VP of Research, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou is the Vice President of Research and Director of the Bloorview ResearchInstitute at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Canada’s largest pediatric rehabilitationhospital. She is also a child neurologist and professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto. Sheis a senior clinician scientist and co-leads of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) at Holland Bloorviewand University of Toronto. She holds a Canada Research Chair in translational therapeutics inautism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the Dr. Stuart D. Sims Chair in Autism at Holland Bloorview. ...

Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University

Professor of Medicine and DG Kinnear Chair in Gastroenterology. Director, Digestive Endoscopy; Chief Quality Officer of the Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre; and Clinical lead, Quebec colorectal cancer screening program. Recipient of national and international awards, he has published over 600 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts and given over 600 international presentations on emerging and established digestive endoscopic technologies with emphasis on methodological, clinical and cost-effectiveness trials of treatments for upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor and Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Dr. George Fantus is an internationally recognized clinician, scientist and academic leader in the field of Endocrinology and Metabolism. His research into how the hormone insulin acts on tissues to lower blood sugar has provided new insights into what goes awry in people with diabetes. His research has also identified new metabolic pathways by which high sugar levels lead to the complications associated with diabetes, such as kidney failure. This research has been recognized by numerous national and ...

Professor and Vice-Dean, McGill University

Dr. Lesley Fellows is an expert on the neurobiology of human decision-making. Her interdisciplinary work has shown how the frontal lobes guide everyday choices, from basic decisions about what foods to eat, to complex social choices such as voting. A neurologist-scientist, she studies the effects of stroke or Parkinson's Disease on decision-making and emotion, and how cognitive and mental health can be optimized for people living with chronic health conditions, such as HIV. A leader in her university and internationally, she has championed inclusion to ensure that academic medicine benefits ...

Professor of Peds & Emerg Med, University of Calgary

Dr. Freedman is Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary. He completed his residency at The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) and a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship and a Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation at Northwestern University (Chicago). He is the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation Professor in Child Health and Wellness and the Associate Dean, Clinical Trials at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on applying clinical research to improve outcomes in children seeking emergency department care. He has dedicated his ...

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, Depts. of Medicine, Pathology & Oncology, McGill University

Abraham Fuks is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Oncology at McGill and served as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. His research interests have included the immunogenetics of diabetes, tumour-associated antigens and cell adhesion molecules and ethical aspects of trials involving human subjects. He was Chairman of the Institutional Review Board at McGill for a number of years and has also had experience teaching immunology, molecular aspects of malignancy and research ethics. He has an ongoing scholarly interest in the language of medicine and its metaphoric ...

David Goltzman is Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Physiology of McGill University, Senior Physician in the Endocrine Division of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), and Co-Director of the McGill Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research. He served as National Principal Investigator of the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos) and was Director of the Calcium Research Laboratory at the McGill University Health centre. From 1988-1993, he served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology at McGill. From 1994-2004 he was Chairman and Physician-in-Chief of ...