#MIRA Trainee Talks

Date:

May 22 2025

Time:

12:00 – 2:00 PM ET

Location:

Spark CoLab on the 5th floor of LR Wilson Hall – McMaster Campus
Register now

Please join us on Thursday, May 22, 2025 from 12:00 – 2:00 PM at the Spark CoLab, on the 5th floor of LR Wilson Hall in 5803. Follow directions on the 5th floor to Spark: a centre for social research innovation. An interactive map of campus can be found here.

A light lunch will be served. Please share this registration with your colleagues, labs, research teams and anyone else interested in aging research at McMaster. We look forward to seeing you there!


SPEAKERS

Anittha Mappanasingam, MA, School of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Health Sciences
Supervisor: Dr. Ashwini Namasivayam MacDonald
The role of physical fitness on frailty and dysphagia in older adults


Aastha Relan, MA, Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences
Supervisor: Dr. Alexandra Papaioannou
Evaluating the Fit-Frailty app in inpatient rehabilitation units to monitor frailty


Taylor Kramer, MA, School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Supervisor: Dr. Cheryl Quenneville
Applying convolutional neural networks to predict vertebral fracture probability using dual x-ray absorptiometry imaging