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CSB Newsletter | February 2016 Page 1
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR BIOMECHANICS
SOCIÈTÈ CANADIENNE DE BIOMÈCANIQUE Founded 1973, Incorporated 1983
In This Edition:
From the President 1
2016 Conference 2-3
Communications 4
Membership Report 5-6
Student Report 7-8
Research News 9
Award Winners 10
Regional Meetings 11-12
CSB 2016 13
Follow @CSBiomech for up to date information!
July 19-22, 2016
Hamilton, ON
NEWSLETTER Winter 2016 Edition
CSB 2016 is fast approaching! The team at McMaster University
has assembled a wonderful conference, filled with exciting
keynotes, unique social and networking activities, and a downtown
Hamilton venue. I hope that you all will join me in Hamilton this
July for the conference.
Along with the usual podium and poster sessions, the program will be highlighted by
award sessions and several symposiums organized around key focal areas in
Canadian Biomechanics. CSB honors excellent work in partnership with Northern
Digital, Inc. (NDI) every two years in three categories: The David Winter Promising
Young Scientist, the doctoral research award, and the masters research award. I
encourage everyone eligible to submit their work for these awards, more information
on procedures can be found on the conference website.
Along with each CSB meeting comes a changing of the executive board. We will
soon have online elections for the many elected positions on the board. I encourage
you to renew your membership (gaining a discount on the conference), and add your
votes to the totals. This will be our second online executive election, and promises to
run as smoothly as the first!
Please read on in the newsletter for more details of the 2016 meeting. I look forward
to renewing old friendships and starting new debates in Hamilton, and seeing the
spectrum of biomechanics endeavors from across Canada on display!
Clark Dickerson Waterloo, ON
Message from the president
Clark Dickerson
www.csb-scb.com
2016 BIENNIAL MEETING
CSB EXECUTIVE
2014-2016
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Peter Keir, PhD, CCPE Professor
Department of Kinesiology McMaster University
1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON
Phone: 905-525-9140 x23543 E-mail: [email protected]
PAST CONFERENCE CHAIR (2014 WCB)
Clark Dickerson, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology University of Waterloo 200 University Ave W
Waterloo, ON Phone: 519-888-4567 x37844
Email: [email protected]
COMMUNICATIONS
Mike Holmes, PhD Assistant Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences University of Ontario Institute of
Technology 2000 Simcoe St. North
Oshawa, ON Phone: 905-721-8668 x6584
Email: [email protected]
Students—please join the CSB LinkedIn page!
Please join us for the 19th biennial meeting of the Canadian Society for
Biomechanics, hosted by McMaster University. The meeting will be held July 19
-22, 2016 at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Hamilton Ontario, hosted by McMaster
University. Downtown Hamilton is undergoing major renewal and the conference
venue is surrounded by a number of excellent gastropubs, restaurants, museums, the
Art Gallery of Hamilton, and concert venues. We are excited to host a conference that
supports and highlights the proud tradition of the CSB while promoting new
collaborations in scientific and social contexts.
Conference Highlights
- Keynote speakers
Dr. Julie Steele (University of Wollongong)
Dr. B.J. Fregley (University of Florida)
Dr. Geoff Fernie (Toronto Rehabilitation Institute)
- Three symposia
Bone
Ergonomics
Gait
- Pre-conference workshop – “Planning your career”
- “Alternate Careers” session for students
- A full slate of Exhibitors
- Thursday Night Banquet with entertainment
- Social program
- Several CSB Awards and grants are available (please check eligibility and rules on website: www.mcmaster.ca/CSB2016/ OR http://engconf.mcmaster.ca/index.php/CSB/CSB2016)
- CSB Master's Student Award
- CSB Doctoral Student Award
- Dave Winter Promising Young Investigator Award
- CSB Student Travel Grants
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JOIN US IN HAMILTON!
Important dates:
February 29 - abstracts due
May 1, 2016 - notification of acceptance
May 15, 2016 - early bird registration deadline
July 19-22, 2016 - CSB 2016, Hamilton, ON
Travel Info:
Note that the John C. Munro International Airport in Hamilton is serviced by WestJet and is a very convenient
access point to Hamilton from many cities.
Great rates are available at the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel with online or toll free booking.
We have been working with a new conference website system, thank you in advance for your patience while
the website becomes fully active. Any questions should be directed to the conference email account
([email protected]), or the conference chair, Peter Keir ([email protected]).
We hope to see you in Hamilton in July!
CSB 2016 Organizing Committee
Monica Maly
Cheryl Quenneville
Greg Wohl
Peter Keir
Abstract
Deadline
Extended to
March 14, 2016!!
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**REMINDER**
Conference registration fees are reduced for current CSB members
If your membership is not up to date, you should obtain membership prior to
registering (the conference website will have a link to the CSB membership page)
When you become a member (or renew), your online profile will display a CSB
membership number
This membership number will be requested on the conference registration page
COMMUNICATIONS
We have been working hard to provide you with speedy and frequent updates to CSB related announcements. Our
website is updated regularly, so please check the society webpage for news and announcements!
The Society webpage address is: www.csb-scb.com
This past year, CSB joined twitter! We are attempting to increase the social media presence of the CSB. Social
media is an excellent way for us to promote the amazing Biomechanics work that we do in Canada. Please make
sure to follow us so we can best communicate great news stories!
We are continually increasing our “followers” and our online presence in the Biomechanics community is growing!
Please follow us @CSBiomech
Students—please join the CSB student LinkedIn page!
School of Kinesiology and Leisure
ADVERTISING IN THE NEWSLETTER
The CSB executive is now welcoming companies and/or organizations with an interest
in Biomechanics to consider being part of our future newsletters. If you are interested
in learning more about advertising opportunities, please contact the communications
officer. [email protected]
We realize that a new website is a priority for our members and we are working hard to launch a new
site as soon as possible. While under development, we would gladly welcome thoughts and suggestions on
how a new site/features would best serve our members needs.
Should you have any suggestions and/or ideas for better communications or website functionality, please send
them to the communications officer.
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CSB EXECUTIVE
2014-2016
PRESIDENT
Clark Dickerson, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology University of Waterloo 200 University Ave W
Waterloo, ON Phone: 519-888-4567 x37844
Email: [email protected]
PAST PRESIDENT
Stephen Robinovitch, PhD Professor
Canada Research Chair Department of Biomedical
Physiology and Kinesiology Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC Phone: 519-888-4567 x37844
Email: [email protected]
SECRETARY
Salvatore Federico, PhD Associate Professor
Dept. of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering The University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW
Phone: 403-220-5790 Email:
TREASURER/MEMBER AFFAIRS
Grant Handrigan, PhD Assistant Professor
School of Kinesiology and Leisure Université de Moncton
Pavillon Léopold-Taillon 18, avenue Antonine-Maillet
Moncton, NB Phone: 506-858-3764
Email: [email protected]
MEMBERSHIP REPORT
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The start of the calendar year is an important time for the finances of the Canadian
Society for Biomechanics. Most of the CSB’s revenue is derived from the membership
fees that you, the members, contribute on an annual basis. These fees enable us to
support member activities and to promote the society. Over the past year (2015), we
have been able to support several conferences, for example the 16th Annual Alberta
BME Conference 2015. At this conference, the Canadian Society for Biomechanics
provided funding for a podium prize (awarded to Colin Firminger, University of
Calgary) and a poster prize (awarded to Jessica Kupper, University of Calgary). As
well, the CSB supported the 2015 Ontario Biomechanics Conference that was hosted
by the Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education at Wilfrid Laurier University
from March 13-15th, 2015.
We not only support conferences with your membership fees, we also contribute
directly to members to assist with their research and academic training. Also in 2015,
we awarded one student travel grant to Kenneth Brent Smale, a PhD student from the
University of Ottawa with 3000$ to pay for a three month research stay at the
University of Copenhagen. During this time, Kenneth performed data collection and
also presented some preliminary work at the 20th Congress of the European College of
Sport Science and the 25th Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics.
Overall, this was a positive educational opportunity for Kenneth and something that
will benefit him for years to come. I speak on his behalf, and echo his comments, in
thanking the members of the CSB for their support.
As you can see, the CSB aims to provide members with resources to assist in the
development of biomechanics and the Canadian biomechanics community. I am
pleased to serve a community that supports its members and I look forward to continue
working on behalf of the membership. For a detailed view of the CSB’s finances,
please view the attached 2015 financial statements of the CSB, including our
membership numbers and the financial report.
If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Grant Handrigan
School of Kinesiology and Health
E
CSB Newsletter |
MEMBERSHIP REPORT
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STUDENT REPORT
CSB EXECUTIVE
2014-2016
Tara Diesbourg Supervisor: Genevieve Dumas
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
Queen's University 28 Division St. Kingston, ON,
E-mail: [email protected]
STUDENT REPS
Alison Mcdonald Supervisor: Peter Keir
Department of Kinesiology McMaster University
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON
E-mail: [email protected]
Students—please join the CSB
LinkedIn page!
Hello CSB Student Members!
With the CSB 2016 conference fast approaching, we wanted to give you all of the
information needed to help get you as excited as we are for July 19-22!
If you haven’t already, check us out on the official CSB-Student Members LinkedIn
page! The page provides CSB student members with the means to stay connected
and build our professional networks as we move forward in our degrees. It will also
allow us to foster collaborative opportunities between institutions; and will serve as a
forum for communication between the CSB student members. Please note that all
official communication from the Society will still arrive via email, and that only
current student members will be accepted into the group.
There is also a CSB Twitter feed that is actively trying to promote Biomechanics
research to the masses. We regularly tweet and re-tweet research updates from labs
across the country. You can also expect to see tweets with important information and
dates for the CSB 2016 Conference.
Follow @CSBiomech for all of your important CSB news and updates!
We would like to remind all student members that the CSB provides travel awards to
student members annually. There are two awards intended to support graduate
student travel to other laboratories to expand their research experience (valued at up
to $3,000). There are also up to 20 Conference Travel Awards (values at $300) which
are intended to help offload some of the cost of attending the CSB 2016 conference.
Please see the guidelines on the CSB website for more
information (http://health.uottawa.ca/biomech/csb/
students.htm).
Please follow us @CSBiomech
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STUDENT REPORT
CSB EXECUTIVE
2014-2016
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Andrew Laing, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West Waterloo, ON
Phone: 519-888-4567 x38947 E-mail: [email protected]
Stephen Brown, PhD Assistant Professor
Human Health and Nutritional Sciences
University of Guelph 50 Stone Road East
Guelph, ON E-mail: [email protected]
Janessa Drake, PhD Associate Professor
2030 Sherman Health Science Research Centre
School of Kinesiology and Health Science
York University 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON Phone: 416-736-2100 x33568
E-mail: [email protected]
In the next few weeks, we will be contacting student biomechanics researchers
directly to solicit your opinion on matters that affect CSB student members. We
would love to hear what you have to say. We will be looking for input on everything
from what the CSB can do for you, to what you would like to see at the CSB 2016
conference. We will take all of your feedback into consideration in hopes that we can
help give you the best experience possible with your CSB Student
Membership. Please be on the lookout for this email, we look forward to hearing
from you!
If you have any ideas or suggestions of things we can implement or improve upon in
order to enhance your membership experience with the CSB please send us an email
(Tara: [email protected] or Alison: [email protected]).
We can’t wait to see you all in July in Hamilton, Ontario!
Tara and Alison
Students—please join the CSB LinkedIn page!
DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE CSB STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS!
20 Conference Travel Awards are available (valued at $300)
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RESEARCH NEWS
The ‘Thesis Corner’ and the ‘Research News’ sections are two areas of the newsletter that we hope students
and supervisors will take advantage of. Please submit the titles of recently completed master’s and doctoral
thesis. We will upload these to our website, or provide a link to either the university or library.
The thesis corner will contain the title, name, year and institution along with a web link to the abstract on the
CSB/SCB website (if desired).
We encourage everyone to submit their own or their students’ recently completed thesis abstracts and any
Research News associated with any Canadian Biomechanics Lab to the communications officer. We will
update the website with research and study pictures, as well as tweet the material. Lets get your research more
visible to the public!
THESIS CORNER
http://www.health.uottawa.ca/biomech/csb/students.htm
RESEARCH NEWS
http://www.health.uottawa.ca/biomech/csb/students.htm
With help, this section of the website and newsletter can be a great place to
showcase our members research!
Let’s collectively work together to get this section growing. Please send any
relevant news or materials!
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AWARD WINNERS
2014 Award Winners
CAREER AWARDS
Dr. Jack Callaghan University of Waterloo
Dr. Geoff Fernie Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
NDI NEW INVESTIGATOR
AWARDS
David Winter Promising Young Investigator Award
Dr. Stephen Brown
University of Guelph
Doctoral Student Award
Krysta Powers
The University of Calgary
Masters Student Award
Kaleena Johnston
The University of Calgary
2015 STUDENT TRAVEL
GRANTS
Kenneth Brent Smale (PhD)
The CSB would like to thank Northern Digital
Inc. for their continued support of the CSB
New Investigator Awards!
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CSB SUPPORTED REGIONAL MEETINGS
Ontario Biomechanics Conference
The 2016 Ontario Biomechanics Conference is being hosted by Queen’s University and will be held in
Alliston, ON from March 11-13, 2016.
Please visit the CSB website for a link to the conference webpage, or visit the site below.
http://www.health.uottawa.ca/biomech/csb/OBC/2016/OBC_Home.htm
The CSB will sponsor 2 student awards at OBC 2016!
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CSB SUPPORTED REGIONAL MEETINGS
Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference
The CSB recently supported the 2105 Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference, which was held in Banff
from November 6-8, 2015.
For anyone interested, the program and proceedings are available at:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/bme/files/bme/bme-conference-2015-program-long-final-from-mk.pdf
Congratulations to the winners of the CSB sponsored student prizes:
CSB podium prize Colin Firminger, The University of Calgary
CSB poster prize
Jessica Kupper, The University of Calgary
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www.mcmaster.ca/CSB2016/
July 19-22
2016
Hamilton
Ontario
CSB 2016
SEE YOU IN HAMILTON!