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 ...

Professor, Western University

Charles Weijer is a leading expert on the ethics of randomized controlled trials. Publications on the duty of care in clinical research, the ethical analysis of study benefits and harms, and empowering communities in research have been broadly influential.From 2008 to 2013 Charles co-led a collaboration that produced the first international ethics guidelines for cluster randomized trials. From 2014 to 2018 he collaborated with Dr. Adrian M. Owen on a project exploring the ethics of functional neuroimaging after severe brain injury. Charles’ current work explores ethical issues in pragmatic ...

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 ...

Professor, University of Alberta

A professor at the University of Alberta, Dr. Sunita Vohra is a pediatrician and clinician scientist whose research program is internationally recognized for its cutting-edge research and innovation. In response to intense patient interest in complementary and alternative medicine, Dr. Vohra developed Canada's first academic pediatric integrative medicine program which rigorously evaluates the safety and effectiveness of these popular therapies. Her program has led the way in improving how benefit and harms are measured and reported, providing innovations that benefit patient-centred ...

Dr. Ross E.G. Upshur is recognized for his significant contributions to primary care/family medicine research in Canada, particularly in multi-morbidity and the integration of public health and primary care, for which has been named one of Top 20 Pioneers in Family Medicine Research in Canada. Additionally, Dr. Upshur contributed to the resurgence of public health ethics as an academic discipline particularly with respect to work in ethics and infectious diseases helping Canada and other countries develop their approach to responding to outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2, pandemic influenza and Ebola. ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Steiner, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Toronto and former Head of Endocrinology at the Toronto General Hospital, has been devoted for over four decades to advancing knowledge about atherosclerosis in those afflicted with the global epidemic of diabetes. His world leadership role in basic and clinical research and his training of others was recognized by the WHO, which made him Head of their Collaborating Centre for the Study of Atherosclerosis in Diabetes. His basic work using sophisticated tracer methods led to an understanding of the way in which blood fat ...

Dr. David Spence, a clinician-scientist trained in Neurology, Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, has devoted his entire career to prevention of stroke. His clinical work has prevented an estimated 5,000 strokes, but his research, teaching and publications, by changing the way physicians approach stroke prevention, have prevented many more. He led many clinical trials of stroke prevention, including 4 major trials funded by NIH. He pioneered the understanding of pseudohypertension, co-discovered the effect of grapefruit on drug metabolism, pioneered the measurement of carotid ...

Professor, Western University

Dr. Kathy Nixon Speechley is a Professor at Western University and Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute and Children’s Health Research Institute. An epidemiologist, her primary research focus is determinants of quality of life in children with chronic health conditions with an emphasis on improving quality of life in children with epilepsy. Her publications describing key risk and protective factors for quality of life in childhood epilepsy have contributed to advances in family centered care. She is a Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society, Past Chair of the Canadian Paediatric ...