Biography

This category holds: Investigators, Awardees, Trainees, Fer Graduates, Family Members, Fellows

Lori Sheremeta

Research Analyst, Health Innovation, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Lori is a researcher and a lawyer. Called to the British Columbia Bar in 2001, Lori then pursed her Masters of Law focusing on the regulation of emerging technologies. She has held positions in academia at the University of Alberta, the National Research Council [...]

2021-04-08T12:25:48-08:00April 8th, 2021|Biography|

Brent Wennekes

Brent Wennekes, BBA President and Lead Strategic Consultant, Wennekes Consulting Incorporated Since 2008, Brent has been working in communications, business development, and management roles in support of research, technology development, and innovation with experience across virtually all industry sectors and academic disciplines. His roles have included executive leadership of a provincial innovation accelerator; [...]

2023-01-18T12:46:15-08:00April 8th, 2021|Biography|

Dr. Normand Carrey

Associate Professor , Division of Child Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry. Dalhousie University, Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, IWK Health Centre Dr. Carrey specializes in infant mental health, family therapy and attachment theory and practice. He has trained under Dr. Klaus Minde, a world authority on infant mental health, and Dr. [...]

2023-01-31T15:24:30-08:00April 8th, 2021|Biography|

Buse Bedir

Buse is a second-year PhD student in the Neuropsychology stream of the University of Victoria Clinical Psychology Program. Buse previously completed her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and M.Sc. at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include working with children who have neurodevelopmental disabilities, and helping them improve executive functioning and self regulation [...]

2022-06-28T13:12:15-08:00April 8th, 2021|Biography|

Paul Pavlidis

Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia Paul Pavlidis is a professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He obtained his B.S. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology (neuroscience) at the University of California, Berkeley. He did postdoctoral work at Stanford University (under Daniel Madison) [...]

2021-03-26T12:55:12-08:00March 26th, 2021|Biography, Investigator|

Jean-Paul Collet

Dr. Jean-Paul Collet (M.D., PhD) Investigator, BC Children's Hospital,  Director, Partnership Development & Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia Dr. Collet is currently holding a joint appointment in Beijing China at Tiantan Hospital, Capital University, as Director of the Center for Autonomic Investigation and Brain Plasticity, which [...]

2023-06-22T08:02:27-08:00March 26th, 2021|Biography, Investigator|

Geoff Hicks

Professor, University of Manitoba For the past 15 years, Geoff Hicks has focused on the development and application of high-throughput gene-trap and gene-targeting mutagenesis in mouse embryonic stem cells. He has been the Principal Investigator for several large-scale genomics grants awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Genome Canada, and [...]

2021-03-26T12:53:12-08:00March 26th, 2021|Biography, Investigator|

Dr. Shelly Weiss

Pediatric neurologist, Hospital for Sick Children Dr. Shelly K. Weiss, MD, FRCPC, is a pediatric neurologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the co-director of its Sleep Disorder Clinic. An assistant professor at the University of Toronto and member of the Canadian Sleep Society executive board, Dr. Weiss has lectured [...]

2021-05-24T11:14:38-08:00March 26th, 2021|Biography, Investigator|

Brenda Elias

Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba Dr. Elias is an associate professor in Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba and former co-director and founding member of the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research. Her research interests include gender health, mental health, social determinants, health info-structures, Indigenous [...]

2021-03-26T12:45:05-08:00March 26th, 2021|Biography, Investigator|
Go to Top