Professor and Ward Chair in Pediatric Brain Injury, University of Calgary

Dr. Yeates is a world-leading researcher in the field of pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the most highly published author on childhood TBI and concussion in the world over the past decade. A neuropsychologist, Dr. Yeates has conducted innovative and clinically-impactful research regarding the environment's role in children's recovery from TBI, the social outcomes of childhood brain disorders, and the diagnosis and management of childhood concussion. Through outstanding mentorship and leadership nationally and internationally, Dr. Yeates has advanced the science and practice of ...

Michael Wolfson served for 35 years in the federal government, latterly as the Assistant Chief Statistician, Analysis and Development, at Statistics Canada. He then had a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa in Populatin Health Modeling. He received his BSc in computer science, math, and economics from the University of Toronto in 1971 and his Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in 1977, Following both retirement,s he remains active in some research collaborations, has participated in a number of panel studies, and writes occasional op-eds. The Health Sciences are ...

Professor & Canada Research Chair, Western University

Nadine Wathen is Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Mobilizing Knowledge on Gender-Based Violence (GBV). As an internationally renowned scholar in the areas of GBV and health inequities, she is generating and mobilizing knowledge that has significantly impacted responses to violence and inequity in Canada and abroad. Dr. Wathen is committed to using research to improve policy, practice and public responses to enhance well-being and advance justice for those experiencing interpersonal and structural violence and ...

Dr. David Streiner is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. He began there in 1968 and has a joint appointment in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Between 1998 and 2008, he was the Assistant V.P. Research and founding Director of the Applied Research Unit at the Baycrest Centre, and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Although trained as a clinical psychologist, he has achieved international recognition as a statistician and epidemiologist, and has ...

Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, Schulich School, Western University

Calvin Stiller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario. He is known nationally and internationally as an outstanding physician, scientist and entrepreneur who has championed innovation in health and biomedical research and its application for the improvement of health and the economy. He is a pioneer in multi-organ transplantation and diabetes in Canada and led the Canadian multi-center study that established the importance of cyclosporine in transplantation that in turn, led to its worldwide use as ...

Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Community Health Ep, Dalhousie University

Sherry H. Stewart is a Killam Research Professor and ClHR Investigator in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at Dalhousie University. She is internationally respected for her research on psychological factors contributing to addictive disorders, and the co-morbidity of mental illness and addictions. Dr. Stewart has published several clinical trials of novel approaches for the treatment and prevention of substance abuse and co-occurring mental health problems. She has received over $10 million to support her addictions and mental health research from granting agencies worldwide.

Full Professor, Western University

Dr. Stewart is a Psychologist, Professor and Clinical Training Director at the Faculty of Education, Western University. She holds a cross-appointment with the Department of Psychiatry, Schulich Faculty of Medicine. She is an Associate Scientist at the Children’s Health Research Institute and Associate Scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute. Dr. Stewart is an interRAI fellow, lead developer and international lead of the interRAI Child and Youth suite of instruments and has published extensively with over 150 publications in children’s mental health. Her work has had extensive ...

Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Dalhousie University

Susan Sherwin holds a Dalhousie University Research Professorship and has served as Chair of the university’s Department of Philosophy. She has straddled the divide between moral philosophy and bioethics for some time. Internationally, she is considered one of the world’s foremost feminist ethicists and she serves on committees for numerous organizations such as the Royal College where she serves on the Ethics and Equity Committee; CIHR as a member of the Standing Committee on Ethics; UNESCO; CIAR; and Health Canada on the Advisory Group on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies. Dr. Sherwin ...

Dept. Chair, Social Studies of Med., McGill University

Thomas Schlich is a preeminent historian of modern medicine and science. In his work he has examined the rationale for surgery—why surgeons open the body -- and the techniques they develop to do so. Combining the perspectives of history with science and technology studies, Schlich’s work elucidates the introduction of innovative ideas and techniques, including organ transplants, metal implants in the treatment of fractures, the pathways to the contemporary development of minimally invasive surgery, and, most recently, the origins and use of face masks to prevent infections.

Jean Rochon has a triple career as an academic, a specialist in public health and a politician. Heholds a Bachelor of laws from Université de Montréal, a doctorate in medicine from UniversitéLaval and a doctorate in public health from Harvard University. He was awarded an honorarydoctorate by Université catholique de Louvain.He assumed the duties of director of the Department of social and preventive medicine (1970-1979) and dean of the Faculty of medicine (1979-1985) at Université Laval. He left this positionto chair the Commission of inquiry on health and social services formed by the ...