Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, McMaster University

Dr. Sonia Anand is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at McMaster University, Senior Scientist of the Population Health Research Institute and Director of the Chanchlani Research Centre. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Ethnic Diversity and Cardiovascular Disease, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation/Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research. Her research focuses on environmental and genetic determinants of vascular and cardiovascular disease in women, populations of varying ancestral origin, and high-risk vascular patients. She has more than 300 peer-reviewed ...

Distinguished University Professor, University of Alberta

Paul Armstrong is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Alberta.He serves in a broad range of consultative, editorial, and research leadership roles. In recognition of his academic leadership, Dr. Armstrong has received numerous awards for scholarly and societal contributions. He publishes extensively, frequently lectures in national and international academic forums,and plays an active leadership role in the conduct of a number of ongoing cardiovascular clinical trials. He serves as an associate editor of Circulation: Heart Failure, a senior advisory editor for ...

Ronald Barr, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia, is a Canada Research Chair in Community Child Health Research; Director of the Centre for Community Child Health Research; and Director of the Experience-based Brain and Biological Development Program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. He is a member of the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development and Executive Council of the International Society of Infant Studies. He was President of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced ...

Les réalisations et les contributions du Dr Battista se situent aux niveaux universitaire, provincial, national et international, et se regroupent autour de trois thèmes: 1 ‘intégration des services préventives a la pratique clinique ; le développement et 1 ‘implantation de lignes directrices en pratique clinique; et l’évaluation des technologies de la santé. En effet, il a été très présent sur la scène internationale dans le développement de la culture d’ évaluation des technologies et des modes d ‘intervention en santé par des contributions de plusieurs types: conceptuel et de recherche, ...

Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics, Dalhousie University

Pioneer pediatric infectious disease specialist. In 1982 he responded to a major outbreak of listeriosis in Nova Scotia by discovering the responses of infants to listeria and developing models for studying this and other diseases. His international reputation in listeriosis continues today. He has been a mentor and supporter of clinician scientists in Canada and internationally through his Handbook for Clinician Scientists and the Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist program. His passion for global health led him to cofound "Micro Research" where clinician scientists in developing ...

Prof. & Head - Dept of Pathology & Lab Med, University of British Columbia

Dr. Zu-hua Gao has been the Chair of Department of Pathology at McGill University and Chief of Pathology at McGill University Health Center since 2012. During his tenure, the department's academic performance and international reputation have excelled. Dr. Gao is recognized as an international authority in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate medical education. He has edited 3 extremely popular textbooks; Clinical Skills Review, Gross morphology of Common Diseases and Pathology Review and Practice Guide. As a distinguished scientist in cancer and transplant immunology research, Dr. Gao ...

Professor of Medical Oncology, University of British Columbia

Professor Emeritus, McMaster University

R. Brian Haynes OC, MD, PhD, FRSC, is a world leader in medical information research and knowledge translation as a means to improve clinical and health care through improving the retrieval, distillation, synthesis, dissemination and application of validated health care research knowledge. A co-founder of evidence-based health care, he has created and disseminated information resources that define what is currently best evidence for health care decisions. He has led the advancement of knowledge translation research and implementation science in Canada. His work is widely known and used around ...

Professor Emeritus, Dept Cardiac Sciences, University of Calgary

Dr. Mitchell has an international reputation as a practitioner of excellence in the science of heart rhythm disturbances. Hewas the Inaugural Head of the Department of Cardiac Sciences and the Inaugural Director of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta at the University of Calgary and Calgary Zone of Alberta Health Services. His other contributionsinclude publication of hundreds of original research papers in the best journals of cardiology, hundreds of research and educational presentations around the globe, service to practice guideline creation in Canada and in the United States, ...

Arline & Pete Harman Prof. for The Chair Dept. Pediatrics, Stanford University

Hugh O'Brodovich MD, FRCP(C) attended the University of Manitoba where he received his medical degree and training in pediatrics and pulmonary diseases. After further research and clinical training at Columbia University he assumed his first faculty position in 1981 at McMaster University. In 1986 he moved to the University of Toronto/Hospital for Sick Children and held the positions of Chair of Pediatrics/Paediatrician-in-Chief from 1996-2006. During that time he participated in major initiatives to improve the coordination, integration and delivery of health care to children in Ontario, ...