Biography

Director of Client & Family Integrated Care, Holland Bloorview Laura Williams is the Director of Client and Family Integrated Care at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. Laura has worked extensively in healthcare in adult and pediatric settings in both frontline and leadership roles. She has successfully implemented new programming in several healthcare settings, [...]

Professor, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology McGill University Jake is a Professor of School Psychology and Human Development in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University in Montreal. He is the founder and director of the McGill Youth Study Team (MYST) and a co-investigator on three past and current [...]

RMC Member and RMC Vice Chair Professor, University of Toronto Dr. Lucy Osborne is an associate professor at the Institute of Medical Science (IMS) conducting research at the forefront of medical genetics. She is a world expert on the deletion and duplication of a small but fascinating region of the genome, 7q11.23 on [...]

Associate Professor Department of Rehabilitation Laval University Désirée is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation at Université Laval and a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration. Her research focuses on outcome measures related to mobility in children with Cerebral Palsy and on the determinants [...]

Sarah Lippé studies risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders and the diversity of trajectories of outcomes. She has developed brain activity biomarkers sensitive to brain maturation and cognitive development.  Lippe currently uses advanced imaging signal processing and modern statistics to delineate etiologic mechanisms leading to abnormal neurodevelopment. She was among the first to advocate [...]

Dannielle joined Kids Brain Health Network in 2019 as the Communications Coordinator after receiving her Masters in Journalism at the University of British Columbia. Before this position, Dannielle worked in various communications roles at universities, radio stations and non-profits.

Sharon brings over 20 years of administrative experience to her position as Executive Assistant and Governance Coordinator. She has worked with multinational, international, and non-profit organizations in Canada.

Alice Sze joined Kids Brain Health Network in 2016. She handles all accounting and finance functions of KBHN.  Alice obtained her CPA, CGA designation in 2009.  Before joining KBHN, Alice held senior finance positions, including the titles of Assistant-Controller and Controller, for Canadian and US publicly traded companies in the mining industry. [...]

Dr. Georgiades is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. He is also the Co-Director of the McMaster Autism Research Team (MacART; see www.macautism.ca), the Co-Founder of the Child Health Specialization in the Bachelor of Health Sciences (BHSc.) Program, and a Core Member of the Offord Centre [...]