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Toronto WNC 2023

Toronto WNC 2023

World Non Communicable Diseases Congress | June 26-30, 2023

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Scientific Committee

Dr. Paul McDonald, PhD, FRSPH, FCAHS

Chair, Scientific Committee

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

Dr. Pilvikki Absetz, PhD

  • Professor of Public Health Tampere University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Pirkanmaa, Finland

Dr. Naresh Aggarwal, MD, CCFP, FCFP

  • Founder and Medical Director of AAA Clinical Research, Brampton, ON

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Bhadada, MD, DM, FICP, FRCPI, FAMS

  • Professor and Head in the department of Endocrinology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

Dr. Manoj Fernando, MBBS, M.Phil.

  • Head and Senior Lecturer of the Department of Health Promotion, Faculty of Applied Sciences Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

Vilma Irazola

  • Director of the Department of Chronic Diseases at the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dr. S. Kanchana, RN, RM, PhD(N), PDF(R)

  • Principal and Research Director International Centre for Collaborative Research Omayal Achi College of Nursing, Chennai, India

Dr. Rakesh Kapoor

  • Professor and Head Unit 2 Deparment of Radiation Oncology Tertiary cancer Center Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh , India
  • Director at Homi Bhabha cancer Hospital and Research Centre Punjab, Sangrur, India

Dr. Dheeraj Khurana

  • Professor of Neurology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

Dr. Jennifer Martin, PhD

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

Dr. Kumar Muthuraman, PhD

  • Harkins Centennial Professor in McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin
  • Director of UT’s Center for Analytics and Transformative Technologies

Dr. Paul Oh

  • Medical Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Program, UHN, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON

Gilles Paradis

  • Professor and Chair at McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Montreal, Quebec

Dr. Tarra Penney, PhD, MA, BSc

  • Assistant Professor, Global Health, York University, Toronto, ON

Dr. Ryan Perry, PhD

  • Associate Scientific Director, Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health / Canadian Institutes of Health Research University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

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

  • Distinguished Professor, Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology
    Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

David Ponka, MDCM, CCFP (EM), FCFP, MSc 

  • Director of the Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine at the College of Family Physicians of Canada Mississauga, ON

Milos R. Popovic

  • Institute Director – KITE, Toronto Rehab – UHN & Tenured Professor, University of Toronto, ON

Dr. Cristina Rabadán-Diehl, PharmD, PhD, MPH

  • Associate Director at Westat
  • Adjunct Professor at George Washington University, for Global Health Diplomacy, Washington, DC
  • Visiting Professor at the National School of Public Health, Health Institute Carlos III in Madrid, Spain

Dr. Kim Raine, PhD, RD, FCAHS

  • Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  • Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Dr. Parminder Raina, C.M. PhD, FCAHS

  • Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
  • Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
  • Scientific Director of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging, and The Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging
  • Founding members of the McMaster Optimal Aging

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

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

Dr. Jean Rouleau

  • Professor of Medicine, University of Montreal, Quebec

Congress Committees

  • Executive Committee
  • Scientific Committee
  • National Committee
  • International Advisory Committee

Dr. Rajiv Saran, MBBS, DTCD, MD, MRCP (UK), MS

  • Professor of Internal Medicine and the Florence E. Bingham Research
  • Professor in Nephrology, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, at the University of Michigan (UM), in Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
  • Professor of Epidemiology at UM’s School of Public Health and Executive Faculty Member at the University of Michigan’s Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center (KECC)

Dr. Mike Sharma

  • Professor of Neurology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
  • Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, ON
  • Regional Stroke Medical Director of the Central South Regional Stroke Program, Hamilton, ON

Dr. Kathirvel Soundappan, MBBS, MD

  • Associate Professor at Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

Dr. Purnima Tyagi, PhD

  • Director, Wearable Interactive and Mobile Technology Access Centre in Health, (WIMTACH), Centennial College, Toronto, ON

Dr. Sarah Viehbeck

  • Chief Science Officer for the Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON

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Event Details

3rd World NCD Congress 2023
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Toronto, Canada
June 25-30, 2023

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