Professor of Medicine, Director, Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes. University of Toronto Dr. Bernard Zimnan is one of Canada's most distinguished clinician-scientists with exceptional achievements in Diabetes research and care. He has excelled as a physician researcher, educator, mentor and academic citizen. His most significant enduring initiative was his role in the NIH-directed Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and related follow-up studies, which established the importance of glycemic control in the preventing the complications of Type 1 Diabetes. As a translational ...

University of Toronto

Stanley H Zlotkin, MD PhD FRCP(C) is a highly respected and celebrated leader in the field of medicine, and specifically childhood nutrition. His work, as a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist and gastroenterologist/clinical nutritionist, has attracted worldwide attention for its innovation and impact. Most importantly has been his development and dissemination of innovative and easy-to-use nutritional supplements, such as iron and vitamins, to address deficiencies which affect many children in the developing world. He has been able to translate his ...

Professor of Physiology and Medicine, University of Toronto

Mladen pioneered tracer methods providing a corner stone for quantifying hormonal interactions in glucoregulation and pathogenesis diabetes. His hypothesis about beneficial or deleterious glucoregulatory effects of exercise in diabetes is universally accepted and is the basis of the concept that exercise not only ameliorates, but also prevents diabetes. He was the first to outline molecular mechanisms of hypothalamic pituitary adrenal dysfunction in diabetes, hypoglycemia and stress. He discovered new mechanisms how muscle, liver and pancreatic ?-cells adapt to hyperglycemia; a critical ...

Barry Posner is internationally recognized for his work in cell signaling and diabetes. His current research focuses on the genes responsible for diabetes, the discovery of which will aid in the prediction and treatment of this disease. Following post-graduate work at MIT and the NIH, he joined the Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill University in 1970. He has trained over 35 graduate and post-graduate students, given over 160 lectures as a Visiting Professor and published more than 270 scientific manuscripts. He is a recipient of the 1990 Distinguished Scientist Award of the CSCI, a fellow of ...

Professor- Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Dir, McGill University

Barry Pless is a Professor of Paediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University and is Director of the Injury Prevention Program at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. Dr. Pless is a former President of the Ambulatory Paediatric Association and a Recipient of that Association’s Armstrong Award and Research Award. He is a former member of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: and former Chairperson of the Board of the Canadian Institute of Child Health. Dr. Pless has made pioneering contributions to ambulatory (social) pediatrics; chronic ...

Professor of Medicine & President Emeritus, University of Toronto

David Naylor is currently President of the University of Toronto, having been Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice Provost-Relations with Health Care Institutions, University of Toronto from 1999-2005. He was chair of the National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health in 2003. Dr. Naylor founded the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and led it until 1998. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of health services research and evidence based health and social policy, and has advised a number of governments on policy issues over the last 15 years. He ...

Professor of Medicine and Physiology; Director, Centre for t, University of Manitoba

Arnold Naimark is currently Professor of Medicine and Physiology at the University of Manitoba, the Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Medicine and the founding Chair of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. He had a distinguished career as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Manitoba before becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1971 to 1981, after which he served as the University’s President and Vice- Chancellor from 1981 to 1996. Dr. Naimark has served and continues to serve on many committees, boards and advisory bodies in such positions as Chair, ...

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 ...

Dr. Hill is an internationally recognizedclinical researcher who specializes in stroke neurology. He has multiple contributions to the stroke field and is now leading/ co-leading major randomized clinical trials to revolutionize acute stroke care. His group's significant discoveries resulted in their award of the CIHR-CMAJ TopAchievements in Health Research (2012). He has also been an avid communityvolunteer for the betterment of stroke care and stroke research through theCanadian Stroke Strategy and the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada. Hehas successfully trained multiple young ...

Professor Emeritus, McMaster University

R. Brian Haynes OC, MD, PhD, FRSC, is a world leader in medical information research and knowledge translation as a means to improve clinical and health care through improving the retrieval, distillation, synthesis, dissemination and application of validated health care research knowledge. A co-founder of evidence-based health care, he has created and disseminated information resources that define what is currently best evidence for health care decisions. He has led the advancement of knowledge translation research and implementation science in Canada. His work is widely known and used around ...