University of Toronto

Stanley H Zlotkin, MD PhD FRCP(C) is a highly respected and celebrated leader in the field of medicine, and specifically childhood nutrition. His work, as a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist and gastroenterologist/clinical nutritionist, has attracted worldwide attention for its innovation and impact. Most importantly has been his development and dissemination of innovative and easy-to-use nutritional supplements, such as iron and vitamins, to address deficiencies which affect many children in the developing world. He has been able to translate his ...

Professor & Dir Autism Rsch, University of Alberta

Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation Chair in Autism. Renowned for work on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). For 15 years he has co-led a multi-site longitudinal study of high-risk infants to characterize early development of ASD and co-developed the first observational scale to detect signs of ASD in infants which has been adopted internationally. National ASD Project Lead with NeuroDevNet, a Network of Centres of Excellence on neurodevelopmental disabilities; Director, Canadian Autism Research Training Program.

Dr. Peter Tugwell is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa and is a practicing rheumatologist at the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada. He is the Director for the Centre for Global Health under the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa and was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Health Equity in 2002. In 2008 Dr. Tugwell was named Researcher of the Year by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Tugwell is co-director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity. He ...

Professer, Western University

Dr.Michael J. Strong became the President of the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch in October, 2018. Prior tothis, he served as the Dean of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry atWestern University where he continues to hold an appointment as a DistinguishedUniversity Professor and a Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute. Heundertook his medical training at Queens University in Kingston (1976 – 1982),neurology training at Western University (1982 – 1987), and postgraduatetraining at the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies (director - D.Carleton Gadjusek, Nobel ...

Professor, McGill University

Dr. Michael Shevell has devoted his career to improving the care of children with neurodevelopmenta disabilities, especially global developmental delay, intellectual disability and cerebral palsy. He has also focused on identifying subgroups at risk amongst critically ill newborns. His efforts have directly modified our clinical work with these populations targeting medical, diagnostic programmatic follow-up. Dr. Shevell is currently Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at McGill and Pediatrician-in-Chief of the McGill University Health Centre. His administrative efforts are shepherding a ...

Barry Posner is internationally recognized for his work in cell signaling and diabetes. His current research focuses on the genes responsible for diabetes, the discovery of which will aid in the prediction and treatment of this disease. Following post-graduate work at MIT and the NIH, he joined the Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill University in 1970. He has trained over 35 graduate and post-graduate students, given over 160 lectures as a Visiting Professor and published more than 270 scientific manuscripts. He is a recipient of the 1990 Distinguished Scientist Award of the CSCI, a fellow of ...

Dr. LouisePilote is a clinician scientist and tenured Professor of Medicine at McGillUniversity, holding a James McGill chair since 2008 and former Director of theDivision of General Internal Medicine at McGill University. She is recognizedas a national and international leader in the generation and translation of newknowledge about sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease, and as apioneer in comparative effectiveness research using Canadian administrativedatabases. Dr. Pilote is a principal investigator of the CIHR Vascular networkand principal investigator of the Canadian ...

Arline & Pete Harman Prof. for The Chair Dept. Pediatrics, Stanford University

Hugh O'Brodovich MD, FRCP(C) attended the University of Manitoba where he received his medical degree and training in pediatrics and pulmonary diseases. After further research and clinical training at Columbia University he assumed his first faculty position in 1981 at McMaster University. In 1986 he moved to the University of Toronto/Hospital for Sick Children and held the positions of Chair of Pediatrics/Paediatrician-in-Chief from 1996-2006. During that time he participated in major initiatives to improve the coordination, integration and delivery of health care to children in Ontario, ...

Professor Emeritus, Dept Cardiac Sciences, University of Calgary

Dr. Mitchell has an international reputation as a practitioner of excellence in the science of heart rhythm disturbances. Hewas the Inaugural Head of the Department of Cardiac Sciences and the Inaugural Director of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta at the University of Calgary and Calgary Zone of Alberta Health Services. His other contributionsinclude publication of hundreds of original research papers in the best journals of cardiology, hundreds of research and educational presentations around the globe, service to practice guideline creation in Canada and in the United States, ...

Professor Emeritus, McMaster University

R. Brian Haynes OC, MD, PhD, FRSC, is a world leader in medical information research and knowledge translation as a means to improve clinical and health care through improving the retrieval, distillation, synthesis, dissemination and application of validated health care research knowledge. A co-founder of evidence-based health care, he has created and disseminated information resources that define what is currently best evidence for health care decisions. He has led the advancement of knowledge translation research and implementation science in Canada. His work is widely known and used around ...