Professor and Head of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia

Dr. Lakshmi Yatham is Professor and Head of the UBC Department of Psychiatry, Director of the UBC Institute of Mental Health, and Regional Head of Psychiatry for Vancouver Coastal and Providence Health Care Authorities. He is also Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, and President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry. Dr. Yatham is a world-class clinician scientist in mood disorders who has made fundamental advancements to the understanding of the neurobiology and treatment of bipolar disorder. He is a highly cited researcher and has won numerous ...

Professor, University of Toronto

Xiaolin Wei is a Professor and Dalla Lana Chair of Global Health Policy at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Professor Wei is an internationally recognized leader at using implementation science frameworks in health service research, specifically in the control of tuberculosis, diabetes and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). His scholarship has reformed health policies to promote quality and equitable care in COVID-19, tuberculosis, AMR and diabetes at national and global levels. He has served as the Vice President and Secretary General of the International Union ...

Roger Strasser AM, MBBS, BMedSc, MClSc, LLD (Hon), FRACGP, FACRRM, FRCGP (Hon), FCAHS. Professor of Rural Health, Dean and CEO, Northern Ontario School of Medicine Lakehead and Laurentian Universities. Dr Roger Strasser has become one of the world's foremost authorities in rural, socially accountable medical education and has fundamentally shaped these fields. As founding Dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, he led the development of the first new medical school in Canada in 40 years. One of the few Professors of Rural Health in the world, Dr Strasser is leading a growing body of ...

Professor Emeritus, Neurology, University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Ali Rajput is a world renowned expert on movement disorders - in particular Parkinson's disease. His substantial research on levodopa, the first effective long-term treatment for Parkinson's disease, settled controversy about possible toxic side effects of the drug, enabling physicians to prescribe levodopa without hesitation to patients who would benefit and changing standard practice in neurology. He has established one of the world's largest sample banks of autopsied brains from Parkinson's patients. He co-founded the Canadian Movement Disorder Group and served the World Health ...

Head, Division of Medical Oncology & Hematology, University Health Network

Dr. Amit Oza has dedicated his clinical and research activities to women diagnosed with gynaecologic cancers. He established a Pan-Canadian early phase clinical trials network that has made precision medicine available to women with gynaecologic cancers upwards of five years prior to clinical approval, and led or participated in more than 100 trials. The trials resulted in the clinical approval and use of two classes of precision medicine drugs (antiangiogenics and PARP inhibitors) in ovarian cancer in Canada and internationally. His research has uncovered biology driving treatment resistance ...

Professor of Medicine, McMaster University

Parameswaran Nair is the Frederick E. Hargreave Teva Innovation Chair in Airway Diseases and Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at McGill University. At the Firestone Institute of Respiratory Health of St Joseph’s healthcare Hamilton, over two decades, he has directed a patient-centred translational research program that directly benefits patients with severe asthma and other complex airway diseases. As an internationally recognized researcher in the use of biologics to treat asthma, and as a caring clinician and educator, his research has ...

Ashok Malla is a Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University and a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Early Psychosis and Early Intervention in Youth Mental Health. He is an international leader in research in schizophrenia and other psychoses and early intervention. He has made enormous contributions to our understanding of and interventions in improving outcome in serious mental disorders, especially at onset in youth. His work has had substantial impact nationally and internationally on health policies on early intervention in psychoses and service transformation in youth mental health. ...

Dr. Chan is a Professor/Pediatric Hematologist and holds a McMaster Children’s Hospital/Hamilton Health Sciences Chair in Pediatric Thrombosis and Hemostasis and is a recipient of the Order of Ontario. He is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in the field of pediatric thrombosis and bleeding disorders. In addition, he shares his expertise in thrombosis by providing around-the-clock free consultation, through the 1800-NOCLOTS service, to pediatric healthcare professionals worldwide seeking assistance with the treatment of children with complex thrombotic problems. He holds ...

Prof. of Medicine; Nephrologist, University of Alberta

Aminu Kasarawa Bello is a Professor of Medicine (Nephrology), University of Alberta (U of A). He trained at Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, Nigeria, University of Sheffield, UK and U of A, Edmonton, Canada. His work has produced over 200 scientific publications, and is internationally recognized for his work in the development of Global Kidney Health Atlas under the auspices of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), the largest project of its kind and the first to determine the capacity for kidney care at a global scale. This work has led to collaborations with renowned ...

Dr. Mehran Anvari, O.C., O.Ont, is a pioneer in robotics, telerobotics and minimally invasive surgery in Canada. His leadership and contributions in these fields have been recognized by his appointments to the Order of Canada and Order of Ontario. Dr. Anvari is a tenured Professor of Surgery at McMaster University and an Adjunct Scientist for the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). He is the founding director of the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (CMAS) and Scientific Director and CEO of the Centre for Surgical Invention and Innovation (CSii), which recently partnered with ...