Biography

Dr. Johnston holds the Blum/Moser Chair for Pediatric Neurology at the Hugo Moser Research Institute and Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. He is also a Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Kennedy Krieger. [...]

Mark Hoffman, vice president, LifeSciences Solutions, is responsible for Cerner’s LifeSciences development initiatives, including genomics, clinical trials, Galt, and the Cerner Discovere™ and HIV Insight® solutions. In his current role, Hoffman helps to reduce the barriers between patient care and clinical research and enhancing Cerner’s role in the pharmaceutical industry. Hoffman serves as [...]

Edward P. Riley (Ph.D., 1974, Tulane University) is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Behavioral Teratology at San Diego State University. He has authored over 250 scientific papers and reviews and served as Chair of the U.S. National Task Force on FAS/FAE from 2000-2004 at the request of [...]

Devlin’s research has two primary foci, the development of statistical methods for the analysis of genetic data and the implementation of those methods to discover the genetic basis of disease, especially autism, schizophrenia, and neurodegenerative disorders. His work has been recognized by admission as a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement [...]

Dr. Martin-Hill is an expert on Indigenous knowledge in community-led research, knowledge translation, and capacity building and has had an integral role in developing the Indigenous Health Research Development Program office at Six Nations Polytechnic. Dr. Martin-Hill was inaugural Chair of the Secretariat of all 9 Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research (NEAHR) [...]

Dr. Jean Clinton is a Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster, and Child Psychiatry, division. She has cross appointments in Pediatrics and Family Medicine and an Associate in the Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Sick Children’s Hospital. She is a Fellow of the Child Trauma Academy [...]

Neuroscientist, neuropsychologist, researcher, author and educator Dr. Kolb combines neuroscience and psychology to examine the critical interplay between experiences, neuron changes and behaviour. His research has focused on the cerebral cortex and how neurons change in response to experiences, drugs, hormones and injury, which in turn affect behaviour. In discovering factors affecting the [...]

Fibiger earned his BSc at the University of Victoria, BC, in 1966 and his PhD at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1970. He came to the UBC in 1972, where he researched the causes of “anhedonia,” or depression. His work shows that a complex of neurons in the midbrain contains the neurotransmitter dopamine, an [...]

Daniel Ansari is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Western University, Canada. He received a BA in Psychology from the University of Sussex, an MSc in Neuroscience from Oxford University and a PhD from University College London. From 2003-2006, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department [...]

Dr. Yager’s recent research focus is on the effects of age on stroke injury and outcome. Findings showed that the newborn brain is actually more susceptible to injury, but that it is much more capable of functional recovery. Currently they are looking into the underlying pathophysiological causes and will try to determine if [...]