Nancy Fern Olivieri is a prominent Toronto haematologist and researcher with an interest in the treatment of haemoglobinopathies. She is best known for a protracted struggle with the Hospital for Sick Children and the pharmaceutical company Apotex about the drug deferiprone.
MedStar Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization. It operates more than 120 entities,including ten hospitals in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area of the United States. In 2011 it was ranked as the employer with the largest number of local employees in the region.
Erica Frank is a U.S.-born educational inventor,physician,medical and educational researcher,politician,and public health advocate. Since 2006,she has been a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC);she is the Inventor/Founder of NextGenU.org,and the steward of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize commemorative medal awarded to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Canada.
MedStar National Rehabilitation Network is located in Washington,D.C.,and specializes in treating persons with physical disabilities. The National Rehabilitation Hospital was founded in 1986 by Edward A. Eckenhoff,and is a member of the MedStar Health system,the Washington,D.C.-Baltimore region's largest non-profit healthcare organization.
Judy Illes,,PHD,FRSC,FCAHS,is Professor of Neurology and Distinguished University Scholar in Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia. She is Director of Neuroethics Canada at UBC,and faculty in the Brain Research Centre at UBC and at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. She also holds affiliate appointments in the School of Population and Public Health and the School of Journalism at UBC,and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle,WA. USA. She was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2017.
Dr. Gary Birch,is a Canadian Paralympian,an expert in brain–computer interface (BCI) technology and executive director of the Neil Squire Society. In 1975,Dr. Birch was involved in an automobile accident which resulted in injuries to the C6 and C7 area of his spine making him a low-level quadriplegic. He was one of the original players of Murderball,and won several medals in the 1980 Summer Paralympics in the Netherlands. In 2008,he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. He continues to champion accessibility through his Research and Development work in assistive technologies at the University of British Columbia,the Rick Hansen Institute,and the Neil Squire Society.
Peggy Assinck is a Canadian ice sledge hockey athlete and neuroscientist. She competed in the inaugural IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Women's International Cup in 2014.
B. Brett Finlay,is a Canadian microbiologist well known for his contributions to understanding how microbes cause disease in people and developing new tools for fighting infections,as well as the role the microbiota plays in human health and disease. Science.ca describes him as one of the world's foremost experts on the molecular understanding of the ways bacteria infect their hosts. He also led the SARS Accelerated Vaccine Initiative (SAVI) and developed vaccines to SARS and a bovine vaccine to E. coli O157:H7. His current research interests focus on pathogenic E. coli and Salmonella pathogenicity,and the role of the microbiota in infections,asthma,and malnutrition. He is currently the UBC Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and a Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories,Microbiology and Immunology,and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,and Co-director and Senior Fellow for the CIFAR Humans and Microbes program. He is also co-author of the book Let Them Eat Dirt:Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World and The Whole-Body Microbiome:How to Harness Microbes - Inside and Out - For Lifelong Health. Finlay is the author of over 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals and served as editor of several professional publications for many years.
Laurel Schafer is a Canadian Organic chemist. She is a full professor at the University of British Columbia and Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Development. Schafer's research is at the intersection of organometallic and organic chemistry.
Jillianne Reay Code is a Canadian researcher and learning scientist. She is an associate professor in the faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia and director of the Assessment for Learning in Immersion and Virtual Environments (ALIVE) research lab.
Catharine Antonia Winstanley is a Canadian behavioural neuroscientist. She is a Full professor in the Department of Psychology and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at the University of British Columbia. In this role,she co-created the world’s first rat casino in an animal lab experiment to model human gambling. In 2020,Winstanley was elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars,Artists and Scientists.
Amina Zoubeidi is a Canadian research scientist and prostate cancer researcher. She's a scientist at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia. During her tenure at UBC,Zoubeidi and her research team developed the first drug that targets and blocks BRN2,thus stopping Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) tumours and creating a possible treatment for the previously thought incurable disease.
Deborah M. Money is a Canadian obstetric and gynaecological infectious disease specialist. As a professor at the University of British Columbia,she was the first non-US President of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology from 2010 until 2012.
Gina Suzanne Ogilvie is a Canadian global and public health physician. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV related diseases and prevention,and Professor at the University of British Columbia in their School of Population and Public Health.
Kathleen Anne Martin Ginis is a Canadian exercise behavioural scientist. She is a Full professor in the Department of Medicine and in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She also holds the Reichwald Family UBC Southern Medical Program Chair in Preventive Medicine.
Liisa Ann Margaret Galea is a Canadian neuroscientist who is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the Centre for Brain Health and Director of the Graduate Programme in Neuroscience. Her research considers the impact of hormones on brain health and behaviour.
Heather Sheardown is a professor in the Chemical Engineering department at McMaster University in Hamilton,Ontario,Canada,and holder of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Ophthalmic Biomaterials and Drug Delivery System from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Her research has focused on biomaterials and eye health,including bioengineered contact lenses,and eye drops that can be used for targeted drug delivery. She was the student of Professor John Brash.
Adeera Levin MD,FRCPC is a Professor of Medicine,and is head of the Division of Nephrology at University of British Columbia.
Teresa Yeong Lih Liu-Ambrose is a Canadian physical therapist. She is a Canada Research Chair of Physical Activity,Mobility,and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia.
Bojana Stefanovic is a Canadian neuroscientist. She is a senior scientist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Functional Brain Neuroimaging at the University of Toronto.
