Biography

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, Director of Operations and Administration Kim van der Hoek is the Director, Operations and Administration joining 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 [...]

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 [...]

Assistant Professor, McMaster University Geoffrey Hall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, specializing in neuroimaging. He holds a PhD in Medical Sciences from McMaster and MSc in Human Biology from the University of Guelph. Dr. Hall's research interests lie in affective and cognitive neuroscience [...]