Biography

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Professor & Associate Dean, Research and Partnerships in Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary David Nicholas, PhD, RSW, joined the Faculty of Social Work in the Central and Northern Alberta Region as an Associate Professor in 2008. He has a background in psychosocial outcome and intervention research related to children, youth and [...]