TRCHR 2025 Professional Development Day

PD Day Details

When: Thursday, June 5, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST
Where: BMO Conference Centre

The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research is excited to announce our Professional Development (PD) Day! This was held on Thursday, June 5th, 2025 at the BMO Conference Centre. This special half-day event brought together a diverse community of clinical and basic science trainees and staff throughout the TRCHR ecosystem.

We had an exciting agenda planned for the day, including a keynote presentation from Dr. Cedric Manlhiot, a workshop led by Dr. Chris McIntosh, a career panel session featuring TRCHR alumni, as well as the opportunity to participate in and observe mock interviews!

*Please note: registrants must use their institutional emails to gain access to tickets.

Meet our Career Panelists

Sarah Dick

Assistant Professor, Queen's University

Ronald Ireland

Consultant, Oliver Wyman

Eric Tawagi

Business Development Lead, Pharmaceutical Company

Yimu Zhao

Staff Scientist Acceleration Consortium (U of T) Toronto

Agenda

2025 PD Day Agenda

9:30-10:00am – Registration

10:00-10:50pm – Introductions and Keynote: “A Primer on Artificial Intelligence: What do you need to know?”

Introductions: Dr. Michael McDonald
Keynote: Dr. Cedric Manlhiot, Rogers Innovator in Cardiovascular Precision Medicine
- Learn how machine learning fits into healthcare research

10:50-11:20am – TRCHR Jeopardy

Team up with fellow trainees and staff to work together and win prizes!

11:20am-12:05pm – “Introduction to Machine Learning using Pytorch”

Dr. Chris McIntosh
- An interactive workshop. Bring your laptop and be ready to use Colab! All you need is a Google account, no previous experience required

12:05-1:05pm – Lunch and Mingle

Enjoy lunch while having the opportunity to meet and chat with other attendees and speakers over shared topics of interest

1:05-1:50pm – Career Panel – TRCHR Alumni

Expect to hear from a variety of alumni who are now in academic and industry roles

1:50-2:50pm – Mock Interviews

Participate or listen in on an academic and an industry mock interview

2:50pm – Closing Remarks

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