Dr. Rutka is a neurosurgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, and is the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is the co-founder of the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre at SickKids. Professor Rutka has been awarded numerous awards, including the Medical Research Council of Canada Career Scientist Award (1999); the Grass Award (Society of Neurological Surgeons, 2004); and the Honoured Guest Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (2009). He was President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 2011, and the American ...

Lawrence Rosenberg is currently the A.G. Thompson Chair of Surgical Research at the McGill University Health Centre. His current studies address islet cell neogenesis, pancreatic stem cells, and islet cell death and survival. Dr. Rosenberg was a founding member of the Stem Cell Network of Canada and is on the editorial board of Organogenesis. He is an author on more than 160 peerreviewed publications. Dr. Rosenberg has received many career awards and fellowships, including: a Medical Research Council of Canada Fellowship, McLaughlin Foundation Fellowship, Medical Research Council of Canada ...

Faculty, Neurosurgery, F.H. Wigmore Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Ivar Mendez is the Director of the Virtual Health Hub and the Remote Presence and Robotics Program at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2022, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for his pioneering work in the use of remote telemedicine and robotics to revolutionize the delivery of health and patient care in Canada and worldwide.Dr. Mendez received his MD and PhD in Anatomy from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario where he also completed his post-graduate training in Neurosurgery. After completion of his neurosurgical residency, Dr. Mendez was awarded the ...

VP Research, Hamilton Health Sciences

Dr. Marc Jeschke has been caring for burn patients for nearly 20 years and is a global leader in burn care, research, and education. Dr. Jeschke has over 350 peer-reviewed articles, books, and book chapters on burn care. He has a significant track record of successes with federal funding agencies and private foundations resulting in total lifetime funding of over $20,000,000 as principal or co-investigator. His work is translational and his research interests include investigating the profound metabolic alterations post-burn injury and novel techniques for wound coverage and skin ...

Dr. Fried is Professor and Chair of Surgery at McGill University. He has made major contributions to the surgical care of patients by introducing innovative minimally invasive therapies and to patient safety by developing validated simulation-based programs to teach and verify proficiency in them. He was elected to Presidency of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons, Central Surgical, and James IV Association of Surgeons, and sits on the Boards of 9 major medical organizations. His educational contributions were recognized by the national John Ruedy Award for Innovation in Education, ...

Michael Fehlings is recognized as one of the world's leading clinical and translational researchers in the field oftraumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury. His pioneering research has been critical in defining the mechanisms of secondary injury after spinal cord injury and the role of demyelination in post-traumatic neurological deficits. His ground breaking findings regarding cellular and molecular mechanisms of spinal cord injury have led to fundamental improvements of clinical practice and developing novel treatments strategies, including stem cell transplantation. In 2017 he led ...

Dr. Cusimano received his MD and PhD from the University of Toronto, his Masters degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Fellowship in Skull Base and Microvascular Surgery from the University of Pittsburgh. Since 1992, Dr. Cusimano has been a Staff Neurosurgeon at St. Michael's Hospital with a cross appointment at the Hospital for Sick Children and UHN. Since 2005 he has been a full Professor of Neurosurgery, Education and Public Health at University of Toronto. He was the first practicing surgeon in the world with a PhD in Education. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of ...

Hematologist, Professor & Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University

One of those rare individuals: a genuine "quadruple threat" - an outstanding researcher, clinician, administrator and teacher. He is an international leader in coagulation disorders whose studies define our standards of clinical care, appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine. His clinical expertise extends from the patient to the nation, caring for individuals while working to establish national standard of care protocols. He is a dedicated teacher and administrator, having been Chair of the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie and now Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie. He ...

Dr. Mehran Anvari, O.C., O.Ont, is a pioneer in robotics, telerobotics and minimally invasive surgery in Canada. His leadership and contributions in these fields have been recognized by his appointments to the Order of Canada and Order of Ontario. Dr. Anvari is a tenured Professor of Surgery at McMaster University and an Adjunct Scientist for the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). He is the founding director of the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (CMAS) and Scientific Director and CEO of the Centre for Surgical Invention and Innovation (CSii), which recently partnered with ...