National Meetings

To date, the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network hosted national meetings in 2016, 2018 and 2023.

The last national meeting was held on November 8th and 9th, 2023 in Montréal, Canada. The meeting aimed to showcase efforts to improve appropriate prescribing across the country. 


Meeting objectives:

  • Provide a networking opportunity and forum for dialogue among diverse stakeholders including community leaders, healthcare providers, policy makers, and researchers

  • Share successful national and jurisdictional initiatives that promote the appropriate use of medications

  • Contribute to national work on a pan-Canadian strategy for appropriate use of medications by the Canadian Drug Agency Transition Office

  • Present research, tools, and activities that support regional medication appropriateness initiatives across the country

Meeting agenda

The meeting agenda is available - click here

To read a summary report of the 2023 National Meeting, click here.

The Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network (CADeN) would like to acknowledge that our 2023 National Meeting will be held on the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal has a long history as a place of gathering and exchange for many First Nations, including the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg. As part of our commitment to reconciliation, CADeN aims to build relationships with Indigenous communities, and to partner with these communities in research that reflects their priorities. Further, we are committed to learning and integrating Indigenous ways of knowing, doing and being throughout our work.

This event has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada.