Vice Dean, Education, University of British Columbia

Dr. Roger Wong is a Clinical Professor and the Vice Dean, Education in the UBC Faculty ofMedicine.Dr. Wong has been appointed to the Order of Canada, the first time a geriatrician is appointed to the country's highest civilian honour, for his contributions to the field of geriatric medicine, including the advancement of policies, education and specialized, culturally sensitive health care.Dr. Wong has received a number of prestigious awards in recognition of his exceptional national leadership in the field of seniors’ health care, including the Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award, which ...

Professor and Head, Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia; Head, Division of Gastroenterology, Vancouver General Hospital Dr. Eric Yoshida exemplifies the attributes required to be a leader and a key voice in discussions regarding ongoing health care delivery in Canada. Having been an integral component and the driving force behind the University of British Columbia's Hepatology Program, he has not only secured a reputable national profile for this department, but also, at the same time written numerous scholarly articles, and been an excellent mentor for the next ...

Professor, McGill University

Professor of Medicine and Experimental Medicine, Director of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, McGill University Christos Tsoukas is a Professor of Medicine and Experimental Medicine and Director of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at McGill University. A pioneer in HIV research, he played an important role in blood product safety in the 1980s. His academic interests include the treatment and management of HIV, therapeutic vaccines, and chronic inflammation as it relates to aging. He has served on advisory boards for the World Federation of Hemophilia, Health ...

Jeffrey Weitz is Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at McMaster University where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Thrombosis and the HSFO/J.F. Mustard Chair in Cardiovascular Research. With over 200 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Weitz set the stage for development of thrombindirected anticoagulants and his work on fibrinolysis has provided new insights into the mechanism of plasminogen activator-induced bleeding. Dr. Weitz is Director of the Henderson Research Centre, a joint venture of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, and combines basic investigation in coagulation ...

Professor, Western University

Charles Weijer is a leading expert on the ethics of randomized controlled trials. Publications on the duty of care in clinical research, the ethical analysis of study benefits and harms, and empowering communities in research have been broadly influential.From 2008 to 2013 Charles co-led a collaboration that produced the first international ethics guidelines for cluster randomized trials. From 2014 to 2018 he collaborated with Dr. Adrian M. Owen on a project exploring the ethics of functional neuroimaging after severe brain injury. Charles’ current work explores ethical issues in pragmatic ...

Dr. Redelmeier received his MD degree from University of Toronto, completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at Stanford University, and obtained a Masters degree in Health Services Research as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at Stanford University. His research spans a variety of areas emphasizing the psychology of decision making and the epidemiology of motor vehicle trauma.

Ernesto Schiffrin has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms leading and contributing to hypertension. He has delineated the role that hormones such as angiotensin, aldosterone and endothelin play in the regulation of the vasculature in hypertension. He characterized arteries involved in blood pressure elevation in patients with hypertension, and effects of treatment on their blood vessels, contributing to improving outcome for hypertensive patients. He is past President of the Canadian Hypertension Society and Chair of the High Blood Pressure Research Council of ...

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto

Jack Uetrecht is Professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. His research has focused on the mechanism of idiosyncratic drug reactions with combined approaches involving organic chemistry, drug metabolism, reactive metabolites, immunology, molecular biology and clinical aspects. He holds a CRC chair in Adverse Drug Reactions and is internationally recognized as a leader in this field. He initiated the first Gordon Research Conference on Adverse Drug Reactions and was its first chair. He has chaired many committees including the Scientific Advisory Panel on ...

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 ...