalie C. Marshall
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Laura Mataseje
Abstract Presenter Information not provided
Ninad Mehta
Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Vanessa Meier-Stephenson
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Investment: I have stocks in a Group A Strep Vaccine through AVIGASVAX Ltd.
Dominik Mertz
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Esther Nagai
Central Planning Committee Member, Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Matthew Nelder
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Idowu Olawoye
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Jesse Papenburg
Speaker
Payment: Enanta (ad hoc advisory board meeting June 2024); Grant/Trial: Merck (site investigator RCT)
Brendon Parsons
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Robin Patel
Speaker
Payment: Up-to-Date and the Infectious Diseases Board Review Course; Ad Board: Consultant to PhAST, Iterum Therapeutics, DEEPULL DIAGNOSTICS, Claryx, Inc., Nostics, bioMérieux and CARB-X; Grants: Grants from MicuRx Pharmaceuticals and ImmuCell; Patents: Patent on Bordetella pertussis/parapertussis PCR issued, a patent on a device/method for sonication, a patent on PET imaging of bacterial infection with a PET probe filed, and a patent on an anti-biofilm substance issued.
Abstract Presenter
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Glenn Patriquin
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Other: Member of CLSI Microbiology Expert Panel
Shaqil Peermohamed
Speaker, Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Emy Philibert
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Guillaume Poliquin
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Ariela Polsky
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Susan Poutanen
Central Planning Committee Member, Scientific Planning Committee Co-Chair
Ad board: bioMerieux, Xediton, Abbvie, Ferring
Emily Pritchard
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Curtis Quan
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Christian Renaud
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Melissa Richard-Greenblatt
Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Megha Rohamare
Scientific Planning Committee Member, Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Earl Rubin
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Ad board: Over the last 5 years have participated in Advisory Boards for Merck, Pfizer, GSK, Novartis and Sanofi
Camilo Sanchez
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Kevin L Schwartz
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Bruce Seet
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Prameet Sheth
Speaker, Central Planning Committee Member, Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Zhan Shi
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Carly Simpson
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Marek Smieja
Speaker
Funded Grant: Merck Canada-investigator initiated grant, CIHR-coinvestigator
Najmeh Soltaninejad
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Theodore Steiner
Abstract Presenter
Grants: Ferring, Rebiotix, Seres, Vedanta, Merck, Sanofi Pasteur, and Edesa within the past 3 years; Othe: Consulting fees from Ferring; Employment and research funding from Qu Biologics
Jackson Stewart
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Shirin Tabrizi
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Patrick Tang
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Robert Taylor
Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Nisha Thampi
Speaker, Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Kyla Tozer
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Vanessa Tran
Scientific Planning Committee Member
Grant: Gilead grant to fund HDV national study in which I was a collaborator.
Greg Tyrrell
Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Alon Vaisman
Speaker
No conflict to declare
Don Vinh
Speaker
Payment: GSK (Canada); Medscape; Merck (Canada); Moderna; Takeda (Canada); Xediton; Ad board: GSK (Canada); Merck (Canada); Moderna; Takeda (Canada); Xediton; Patent: US patent application 63/056,249 Title: METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE SEVERITY AND PROGRESSION OF SARS-COV-2 INFECTIONS USING CELL-FREE DNA Cornell Reference No: 9561-01-US Filing date: July 24, 2020 US patent filing #: 63/056,249
Fiseha Wada
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Ashley Williams
Speaker, Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Tess Wilson
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Kenneth Wu
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Connie Xie
Abstract Presenter
Information not provided
Deborah Yamamura
Speaker, Central Planning Committee Member
Grant: Research grant from BioMerieux to evaluate REVEAL; Patent: Patent Zentek – biosensor platform
Austin Yan
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Cedric Yansouni
Speaker
“Payment: 2026 Data Safety and Monitoring Committee (phase 2 vaccine trial) InventVac Inc., 2024 Data Safety and Monitoring Committee (phase 1 vaccine trial) InventVac Inc.(2021-2022 Independent Data Monitoring Committee (phase 3 vaccine trial, outcomes adjudcation) Medicago Inc.; Ad board: (2023-present) CATMAT Voting Member
(2023-2025) CARB-X Advisory panel
(2023-2025) WHO AMR Diagnostic Initiative; Technical working group member (TWG).
(2024-2025) WHO. Expert Group Member (EG). WHO Typhoid Diagnostic Reference Panel (TyDReP) to Assess In Vitro Diagnostics for Typhoid.
(2022-2023) TPP development group for RDT readers World Health Organization & FIND; Grant: Current grants from FRQS (salary and operating), CIHR, MITACS, & PORTENT (NIH)”
Sabrina Yeung
Abstract Presenter
No conflict to declare
Yang Yu
Scientific Planning Committee Member
No conflict to declare
Dena Zeraatkar
Speaker
No conflict to declare