2014 PERC Annual Scientific Meeting

The PERC 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting was held at the Fairmont Mont Tremblant, Quebec. The sixth Fellows Education Day was held on the Sunday prior to the research presentations – this day was a great success with distinguished guest speakers Drs. Roger Zemek, Jennifer Thull-Freedman, Carrol Pitters, and Janet Nuth from the Canadian Medical Protective Association. Dr. Michael Dean from The University of Utah presented on strategies for developing a national research network. The ‘PERCky’ and ‘Acronym Contest’ were back again this year, presented by Roger Zemek during the final presentations on Wednesday evening. The TREKK network held a meeting on Tuesday afternoon and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons also held there subspecialty meeting on the Saturday prior to PERC.

PERC 2014 Statistics

Total Attendees = 134

Coordinators = 20

Physicians/Allied Health = 67

Fellows = 43

Trainees = 0

Other Non-PERC = 4

Total Presentations = 63

Fellows = 35

Trainee = 0

New Research = 8

Completed Research = 4

Ongoing & Updates = 16