Biography

Jody Carrington, CEO and Chief Happiness Officer I was always intrigued by relationships. And I thought for a long time that “helping people” meant fixing things. Slowly, along the way, I have learned that it is not about having the answer. It’s not about fixing. If you can connect, however, and truly understand [...]

Paige Church, Medical Director, Neonatal Follow Up Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Sunnybrook’s Dr. Paige Church has been named as one of Canada's Most Powerful Women by Women’s Executive Network. The award recognizes outstanding women across Canada who advocate for workforce diversity and inspire tomorrow’s leaders. As the Medical Director of Sunnybrook’s Neonatal [...]

Leah Hammond  

Karys Peterson-Katz, Doctoral Student, Queen's University Karys is a Ph.D student in Neuroscience at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Her project focuses on evaluating measurements of the developmental status of pre-school children obtained from community-based agencies and child welfare agencies, as well as evaluating knowledge transfer and practice application following training in infant [...]

Pascal Gagné, FASD Team Lead, Health Nexus  

Nick Denomey, Research Assistant, University of Alberta

Kim van der Hoek, Chief Operating Officer Kim van der Hoek is the Chief Operating Officer and joined KBHN in 2021.  Prior to joining KBHN she was the inaugural Centre Manager for the Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control a Canadian Cancer Society funded national research program focusing in the area [...]

Canadian Ambassador to Brazil Emmanuel Kamarianakis has been appointed as the Canadian Ambassador to Brazil on August 4, 2022. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Director-General in the federal government and works to promote Canada as a premier business destination for foreign investors, as an ideal place to study for international [...]

Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital & Principal Investigator, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics Dr. van Karnebeek’s research aims to discover new inborn errors of metabolism, a class of genetic diseases that is particularly amenable to treatment. Her team uses a multidisciplinary approach involving the study of three “-omics” in patients: phenomics, their physical [...]