Biography

Dr. Vasanthi Srinivasan is the founding Executive Director of the Ontario Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) SUPPORT Unit.  Until December 2013, Vasanthi was the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Health Systems Strategy and Policy Division.  She was also the lead for the research program for the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.   [...]

Dr. Michael Fehlings is the Medical Director of the Krembil Neuroscience Center and heads the Spinal Program at the Toronto Western Hospital. Dr. Fehlings is also a Professor of Neurosurgery, Co-Director of the Spine Program and, most recently, appointed Vice-Chair Research in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He holds [...]

Peter A. Allen is the President of Mercator Investments Limited, a Venture Capital company. Formerly, he was the Founder and CEO of Lac Minerals, which became a global mining company. He began his career with Imperial Oil Ltd., Transportation Dept. He chaired the embryonic Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and founded its [...]

Gary Wechsler, FCPA, CA, is currently a strategic advisor to several business enterprises. Previously, he served for over ten years as the Chief Financial Officer of Optimal Group, a publicly listed NASDAQ company. Mr. Wechsler is a past Chairman of the Jewish General Hospital Foundation and serves on the Hospital’s President’s Advisory Committee. [...]

David K. Ure is the Senior Vice President, Finance of Mercer International Inc., a Nasdaq traded US company and the world’s largest producer of Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft pulp and a producer of biomass-based green electricity and bio-chemicals.   He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CGA) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in [...]

Kathleen is the Communications & Education Director at the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, a position she has held since 1996. She has a BA with a major in fine arts and an MA in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Alberta. Kathleen has worked for several cultural institutions in western [...]

Henri Rothschild has over 30 years of leadership experience in the planning and executing national and global science and technology (S&T) initiatives that address Canadian innovation objectives. He is currently President  & CEO of the Canada-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (CIIRDF), which he has managed since its inception in 1994. Dr. Rothschild has also [...]

Carol Richards is a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, at Université Laval. She obtained a B.Sc. (PT) from McGill University, an M.Sc. (Rehabilitation Medicine) from the University of Saskatchewan, a Ph.D. degree from McGill University and an honorary Doctorate from the University of Ottawa. She was the founding Director [...]

Dr. Phipps received his Ph.D. in Immunology from Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) and undertook post-doctoral studies in HIV research at the University Health Network (Toronto). After leaving the lab, he built a career managing academic research holding successively senior positions at the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation (Manager of Biotechnology and Life Sciences), [...]

Dr. John O’Neil is the Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University since September 2007. Previously, he was Director of the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research and Professor and Head of the Department of Community Health Sciences in the University of Manitoba’s faculty of [...]