Professor of Psychology, University of Regina

Dr. Asmundson is a Registered Doctoral Psychologist and Professor at the UofR. He is Editor-in-Chief of two leading journals and serves on numerous editorial boards. His pioneering work on fear-avoidance in chronic pain and his shared vulnerability model of co-occurring PTSD and chronic pain have led to significant advances in understanding and treating these prevalent, disabling, and costly conditions. He is a FRSC, a recipient of the SOM, and was awarded the Molson Prize for remarkable achievements in the social science. He is actively involved in clinical research/supervision and has ...

John Bell received his PhD in Virology and Immunology from McMaster University in 1982. He is a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. John is the Scientific Director of BioCanRx, a Network of Centres of Excellence developing novel immune based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and making them available to Canadian cancer patients. He is an internationally recognized leader in the development and commercialization of therapeutic viruses that selectively replicate in and kill cancer cells. Dr. Bell is a Fellow ...

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. ...

Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy; Professor, F, University of Alberta

For more than a decade, Timothy Caulfield has been a leader in the field of health law, particularly in the area of biotechnology policy. He has published well over one hundred peer reviewed articles and dozens of book chapters and edited collections. He has served on a wide variety of national and international policy committees, including the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, the OECD, and Genome Canada’s Science Advisory Board. He has organized and Chaired national conferences and symposiums, and has built a unique and productive interdiscip1inary research team. Professor ...

John Challis’ research has uncovered fundamental processes contributing to both premature birth and birth at term. He has uncovered the role of different hormones in the birth process, and has developed the concept that in women, the control of labor results from local hormonal interactions within the uterus and placenta. He has made major contributions to our understanding of how adverse circumstances in the uterus during pregnancy can result in predisposition to disease in the later life of the offspring. His role as founding Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Human Development, ...

Professor Emerita, Queen's University

Professor Susan P.C. Cole (PhD, FRSC) is internationally renowned for her ground-breaking and paradigm-shifting pioneering studies related to the discovery and characterization of the human ATP binding cassette transporter, MRP1, a membrane protein which mediates the extrusion of drugs and other organic molecules from normal and malignant cells. Her work on the biochemical mechanisms of drug resistance over the past 25 years has had a major impact not only in our understanding of how cancer cells can survive in the presence of cytotoxic agents, but also of how such agents are distributed ...

McEachran Institute

James Cross is one of Canada’s outstanding scientists and leaders. Holding DVM and PhD degrees, he rose to prominence first at University of Toronto and then at the University of Calgary. Dr Cross is internationally recognized for his contributions in reproductive health, as evidenced by his international invitations, numerous awards and the citations of his research. Dr. Cross has been a leader and a contributor in support of science, research, and education in Canada and internationally, serving on numerous national and international committees and leading numerous programs. Dr. Cross is ...

Professor, Dept. of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, Queen's University

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Reproduction, Development and Sexual Function, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University. Anne Croy, a world-leader in reproduction, has made seminal contributions to medical science with her description of uterine Natural Killer (uNK) cells, recruited to the uterus in early pregnancy. Croy has shown the key angiogenic actions of uNK on vessels supplying the placenta and deduced major pathways by which this is accomplished. Most complications of human pregnancy (e.g. hypertension/pre-eclampsia) are linked with incomplete ...

Michael Fehlings is recognized as one of the world's leading clinical and translational researchers in the field oftraumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury. His pioneering research has been critical in defining the mechanisms of secondary injury after spinal cord injury and the role of demyelination in post-traumatic neurological deficits. His ground breaking findings regarding cellular and molecular mechanisms of spinal cord injury have led to fundamental improvements of clinical practice and developing novel treatments strategies, including stem cell transplantation. In 2017 he led ...