Biography

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 [...]

Kathryn Mary Murphy is a Canadian neuroscientist and professor from McMaster University who studies brain development and plasticity. For ten years (2007-2017), she was the Director of the McMaster Integrated Neuroscience Discovery & Study program (MiNDS). Her research includes studying developmental and lifespan changes in the human brain. She served as a Chair, [...]

Dr. Christian Beaulieu is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Scientific Director of the Peter S Allen MRI Research Centre at the University of Alberta, and an Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions Scientist. His research expertise lies in the development of new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods. Specifically for the study of white matter [...]

Jordan Jacobs Communications Intern Jordan Jacobs is the current Communications Intern at Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN). This is her first internship as she continues her studies in Behavioural Neuroscience at Simon Fraser University (SFU) while also competing for their track and field team. She hopes to work in the healthcare field in [...]

Malcolm Richards 2020 Winter Communication Intern SFU COOPERATIVE EDUCATION and CANADA SUMMER JOBS PROGRAMS The Simon Fraser University (SFU) Cooperative Education program provides students with the opportunity to gain real-life, paid work experience to enhance their time at the university and utilize their classroom learning in an applicable workplace setting. The Canada Summer [...]

Evelyn Kwan2020 Winter Communication InternSFU COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMThe Simon Fraser University (SFU) Cooperative Education program provides students with the opportunity to gain real-life, paid work experience to enhance their time at the university and utilize their classroom learning in an applicable workplace setting.Evelyn’s funding comes from the Canada Summer Jobs Program, which allows us [...]

Hajer Chalghoumi, PhD Training Consultant, Senior researcher and knowledge mobilization specialist Hajer (She/Her) has a MA degree in education from the University of Sherbrooke, a PhD in special educational psychology from the University of Montreal, a postdoctoral degree in universal design for learning from the Ontario College of Art and Design University and [...]

Margaret Spoelstra, Executive Director, Autism Ontario

Executive Vice President, Canadian Association for Community Living Krista Carr is a long-time advocate in the inclusion movement.  She is the Executive Vice President (CEO) of Inclusion Canada, one of Canada’s 10 largest charitable organizations. Inclusion Canada is a national federation of 300 local and 13 Provincial/Territorial Associations working on behalf of approximately [...]