Ian Bowmer is Emeritus Professor of Medicine (infectious diseases) at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was Dean of the Faculty until December 2003. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons from 2019 to 2021. From 2006 to 2019, he was CEO and Registrar of the Medical Council of Canada.Dr Bowmer joined the Memorial faculty in 1975 and practiced infectious disease and HIV care in the Health Care Corporation of St. John’s for 45 years. He was President of the Medical Council of Canada in 1991 and a member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and ...

Dr. Vincenzo Di Nicola's work addresses the unmet health needs of three vulnerable groups – children, families, and ethnocultural communities – producing transdisciplinary syntheses with practical impacts. He developed an important clinical guide for work with immigrant families, providing tools for effective therapy with ethnocultural communities, migrants, and refugees. His work on child psychiatric problems across cultures remedies gaps in understanding problems such as eating disorders, selective mutism, and trauma by integrating ethnocultural factors into child psychiatric treatment. ...

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, ...

Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine & Emergency Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke

Paul Grand'Maison MD, MSc, FCFPC, FCAHS, FRCPSC(Hon), CQ Paul Grand'Maison has significantly contributed to the evolution of Medicine and Family Medicine, in Quebec, in Canada and internationally. Faculty at Université de Sherbrooke faculty of Medicine since 1976, he is an expert in medical education: curriculum reform, distributed education, human resource development, global health, social accountability. He has a major interest in humanity in medicine, more specifically in compassionand accompaniment of end of life persons; in 2016, he published the book "Guérir est humain" on that ...

Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University

Jean Gray, CM, MD, FRCPCProfessor Emeritus, Medical Education, Medicine, Pharmacology, Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS)Jean Gray is Professor Emeritus, Medical Education, Medicine, Pharmacology at Dalhousie University.Dr. Gray graduated from the University of Alberta in Chemistry (1963) and Medicine (1967). She joined the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie and was the founding Head of the Dalhousie Division of General Medicine, Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education (1988 to 96) and Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education (1996 to 2002).Dr. Gray has served as President of the ...

Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Hawker's research has expanded understanding of the determinants and consequences of care fopeople with osteoarthritis,especially joint replacement surgery. Her findings resulted in a shift in research emphasis from area variations in use of ‘preference-sensitive' surgeries to disparities in access and appropriate health care use. Tools and measures to assist clinicians and patients in their osteoarthritis treatment decision making have been developed, evaluated and implemented. Knowledge gained through her research has informed the establishment of a national strategy for arthritis for ...

Professor Emerita, Family Medicine UWO; Adjunct Faculty, UBC, Western University

Carol Herbert is Professor Emerita of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, and Professor Emerita of Family Practice at UBC Faculty of Medicine. She was formerly Dean at Schulich,Head of the UBC Department of Family Practice, founding Head of the Division of Behavioural Medicine, and a founder of the UBC Institute of Health Promotion Research. She was a pioneer in developing services for sexually abused children and co-founded the Sexual Assault Service for Vancouver. She is internationally known for her leadership in primary care research, and ...

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 ...

Retired professionallt inactive

Pionnier de la recherche clinique en santé maternelle et foetale au Québec, il a ensuite initié les premiers essais cliniques randomisés dans les centres tertiaires de périnatalité au Canada. Tant dans les domaines de l’accouchement prématuré qu’en hypertension de grossesse, le Dr Moutquin s’est mérité une réputation et un leadership international. Ses activités de représentation en soins de santé préventive, en évaluation des technologies ainsi que de diffusion vulgarisée des connaissance scientifiques dans les guides de pratiques ou dans les consultations gouvernementales ont permis, entre ...

Dr Quach is a researcher at the CHU-Ste-Justine and professor in the Departments of Microbiology, Infectious diseases & Immunology, and Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal. As a clinician-scientist, her research and clinical activities focus on reducing the burden of hospitalacquired and vaccine-preventable infections in vulnerable populations. A Past-President of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of Canada, Dr Quach's research program has led to improved strategies to reduce bloodstream infections in neonates in the intensive ...