2025 CAPS Annual Meeting, September 18-20, 2025

The CAPS 2025 Annual Meeting will be held at the Fairmont Winnipeg Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on September 18th to 20th, 2025. The hotel is a short walk from the beautiful water front, known as the Forks, that marks the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers as well as the site of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. We are looking forward to a fantastic meeting at a wonderful and historic venue!

Our 49th JPS/Fred Macleod lecturer will be Dr. Francois Luks. Francois Luks is the J. Murray Beardsley Professor of Pediatric Surgery and Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is the Pediatric Surgeon-in-Chief and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at Hasbro Children's. As a medical student, he drew a daily comic strip for several newspapers and later started to illustrate some of his own research publications, then those of colleagues. While not an illustrator by trade, he is passionate about the power and responsibility of visual communication in promoting humanism, compassion and empathy in medicine. 

By day, he is a pediatric and fetal surgeon; After hours, he teaches a course in medical illustration to Brown undergrads and students at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), leads workshops in medical illustration for medical students, residents and faculty, and runs a workshop on medical comics. His book, MedSpeak Illuminated: The art and practice of medical illustration (Kent State University Press) dives deeper in the wonderful world of visual communication. He finds the time to do all this because he doesn't play pickleball!

This year's meeting program schedule has some changes compared to last year's schedule- please review and plan ahead. The 20th CaPSNIG meeting will be held on site on September 18th. The CAPS Annual Business Meeting for CAPS members will be scheduled for that afternoon followed by a wine and cheese for all registrants. There will be two full days of scientific sessions and educational programs on Sept. 19th and 20th. We will close out the 56th Annual Meeting with the the President’s Banquet and entertainment on the night of Sept. 20th at the beautiful Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The registration fee includes the President's Banquet and additional tickets will be available to purchase for accompanying persons. 

Last but not least, for those who are interested in taking the guided tour of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, you can sign up for this tour which has been specially scheduled for CAPS meeting attendees on the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 19th. The hour-long tour can be booked in the registration process and spaces are limited!

Full CAPS 2025 Annual Meeting program: 
https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/74793/program

Conference Registration: 
Register for the conference using the link below:
https://register.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74793?preview=false

Accommodation:
Book your hotel by August 18th for CAPS Annual Meeting using the link below: 
https://book.passkey.com/e/51042183

We look forward to seeing you in Winnipeg in September!