Scientific Committee

Dr. Paul McDonald, PhD, FRSPH, FCAHS

Chair

• Professor and Former Dean, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto

Dr. Karen Sliwa, MD, PhD ( Wits, South Africa), FESC, FACC, FAHA        

• Director, Cape Heart Institute 
  Specialist Physician & Cardiologist, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital
  Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Dr. Prabhat Jha, OC, MD, DPhil, FCAHS, FRSC          

• University Professor and University of Toronto Chair in Global Health and Epidemiology
  Director, Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael’s Hospital
  Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Dr. Peter Liu, M.D., FRCP(C)                                        

• Chief Science Officer & Vice President (Research), University of Ottawa Heart Institute
  Professor of Cardiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

Dr. Jennifer Martin, PhD                                             

• Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and SRC Faculty of Community Services  
  Associate Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON

Dr. Paul Oh, MD, MSc, FRCPC                                     

• Medical Director and GoodLife Fitness Chair & Associate Professor of Medicine
  University Health Network (UHN), Toronto Rehabilitation Centre
  University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Dr. Gilles Paradis, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACPM, FAHA, FCAHS  

• Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (EBOH), Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, PQ

Dr. Grant N. Pierce, OM, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FISHR, FIACS, FCAHS, FRSM, FRSC     

• Executive Director of Research, St. Boniface Hospital
  Professor, Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology
  Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Cristina Rabadán-Diehl, PharmD,PhD,MPH

• Associate Director for Clinical Trials
  Westat, Maryland, USA

Dr. Arun V. Ravindran, MB, MSc, PhD, FRCPC, FRCPsych

• Professor and Director, Global Mental Health Affairs, University of Toronto
  Clinician Scientist, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
  Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc, CCFP(EM), FCFP, FCCP, FCAHS           

• Scientific Director/Directeur scientifique
  Institute of Circulatory and Resp. Health (ICRH)/Institut de la santé circulatoire et respiratoire (ISCR)
  Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Instituts de recherché en santé du Canada
  Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine 
  Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health
  Adjunct Professor, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry
  University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Dr. Vivian R Ramsden, RN, MS, PhD, MCFP (Hon.)                  

• Professor & Director, Research Division, Department of Academic Family Medicine
  University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK