Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Aubrey Tingle was the Founding Director of the BC Research Institute for Children’s & Women’s Health where he oversaw the development of research support services, strategic scientific goals, financial support and research policy development. Earlier in his research career, Dr. Tingle established a research program in viral causation of arthritis and diabetes using rubella virus as a model system. He helped head an international group in rubella virus biology, diagnosis, adverse reactions and public health policy. Dr. Tingle was founding chair of the Coalition for Health Research in BC, an ad ...

CIHR-GSK Chair in Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Western University

Dr. Rieder is a distinguished university professor at Western University and a leader nationally and internationally in paediatric clinical pharmacology. He holds the CIHR-GSK Chair in Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology, the only endowed chair in pediatric pharmacology in Canada and one of a handful internationally. Dr. Rieder is recognized for his work in exploring drug safety and efficacy in children and serves as a consultant for many national and international agencies. His laboratory, the Drug Safety Laboratory, is a core laboratory for a unique national network, the Canadian ...

Dr. Judith G. Hall is a Clinical Geneticist and Pediatrician. She trained at Wellesley College, UW School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was chair of Pediatrics at UBC & BC Children's Hospital from 1990-2000. She is presently Professor Emerita of Pediatrics & Medical Genetics at UBC based at Children's & Women's Health Centre of BC. Her areas of research interest are human congenital anomalies, natural history of genetic disorders, and non-traditional mechanisms of genetic disease.

Professor of Peds & Emerg Med, University of Calgary

Dr. Freedman is Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary. He completed his residency at The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) and a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship and a Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation at Northwestern University (Chicago). He is the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation Professor in Child Health and Wellness and the Associate Dean, Clinical Trials at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on applying clinical research to improve outcomes in children seeking emergency department care. He has dedicated his ...

Dr. Friedman is a medical geneticist whose research bridges clinical genetics and more fundamental studies in genetics and genomics. He holds MS and MD degrees from Tulane University, a PhD in genetics from the University of Washington, and fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Canadian College of Medical Geneticists, the American Board of Medical Genetics, and the American Association of Pediatrics. His research focuses in three major areas: (1) using advanced genomic technology to identify genetic causes of intellectual disability; (2) using birth defects ...

Sylvain Chemtob is a neonatologist and pharmacologist, and professor of Pediatrics, with joint appointments in Pharmacology and Ophthalmology at Université de Montréal. His research is focused on reactive oxygen species and lipid mediators in ischemic neuropathies (eg. retinopathy of prematurity, stroke) with emphasis on the developing subject. He pioneered the concept of functional nuclear G protein-coupled receptors. He has also developed two powerful rationale drug design platform technologies enabling the rapid generation of antagonists to cell surface proteins (receptors, channels, etc); ...