Rhonda Bell
My work focuses on how nutrition before, during and after pregnancy, impacts health of females, their children and their families, across generations. I’m passionate about this work because it is incredibly important to people’s health today and for those who are yet to come, and because so little is known about it. I studied at […]
Stephane Bourque
Stephane Bourque is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Pharmacology and Pediatrics at the University of Alberta. He currently holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Developmental and Integrative Pharmacology. He received his PhD from Queen’s University in 2009, and then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of […]
Susan Marlin
Susan Marlin is the President and CEO of Clinical Trials Ontario (CTO), an organization established by the Province of Ontario in 2012 to make Ontario a preferred location for global clinical trials while maintaining the highest ethical standards. Prior to joining CTO served as the Associate Vice-Principal at Queen’s University. Susan worked with the Canadian […]
Yves Tremblay
Yves Tremblay is a full professor at Laval University in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproduction, and a senior scientist at the CHU de Québec-Laval University Research Center. He obtained his bachelors degree in 1979 and his PhD in physiology and molecular endocrinology in 1984 from Laval Universitys School of Medicine. From 1985-1990, he […]
Leslie Skeith
Dr. Leslie Skeith is a hematologist and Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, and her research interest is in the prevention and management of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and related complications in pregnancy and the postpartum period. Dr. Skeith is leading the pilot PARTUM trial, a pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating postpartum aspirin versus placebo […]
Liisa Galea
Dr. Liisa Galea is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and a member of the Centre for Brain Health at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is also Health Advisor to VPRI, Lead of the Womens Health Research Cluster and a Scientific Advisor for the Womens Health Research Institute. Her research investigates how […]
Luseadra McKerracher
I have recently become an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Aarhus University in Denmark but, by both training and world view, I am a bio-anthropologist. Bio-anthropology uses methods from anthropology/sociology as well as ecology to study human natural history, ie, to ask questions about how and why human populations vary culturally and biologically. In […]
Marion Williams
Marion has enjoyed a 30 + year career in the Not-For-Profit sector across community, provincial and national healthcare organizations. Her career has spanned mental health, seniors, adults with disabilities, the ALS community and child health. She has a degree in psychology, is a certified Volunteer Manager and a graduate of Leadership Ottawa. She came to […]
Martin Ferguson-Pell
Martin Ferguson-Pell completed a BSc in physics at Exeter University in UK and then a PhD in biomedical engineering at the University of Strathclyde, where he subsequently was appointed lecturer for 5 years. He was appointed as a Research Scientist in Rehabilitation Engineering at Helen Hayes Hospital. He was appointed Founding ASPIRE Chair in Neuromuscular […]
Mary Ani-Amponsah
I am a Senior Lecturer at the Maternal and Child Health Department, University of Ghana, Faculty in Neonatal Nursing Training at Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives (GCNM), and Facilitator in Knowledge Translation at Trinity Western University, Canada. I have about 22 years of health care experience with research focused on newborn health, health technology […]