Professor, McGill University

Annmarie Adams has pioneered interdisciplinary methodologies for assessing healthcare design, an increasingly relevant field as Canada's hospitals age. Trained as an architect and architectural historian, her award-winning publications, exhibitions, teaching, and activism illuminate the complex relationship of health and the built environment, and have situated Canadian hospitals at the forefront of international, architectural discourse. Her impact in medicine has been recognized by the architectural profession as "a model of professional outreach."

Aslam Anis is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC and one of Canada’s leading health economists. Early on, Dr. Anis demonstrated that costly HIV/AIDS drugs save money and that failing to use these drugs actually is more expensive than using them. He has also shown governments how changes to drug reimbursement can save money, increase access to drugs for Canadians and improve their health. His program on determining formulary access in British Columbia has become the basis for a Canada-wide program and has been taken up by other government agencies, including that ...

Professor of Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Martin M. Antony is among Canada’s leading experts on the correlates and evidence basedtreatment of anxiety and related disorders. He has contributed over 300 peer-reviewedpublications and over 30 widely recommended books that have been translated into 20 languages.Dr. Antony has played a central role in the delivery of evidence-based mental health care in Ontarioas founding director of the Anxiety Treatment and Research Clinic and the Clinical PsychologyResidency Program at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, founding director of Toronto MetropolitanUniversity’s Psychology graduate ...

Professor of Psychology, University of Regina

Dr. Asmundson is a Registered Doctoral Psychologist and Professor at the UofR. He is Editor-in-Chief of two leading journals and serves on numerous editorial boards. His pioneering work on fear-avoidance in chronic pain and his shared vulnerability model of co-occurring PTSD and chronic pain have led to significant advances in understanding and treating these prevalent, disabling, and costly conditions. He is a FRSC, a recipient of the SOM, and was awarded the Molson Prize for remarkable achievements in the social science. He is actively involved in clinical research/supervision and has ...

Scientific Director, University of Montreal

As the scientific director of the largest Francophone research centre on aging Centre de recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Sylvie Belleville has been advancing research in neuropsychology and aging for two decades. One of the most prolific researchers in her field, she has published 203 articles, developed several innovative projects on brain health in seniors, and devised a number of diagnostic and prevention tools for Alzheimer's disease. In Canada and internationally, her leadership and vision have benefited many research groups. Her research has led to the ...

Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria

Cecilia Benoit, PhD (Sociology, UofT) is of Mi'kmaw and French ancestry and iscurrently a Scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research andProfessor of Sociology. Her research examines social inequities embedded inlaws, policies, programs and research agendas and searches for evidence basedsolutions. She has been instrumental in making known the indigenous knowledgesheld by Aboriginal midwives and birthing women and worked to change health carepolicies so that Indigenous and non-Indigenous midwives could legally work andhave their services reimbursed by the public purse. ...

Professor & uOttawa Chair, University of Ottawa

Recognized nationally and internationally for her research and scholarshipon health workforce policy, health worker migration, midwifery and maternity care. She holds a CIHR Chair in Gender, Work and Health Human Resources and previously held CIHR and Canada Research Chairs. She co-founded the bilingual Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health and leads the Ontario and Canadian Health Human Resources Networks. Her dedication to effective knowledge exchange is evidenced with a number of consultations to Provincial Ministries of Health, Health Canada, the Pan American Health Organization ...

Dr. Bryan's international reputation is in health economics, health technology assessment and health services and policy research. He was a Harkness Fellow in 2005 at Stanford University, has a career total of over 250 peer-reviewed articles, has won over $45M in research funding during his 12 years in Canada, and currently chairs the Advisory Board for CIHR's Institute for Health Services & Policy Research. Dr. Bryan is an experienced and accomplished health research leader, having held numerous leadership roles throughout his career, culminating in his appointment in January 2020 as ...

Jim Sorensen Chair in BMEng, University of Alberta

Dr. Robert Burrell is an internationally recognized expert in nanostructured noble metals and their application inmedicine. He led the group that developed and manufactured the world's first commerciallysuccessful therapeutic application of nanotechnology-Acticoatâ„¢ dressing. The dressing has revolutionized burn and wound care, saving the lives and limbs ofthousands of patients around the world. Burrell's work has uncovered thephysical and chemical properties of nanocrystalline silver and laid thegroundwork to develop therapeutics that positively alter the outcomes ofpeople's lives. He is the ...

Professor of Psychology, University of Regina

Dr. R. Nicholas Carleton is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Regina and the founding Scientific Director of the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment. Hiswork has impacted mental health outcomes, practices, and policies in Canada and internationally through the development and integration of systems for Public Safety Personnel mental health research, assessment, and treatment. His efforts have galvanized Public Safety Personnel research, setting the stage to tangibly improve mental health for all Canadians. Carleton maintains a small private practice for ...

Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy; Professor, F, University of Alberta

For more than a decade, Timothy Caulfield has been a leader in the field of health law, particularly in the area of biotechnology policy. He has published well over one hundred peer reviewed articles and dozens of book chapters and edited collections. He has served on a wide variety of national and international policy committees, including the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, the OECD, and Genome Canada’s Science Advisory Board. He has organized and Chaired national conferences and symposiums, and has built a unique and productive interdiscip1inary research team. Professor ...

Professor, Dalhousie University

Dr. Christine Chambers is a clinical psychologist, professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Children's Pain. Identified as one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women, she is passionate about research impact and ensuring her work improves children's pain in policy and practice. As the Scientific Director of Solutions for Kids in Pain/SKIP, she is a leader and innovator in patient engagement, partnerships, and the mobilization of health research. Also serving as Scientific Director of CIHR's Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health, she is a champion of research promoting ...

Full Professor, University of Ottawa

Professor Chandler is a professor of law and holder of the Bertram Loeb Research Chair. Her work illuminates the ways in which the law responds to advances in biomedicine, and how those responses affect the lives of vulnerable people and society. Her scholarship, testimony, and contributions to government independent expert panels have studied fetal alcohol spectrum and other neurological syndromes in the criminal justice system, mental health policy and practice, neurotechnologies, brain death, medical aid in dying, and organ donation and transplantation policy. Her work uniquely brings ...

University of Victoria

Dr. Neena Chappell's research has focused on social gerontology throughout her 30+ year career. She established two world class university research centers on aging, one at the University of Manitoba and one at the University of Victoria, where she continues to conduct research. She has published over 300 academic articles and reports and brought in over $45 million in research funding. She has been the Canada Research Chair in Social Gerontology since 2001 and is past-President of the Canadian Association on Gerontology and President of Academy II (social sciences) of the Royal Society of ...

Full Professor, University of Victoria

Dr. Denise Cloutier's community-engaged research promotes applied solutions for healthy aging, well-being, and quality of life for diverse older populations living in urban, rural and suburban communities. She is a champion of rigorous, mixed methods research that emphasizes community engagement and knowledge mobilization. This research draws on sources such as the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, and dynamic partnerships with organizations in BC ranging from government to local seniors groups, individuals and advocates, always with the goal of supporting healthy aging, and access to ...

Full Professor, Universite de Montreal

Professor Crocker is a leading international forensic mental health scholar and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mental Health, Justice and Safety and Past-president of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. She has been leading the most comprehensive national study on criminal responsibility en mental illness since 2007. Her research program addresses the needs of and services to justice-involved persons with mental illness and their loved-ones; individual and systemic barriers and facilitators of community re-entry; alternatives to incarceration; and ...

Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Calgary

Dr. Keith Dobson is one of the world's most highly regarded and influential clinical psychologists. His original scholarship, leadership, and advocacy in multiple areas have significantly changed the ways that practitioners help individuals who suffer from mental health disorders. He has refined models of, and evidence-based treatments for, clinical depression. His research on mental illness stigma has transformed perceptions and attitudes in both social and professional contexts and promoted best practices for stigma reduction. The mental health programs that he has helped to develop have ...

Professor, Dalhousie University

Jocelyn Downie is a Canadian leader and international expert in the intersecting areas of health law, policy, and ethics. Her collaborative research reaches both policy and academic audiences in many fields including law, bioethics, philosophy, and health professions. Dying Justice, winner of the 2005 RSC Abbyann D. Lynch Bioethics Medal, is the authoritative study of end of life law and policy in Canada. Professor Downie has helped to set the standards for governance of research involving humans and her demonstrated leadership on neuroimaging ethics has made visible many complex issues ...

Distinguished Prof. Depart Psychology & OB GYN, Western University

William Fisher is one of the world’s foremost scientists active in developing – and applying – powerful behavioral science models for the prediction and promotion of reproductive health related behavior. His Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model is an international public health standard applied in health promotion efforts in areas as diverse as contraception, menopause, and most notably, promotion of HIV preventive behavior and antiretroviral regimen adherence among HIV + persons. Fisher serves on seven journal editorial boards. He was awarded the UWO Hellmuth Prize for research ...

Dalhousie University

Janice E. Graham, PhD is an anthropologist of science, technology and medicine, and University Research Professor (2018-23) at Dalhousie University where she is a Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) in the Faculty of Medicine. She studies the construction of evidence for the safety and effectiveness of emerging therapeutics and vaccines, following these products from bench to bedside. Interested in the cultural, technical and moral tensions of health regulation and technology assessment, she's written over 100 publications, 28 technical reports, 300 scholarly papers and presented ...

Executive Director of Performance Management and Evaluation, Alberta Innovates

An international authority on health impact, Kathryn Graham is Executive Director of Performance Management and Evaluation at Alberta Innovates. She is co-founder of the International School on Research Impact Assessment and founder of its regional spinout. With over 25 years of strategic experience in health care, research and innovation, her expertise is in developing performance management, evaluation, impact strategies and implementing assessment frameworks for complex systems and organizations. She successfully implemented the CAHS (2009) health research impact framework and was ...

Professor Emerita, Simon Fraser University

Gloria Gutman, PhD is an internationally known researcher, educator, author, consultant and advocate, who has developed her career to improving the quality of life of older people in British Columbia and around the world. Dr. Gutman pioneered the study of gerontology in British Columbia. Recruited to Simon Fraser University in 1980, she developed the Gerontology Research Center and the Department of Gerontology at the university, serving as director of both for more than twenty years. She served two terms as President of Canadian Association of Gerontology, was first Canadian to serve as ...

Research Chair & Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Regina

Thomas Hadjistavropoulos is Professor of Psychology, University of Regina and Past-President of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). He is internationally recognized as an authority on pain among seniors and on ethical issues in health care with his methodologies now being applied by researchers and clinicians all over the world. He has shown leadership in the promotion of the health sciences at the local, national and international level and has been honoured through a long list of prestigious awards and distinctions including a Canadian Pain Society Distinguished Career Award, the ...

Professor of Psychology, University of Calgary

Dr. Hodgins is a world-leading scientist in the field of addiction studies. His creative work has profoundly changed the way in which scholars, practitioners, and policy makers understand both the etiology of disordered gambling, its comorbidity with other disorders, and its natural course, treatment and recovery. Through creativity and outstanding leadership, Dr. Hodgins has advanced the science and practice of clinical psychology in gambling and other addictions. Dr. Hodgins' brief treatment and relapse prevention interventions have influenced mental health services around the globe. A ...

Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science, York University

Prof. Steven J. Hoffman is a world-leading authority on global health law and the global governance of health threats that transcend national borders. He has achieved important scientific breakthroughs and policy impacts by combining law and epidemiology to address challenges faced by the numerous national governments and United Nations agencies that rely on his advice. As a CIHR Scientific Director, Steven is a leading voice in public health and champion for integrating research evidence into policymaking processes. He is a distinguished research chair at York University, director of a World ...

President & Chief Executive Officer, Michael Smith Health Research BC

Bev Holmes leads British Columbia’s health research agency and studies health research systems with a focus on funding, producing and using evidence to improve health. She’s a member of Canada’s National Alliance of Provincial Health Research Organizations, adjunct professor at SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences and UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, and a Chartered Director (Degroote School of Business, McMaster University). 

Chair, Department of Psychology, Western University

Dr. Ingrid Johnsrude's major contributions are related to how the brain is organized for perception of speech and language. She trained as a clinical neuropsychologist, and uses neuroimaging and psychoacoustic methods to study how cognitive control and knowledge facilitate speech comprehension when background sound makes it hard to hear. In particular, she has contributed novel magnetic resonance imaging methods to study brain-behaviour relationships; has discovered how familiar voices aid speech perception in noise, and her work on brain organization supporting speech perception has been ...

Professor Emerita, University of Alberta

Professor Norah Keating is a socialgerontologist whose theoretical and empirical research has created evidence,challenged discourses and influenced policy in global, social and physicalcontexts of ageing. She has placed this work on the international stage throughthe Global Social Issues on Ageing which fosters collaboration and critical thinking about ageing at theinterfaces of regional issues and global trends. ProfessorKeating holds academic appointments in 3 world regions: University of Alberta,Canada; Swansea University, UK; North-West University, South Africa. She is aFellow of the ...

Prof. & Chair, Department of Family Studies and Gerontology, Mount Saint Vincent University

Dr. Janice Keefe is a resource to municipal and provincial governments and the federal government on aging, home care, long term care, and caregiving. Her academic output has earned her a Canada Research Chair 2002-12, a named chair in Gerontology at Mount Saint Vincent University, and on the CAHS Dementia Assessment Panel in 2019 and the Royal Society of Canada assessment on the impact of COVID on seniors in 2020. She is Director of the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging and has won awards from the Canadian Association of Gerontology and the Global Ageing Network and several local awards.

Former Senator, Senate of Canada

The Honourable Michael Kirby holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University. After teaching at Dalhousie University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Kent, he entered public service as Principal Assistant to the Premier of Nova Scotia. Later, after moving to the Federal government, Dr. Kirby was Secretary to the Cabinet for Federal-Provincial Relations and Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council from 1980 to 1983. He was deeply involved in the negotiations that led to the patriation of the Canadian Constitution and that gave us the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. ...

Director, Centre of Genomics & Policy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD, holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine and the Chaire d’excellence Pierre Fermat (France). She is Professor at the Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal and Senior Researcher at the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP). She is a graduate of McMaster University (B.A.), University of Alberta (M.A.), McGill University (LL.B., B.C.L.), Cambridge University, U.K., (D.L.S.), Sorbonne Paris I) (Phd.) and was admitted to the Bar of Québec in 1985. She has authored numerous articles and books. Professor Knoppers is former Chair of the International ...

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance, Simon Fraser University

Professor Lee (BA, MPA, MA, DPhil, DLitt) is a Tier 1 CRC trained in International Relations and Public Administration focusing on international political economy. She spent 20+ years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she was a core member of two donor-led studies of WHO reform during the 1990s; co-established the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Change and Health; and chaired the WHO Resource Group on Globalization, Trade and Health. Dr Lee led a 10-year effort to secure public access to British-based tobacco industry documents. She joined the SFU Faculty of ...

Jonathan Lomas is one of a handful of individuals internationally who has put health research knowledge transfer/translation on the radar for both research and policy/management communities. He has demonstrated outstanding leadership, first through the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University, and subsequently through building the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (now the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement). He exhibits a genuine commitment to an appropriate use of health care resources in order to maximize health outcomes & leads the ...

Renée Lyons is Professor in the School of Health and Human Performance and Department of Psychology at Dalhousie University. She is Scientific Director of the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC) and holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Promotion. An expert in the area of chronic disease prevention and management with emphasis on knowledge translation (KT) theory and practice, she has been principal investigator for over $25M in health research in rural health, stroke, public health, oral health of seniors, and chronic disease prevention in midlife and youth. A leader in ...

Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia

Anne Martin-Matthews is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. From 2019-2022 she served as the inaugural Associate Vice-President Health at UBC. From 2017-2018, she was seconded from UBC to serve as the Acting Vice-President, Research, Knowledge Translation and Ethics at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). As Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Aging (2004-2011), she was a strategic champion in the establishment of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), and launched the Institute's signature mentoring program, its Summer Program in ...

Professor, University of Victoria

Jeff Masuda is a Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria. He received his PhD from the University of Alberta in 2005, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia. A former CIHR New Investigator (University of Manitoba) and Canada Research Chair (Queen’s University), Jeff undertakes community-aligned research that reveal the structural underpinnings of place-based health inequities. He has served as an Advisory Board member of the CIHR Institute of Population and ...

Professor of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University

Patrick J. McGrath is a clinical psychologist whose clinical research has alleviated pain and distress in children and families worldwide. His pediatric pain research has focused on the measurement of pain in children who cannot speak for themselves because of age or disability and the treatment of recurrent pain in adolescents. His mental health research involves the development of novel e-health strategies of delivering care to families in a timely way in the privacy and comfort of their homes. His research is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and other agencies. He ...

Louise Nadeau est professeure titulaire en psychologie à l'Université de Montréal. Ses travaux portent sur la prédiction de la récidive chez les contrevenants pour conduite avec facultés affaiblies, les troublesconcomitants en addiction et les jeux de hasard et d'argent. Elle est présidente du Conseil d'administration d'Éduc'alcool (2010-), membre du CA de l'Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (2010-) et du Comité aviseur pour la recherche HIV/sida des IRSC (2011-) dont elle fut la vice-présidente du Conseil (2000-2006). Elle a reçu le prix Marcel-Vincent de l'Acfas ...

Professor and Associate Dean, Research and Partnerships, University of Calgary

Dr. David Nicholas is a Professor and Associate Dean, Research and Partnerships in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. His research focuses on chronic health conditions and neurodevelopmental disability, including autism. This work substantively addresses transition into adulthood, family support, parenting, service access, and family-centred care. Dr. Nicholas has published over 180 peer reviewed articles and has given over 400 presentations to Canadian and international audiences. Dr. Nicholas has received multiple awards for his research and teaching.

Stuart Peacock holds the Leslie Diamond Chair in Cancer Survivorship in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He is Co-Director of the Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control, and Head of the Department of Cancer Control Research at BC Cancer. He has over 200 publications, including papers in the BMJ, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Lancet Oncology. He has shaped healthcare priority setting in Canada, serves as a Board Director of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, and is an international advisor on cancer control ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria

Dr. Margaret Penning examines aging, health and health care, and focuses particularly on social inequality and vulnerability on the one hand and family ties and relationships, caregiving, home and long-term care, and health care policy on the other. She takes a broad perspective, and advances both theoretically relevant and applied research across disciplines and in collaborative community-based contexts. Her research and outreach have improved health care for vulnerable people both directly and through policy changes across Canada.

Professor and Associate Vice-President Research, York University

Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell (Professor of Psychology, York University) has focused her research in the pediatric behavioural and biobehavioural sciences. She built the first and largest cohort in the world studying young children through painful vaccinations over the first years of life. She has generated an unrivalled published literature on the biopsychosocial dimensions of infants' and young children's acute pain. She is a tireless advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion and strives to create systemic infrastructure that supports a more just future for patients, their families, health ...

Prof. titulaire - recherche, Directeur -d’unité de recherche, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

Dr. Eric Racine is Research Professor at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) and Université de Montréal and also Adjunct Professor at McGill University. He is Director of the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit. Dr. Racine is internationally known for his contributions to the development of novel ethics approaches in health care. He is a member of the Board of the FRQ-S, the CIHR Standing Committee on Ethics, and the International Neuroethics Society. He is the author of more than 175 peer reviewed papers and several books, and has supervised the work of over 100 early ...

Full Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal

Throughout her career, Professor Vardit Ravitsky has demonstrated exemplary commitment to advancing academic health sciences through her innovative research, her teaching, and her service to the community. A leader in bioethics research, she has influenced policy making, as well as clinical practice, especially in the areas of reproduction and genomics. She runs an active well-funded research program, trains and mentors a new generation of scholars, and invests in building novel educational opportunities. Her roles on boards and advisory bodies, investment in knowledge dissemination, public ...

Vice-President & Provost, University of Toronto

Professor Cheryl Regehr is an internationally recognized scholar known for her cross-disciplinary expertise in social work, forensic psychiatry and law. Her research has contributed significantly to understandings of trauma among survivors of violence, and frontline emergency and healthcare professionals. Her work informs the treatment and care of trauma survivors, and has brought to light critical factors regarding the impact of trauma exposure on professional decision-making in situations of risk and uncertainty that have far-reaching implications for the health sciences. Professor Regehr ...

Jean Rochon has a triple career as an academic, a specialist in public health and a politician. Heholds a Bachelor of laws from Université de Montréal, a doctorate in medicine from UniversitéLaval and a doctorate in public health from Harvard University. He was awarded an honorarydoctorate by Université catholique de Louvain.He assumed the duties of director of the Department of social and preventive medicine (1970-1979) and dean of the Faculty of medicine (1979-1985) at Université Laval. He left this positionto chair the Commission of inquiry on health and social services formed by the ...

Dept. Chair, Social Studies of Med., McGill University

Thomas Schlich is a preeminent historian of modern medicine and science. In his work he has examined the rationale for surgery—why surgeons open the body -- and the techniques they develop to do so. Combining the perspectives of history with science and technology studies, Schlich’s work elucidates the introduction of innovative ideas and techniques, including organ transplants, metal implants in the treatment of fractures, the pathways to the contemporary development of minimally invasive surgery, and, most recently, the origins and use of face masks to prevent infections.

Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Dalhousie University

Susan Sherwin holds a Dalhousie University Research Professorship and has served as Chair of the university’s Department of Philosophy. She has straddled the divide between moral philosophy and bioethics for some time. Internationally, she is considered one of the world’s foremost feminist ethicists and she serves on committees for numerous organizations such as the Royal College where she serves on the Ethics and Equity Committee; CIHR as a member of the Standing Committee on Ethics; UNESCO; CIAR; and Health Canada on the Advisory Group on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies. Dr. Sherwin ...

Full Professor, Western University

Dr. Stewart is a Psychologist, Professor and Clinical Training Director at the Faculty of Education, Western University. She holds a cross-appointment with the Department of Psychiatry, Schulich Faculty of Medicine. She is an Associate Scientist at the Children’s Health Research Institute and Associate Scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute. Dr. Stewart is an interRAI fellow, lead developer and international lead of the interRAI Child and Youth suite of instruments and has published extensively with over 150 publications in children’s mental health. Her work has had extensive ...

Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Community Health Ep, Dalhousie University

Sherry H. Stewart is a Killam Research Professor and ClHR Investigator in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at Dalhousie University. She is internationally respected for her research on psychological factors contributing to addictive disorders, and the co-morbidity of mental illness and addictions. Dr. Stewart has published several clinical trials of novel approaches for the treatment and prevention of substance abuse and co-occurring mental health problems. She has received over $10 million to support her addictions and mental health research from granting agencies worldwide.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, Schulich School, Western University

Calvin Stiller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario. He is known nationally and internationally as an outstanding physician, scientist and entrepreneur who has championed innovation in health and biomedical research and its application for the improvement of health and the economy. He is a pioneer in multi-organ transplantation and diabetes in Canada and led the Canadian multi-center study that established the importance of cyclosporine in transplantation that in turn, led to its worldwide use as ...

Dr. David Streiner is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. He began there in 1968 and has a joint appointment in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Between 1998 and 2008, he was the Assistant V.P. Research and founding Director of the Applied Research Unit at the Baycrest Centre, and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Although trained as a clinical psychologist, he has achieved international recognition as a statistician and epidemiologist, and has ...

Professor & Canada Research Chair, Western University

Nadine Wathen is Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Mobilizing Knowledge on Gender-Based Violence (GBV). As an internationally renowned scholar in the areas of GBV and health inequities, she is generating and mobilizing knowledge that has significantly impacted responses to violence and inequity in Canada and abroad. Dr. Wathen is committed to using research to improve policy, practice and public responses to enhance well-being and advance justice for those experiencing interpersonal and structural violence and ...

Michael Wolfson served for 35 years in the federal government, latterly as the Assistant Chief Statistician, Analysis and Development, at Statistics Canada. He then had a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa in Populatin Health Modeling. He received his BSc in computer science, math, and economics from the University of Toronto in 1971 and his Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in 1977, Following both retirement,s he remains active in some research collaborations, has participated in a number of panel studies, and writes occasional op-eds. The Health Sciences are ...

Professor and Ward Chair in Pediatric Brain Injury, University of Calgary

Dr. Yeates is a world-leading researcher in the field of pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the most highly published author on childhood TBI and concussion in the world over the past decade. A neuropsychologist, Dr. Yeates has conducted innovative and clinically-impactful research regarding the environment's role in children's recovery from TBI, the social outcomes of childhood brain disorders, and the diagnosis and management of childhood concussion. Through outstanding mentorship and leadership nationally and internationally, Dr. Yeates has advanced the science and practice of ...