Summit agenda overview

Location: Main lobby

Check in to pick up your program guide and name tag. Coat check will be available.

Sponsored by AbSporu, Health Quality Alberta, BrokerLink, Alberta Blue Cross, and Caregivers Alberta

Location: Ballrooms 105-106

In this keynote, Brian Dolan will explore the construct of patient time as the most important currency in healthcare and argue that while staffs’ time is busy and important, patients’ time is sacred.

Deconditioning, the physical, psychological and functional decline that occurs as a result of prolonged bed rest and associated muscle strength, is a thief of quality patient time. Bearing that in mind, the address examines how deconditioning impacts hospitalised older people in particular.

Finally, the power of stories, the reframing of language, and the potency of examining life through the lens of the last 1,000 days will be considered.

Location: Ballroom 101-103

• Beyond the bed: Transforming care through mobility – preventing deconditioning in Acute Care

• Bridging the gap: Social prescribing for older adults in Alberta

• Cardiac rehabilitation - My heart coach

• Cruel and unethical

• Covenant Health long-term care and designated supportive living

• Empowering partnership: Key lessons from the co-development of patient-oriented research with parents, researchers, and healthcare professionals

• Enhancing culturally safer palliative care through education

• Family-centered sepsis care: Illuminating caregiver needs through a scoping review of assessment tools

• Journeys of care: Bridging distance and culture for northern patients

• Optimizing skin integrity

• Pregnancy pathways: Supporting pregnant women experiencing houselessness

• Supporting patient partners and researchers to promote person-centred kidney care

• The rural reality: Challenges and solutions for delivering patient centered care in rural emergency departments

• Transforming primary care through patient partnership: Co-designing Alberta’s patient pathways

• Understanding palliative care

• Sponsor booths

Lectures | Ballroom 107-109

• Transforming care through patient-reported outcomes to advance person-centered health and healing (Ballroom 107)

• Trust, healing and access: First nation voices on pharmacy care (Ballroom 108)

• The rural reality: Challenges and solutions for delivering patient centered care in rural emergency departments (Ballroom 109)

Rapid fire talks | Ballroom 104 and 106

• The Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit (AbSPORU): Supporting the advancement of patient-oriented, data-driven health system innovation in Alberta (Ballroom 104)

• Recognizing and responding to post-intensive care syndrome in families (Ballroom 104)

• Elevating lived experiences to improve women’s health in Alberta (Ballroom 104)

• Virtual cardiac rehabilitation - My heart coach (Ballroom 106)

• Enhancing mental health tele-triage: Reducing emergency department reliance through alternative care pathways (Ballroom 106)

• Person-centered integrated kidney care: How our lived experience informs our work as patient partners in research (Ballroom 106)

Location: Foyer

Lunch will be provided in the Foyer. Please share any dietary requirements when registering.

Sponsored by AbSporu, Health Quality Alberta, BrokerLink, Alberta Blue Cross, and Caregivers Alberta

Location: Ballrooms 105-106

This panel will feature patients and family members sharing lived experiences and reflections related to person-centred care. Through facilitated dialogue, the session will explore insights, challenges and opportunities to strengthen care experiences across settings, grounded in real stories and perspectives.

Speakers:

• Christine Holubec–Jackson
  Christine joins us as a stroke survivor who has navigated a complex recovery journey with strength, resilience, and a deep commitment to sharing what helped—and what could help others. Her perspective highlights the importance of compassionate communication, coordinated care, and truly listening to the needs of patients and families.

• Ken Jackson
  Christine’s husband and caregiver, Ken brings the essential voice of family partners in care. Through his experience supporting Christine, he has witnessed the system from multiple angles and offers valuable reflections on how caregivers can be better recognized, supported, and empowered as integral members of the care team.

• John Miller
  John has been living in continuing care for seven years and brings a grounded, thoughtful perspective on daily life within care homes. His lived experience shows how dignity, autonomy, and meaningful connection contribute to overall well-being, and how small moments of person-centred care can create lasting impact.

Facilitators:

• Stephen de Groot — Brivia Consulting
  Stephen de Groot is an international speaker and leadership consultant with a strong focus on healthcare. He works closely with frontline teams and senior leaders to strengthen connection, communication and collaborative practice, supporting compassionate, person-centred care for patients, families and care teams.

• Brenda Badiuk — Brivia Consulting
  Brenda Badiuk is a seasoned healthcare executive with extensive leadership experience across hospitals and health systems. As COO of Brivia Consulting, she supports teams through change using a coaching-based, servant leadership approach that emphasizes trust, self-leadership and psychological safety.

Location: Foyer

Visit the reflection wall and connect with fellow participants.

Sponsored by AbSporu, Health Quality Alberta, BrokerLink, Alberta Blue Cross, and Caregivers Alberta

Lectures | Ballroom 107-109

• Bridging the gap: Social prescribing for older adults in Alberta (Ballroom 107)

• Transforming primary care through patient partnership: Co-designing Alberta’s patient pathways (Ballroom 108)

• Patient centered communication strategy (Ballroom 109)

Rapid fire talks | Ballroom 104

• Music can be a powerful tool

• Meaningful care interactions: Measuring experience using HealthChange

Location: Ballrooms 105-106

Hosted by Tim Spelliscy

A brief wrap-up highlighting key insights and expressions of gratitude.