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Adalsteinn Brown

DPhil, AB

Co-Chair Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Senior Fellow, Massey College

Adalsteinn Brown is the Dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He has worked with decision-makers in Ontario and elsewhere to develop research and capacity development programs in performance measurement, quality improvement, and leadership.

Prior to becoming Dean, he was the Director of the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Dalla Lana Chair of Public Health Policy also at the University. Other past roles include head of strategy for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care and the head of policy and science for the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.

He received his undergraduate degree in government from Harvard University and his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He was also named one of Canada's Top 40 under 40 for his work on healthcare performance.

Brian Schwartz

MD, MScCH

Co-Chair Vice-President, Public Health Ontario Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Brian Schwartz provides executive leadership for PHO's public health science and population health programs including environmental and occupational health, health promotion, chronic disease and injury prevention, and research and ethics services. Previous portfolios include health protection, emergency preparedness, communicable diseases and infection prevention and control. Dr. Schwartz served as Scientific Advisor to the Emergency Management Branch of the Ministry of Heath and Long Term Care from 2004 to 2011, and was Public Health Ontario's inaugural Chief of Emergency Management Support. He acted as Vice-chair of the Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee in 2003 and was Chair of the Scientific Response Team for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

Before entering public health Dr. Schwartz practiced emergency medicine for over 30 years in community and academic settings. He held the position of Director of the Sunnybrook Centre for Prehospital Care from 1996 to 2009, and has published extensively in emergency medicine, prehospital/paramedic care, and health emergency preparedness and response. He has been a member of the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan Working Group since its inception.

Brian obtained his medical degree and Master of Science in Community Health from the University of Toronto and in 2012. He received his certification in emergency medicine from and is a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Peter Jüni

MD, FESC

Scientific Director Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Director, Applied Health Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital

Peter is a general internist and epidemiologist, and the Director of the Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC) at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases, and is a Professor of Medicine at the Department of Medicine and a Professor of Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland, completed his training in internal medicine at various hospitals in Switzerland, and was a Research Fellow at the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, UK. Prior to joining St. Michael's Hospital, Peter was the Director of the Institute of Primary Health Care and Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He held previous appointments as Director of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern and Founding Director of CTU Bern, the University's clinical trials unit.

Peter is internationally renowned for his methodological work and for his clinical research on the management of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal disorders. A Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, he has had leading roles in several major cardiovascular trials, including SIRTAX, LEADERS, FAME 2 and MATRIX, served as a member of several task forces of the European Society of Cardiology and co-authored the European guidelines on myocardial revascularization and on the management of acute myocardial infarction. Peter was Editor of two Cochrane Review Groups, and contributed to the Cochrane Risk of bias tools for randomized and non-randomized studies. Since March 2020, he has worked nearly exclusively on clinical trials, observational studies, basic research and science communication related to COVID-19. Since July 2020, he has served as the Scientific Director of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. He contributed to over 500 papers, which were cited more than 150,000 times. Since 2015 he has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher.

Upton Allen

MBBS, FRCPC

Professor of Paediatrics, University of Toronto

Upton Allen is a professor at the University of Toronto. He is chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Allen is a senior associate scientist in the Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children. His primary appointment is with the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics. He is cross-appointed as a professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

Dr. Allen is a past director of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a Fellow of the Society. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada ad the Royal College of Physicians (UK). In 2018, he was awarded the Order of Ontario, whoch is the highest honored awared by the province of Ontario, CVanada.

Vanessa Allen

MD, MPH

Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Specialist, Sinai Health & University Health Network; Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto; Medical Director, Provincial COVID-19 Diagnostic Network, Ontario Health

Vanessa Allen is a Medical Microbiologist and Clinical Infectious Diseases Specialist at Sinai Health and the University Health Network. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.

Her contributions and research have focused on strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance primarily in the areas of bacterial sexually transmitted infections and enteric pathogens, including work in addressing multidrug resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and the implementation and evaluation of the use of novel diagnostic methods such as genomics, artificial intelligence and point of care testing to advance infectious diseases and public health prevention and response.

Vanessa received her medical degree from McGill University (2002), and completed her internal medicine, infectious diseases and medical microbiology residencies at the University of Toronto (2005, 2007 and 2008). She received her Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 2012. She served as the Chief of Microbiology and Laboratory Science at Public Health Ontario from May 2013 to September 2021.

David Earn

CASM, MSc, PhD

Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University

David Earn is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. His primary research interests are in infectious disease dynamics, from the time of the Black Death to the present.

He was an undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Toronto, and received his PhD in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar and holder of an Isaac Newton Studentship. As a postdoctoral fellow in Cambridge and Princeton, he shifted focus to biological problems, especially the epidemiology of infectious diseases.

He is a recipient of a CIHR New Investigator Award and an Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award. He is a member of the executive committee of the M. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster.

Web site: http://davidearn.mcmaster.ca

Gerald Evans

MD, FRCPC

Professor of Medicine, Biomedical & Molecular Sciences and Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen's University Medical Director, Infection Prevention & Control, Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Dr. Gerald Evans is the Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Biomedical & Molecular Sciences and Pathology & Molecular Medicine at Queen's University He was initially appointed to a faculty position at Queen's University in 1990.

He is an attending physician in Infectious Diseases at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Providence Care Hospital. Dr. Evans has been Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Providence Care Hospital since 2011. He is an Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) consultant physician with Public Health Ontario, and an Affiliate Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES-Queens).

He was the President of AMMI Canada from 2009-2011 and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Official Journal of the Association of Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada.

Jennifer Gibson

PhD

Director, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Professor Gibson is Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. She is Associate Professor in the Division of Clinical Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Jennifer has a PhD in Philosophy with a focus on ethical issues in contemporary health institutions and systems. Jennifer has advised governments and policymakers on topics such as medical assistance in dying, public health emergency preparedness, health technology assessment, drug funding and supply, and resource allocation. Jennifer is Chair of the COVID-19 Bioethics Table in the Ontario health system response structure.

At the Joint Centre for Bioethics, Jennifer founded and leads the 'Ethics and AI for Good Health' program to explore and engage emerging ethical and social issues associated with AI-enabled technologies in health care and public health.

Anna Greenberg

MPP

Vice President, Health System Performance, Health Quality Ontario Adjunct Lecturer, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Anna is President of Ontario Health's business unit focused on Quality. Her portfolio encompasses setting provincial quality standards to reduce variation in patient care, making evidence-based recommendations on whether to publicly fund new health technologies, monitoring and reporting on health system performance, and supporting continuous and targeted quality improvement.

Before leading Ontario Health (Quality), Anna was Vice President, Health System Performance for Health Quality Ontario where she oversaw all aspects of the agency's legislated mandate to monitor and report on system performance, including the expansion of tailored reports to individual clinicians in family practice, long-term care and specialty care to support local improvement in patient care. She also expanded Health Quality Ontario's routine public reporting of complex information on how well the health system is performing.

Anna previously served as Director, Strategic Policy at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in Ontario. She also spent over a decade in leadership roles in the cancer system where she spearheaded Ontario's first publicly-reported system performance measurement cancer tool and led cancer system planning, policy development and knowledge management at Cancer Care Ontario, Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network, and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.

Anna holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University.

Anne Hayes

MPH, BA

Chair, Evidence Synthesis Network Director, Research, Analysis and Evaluation Branch, Strategic Policy, Planning and French Language Services Division, Ministries of Health and Long-Term Care

Anne has an international track record in strategic policy and research development through progressive leadership roles in government organizations and universities in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Sweden, United Kingdom and Canada. Since her recruitment to Ontario ten years ago, Anne has frequently been recognized with public service awards (ie ACE and Amethyst Awards) for her work on strategic policy and research initiatives at the Ministries of Health / Long-Term Care. Most recently, Anne has led the modernization of the research function creating the new Applied Health Evidence Program to guide strategic and relevant research investments applying integrated knowledge translation, and patient-oriented research approaches. She leads a team of high skilled policy and research analysts who provide tailored evidence synthesis, economic analysis, and evaluation consultancy services to clients across the ministries. She has actively brokered stronger relationships between the research community and health system knowledge users and is frequently a health system knowledge user on CIHR funded research grants. Anne and her team quickly responded to the COVID-19 pandemic including: established the Evidence Synthesis (ES) Network of leading ES experts across the province; produced a number of Evidence Synthesis Briefing Notes; produced weekly Evidence Updates for the sector; developed the COVID-19 Research Priorities Framework and Challenge Question initiative; partnered with Ministry of Colleges and Universities and CIHR on COVID-19 research funding opportunities; and participated in the COVID-19 modelling table.

Michael Hillmer

PhD

Assistant Deputy Minister, Capacity Planning and Analytics Division, Ministries of Health and Long-Term Care Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Michael is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic, coordinated approaches to health workforce and capacity planning ensuring that an optimal supply, mix, and distribution of health professionals. He leads the data and analytics portfolio for the ministries of health and long-term care providing insights to improve planning, programming, and accountability.

He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto's Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation where he teaches and publishes in the areas of health services research and knowledge translation.

Jessica Hopkins

MD, MHSc, CCFP, FRCPC, FCFP

Deputy Chief, Health Protection, Public Health Ontario Assistant Professor (part-time), Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University Adjunct Lecturer, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Dr. Jessica Hopkins is the Deputy Chief, Health Protection, Medical and System Support at Public Health Ontario (PHO) and provides leadership to PHO's infection prevention and control Regional Support and Research, Evaluation and CQI Support Teams, and physicians in the areas of communicable diseases, emergency preparedness and response, and infection prevention and control.

Dr. Hopkins has 10 years of experience in local public health and previously worked as the Medical Officer of Health for Peel Region, and as an Associate Medical Officer of Health In Hamilton and Niagara Region. She works as a family doctor and is an Assistant Professor (part-time) with the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University and Adjunct Lecturer with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

Dr. Hopkins obtained her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Western Ontario and her Master of Health Science from the University of Toronto in the field of Community Health and Epidemiology. She completed residencies in Family Medicine and Public Health and Preventive Medicine at McMaster University.

Publications:: Investigation and management of psittacosis in a public aviary: a One Health approach., Raccoon rabies outbreak in Hamilton, Ontario: a progress report, A cohort study of factors associated with LTBI treatment initiation and completion in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Hamilton Supervised Injection Site Needs Assessment and Feasibility Study, Supervised Consumption Site Needs Assessment and Feasibility Study for the Region of Peel. Region of Peel – Public Health
Affiliated with:: Public Health Ontario
Declaration(s) of Interest:: 2021-08-23 (PDF), 2021-05-25 (PDF), 2021-01-29 (PDF), 2020-11-09 (PDF)

Fiona Kouyoumdjian

MD, MPH, PhD, CCFP, FRCPC

Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health, Ontario Ministry of Health; Adjunct Scientist, ICES Central Populations & Public Health Research Program

Dr. Fiona Kouyoumdjian is an Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health in the Ontario Ministry of Health. She is a Public Health Physician, Family Physician, and Epidemiologist.

Audrey Laporte

BA, MA, PhD

Professor and Director, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Director, Canadian Centre for Health Economics

Professor Audrey Laporte is an economist whose research focuses in general on the development of dynamic theory and the application of econometric methods to address questions of policy interest to health and health care. More specifically her work has centred on a set of themes: modelling of individual health capital accumulation and addictive behaviours; health human resource modelling, e.g. nurse, physician and personal support labour markets; and modelling the impact of policy changes on the performance of health care organizations, e.g. institutional long-term care, hospitals. Her more recent work in collaboration with her students has focused on the impact of health conditions and socio-economic circumstance in early life on later life outcomes. Professor Laporte is President-Elect of the International Health Economics Association and Director of the Canadian Centre for Health Economics. She is an incoming Associate Editor of Health Economics, International co-Editor of the International Journal for Reviews in Empirical Economics and incoming co-Editor of Healthcare Papers.

John Lavis

MD, PhD

Professor, Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University

John Lavis holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Informed Health Systems. He is the Director of the McMaster Health Forum, Co-Lead of Rapid-Improvement Support and Exchange (RISE), Co-Lead of the COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END), Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy, Professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact at McMaster University, and Adjunct Professor at the Africa Centre for Evidence at the University of Johannesburg. John supports policymakers and stakeholders to harness research evidence, citizen values and stakeholder insights to strengthen health and social systems and get the right programs, services and products to the people who need them. He holds an MD from Queen's University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a PhD (in Health Policy) from Harvard University.

Linda Mah

MD, MHSc, FRCPC

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Associate Member, Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences Staff Psychiatrist, Baycrest Health Sciences

Dr. Linda Mah is a Clinician Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, an Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and an Associate Member of the Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Mah obtained her MD at the University of Calgary and completed a psychiatric residency at McGill University, followed by clinical neuropsychiatry specialty training at the University of Massachusetts and formal research training in cognitive and affective neurosciences at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She has a Master of Health Sciences degree from Duke University, USA.

Dr. Mah's research program focuses on understanding the relationship between cognition and emotion and their neuroanatomical correlates in healthy aging and in disorders of the elderly, including late-life depression (LLD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Her research employs converging methods including behavioural paradigms, neuropsychological assessment, neuroimaging, and more recently, psychophysiology. She has a particular interest in examining emotion dysregulation and other neuropsychiatric symptoms as potential biomarkers of AD risk, and in understanding the link between stress and development of AD. Dr. Mah is also the PI or site PI on clinical trials focused on treatment-refractory depression in older adults and studies using brain stimulation as an intervention for cognitive decline in older adults at risk for developing AD, including those with remitted depression, subjective cognitive decline (SCD) or MCI.

Dr. Mah's work has been funded by the Alzheimer's Society of Canada, Brain Canada, and the Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

Doug Manuel

MD, FRCPC, MSc

Distinguished University Professor, Department of Family Medicine, School of Epidemiology and Public Health Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Dr. Manuel is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Departments of Family Medicine and School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He is a Senior Scientist at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, a Clinical Scientist with C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, a Senior Core Scientist at ICES and a Senior Medical Advisor for Statistics Canada.

Dr. Manuel's research combines interests in public health, health care systems and primary care. He collaborates to develop advanced predictive algorithms and microsimulation models to assess population health and the health impact of health strategies. He has written on how societies with the best population health have achieved their success. He has published over 250 studies, including papers in the leading medical journals. For over 25 years, Dr. Manuel has been a primary care doctor in rural, remote and underserved Canadian communities.

Allison McGeer

MSc, MD, FRCPC

Microbiologist and Infectious Disease Consultant, Mount Sinai Hospital Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Dr. McGeer completed an undergraduate and master's degree in biochemistry, then her medical degree at the University of Toronto. She specialized in internal medicine and infectious diseases followed by a fellowship in hospital epidemiology at Yale New Haven Hospital.

She returned to Mount Sinai Hospital in 1989 and worked as a microbiologist and the director of infection prevention and control until March of 2019. In April of 2019 she moved to full time research as a Senior Clinician Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of the Sinai Health System. Her major research interests are in the prevention of infection in hospitals and nursing homes, the use of surveillance to advance the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, and emerging infectious diseases including antimicrobial resistance. She is the principal investigator of the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network, a collaborative surveillance network that performs surveillance for serious bacterial and viral diseases, including COVID19, in south central Ontario.

Dr. McGeer is a Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She currently serves as an external expert to the influenza working group of Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization and is a meeting of Canada's COVID19 Immunity Task Force Leadership Group. She was the lead for the hospital investigation of SARS-CoV-1 in Ontario in 2003, investigated the first outbreak of MERS in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013, and worked for the World Health Organization as the infection prevention and control focal point in Liberia during the 2014/15 West African Ebola Outbreak.

David McKeown

MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC

Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health, Ontario Ministry of Health Adjunct Professor, Clinical Public Health Division, University of Toronto

Dr. David McKeown is the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health for the province of Ontario, with responsibility for supporting the provincial covid-19 response. He is a physician specialist who has worked in the public health field for over 30 years. From 2004-2016 he led Toronto Public Health, Canada's largest local public health agency, serving a diverse population of 2.7 million people. He has also served as the Medical Officer of Health for East York, the Region of Peel, and the former City of Toronto prior to municipal amalgamation. Dr. McKeown led the local public health response to the H1N1 pandemic, a major outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease, and the first outbreak of West Nile Virus in Canada.

Dr. McKeown holds a medical degree from McGill University, a Master's degree in Community Health and Epidemiology from the University of Toronto, and is Assistant Professor (adjunct) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow in Public Health and Preventive Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a certificant of the American College of Preventive Medicine.

Dr. McKeown has published public reports on a wide range of public health issues, including Health Inequities, Child health, Newcomer Health, the Built Environment, and Racialization and health.

Andrew Morris

MD SM (Epi)

Professor, Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto; Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Sinai Health and University Health Network

Dr. Andrew Morris is a Specialist in Infectious Diseases, and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Sinai Health and University Health Network.

He is Past Chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Committee for the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada and of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee for the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.

His academic interests overlap the fields of epidemiology, behaviour change techniques, implementation science, and quality improvement as they relate to antimicrobial use and resistance.

Samira Mubareka

Clinician-Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology

Samira completed her MD at Dalhousie University in 1999 and Internal Medicine training in 2002 at McGill University in Canada. She specialized in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at the University of Manitoba (2005). She went on to a research fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Palese, Department of Microbiology (2009). Since then she continued to pursue themes of viral transmission and spread.

Early in the pandemic Samira and colleagues isolated the SARS-CoV-2 virus in containment level 3 (CL3) and is the principle source of SARS-CoV-2 to most academic CL3 laboratories across the country. She serves on the Chief Science Advisor of Canada's COVID-19 Panel, the Implementation Committee of the Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network (CanCOGeN) Viral Seq project (Genome Canada) and Ontario Genomics' Steering Committee for the Ontario COVID-19 Genomics Rapid Response Coalition.

Christopher Mushquash

PhD, CPsych

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine; Psychologist, Dilico Anishinabek Family Care; Director, Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research, Lakehead University, Interim Executive Vice President Research, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre; Chief Scientist, Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute

Dr. Christopher Mushquash is a registered clinical psychologist and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Mental Health and Addiction, with expertise in rural and northern clinical practice and the development of culturally appropriate interventions for mental health and addiction difficulties in First Nations children, adolescents, and adults. He is an academic researcher and Indigenous scholar who was born and raised in rural Northwestern Ontario. He is Ojibway, and a member of Pays Plat First Nation.

Menaka Pai

MSc MD FRCPC

Associate Professor of Medicine, McMaster University; Head of Service, Benign Hematology, Hamilton Health Sciences; Transfusion Medicine Quality Lead, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program

Menaka Pai is an Associate Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, and a hematologist and thrombosis medicine physician at Hamilton Health Sciences. She is Head of Service for Benign Hematology at Hamilton Health Sciences, and Quality Lead for Transfusion Medicine in the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program.

Dr. Pai completed her medical training at McMaster University and the University of Toronto. She holds a Masters degree in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University, and her graduate work was supported by fellowships from Thrombosis Canada and the Canadian Hemophilia Society.

Dr. Pai is a member of the McMaster Centre for Transfusion Research (MCTR) and the Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute (TAARI). As a benign hematologist, her clinical interests focus on thrombosis and bleeding disorders. Her research interests include venous thromboembolism, transfusion medicine, research methods in rare diseases, and clinical practice guideline development. She is currently Chair of the American Society of Hematology's Guideline Oversight Subcommittee.

Samir Patel

PhD, FCCM, (D) ABMM

Deputy Chief, Microbiology, Public Health Ontario Clinical Microbiologist, Public Health Ontario Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto

Dr. Samir Patel is a clinical microbiologist and deputy chief of microbilogy at Public Health Ontario where he provides clinical expertise in various areas, including bacterial vector borne diseases, antibiotic susceptibility testing, and hospital associated infections. Dr. Patel is also an associate professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. Dr Patel is a member of various provincial and national and international working groups including Lyme disease diagnostic working group, antimicrobial resistance working group (co-chair), Institute of Quality Management in Healthcare, Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute, and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology mentorship committee (co-chair). Dr. Patel has been awarded number of CIHR funded grants (co-PI) including CIHR-PHAC funded Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network.

Justin Presseau

PhD

Associate Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Dr. Justin Presseau is an Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and a Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute where he leads the Psychology and Health Research Group and is core faculty in the Centre for Implementation Research. He is the Scientific Lead for Knowledge Translation at the Ottawa Methods Centre SPOR Support Unit.

His research program operates at the intersection between health psychology and implementation science. His research draws on behavioural science to understand factors that promote and undermine behaviour change in healthcare, and in patients and the general public. He is the recipient of early career awards from the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the European Health Psychology Society, and a mid-career award from the Canadian Psychological Association. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and is Associate Editor for the journals Implementation Science, as well as being chair of the Canadian Psychological Association's Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine section.

Fahad Razak

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Internist and Assistant Professor, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Research Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute Provincial Lead, Quality Improvement in General Internal Medicine, Ontario Health

Fahad Razak is an internist and epidemiologist, with specialization in observational methods and global health. He is the inaugural Provincial Lead, Quality Improvement in General Internal Medicine for Ontario Health where he co-leads a quality improvement network focused on improving the care of hospitalized medical patients (https://www.hqontario.ca/Quality-Improvement/Quality-Improvement-in-Action/The-General-Medicine-Quality-Improvement-Network).

Dr. Razak co-leads the General Medicine Inpatient Initiative (GEMINI), a big data network across hospitals that extracts data generated as part of routine medical care and uses this data for research and quality improvement (https://www.geminimedicine.ca/). GEMINI is supported by more than 20 funding organizations, including the Government of Ontario, the Canadian Cancer Society, CIHR, and NSERC. GEMINI is expanding to the 30 largest hospitals in the province, creating one of the first big-data quality improvement networks of its kind in the world. GEMINI data supports emerging projects with >50 co-investigators, and >30 trainees.

Dr. Razak was the first physician to be appointed the David E Bell Fellow at Harvard University (2013-2015), and remained a visiting scientist there until 2017. In 2018 he was the recipient of the Dean's Emerging Leader Award at the University of Toronto and in 2019 he received the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine's New Investigator Award. He has published 60 research papers (h-index of 24) including first/senior author publications in JAMA, BMJ, and PLOS Medicine. He co-founded "The Rounds Table," a medical podcast which has been downloaded >200,000 times in >100 countries.

Robert Reid

MD, MPH, PhD

Chief Scientist, Trillium Health Partners Professor (status), Institute for Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto Professor (part-time), Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University Affiliate Associate Professor, Health Services, University of Washington

Dr. Robert Reid is inaugural Hazel McCallion Research Chair in Learning Health Systems, a research chair jointly created by Trillium Health Partners and the University of Toronto. He is also Chief Scientist at the Institute for Better Health (IBH) and Senior Vice President of Science at Trillium Health Partners (THP). As one of the largest community hospital systems in Canada with a diverse and growing population, THP's mission is to create a new kind of health care for a healthier community. IBH, THP's embedded research and innovation engine, focuses on generating cutting-edge science and innovation on novel ways to engage, design, deliver and finance health care, and on creating partnerships with patients, caregivers and our community in the pursuit of improving population health.

At the University of Toronto, Dr. Reid holds an academic appointment at the University of Toronto, as Professor (status) with the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and with the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He also holds academic appointments as Professor (part-time) with McMaster University's Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Affiliate Investigator with Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; and Affiliate Associate Professor with the University of Washington's School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

Dr. Reid received his medical degree from the University of Alberta and completed a Master's Degree in in Epidemiology and a PhD in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins University. He is a global expert and thought leader in population health, learning health systems, and primary care. He is best known for his seminal work in developing and evaluating pioneering patient-centred medical home at Group Health Cooperative, now Kaiser Permanente, in Seattle, Washington, which integrated and streamlined team-based care to improve quality, patient experience and yield cost savings. He is also internationally acclaimed for his research to develop and test population-based innovations in primary care delivery, prevention services and chronic care. Dr. Reid is currently providing leading expertise in the re-design of Ontario's health care system through the newly introduced Ontario Health Teams initiative and co-chairs the Evidence Synthesis Network, created to provide decision-makers in with rapid evidence related to the COVID-19 response in Ontario .

Dr. Reid has lectured nationally and internationally on the organization, financing and delivery of care – from the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and Harvard to Ottawa, London and Auckland. Dr. Reid has published over 150 articles in refereed journals and has delivered over 150 scientific and policy invited presentations.

Paula Rochon

MD, MPH, FRCPC

Senior Scientist and Geriatrician Women's College Hospital; Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; RTOERO Chair in Geriatric Medicine, University of Toronto.

Dr. Rochon is a geriatrician and senior scientist at Women's College Hospital. She is a professor in the Department of Medicine and is the inaugural RTOERO Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Rochon's research focuses on understanding the unique needs of older adults, particularly older women, and promotes their health and wellness. She has contributed to our understanding of aging and its impact both on individual patients and the healthcare system. These contributions include highlighting the need to consider sex, gender and age in research so that results are more relevant to older women and men and tailoring prescribing strategies to reduce adverse drug events.

Dr. Rochon has a strong record of federal funding and has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She is the Vice-Chair of the CIHR Institute of Aging Advisory Board and has received research distinctions, including being elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and being awarded the Eaton Clinical Researcher of the Year Award for 2020 from the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In January of 2020, she was invited to participate on an Advisory Group to support the Ministry of Long-Term Care in developing a long-term care staffing study; in April 2020 she was invited to join a national Task Group on COVID-19 in long-term care homes. This task group was convened to provide practical advice to the federal government on the topic of long-term care homes.

Beate Sander

RN, MBA, MEcDec, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Economics of Infectious Diseases Scientist and Director, Population Health Economics Research, University Health Network Director, Health Modeling and Health Economics, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment collaborative Associate Professor and Faculty Co-Lead Health Technology Assessment program, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Adjunct Scientist, Public Health Ontario Adjunct Scientist, ICES

Beate Sander, RN MBA MEcDev PhD, is an internationally recognized leader in infectious disease economics with extensive expertise in health economics and simulation modeling. Dr. Sander holds a Canada Research Chair in Economics of Infectious Diseases and is principal investigator of several multidisciplinary projects funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and other funders, including an evaluation of Zika virus – and recently COVID-19 – interventions using computer simulation. She has developed novel approaches to evaluate intersectoral interventions and pioneered research on the burden of infectious diseases in Canada using linked population-based data. Dr. Sander has received several awards for research excellence. She contributes substantively to federal/provincial policy decision-making, serving as an expert to national and international advisory bodies, including Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), where she also chairs the Economics Task Group and co-chairs the Economic Guidelines Task Group. Dr. Sander is the Faculty Co-Lead for the Health Technology Assessment emphasis at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, and teaches a popular graduate course on decision-analytic modeling and cost-effectiveness.

Michael Schull

MD, MSc, FRCPC

CEO and Senior Core Scientist, ICES Professor and Clinician-Scientist, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Staff emergency physician, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Michael Schull is CEO and Senior Scientist at ICES, Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute. His research focuses on health service utilization, quality of care, health system integration and patient outcomes, and the evaluation of health policy. Under his leadership, ICES has expanded the types of data available for researchers, created a virtual data platform where researchers can access and analyze linked datasets, launched a health artificial intelligence data and analysis platform, and engaged the public in the work of ICES to ensure it remains aligned with public values. Schull leads the participation of ICES in the Health Data Research Network, a pan-Canadian initiative to build a national health and social data platform. He practices as an Emergency Medicine specialist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

Arjumand Siddiqi

ScD

Associate Professor and Division Head of Epidemiology, University of Toronto Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity

Arjumand Siddiqi is Associate Professor and Division Head of Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, where she also holds the Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity. She is also appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, the Department of Sociology, and the Hospital for Sick Children/Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, in addition to an adjunct appointment at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Dr. Siddiqi is interested in understanding how societal conditions produce and resolve inequities in population health and human development across the lifespan. Her research focuses primarily on the roles of resource inequities and social policies, the methods and metrics that enable scientific inquiry on health inequities, and mechanisms related to public and political uptake of evidence. Dr. Siddiqi is an alumnus of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Global Academy and former Associate Member of its Program on Successful Societies. She was also a member of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health Knowledge Hub on Early Child Development, and has consulted to several international agencies including the World Bank and UNICEF. Dr. Siddiqi received her doctorate in Social Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health.

Chris Simpson

MD, FRCPC, FACC, FHRS, FCCS, FCAHS

Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Queen's University

Dr. Chris Simpson is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology (Heart Rhythm Service) at Queen's University as well as Vice-Dean (Clinical) of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medical Director of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization (SEAMO). He is a member of the Queen's School of Policy Studies Health Policy Council.

Dr. Simpson's primary non-clinical professional interest is health policy – particularly access to care, seniors' care, wait times and medical fitness to drive. He served as the Chair of the Wait Times Alliance (WTA) and is a past chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society's (CCS) Standing Committee on Health Policy and Advocacy. He has severed on the Cardiac Care Network of Ontario (CorHealth) Board of Directors, is a past member of the CCS executive and a former governor of the American College of Cardiology. In 2014-15, he served as President of the Canadian Medical Association.

Dr. Simpson is currently the Clinical Science Lead, Ontario Health COVID-19 Health System Response Oversight Table, which has developed a suite of guidance for health sectors as they navigate the pandemic.

He is the CMIO of Novari Health. In 2015, Dr. Simpson was elected to fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and will assume the presidency of CAHS in the Fall of 2020.

Arthur Slutsky

CM, FRSC, MD

Scientist, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto

Dr. Arthur Slutsky is a Scientist at St. Michael's Hospital, and Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering (University of Toronto). His research has been highly translational, focusing on : (1) importance of atelectrauma (injury caused opening-closing of lung units), (2) discovery of biotrauma (pulmonary mediators released during mechanical ventilation can lead to distal organ dysfunction), (3) acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and (4) COVID-19. Many of these findings were followed by clinical research and multi-centered randomized clinical trials addressing lung protective mechanical ventilation.

Dr. Slutsky has published >550 original papers, 70 books/chapters, and many randomized controlled trials which have changed clinical guidelines and practice. He has a (Google Scholar) H-index of 130, and his work has received >90,000 citations.

He has won numerous awards including:
• ATS Critical Care Lifetime Achievement Award (2012)
• Dame Margaret-Turner Warwick Respiratory Lecturer Award of the U.K. National Heart and Lung Institute (2014)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Health Researcher of the Year (2014)
• Election to the Royal Society of Canada (2015)
• Appointed to the Order of Canada (2018)

Janet Smylie

MD MPH

Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Research Scientist and Staff Physician, St. Michael's Hospital

Dr. Smylie is the Director of the Well Living House Action Research Centre for Indigenous Infant, Child, and Family Health and Wellbeing, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Advancing Generative Health Services for Indigenous Populations in Canada, and Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Dr. Smylie's research focuses on addressing Indigenous health inequities in partnership with Indigenous communities. She is particularly focused on ensuring all First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples are counted into health policy and planning wherever they live in ways that make sense to them; addressing anti-Indigenous racism in health services; and advancing community-rooted innovations in health services for Indigenous populations. She maintains a part-time clinical practice at Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto and has practiced and taught family medicine in a variety of Indigenous communities both urban and rural. A Métis woman, Dr. Smylie acknowledges her family, traditional teachers, and ceremonial lodge.

Tania Watts

PhD

Professor and Associate Chair, Post-doctoral program Department of Immunology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto

Dr. Tania Watts received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta in 1983, followed by post-doctoral studies in Chemistry at Stanford University, California from 1983-1986. Dr. Watts joined the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in Immunology in 1986. Dr. Watts has had a long-term interest in immunity to viruses, focusing on how T lymphocytes respond to and are regulated during acute and chronic infections, such as influenza virus or HIV. More recently she has studied T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 convalescent patients. Dr. Watts is also involved in a study of immunity to COVID19 vaccines in the immunocompromised. Dr. Watts is a former President of the Canadian Society for Immunology and has published 132 scientific papers.

Scott Weese

DVM, DVSc, DACVIM

Professor, Ontario Veterinary College and Director, Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses, University of Guelph

Dr. Weese is a veterinary internist and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He is a Professor at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Director of the University of Guelph Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses, and Chief of Infection Control at the Ontario Veterinary College Teaching Hospital.

Karen Born

MSc, PhD

Assistant Scientific Director Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Knowledge Translation Lead, Choosing Wisely Canada

Karen Born is knowledge translation lead for the Choosing Wisely Canada campaign. She holds an MSc in international health policy the London School of Economics and a PhD in health services research from the University of Toronto. Research interests include supporting international communities of practice on Choosing Wisely and de-implementation, resource stewardship education and sustainable health systems. She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation (University of Toronto) and teaches on knowledge translation, qualitative research methods, quality improvement, value and sustainability.

Robert Steiner

MBA

Director of Communications Assistant Professor, Clinical Public Health and Institute of Health Policy; Management and Evaluation Director, Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Robert Steiner is Assistant Professor and director of journalism and health advocacy programs at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. The Fellowship is the first journalism program designed specifically to teach outstanding specialists with graduate degrees or professional experience in a field how to cover their own disciplines as freelance reporters for media around the world.

Mr. Steiner began his career as a global finance correspondent for The Wall Street Journal with postings in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, won two Overseas Press Club awards and the Inter-American Press Association Award.

After leaving The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Steiner received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He then worked as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and later led strategic planning for Bell Globemedia, parent of the Globe and Mail and CTV. From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Steiner served as Assistant Vice President of the University of Toronto in charge of Strategic Communications.

Mr. Steiner also served as health and public health policy advisor and principal speechwriter for Paul Martin, during his Liberal Party leadership campaign and transition to being Prime Minister of Canada in 2003. He subsequently advised the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet on the creation of the Public Health Agency of Canada in 2004. In 2000, Mr. Steiner had managed the Liberal Party of Canada's new media campaign in the period leading to and during the federal general election, working for Prime Minister Jean Chretien.

Nicolas Bodmer

MMed

Managing Senior Research Associate Resident Physician, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen Doctoral student, University of Zurich

Nicolas S. Bodmer completed his master's degree in medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and started his residency in emergency medicine. He is also a senior research associate in a private research and med-tech company, working as a methodologist. He focuses on research synthesis and cost-effectiveness analyses. In the past, he participated in the development of digital health products in the healthcare sector.

Nicolas Bodmer was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Blizard Institute, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry in London (2014) and at the Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC) at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto (2019). He is currently planning his Ph.D. in clinical epidemiology.

Kali Barrett

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Senior Research Associate Clinical Associate, University Health Network Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Barrett received her BA (Hon) with a major in Art History and a minor in Health Studies at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. She received her Medical degree from the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario. She completed her training in Internal Medicine and Adult Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto. She has a Master's of Science in Health Policy, Planning & Financing from the London School of Economics & Policy, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and was awarded the Brian Abel Smith award for top marks in her course work and thesis. She is currently pursuing additional training in health technology assessment at IHPME.
Dr. Barrett works as a critical care physician at Toronto Western Hospital. Her research interests are value-based delivery of critical care medicine and health policy development. She is a member of the COVID-19 Modelling Collaborative. She sits on the Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee at Ontario Health.

Sarah Baert

DVM, MSc

Senior Research Associate Resident, American College of Animal Welfare

Sarah Baert holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and an MSc in Population Medicine (Epidemiology) from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph. She is a veterinary resident with the American College of Animal Welfare and has clinical experience in both primary care and emergency medicine.

Gerald Lebovic

PhD

Senior Research Associate Investigator, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Gerald Lebovic received a M.Sc. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Toronto. He has over 15 years of experience working on observational studies and has collaborated with numerous researchers from various disciplines on a variety of projects. Currently he is a Biostatistician at the Applied Health Research Centre, Unity Health Toronto (St. Michael's Hospital) and an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (University of Toronto). Gerald's research interests include, health services research, chronic diseases, longitudinal data analysis and observational studies.

Ayodele Odutayo

MD, DPhil

Senior Research Associate Resident Physician, University of Toronto

Ayodele Odutayo completed General Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Toronto (UofT) and is now an Adult Nephrology Fellow at UofT. He has an interest in epidemiology and clinical trials and has completed an MSc in Global Health Science and a DPhil in Epidemiology, both at the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. In the future, his aim is to pursue a career as a clinical scientist.

Yoojin Choi

PhD, MD Student

Research Associate MD Student, The University of British Columbia (UBC)

Yoojin Choi is a medical student at the University of British Columbia. She received an Honours BSc degree in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University and a PhD in Immunology from the University of Toronto. During her graduate studies, Yoojin received CIHR's Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral program and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship/Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology program.

Roisin McElroy

MD, MPH, CCFP(EM)

Research Associate Emergency Medicine Physician, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Roisin McElroy is an emergency medicine physician and researcher at St. Joseph's Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto. She completed an MPH in Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University. She is the recent recipient of a FAFM COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Impact Grant (Co-RIG) for her work investigating therapeutics for COVID-19 outpatients at risk of complicated illness. Dr. McElroy is an Investigator within the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital.

Ashini Weerasinghe

MPH

Research Associate Epidemiologist, Public Health Ontario

Ashini Weerasinghe is an epidemiologist within the Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Program at Public Health Ontario. She holds a master's degree in epidemiology from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Within her role as an epidemiologist at Public Health Ontario, she has provided analytical expertise to examine the impact of alcohol warning labels on adult drinkers' awareness of alcohol-related health risks and ability to make more informed and safer drinking choices, which has resulted in six peer-reviewed publications. She also advises staff within Public Health Ontario on matters related to statistical and epidemiological methods. She has previous experience preparing scientific manuscripts and presentations within the Ontario Breast Screening Program at Cancer Care Ontario. In addition, she has worked as a research coordinator within the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, where she established, maintained and managed a database of health care practitioners providing smoking cessation counselling in Ontario.

Diana Yan

HBSc Student

Research Associate HBSc Data Science & Pharmacology Student, University of Toronto

Shujun (Diana) Yan is a fifth year undergraduate student studying data science and pharmacology in University of Toronto. She spent a year working at Applied Health Research Center (AHRC) as a research assistant in the biostatistics team, where she provided data collection, processing, and statistical analysis for both randomized controlled trials and observational studies. AHRC is also where she gradually developed her interests in health care research work and gained experience using R. Shujun is also a teaching assistant of an undergraduate data structure course.

Anna Perkhun

OCD

Research Assistant

Anna Perkhun is the Project and Research Assistant for the Science Table and is a recent Biotechnology-Health program graduate. Before joining the Science Table she worked as a Research Assistant in clinical trials in a private Dermatology Centre. Anna is aspiring to pursue a career in the biomedical field and wants to study neuroscience in the future.

Shuruthi Sivadas

Research Assistant BHSc Student, McMaster University

Shuruthi Sivadas is a Research Assistant for the Science Table. Recently graduating high school from the University of Toronto Schools (UTS), she is now in her first year of her undergraduate studies in McMaster's Health Sciences program. From her volunteering experiences at Mount Sinai Hospital and Baycrest Health Sciences, Shuruthi has learned she is passionate about medicine and hopes to pursues a career in pediatrics in the future.

Joanne Roberti

Executive Assistant Administrative Assistant for Director, Applied Health Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital

Joanne is the administrative assistant to Dr. Peter Jüni, Director, Applied Health Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital. Joanne has a BA from the University of Toronto, and a well-rounded portfolio of administrative skills with over 20 years of experience in research and education sectors.

Victoria Chechulina

Administrative Assistant

Victoria Chechulina is the Administrative Assistant for the Science Table. She is a student in the International Baccalaureate program in Toronto. She has worked with numerous youth organizations, including Ontario DECA, and recently completed a project examining the digital safety of marginalized communities at the UofT Global Ideas Institute. She is passionate about biomedical sciences and hopes to pursue a career in healthcare.