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. Ashutosh Aggarwal, MBBS, MD, DM
- Professor and Head, Dept Of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER Chandigarh, India
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. Anand Chockalingam, MD
- Professor at University of Missouri-Columbia, United States
Dr. Sunita Dodani, MD, FCPS, MSc, PhD, FAHA
- Professor of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Virginia, United States
- Founding Director, EVMS-Sentara Healthcare Analytics and Delivery Science Institute (HADSI), Virginia, United States
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
Dr. Vilma Irazola, MD, MPH, PhD
- Director of the Department of Research in Chronic Diseases at the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), an academic institution affiliated to the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Director of the South American Center of Excellence for Cardiovascular Health (CESCAS)
- Senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET)
Dr. Rakesh Kapoor
- Professor and Head Unit 2 Department 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. S. Kanchana Khan, RN, RM, M.Sc(N), PhD(N), PDF(R)
- Principal and Research Director International Centre for Collaborative Research Omayal Achi College of Nursing, Chennai, 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, MD, MSc, FRCPC
- Medical Director and GoodLife Fitness Chair
- Associate Professor of Medicine, University Health Network (UHN), Toronto, ON
- 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, 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
Dr. 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
Dr. Milos R. Popovic, PhD
- 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-Lucien Rouleau
- Professor of Medicine, University of Montreal, Quebec
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, MD MSc FRCPC
- 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. Muthu Valliappan, MBBS, MD
- Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Medicine Post Graduate Institute of Medical Research (PGIMER)
Dr. Sarah Viehbeck, PhD
- Chief Science Officer for the Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Dr. Makeda Jeri Kimberly Williams, PhD, MPH, BA
- Global Health Program Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)