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 ...

Director of Geriatrics, University Health Network

Dr. Samir Sinha is the Director of Geriatrics at Sinai Health System and the University Health Network in Toronto and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Director of Health Policy Research at Toronto Metropolitan University’s National Institute on Ageing. A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Sinha is a highly regarded clinician and international expert in the care of older adults. In 2021, he was appointed to serve as a member of the Government of Canada’s National Seniors Council in 2021, and also recently led the development of Canada’s new National Long-Term Care Services ...

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 ...

Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix

Dr. Robert Roberts is a distinguished Clinician-Scientist who developed the initial quantitative assays for the measurement of damaged heart muscle occurring as the result of heart attack. His research into the application of recombinant DNA and its relationship to cardiac growth and the molecular genetics of cardiomyopathies has led to his international recognition as one of the pioneers of molecular cardiology. His discoveries have provided new insight into disorders of cardiac muscle, heart rhythm and how pharmacologic agents may modify heart muscle disorder. In 2004 he moved from Baylor ...

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, ...

Dr. Marra has made significant contributions to genome science and health research. One major contribution was the construction of a human genome map. This key resource allowed an International Consortium to efficiently complete and make publicly available the human genome sequence. Dr. Marra’s mapping approach has been used to analyze more than 30 genomes from organisms of major importance to research. Another major contribution was in sequencing the SARS coronavirus genome. The speed of the sequencing and the availability of the sequence made international headlines, and emphasized the ...

Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University

Jean Gray, CM, MD, FRCPCProfessor Emeritus, Medical Education, Medicine, Pharmacology, Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS)Jean Gray is Professor Emeritus, Medical Education, Medicine, Pharmacology at Dalhousie University.Dr. Gray graduated from the University of Alberta in Chemistry (1963) and Medicine (1967). She joined the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie and was the founding Head of the Dalhousie Division of General Medicine, Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education (1988 to 96) and Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education (1996 to 2002).Dr. Gray has served as President of the ...

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 ...

Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia

John Gilbert has worked tirelessly locally, nationally, and internationally to develop interprofessional education related to collaborative people centered practice. Beginning in British Columbia, he was a founder of the School of Audiology & Sppech Sciences and the College of Health Disciplines. His ideas became one of the pillars of the Robinow Royal Commission on Health. He was founder of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative. Internationally, he has been involved in education, research, and the development of journals and associations for interprofessional people centred ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa

Nancy Edwards, a professor of Nursing, and Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, is a world-class scholar in the design and conduct of multi-level and multi-strategy community health programs. She is a one of five nurses nationally to hold a 10 year CIHR-CHSRF research Chair and is a member and Vice Chair of the Governing Council of CIHR. Among her awards are the University of Ottawa 2006 Award of Excellence in Research, the Tianjin Haihe Award from the Tianjin Municipal Government in China for outstanding contributions to their university. In 2006 the City of ...