Distinguished ProfessorEmerita, University of Saskatchewan

One of Canada's leading nutrition scholars and an internationally recognized authority on vitamin D and calcium supplementation. For over 40 years, Dr. Whiting has conducted research on dietary influences of bone health, effectiveness of nutrient supplements and calcium and vitamin D status. She has served on internationally significant boards and panels such the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Use of Dietary Reference Intakes in Nutrition Labelling and the North American Dietary Supplements Advisory Board. She received the Canadian Nutrition Society Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. ...

Généticien moléculaire et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche FKV en oncogénomique pédiatrique, Daniel Sinnett est professeur aux départements de pédiatrie et de biochimie et médecine moléculaire de l’Université de Montréal. Son programme de recherche est axé sur les déterminants génétique et génomique des cancers pédiatriques, principalement la leucémie. Ses travaux, reconnus par ses pairs, ont transformé la prise en charge et la qualité de vie des patients et survivants. Reconnu internationalement, Daniel Sinnett est récipiendaire de plusieurs prix. Comme gestionnaire de la recherche en ...

Professor, CRC, Acting Vice Dean, University of Alberta

Dr. Shannon Scott is an internationally recognized nurse, scientist, educator and knowledge translation leader. As the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation for Children's Health, Dr. Scott has improved health outcomes for children through her interdisciplinary research that merges research and the arts to develop national award winning mHealth tools for Canadian families. She is a founding co-Director of Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) a national initiative that is game changing for children's emergency care. She has successfully trained multiple scientists and ...

Dr. McMaster is the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Genetics and Professor of Pharmacology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, Previously, Dr. McMaster was the Carnegie and Rockefeller Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacology, co-Director of the Cheminformatics Drug Discovery Lab, and Assistant Dean for Graduate and Post-doctoral Studies in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University. His research encompasses several genetic models ranging from yeast to zebrafish to mice with the aim of finding therapies for ...

Professor, University of British Columbia

Professor, School of Public Health, University of Waterloo

Dr. Hirdes played an integral role in the development, evaluation and implementation of the interRAI famil of assessment systems, which has become a Canadian standard for assessing the needs of persons wit complex health problems across the continuum of health care. He developed novel decision support tool that are in widespread use in Canada and internationally to inform clinical practice, policy development resource allocation and quality measurement in home care, nursing home, and mental health settings Hirdes' contribution to improving the quality of health care for vulnerable Canadians ...

Professor, University of Calgary

David A. Hart is a Professor of Surgery and a Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. He is also Scientific Director of the AHS Bone & Joint Health Strategic Clinical Network, Co-Chair of the Canadian Space Agency Human Spaceflight Consultation Committee, and a Member of the CAHS SCA. He has published >400 original papers, reviews and book chapters in a variety of areas (molecular & cell biology, biology of sex differences, stem cells/regenerative medicine, arthritis, and obesity)

Professor, University of Calgary

David A. Hart is a Professor of Surgery and a Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. He is also a Member of the McCaig Institute for Bone & Joint Health. He has published >510 original papers, reviews and book chapters in a variety of areas (molecular & cell biology, wound healing, biology of sex differences, stem cells/regenerative medicine, arthritis, and obesity). Current research is focused on intervertebral disc disease, tendon healing, and use of stem/stromal cells and extracellular vesicles in the repair of tissues such as articular cartilage and tendons, as ...

Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta

Dr. Neal Davies is an outstanding researcher, administrator, teacher, pharmacist and pharmaceutical scientist. He is an international renowned in drug investigations from discovery to patient recovery. His research has yielded > 500 publications. He is also a dedicated administrator having been Dean of two U15 Pharmacy Faculties at the Universities of Manitoba and Alberta. Dr. Davies was the founder of Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation (API) which lead to the successful establishment of the Canadian Critical Drug Initiative. (CCDI). He has distinguished performance in the academic health ...