Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Susan George is a clinician-scientist, endocrinologist and internationally recognized molecular pharmacologist who has made significant contributions to our understanding of neurotransmitter G-protein coupled receptor signaling and roles in addiction, depression, and neuropsychiatric disorders. Her leading research pioneered the discovery of novel receptors, launching new fields of research in physiology and pharmacology and providing targets for drug discovery. She is a prolific supervisor, having trained and mentored an entire generation of trainees in this field. The impact of her ...

Dr. Anthony Lang is an international leader in the neuroscience field of movement disorders. His broad-based, highly cited, transformative award-winning research contributions span the fields of clinical evaluation, genetics, epidemiology, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, neuropathology, neuropharmacology, rating scales, clinical trials and functional neurosurgery. His work has been extremely influential on all aspects of current international standards of medical and surgical care for Parkinson’s disease, has helped define and understand previously unrecognized or poorly characterized ...

Professor, McGill University

Dr. Morag Park is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Oncology, and Biochemistry at McGill University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, James McGill Professor, and holds the Diane and Sal Guerrera Chair in Cancer Genetics. Dr. Park received a B.Sc. with first class honors from the University of Glasgow, a Ph.D. in Viral carcinogenesis at the Medical Research Council Virology Institute in Scotland, and completed postdoctoral training at the National Institutes for Cancer Research in Washington DC. She was the Director of ...

Professor, Universite de Montreal

Mike (Przemyslaw) Sapieha is the Université de Montréal Endowed Chair in Translational Vision Research, Canada Research Chair in retinal cell biology and Full Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Biochemistry. He is also the founder and Chief Scientific Officer of SemaThera Inc in Montreal, and Chief Scientist of UNITY Biotechnology in San Francisco. His research focuses on elucidating the causes of retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. He has made significant discoveries implicating deregulation of neuronal metabolism, neuronal ...

Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University

Allan Donner has attained international recognition as a driving force in the develoment of biostatistical methodology in the design and analysis of cluster randomization trials, where he is co-author of the leading text, and in statistical methods for the analysis of interobserver agreement studies. In addition to his independent research, Dr. Donner has collaborated extensively in Canada and with internationally respected health research organizations, including the World Health Organization, the International Vaccine Institute and the Centers for Disease Control. He is a Fellow of both the ...

Distinguished University Professor, McMaster University

Dr. Harriet MacMillan is a pediatrician, psychiatrist, and scientist whose research has transformed how family violence, including child maltreatment and intimate partner violence, is understood, responded to, and prevented. Her pioneering work has led to a better understanding of the impact of exposure to violence, and its link to mental health outcomes. She has influenced national and international guidelines and led the development and evaluation of prevention and intervention efforts. Dr. MacMillan has furthered our knowledge of the individual and societal impacts of child maltreatment ...

Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Director, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, McGill University Health Center (Children's Hospital) Dr. Constantin Polychronakos is a physician scientist who has made seminal contributions to understanding the cause of type 1 diabetes, towards finding an effective prevention for this common and serious disease. As a paediatric endocrinologist, he is motivated on a daily basis by his contact with his young patients to push the understanding of what in an individual’s genome makes them susceptible to diabetes. Using cutting edge technologies he has advanced ...

Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Leslie Roos is Distinguished Professor of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. As founder of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Director of the Population Health Research Data Repository, Dr. Roos pioneered the use of routinely collected administrative data for research purposes, an approach now used internationally. His work was influential in the Manitoba Centre’s receipt of two rounds of major CFI funding, a CIHR Knowledge Translation award and a CHSRF Health Services Research Advancement Award. He has published over 200 peer reviewed papers, numerous book chapters and ...

Professor, University of Alberta

Lorne Tyrrell is a Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Alberta and served for 10 years as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry until 2004. He currently holds the ClHR/GSK Chair in Virology at the University of Alberta. In 1986, with Dr. Morris Robins, he began working on a system to identify potent antivirals against hepatitis B virus (HBV) which infects about 400 million people worldwide. Through their work they discovered several potent antivirals against HBV and this resulted in a major collaboration with Glaxo Canada (now GlaxoSmithKline). The ...

Canada Research Chair, Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University

Prof Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS is a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University, Montreal. He is the Director of McGill Global Health Programs, and Associate Director of the McGill International TB Centre. Madhu Pai did his medical training and community medicine residency in Vellore, India. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at UC Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSF. Madhu serves on the STAG-TB committee of WHO, Geneva; Scientific Advisory Committee of FIND, Geneva; and Access Advisory Committee of TB Alliance, New York. He serves as ...