Dr. David Streiner is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. He began there in 1968 and has a joint appointment in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Between 1998 and 2008, he was the Assistant V.P. Research and founding Director of the Applied Research Unit at the Baycrest Centre, and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Although trained as a clinical psychologist, he has achieved international recognition as a statistician and epidemiologist, and has ...

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 ...

David Goltzman is Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Physiology of McGill University, Senior Physician in the Endocrine Division of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), and Co-Director of the McGill Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research. He served as National Principal Investigator of the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos) and was Director of the Calcium Research Laboratory at the McGill University Health centre. From 1988-1993, he served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology at McGill. From 1994-2004 he was Chairman and Physician-in-Chief of ...

Professor & William J. Walsh Chair in Medicine, McMaster University

A world-renowned scholar, scientist, teacher and leader. As Scientific Director and CEO of the Allergy, Genes & Environment(AllerGen) Network of Centres of Excellence, hosted by McMaster University, he has pioneered several important and innovative biological concepts. Through hisclinical investigations, he has facilitated the translation of allergy and immune-inflammatory disease discoveries into therapies and clinical practices to improve individual and community health. Dr. Denburg has also had a profound influence on a generation of experts in key positions in clinical care,academic ...