Professor titulaire, University of Montreal

Jean-Claude Lacaille is professor of Physiology at the Université de Montréal. He was director of the Department of Physiology from 2001-05, and is a founding member of the Research Group on the Central Nervous System. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology and his research focuses on understanding cortical network activity at cellular, molecular and genetic levels, with applications for learning, memory, and epilepsy. His laboratory is specialized in the use of electrophysiological, cellular imaging and molecular biological techniques in brain slices ...

Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria

Cecilia Benoit, PhD (Sociology, UofT) is of Mi'kmaw and French ancestry and iscurrently a Scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research andProfessor of Sociology. Her research examines social inequities embedded inlaws, policies, programs and research agendas and searches for evidence basedsolutions. She has been instrumental in making known the indigenous knowledgesheld by Aboriginal midwives and birthing women and worked to change health carepolicies so that Indigenous and non-Indigenous midwives could legally work andhave their services reimbursed by the public purse. ...