Carolyn Ann Bennett is a Canadian physician and politician who has served as minister of mental health and addictions,and associate minister of health since October 26,2021. A member of the Liberal Party,she has represented Toronto—St. Paul's in the House of Commons since 1997. She previously served as the minister of state for public health from 2003 to 2006,and the Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations from 2015 to 2021. Bennett worked as a physician for 20 years before entering politics.
Women's College Hospital is a teaching hospital in downtown Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It is located at the north end of Hospital Row,a section of University Avenue where several major hospitals are located. It currently functions as an independent ambulatory care hospital. The Chief of Staff is Dr. Sheila Laredo and the physician-in-chief is Dr. Paula Harvey.
Laurie Hollis Glimcher is an American physician-scientist who was appointed president and CEO of Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in October 2016. She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
Rhian M. Touyz MBBCh,MSc (Med),PhD,FRCP,FRSE,FMedSci,FCAHS is a Canadian medical researcher. She is currently serving as the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal,Canada,since 2021. A clinician scientist,her research primarily focuses on hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
Rebecca D. Jackson is a medical researcher,medical practitioner and professor of endocrinology,diabetes and metabolism. Her research has been significant in the understanding and treatment of osteoporosis. She also researches the opioid crisis in Ohio.
Rachelle Buchbinder is an Australian rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist. Her clinical practice is in conjunction with research involving multidisciplinary projects relating to arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions. She promotes improvement of communication with patients and health literacy in the community.
Allison Joan McGeer is a Canadian infectious disease specialist in the Sinai Health System,and a professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. She also appointed at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and a Senior Clinician Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute,and is a partner of the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases. McGeer has led investigations into the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in Toronto and worked alongside Donald Low. During the COVID-19 pandemic,McGeer has studied how SARS-CoV-2 survives in the air and has served on several provincial committees advising aspects of the Government of Ontario's pandemic response.
Nancy E. Lane is an American rheumatologist. She is an Endowed Professor of Medicine,Rheumatology,and Aging Research at the University of California,Davis and director of the UC Davis Musculoskeletal Diseases of Aging Research Group. She has also sat on the editorial boards of Nature Reviews Rheumatology,Rheumatology,Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism,Arthritis &Rheumatology, and The Journal of Rheumatology.
Mona R. Loutfy is a Canadian clinician-scientist and infectious disease specialist.
Florence Marguerite “Peggy”Hill was a Canadian physician. She was the Physician-in-Chief of the Department of Medicine at Toronto's Women's College Hospital.
Marion G. Powell was a Canadian physician and medical missionary. Throughout her life,she earned the title of the "mother of birth control in Canada",because of her work in advocating for sex education and birth control. One of her most notable accomplishments is her contribution to helping open one of the first "municipally funded" clinics for birth control in Ontario in 1966. She is also celebrated for her work at the Women's College Hospital (WCH) Bay Centre for Birth Control where she was the Director from 1981 to 1990.
Sophie Jamal is a Canadian endocrinologist and former osteoporosis researcher who was at the centre of a scientific misconduct case in the mid-to-late 2010s. Jamal published a high-profile paper suggesting that the heart medication nitroglycerin was a treatment for osteoporosis,and was later demonstrated to have misrepresented her results. She received a lifetime ban from receiving funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and was named directly in their disclosure report,becoming the first person mentioned by name by the institute for scientific misconduct. Jamal was later stripped of her medical license for two years,regaining it in a controversial 3–2 decision.
Rulan S. Parekh is an American-Canadian clinician-scientist and nephrologist. She is the vice president of research,education and innovation at Women's College Hospital and former senior scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences and Associate Chief of Clinical Research at SickKids.
Simone Natalie Vigod is a Canadian scientist,Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Women's College Hospital and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. She focuses her research on perinatal mood disorders and has conducted some of the largest studies worldwide on maternal mental illness around the time of pregnancy.
Kelly A. Metcalfe is a Canadian scientist. She is a professor at the University of Toronto and at Women's College Hospital.
Cindy-Lee E. Dennis is a Canadian professor in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Medicine,Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She holds the Women's Health Research Chair at Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute,St. Michael's Hospital. Previously she held the Canada Research Chair in Perinatal Community Health at the University of Toronto.
Lorraine L. Lipscombe is a Canadian endocrinologist. In 2021,Lipscombe was appointed the director of the University of Toronto's Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations.
Paula Ann Rochon is a Canadian geriatrician. She is the Retired Teachers of Ontario/ERO Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Ophira Michal Ginsburg is a Canadian oncologist.
Angela Man-Wei Cheung is a Canadian internal medicine specialist. At the University of Toronto,she is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair,the KY and Betty Ho Chair of Integrative Medicine,and a senior scientist at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and the Schroeder Arthritis Institute. Cheung also established the University of Toronto Center for Excellence in Skeletal Health Assessment and the Osteoporosis Program at the University Health Network.
