Biography

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 [...]

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 [...]

CHILD-BRIGHT Scientific Co-Director Dan Goldowitz received his PhD in Psychobiology at the University of California at Irvine with a thesis that focused on the plasticity of the adult central nervous in response to lesions. His subsequent postdoctoral work at Harvard Children’s Hospital in Boston, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and the University of [...]

Professor; McGill University Eric Fombonne, MD, FRCP, is a professor of psychiatry and an epidemiologist. He directs the child psychiatry division at McGill University in Canada and the psychiatry department at the Montreal Children's Hospital, where he played a crucial role in the launch of its autism clinic. Fombonne is also the Canada [...]

Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Université de Montréal; Director of the Université de Montréal Beaulieu-Saucier Pharmacogenomics Centre located at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) Dr. Marie-Pierre Dubé is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Université de Montréal. She is the director of the Université de Montréal [...]

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology Craig is interested in how nerve cells in the brain make synaptic connections and modify connections with experience. She studies these questions of synapse development and synapse plasticity mainly from a cellular and molecular viewpoint. She then [...]

Professor Emerita, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychology & Neuroscience, Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre Dr. Susan Bryson, a world-renowned autism researcher. Dr. Bryson joined Dalhousie from York University in Toronto in 2001 to accept the role of professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Psychology, as well as the Craig Chair in [...]