Team member named Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in PROM’s

  Congratulations to Dr. Anne Klassen for being named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Patient-Reported Outcomes! This seven-year appointment will support her research developing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), including the GENDER-Q, measure outcomes important to transgender and gender-diverse youth from their perspective, with the goal of enhancing patient care.

Team member presents at 32nd annual ISOQOL conference

  Team member presents content on the GENDER-Q at the 32nd annual ISOQOL conference in Wisconsin, USA 2025. Poster Presentation By Trisia Breitkopf Translation and Linguistic Validation of the GENDER-Q into French for use in Canada

Team member presents FACE-Q at Plastic Surgery conferences 2025

Team member presents the FACE-Q at the Canadian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery conference 2025 in Toronto and the American Society of Plastic Surgery conference 2025 in New Orleans. Oral Presentation By Lucas Gallo Patient Factors that Impact FACE-Q Aesthetics Outcomes

Q-team member wins CIHR graduate award

  Congratulations to Noah Jeydon Couto for winning a 2025-26 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Masters Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships! This is for a project titled: “Developing a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Youth Seeking Gender-Affirming Health Care (GENDER-Q Youth).”

Team members present at Plastic Surgery conference 2025

Team members present the content on the GENDER-Q at Plastic Surgery The Meeting 2025 in New Orleans. Oral Presentations By Manraj Kaur Construct Validation of GENDER-Q Scales Measuring Surgical Outcomes for Facial Feminization Measurement of Patient-reported Outcomes After Feminizing Gender-Affirming Genital Surgery with the GENDER-Q By Shane Morrison Validation of GENDER-Q Scales for Use in […]

Team member presents at EPATH 2025

Q-Portfolio team member attended the 6th European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) conference in September 2025, Hamburg, Germany. Oral Presentations By Anne Klassen Development of a patient-reported outcome measure for youth receiving gender-affirming care: The GENDER-Q Youth Module. Development and validation of the GENDER-Q patient-reported outcome measure.

Team member presents at UK PROMs conference 2025

Team member attended UK PROMs conference 2025 on behalf of the Gender-Q International Team. Presentation By Anne Klassen Measuring What Matters: Creating a Comprehensive PROM for Gender-Affirming Care Across Borders.

Q-team member awarded PSF project grant

Congratulations to the LIMB-Q team for being awarded a $50,000 USD PSF Grant! Title of the study: “Establishing Minimal Important Differences (MID) for the LIMB-Q – using anchor based prospective approach to collecting LIMB-Q data for MID calculation.”

Q-team member awarded CIHR project grant

Congratulations to the CLEFT-Q team for being awarded a $625,771 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grant! Title of the study: “Adaptation of the CLEFT-Q Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Caregiver-Proxy Report: An International Study for Patients Less than 8 Years of Age with Cleft Lip and/or Palate.”

Team member presents at EADV congress 2025

Oral Presentation By Anne Klassen Development and Validation Research for a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure to Evaluate Treatments for Acne and Acne Scarring: The ACNE-Q. Poster Presentations By Anne Klassen Development and Validation Research for a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure to Evaluate Treatments for Acne and Acne Scarring: The ACNE-Q. Development and validation of a patient-reported outcome […]