Professor of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine & Neurology), Dalhousie University

Kenneth Rockwood is Professor of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine & Neurology) and Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research at Dalhousie University. He is a leader in Canadian geriatric medicine, and in particular, has pioneered work on the definition, measurement and management of frailty. As a clinical and epidemiological researcher on the dementias, he has focused on novel risk factors (such as the protective effects of exercise) and on individualized outcome measurement. The latter has provided a practicable means whereby patients with Alzheimers disease, and their families, have ...

Dr. Vincent Piguet is an internationally recognized clinician scientist and dermatologist focusing on skin immunology and infection. He has been an invited speaker at over 160 national and international meetings, including the World Congress of Dermatology and Keystone meetings. He has authored 240 peer-reviewed publications including in Cell, Immunity, and The Lancet. He is Deputy Editor for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, the top research journal in his field. He is the Past-President of the European Society for Dermatological Research and past President Elect of the European ...

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 ...

Dr. Julio Montaner is globally recognized for his exceptional leadership, vision, and innovative contributions to the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. He led the development of new drugs and therapeutic strategies to stop disease progression, premature death, and simultaneously stop HIV transmission. His Treatment as Prevention strategy inspired his 90-90-90 by 2020 and the 95-95-95 by 2025 Targets, which together provide the road map to achieve the “End of AIDS as a Pandemicby 2030”. His strategy was formally adopted by the United Nations in 2015, ratified in 2021, and is a central part ...

Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. David Jenkins is a University Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto and, a Staff Physician in the Division of Endocrinology and metabolism, Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center and Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Unity Health Toronto. He researches dietary prevention and treatment of chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes and cancer. His team was the first to define and explore the glycemic index of foods and show that soluble fibre can lower blood glucose and cholesterol. These nutrition concepts ...

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 Emeritus, Queen's University

Henry Dinsdale undertook clinical and research training in neurology at the Maudsley Hospital and National Hospital, Queen Square, London and the Harvard Neurology Unit. He returned to Queen’s where he was chair of Neurology, Professor and Head of Medicine and Associate Dean for Research. Dr. Dinsdale’s main research interests and publications are in the area of stroke and the effects of high blood pressure on cerebral blood flow. Dr. Dinsdale was member of Council and Vice-president of the Medical Research Council, Past-President of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research and of the ...

Senior Scientist, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre; UHN Professor of, University of Toronto

Abdallah Daar is a founder of the world-renowned Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health, which over 5 years has received $50 M in research grants, including from Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges program. Daar holds the world record for performing the youngest kidney transplant. He is a biomedical scientist, bioethicist and global health expert working with WHO, UNESCO (Laureate of its 2005-6 Avicenna Prize) and the African Union. One of Canada’s most innovative researchers, Daar has over 300 publications and has trained over 100 graduate students. His research is aimed at ...

Ian Bowmer is Emeritus Professor of Medicine (infectious diseases) at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was Dean of the Faculty until December 2003. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons from 2019 to 2021. From 2006 to 2019, he was CEO and Registrar of the Medical Council of Canada.Dr Bowmer joined the Memorial faculty in 1975 and practiced infectious disease and HIV care in the Health Care Corporation of St. John’s for 45 years. He was President of the Medical Council of Canada in 1991 and a member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and ...