Event Details:
Date: Friday May 9, 2025 8:00am- 4:15pm
Venue: Life Sciences Building, York University Keele Campus, Lobby and rooms 106 and 107
Registration fee paid in advance via Eventbrite registration page: $30 for all attendees. Speakers are admitted free of charge. This fee includes light breakfast, buffet lunch and coffee breaks. Please note that no on site cash registrations will be accepted.
View MHAD16 program outline here
View MHAD16 complete proceedings here
Direction to event venue:
By car:
Driving directions are provided on the York University Map [PDF]. The two best routes to campus are driving North on Highway 400 to Steeles Ave W, then heading East on Steeles Ave W to Murray Ross Pkwy, OR driving North on Keele St to Steeles Ave W, then heading W on Steeles Ave W to Founders Road. Parking lots are noted on the map, along with the location of the meeting (Building #90 on the map: Life Science Building - Lobby and Room 106).
By Subway:
Take the subway (Line 1 University) to York University Station. Walk down Campus Walk towards Building #90 on the map: Life Science Building - Lobby and Room 106.
Registration and Abstract Submission:
Please note that we have a new process for event registration and abstract submission in place for the event this year.
Please fill out the registration form here
Step 1: Completion of this form is required if you intend to attend MHAD16 and/or present a poster.
Step 2: Registration payment is required in advance via this Eventbrite page: Here. Once you have registered refunds will not be possible. Our apologies for any inconvenience.
If you are having issues completing the form or Eventbrite registration, please email:
Poster and abstract submission guidelines
Poster Guidelines
We kindly ask that the dimensions of your poster DO NOT exceed 4 feet in width and 3 feet in height, in order to fit on the poster boards at the event.
Abstract Submission Guidelines
We invite abstracts for poster presentations (from undergraduates, MSc and PhD students, as well as Post-Doctoral Fellows) on any topic related to muscle (skeletal, cardiac or smooth), exercise, health, disease, injury/rehabilitation including topics of blood flow, neuromuscular physiology, metabolism, genetics, endocrinology, etc. You may re-use posters presented within the last 12 months at any scientific meeting, or posters that are to be presented at upcoming meetings. We request an abstract word limit of 350 words. Please do not include any figures with your abstract.
Deadlines for abstract submission for a poster presentation
- Registrations must be submitted by Friday April 11, 2025 midnight. This deadline is required to help us inform the caterer of the total number of attendees
- To be considered for a Poster Award, you must be currently enrolled in an Undergraduate, MSc or PhD program, or be a Post-Doctoral Fellow, and your abstract must be submitted by Friday April 11th,2024 at 4:00pm EST. All abstracts submitted by this date and time will be considered for the 1 of 6 available Poster Awards that will be given out at the end of the day. The criteria for the selection process are available here.
- To be included in the MHAD16 Conference Proceedings, abstracts must be submitted by MONDAY April 28th, 2024 by midnight. Abstracts submitted after this time WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Speaker list
This is the current list of confirmed distinguished invited speakers for this years' event:
- Dr. Susanna Mak, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Cardiologist & Researcher, Sinai Health, Director, of the Anna Prosserman Heart Function Clinic and of the Harold & Esther Mecklinger and Posluns Family Cardiac Catheterization Research Laboratory at Mt. Sinai Hospital
- Dr. Stephanie Tobin, Assistant Professor, Trent University
- Dr. Olasunkanmi Adegoke, Associate Professor, MHRC, York University
- Dr. Hanns Lochmuller, Clinician- Scientist, University of Ottawa, NMD4C Lead Investigator, Neurologist, Senior Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, Schools of Neurology and Medicine, University of Ottawa
- Danielle Campo, Paralympian, Award Winning Speaker, Paralympic Gold Medalist, Resiliency Expert, National Hero Honour Recipient
- Emily Sutton, Post Doctoral Fellow, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
- Dr. Chris McGlory, Assistant Professor, Queen's University
- Dr. Jenna Gillen, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto