Myo Minn Oo is joining the Options Lab as a Senior Research Associate. He brings a wealth of prior experience studying medicine in Myanmar and epidemiology in Thailand, followed by epidemiology fieldwork and research on a variety of global health issues including HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.  To start with, Myo’s role on our team will […]

Congratulations to the Options Lab team. Many of our members were accepted for either poster presentations or oral presentations at the 33rd Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDs (CAHR 2024) in London, Ontario. Oral abstracts were presented delivered by Maryam, Stanley, Monica and Yasamin. Maryam and Stanley presented on the status of their update of the […]

We are proud to announce that Emma Monti, a second-year medical student at Queen’s University and a 2023 Keenan Summer Research Student in the Options Lab, has had her abstract accepted to the Community-Based Research Centre Summit. This conference will be held in Vancouver, BC from November 16th to 17th, and Emma will be presenting […]

We are excited to announce that Ashan Wijesinghe, a MSc student in the Options Lab, has been accepted to the Fast Track Cities Conference and the European AIDS Conference, with abstracts titled “A Descriptive Analysis of Patients Receiving Injectable ART at Academic HIV clinics in Toronto” and “Marginalization related to Material Deprivation and Ethnic Concentration among Patients […]

This year’s Options Lab summer students, Ivan Qian, Archchana Arulananthan, Emma Monti and James Lisondra participated in the Keenan Research Summer Student program’s poster competition on July 26th, 2023. This group is joined by Siham Mohamud and Monica Rudd, two other summer students in the lab. This annual gathering brings together summer students from various […]

Every summer, the Keenan Research Summer Student programs runs weekly research seminars, giving undergraduate and medical students the chance to share more about their ongoing summer projects with their fellow peers and colleagues at St. Michael’s Hospital. On Thursday, July 6th, two of the Options Lab’s summer students, Emma Monti and James Lisondra delivered a […]

Dr. Darrell Tan presented at the Public Health Ontario Rounds on June 19th, 2023 regarding the Mpox outbreak, response and vaccine effectiveness. Please see the slides of his talk for more information. A recording of the presentation is also available below!

This year the International AIDS Society Conference was held in Brisbane, Australia from July 23rd – 26th, 2023. Two of our team members, Shreya Shah and Robinson Truong both had abstracts accepted to the conference for a poster presentation. Rob’s abstract/poster is titled: Preferences of gbMSM regarding sexual orientation disclosure interventions in primary care: a qualitative […]

Dr. Tan recently had the honor of presenting at two prestigious conferences in Rome, Italy: the European HIV Clinical Forum and the European Meeting on HIV & Hepatitis. His groundbreaking contributions and commitment to advancing HIV treatment and care have made a lasting impact on the medical community and those affected by the virus. The […]

Dr. Sheliza Halani, postgraduate medical research trainee, has an abstract on MPX accepted to ID Week, happening this October in Boston, MA. She also received a Travel Award. Congrats Dr. Halani!