Chairman, Schlegel Health Care Inc.

Ronald Schlegel is an academic, innovator, entrepreneur, visionary, and philanthropist. After a 24 year academic career, he turned his focus to business and philanthropy. He founded the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging, focused on seniors’ care, and the Homewood Research Institute, focused on mental health/addictions. Through deep collaborations with academia and with practice sites, and by earmarking revenue from his businesses into building research capacity, Ron currently supports the academic careers of over 20 applied researchers, the Living Classroom model, and Living Research ...

Carol Richards is a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation (CIRRIS). She was the founding Director (1994-2003) of the Quebec Provincial Rehabilitation Research Network and co-founder of the Canadian Consortium of Disability and Rehabilitation Research. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Rehabilitation and the Laval University Research Chair in Cerebral Palsy, and is a member of the Governing Council of CIHR. As one of the first physiotherapists in Canada to obtain a ...

Dr. O’Loughlin is a Professor in the School of PublicHealth at the University of Montreal School. She is a Tier 1 Canada ResearchChair in the Early Determinants of Chronic Disease, a member of the Carrefour de l’innovation et del’évaluation en santé at the University ofMontreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM), an elected member of the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium, and a member of the Canadian Academyof Health Sciences. Her team is housed at the CRCHUM and in addition to localresearchers Dr. O’Loughlin has ongoing collaborations nationally andinternationally. Her research ...

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 ...

Professor and Associate Dean (Health Sciences), Rehabilitati, McMaster University

Mary Law is Professor, Associate Dean (Health Sciences) and Director of the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University. She holds the John and Margaret Lillie Chair in Childhood Disability Research and is currently Co-Director of CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research. Her current interests include development and validation of client-centered outcome measures, evaluation of occupational therapy interventions with children, the effect of environmental factors on the participation of children with disabilities in day to day activities, and transfer of research knowledge ...

Gilles Lavigne, DMD (U de Montreal, Canada), PhD (U of Toronto, Canada), and FRCD (Oral medicine, Georgetown U, USA), completed his postdoctoral training on the neurobiology of pain at NIH, Bethesda, USA. He received a Doctor Honoris causa from the Faculty of Medicine and dentistry, Zenntrum für Zahnmedizin, University of Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Pain, Sleep & Trauma and has been Dean of the Faculty of Dental Medicine at the Université de Montréal, Canada (2008-2016). He was President of the Canadian Sleep Society and President of the Canadian Pain Society. ...

Professeure titulaire, Faculté de pharmacie, Université Laval

Professor at Université Laval, Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics and cdirector of the Cancer Research Center, Dr. Chantal Guillemette is a world leader in the field of drug and steroid metabolism and cancer pharmacogenomics with impressive research accomplishments. She has contributed to high-quality and clinically impactful research by leading an innovative program in close partnership with clinicians and with an exemplary record of training and mentoring successful research trainees. Her work has provided a deeper understanding of the molecular basis of variable therapeutic drug ...

Professor & Chairman, Dept of Oncology, McGill University

Eduardo L. Franco, DrPH, FRSC, FCAHS, OC, PhD (Hon.)is James McGill Professor and Chairman,Department of Oncology, and Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGillUniversity, Montreal. Since 1985, he has conducted epidemiologic research onthe causes of cancer and on the means to prevent it or to improve patientsurvival, topics on which he has published 460 articles and two books. He is mostly known for his contributions to our understanding of human papillomavirusinfection as the cause of cervical cancer and using this knowledge to prevent this cancer via vaccination and improved ...

Professeur de médecine, pharmacologie et physiologie, Universite de Montreal

Premier néphrologue à devenir chercheur de carrière du Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec puis Chaire de Recherche du Canada, niveau 1, Génétique des Maladies Rénales, le docteur Daniel G.Bichet a profondément modifié l’identification, l’évaluation et le traitement des polyuries héréditaires, en particulier le diabète insipide néphrogénique lié à l’X. Chercheur de notoriété internationale ses publications font oeuvres de références dans l’évaluation des anomalies du tubule collecteur rénal, le traitement de la maladie de Fabry et le traitement de la polykystose rénale autosomique ...