Salim Yusuf is a Professor of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University and Director of the Population Health Research Institute. As a Rhodes Scholar, he initiated the concept of large simple trials, coordinating the first ISIS trial and developing concepts of meta-analysis. Subsequently, he has applied these principles to several other areas that led to the SOLVD and DIG trials in heart failure while at the US NIH, and more recently the HOPE, OASIS, CURE and CREATE trials since his move to McMaster University, Canada. He holds a Heart and Stroke Foundation ...

Professeure titulaire, Faculté des sciences infirmières, University of Montreal

Dr. Bilkis Vissandjée is a Full Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Montreal. She is a researcherat the SHERPA frontline research Centre, the Montreal Centre for International Studies, and the Centre for Public Health Research funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS). Alongside national and international partners, her research work's focus is to address the challenges associated with providing accessible, equitable, and quality care within a diversified socio-cultural context while taking into account the complex intersection of gender, migration ...

Professor Emeritus, Depart. Microbiology & Immunology, Western University

Bhagirath Singh is currently Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Western Ontario. He has also served as deputy director of the John P. Robarts Research Institute (1997-2000), co-director of the Immunology Program (1992- 1997) and department chair (1992-2000). Dr. Singh has been scientific director of the CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity (Ill) since its inception. He has pioneered new approaches for the immunotherapy of type 1 diabetes. He was first to discover that this spontaneous autoimmune disease and its recurrence could be prevented by ...

Ashok Malla is a Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University and a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Early Psychosis and Early Intervention in Youth Mental Health. He is an international leader in research in schizophrenia and other psychoses and early intervention. He has made enormous contributions to our understanding of and interventions in improving outcome in serious mental disorders, especially at onset in youth. His work has had substantial impact nationally and internationally on health policies on early intervention in psychoses and service transformation in youth mental health. ...

Dr. Muhammad Mamdani's research examines the effectiveness and safety of drug therapies to inform drug policy as well as the integration of advanced analytics into clinical practice. He has published over 400 studies in leading medical journals and his work has been cited over 15,000 times.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Defence Research and Development Canada

Jaspinder Komal has a long, distinguished record in public service related to veterinary public health, agricultural science, and policy. His detailed knowledge of Canada's agriculture and food production systems has advanced policies to ensure safe, sustainable food production for Canadians and foster economic viability. His passion to strengthen and collaborate with Canadian veterinary colleges has led to better training of students and sharing of public research facilities. As Canada's chief veterinary officer and World Organisation for Animal Health delegate, he has represented Canada ...

Professor Jha is an influential figure in epidemiology and economics of global health. He leads the "Million Death Study" (MDS) in India, one of the largest health studies ever done. The MDS has demonstrated that smoking kills about 1 million adults annually, that malaria kills far more than estimated from earlier hospital records, but that the AIDS deaths are fewer than feared earlier. These studies have transformed Indian and global health. His research showing that prenatal sex determination followed by selective abortion in India accounted for up to 6 million missing females led to policy ...

Mayank Goyal is a Professor in the Department of Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary. He is the Director of Imaging and Endovascular treatment at the Calgary Stroke Program. Dr. Goyal's passion and main research interest is acute stroke imaging, workflow and intervention. He has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He was one of the Principal Investigators in two global multi-centric trials in the field: ESCAPE and SWIFT PRIME (both published in NEJM). Dr. Goyal is world renowned for his ground-breaking work in efficiency and workflow in acute stroke ...