October 15-16, 2025, Calgary
CCNA understands that circumstances may arise that prevent you from attending the 2025 Conference on October 15–16 at the Hyatt Regency Calgary. Please review our cancellation and transfer policy below:
- Transfers
Registrations may be transferred to another individual at no cost up until October 10, 2025. Please contact us at ccna.admin@ladydavis.ca to process a transfer. - Cancellations
Cancellations received on or before September 15, 2025 will be subject to a $100 cancellation fee.
Cancellations received after September 15, 2025 are non-refundable.
No-shows: Registrants who do not attend and do not cancel in advance will not be eligible for a refund or transfer.
We appreciate your understanding and look forward to welcoming you to Calgary in October.
Travel information
Book your room at the Hyatt Regency Calgary.
Flight booking discount code
- Use this discount code when booking an Air Canada flight: V3F43CA1
- The booking is to be made to Calgary, YYC (CA)
- The code applies to travel within these dates: Tuesday, October 07, 2025 and Thursday, October 23, 2025.
- For North America, 5% applies on standard fares, 10% on flex fares & higher.
- Use this discount code when booking an WestJet flight: 0P9O2XU
- To take advantage of this offer, you will need the discount code listed. Please visit www.westjet.com to make a booking online.
- The booking is to be made to Calgary, YYC (CA)
- The code applies to travel within these dates: Tuesday, October 07, 2025 and Thursday, October 23, 2025.
- 5% off Econo* and 10% off EconoFlex and Premium fares for travel within Canada and 2% off Econo*, 5% off EconoFlex and 10% off Premium base fares for guests travelling Trans-border. No discount will apply to Ultra Basic or Business class bookings.
- Use this link to book your flight to benefit from a discount code
- Use this discount code – NANV25 – when booking a flight with Porter through a travel agent
- Valid only for a booking made to Calgary, YYC (CA)
- The code applies to travel within these dates: Saturday, October 11, 2025 and Sunday, October 19, 2025.
- Save up to 10% discount on available base fares (with the exception of the lowest class fare during a public seat sale)
Funders and sponsors
CCNA is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Alzheimer Society of Canada.
CCNA’s annual conference 2025 is also generously supported by unrestricted sponsorship (without imposing any conditions or requirements on CCNA’s conference) from:
Platinum sponsor
Gold sponsors
Preliminary agenda at a glance
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
6:30 – 8:30 pm – Registration
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
7:00 Registration and buffet breakfast
8:00 Welcome remarks
- Howard Chertkow
- Indigenous Elder (TBA)
- Shebina Amlani, EPLED
- Jane Rylett, CIHR Institute of Aging
9:00 COMPASS-ND
10:00 Break
10:30 CCNA’s Indigenous Cognitive Health Program: Supporting self-determined cognitive health research in Canada
12:00 Lunch and poster session – see poster program.
2:00 Tik-Talk sessions:
- Implementing Brain Health PRO in Canada- Phase 1: Partnership development and needs assessment for dementia risk reduction / Sylvie Belleville
- Brain Health PRO and modifiable dementia risk factors: Phase 2 results and future directions / Haakon B. Nygaard
- The effects of a multidomain personalized community-based approach to dementia risk reduction on 6-month change in lifestyle behaviours and cognition / Danielle D’Amico
- The SYNERGIC-2 Trial: When the sum is greater than the parts / Manuel Montero-Odasso
- Métis perspectives on Brain Health Pro: a qualitative study in Alberta, Canada / Pamela Roach
- Peripheral inflammation in aging and neurodegenerative conditions / Bruna Seixas-Lima
- Lipidomic discriminators in the Lewy Body disease spectrum in the Comprehensive Assessment of Neurodegeneration and Dementia (COMPASS-ND) cohort / Richard Camicioli
- Active living inputs into cognition: Proposing a hypothesis / Ezinne Ekediegwu
- Differential patterns of white matter diffusion MRI abnormalities in nine COMPASS-ND clinical cohorts compared with cognitively unimpaired controls / Sarah Treit
- Compounded cerebrovascular burden reduces sleep duration in the Alzheimer’s continuum / Soraya Lahlou
- Sex differences in brain network functional organization and microstructure across the cognitively healthy adult lifespan / Abhijot Singh Sidhu
- Exploring sex-specific risk factors in cognitive decline: insights into modifiable and non-modifiable determinants utilizing a network analysis / Brittany Intzandt
- Understanding sex and gender differences in dementia care: Evidence from recent studies / Geneviève Arsenault-Lapierre
- Aging, Alzheimer’s, and resilience: Insights from older immigrant women from the Horn of Africa / Jenalyn Ormita
- Evaluating sex and gender as independent and interactive predictors of memory aging trajectory classes: An integrative data-driven approach / Linzy Bohn
3:30 Break
4:00 Tik-Talk sessions:
- Partnering to implement, evaluate, and spread the DELIGHT (Dementia Lifestyle Intervention for Getting Healthy Together) program / Laura Middleton
- The association between social connection and quality of life for people with dementia: A scoping review / Madalena Liougas
- Exploring stakeholder perspectives on integrating virtual reality reminiscence therapy into dementia care: A pilot focus group study at London Health Centre / Sara Elgazzar
- Engaging equity-deserving groups in dementia research: The value of participatory co-design approaches / Sathya Karunananthan
- Exploring the application of virtual reality exergaming to support vaccine education for people with dementia and caregivers / Winnie Sun
- Engaging ethnocultural communities to co-design culturally- and linguistically-tailored KTE products centred around dementia / Zaina Alsibai
- Differences in incidence and use of health services across socioeconomic status and racialisation in community-dwelling people with incident dementia in Quebec / Claire Godard-Sebillotte
- Developing dementia decoded: Acute care dementia strategy at the Ottawa Hospital / Matthew Sacheli
- Cognitive features, biomarkers, and risk factors for mild cognitive impairment in a Canadian cohort / Alexandra Loverock
- Synergistic potential of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for depression treatment and cognitive protection: A scoping review / Asmi Khanna
- Sex differences in sleep and brain-behaviour relationships across different stages of cognitive impairment / Alana Brown
- Unlocking brain insights: MRI data and derivatives available for research use / AmanPreet Badhwar
- Using plasma biomarkers to estimate the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in COMPASS-ND / Jennifer Cooper
- An updated imaging protocol for Phase III of the Comprehensive Assessment of Neurodegeneration and Dementia (COMPASS-ND) study / Rosanna K. Olsen
- Variability as a barrier to using contrast sensitivity and reading acuity as behavioural biomarkers for dementia / Walter Wittich
5:30 Reception, EPLED art pop-up
6:15-7:15 Keynote talk by Dr. David Bennett: Charting a path to precision medicine for Alzheimer’s Disease
Thursday, October 16, 2025
7:30 Buffet breakfast
8:30 Welcome new CCNA teams!
- Dr. Jane Rylett opening remarks and introduction to CCNA Phase III teams
- Introductions of the new teams
10:00 Break
10:30 Meet the Dementia Research Support Hub leads and staff
12:00-12:30 Awards and goodbyes
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