Think Tank - June 19th, 2026

Advancing Sexually Transmitted Blood-Borne Infections (STBBI) Awareness & Access Through Community Collaboration
Roselyn Kyeame, BSc, MPH
Health Promotion Specialist, Windsor-Essex County Health Unit
Razane Diab, BScN, MSN
Infectious Disease Prevention Manager, Windsor-Essex County Health Unit

This presentation introduces the development of a community-informed sexual health committee aimed at strengthening collaboration and guiding local STBBI priorities. Led by the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, the think tank brings together partners from academic, clinical, and community sectors to share perspectives, identify gaps, and co-create strategies to improve sexual health outcomes. Through collaborative discussion, participants will explore opportunities for research partnerships, knowledge exchange and coordinated action addressing stigma and awareness to enhance access to testing, prevention and treatment services. This session will also focus on building sustainable relationships that will support ongoing engagement and inform future programming and policy development. 

The presenters are seeking community partners involved with the following areas: core medical, shelter health, Hiatus House, harm reduction, community support, positive pathways, WECHC, hepatitis C outreach, teen health, Melo clinic, pregnancy centres, correctional facility - Southwest Detention Centre, mobile outreach, and medical mobile services.

Advancing Psychological Closure in Mental Health Research and Practice
Chantal Boucher, PhD, CPsych
Assistant Professor & Clinical Psychologist, University of Windsor

Many people continue to struggle with unresolved life experiences that impact their mental health, yet we still lack clear ways to define, measure, and support psychological closure in practice. The presenter would like to bring together researchers, clinicians, and community partners to explore how we can better understand closure and translate emerging insights into real-world mental health supports. 

Chantal is looking for voices from across psychology, mental health care, community organizations, and lived experience to help shape future research and solutions in this space.

Targeting Better Outcomes in AML Transplantation: Risk Models, Relapse, and Biomarker Innovation
Ayman Sayyed, MD
Hematologist, Windsor Regional Hospital

This presentation will dive into the real-world challenges of stem cell transplants in acute myeloid leukemia, especially why relapse is still so common even as care improves. It will look at five key risk factors that seem to shape patient outcomes and explore how different approaches might make a difference. The presenter would like to open up a conversation about whether the way we typically analyze outcomes truly tells the full story, and share emerging work on how different patient groups may benefit differently from transplant. The goal is to spark discussion around a central question: how can we better predict who will truly benefit from a transplant? By exploring the potential of new biomarkers, immune cell profiling, and proteomic signatures, this session invites ideas and collaboration to move toward more personalized, effective transplant strategies. The presenter is seeking collaborators across hematology and oncology, transplant medicine, post-transplant care, biostatistics, and proteomics research to help advance risk modeling, relapse prediction, and biomarker innovation in AML transplantation. 

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