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Speakers List

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Alejandro Adem

President

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Alice Aiken

Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Dalhousie University

Caroline Alphonso

Education Reporter

The Globe and Mail

Erin Anderssen

Feature Writer

Globe and Mail

Rob Annan

President and CEO

Genome Canada

Clare Appavoo

Executive Director

Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)

Laura Arbour

Clinician scientist

University of British Columbia

Isabelle Archambault

Professor, Social Sciences and Humanities, Education

Université de Montréal

John Archibald

Professor

University of Victoria

Reneltta Arluk

Director of Indigenous Arts

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Cheryl Arrowsmith

Professor of Medical Biophysics

University of Toronto

Caroline Aubry-Wake

Ph. D. Candidate

University of Saskatchewan

B

Yasaman Badakhshi

University of Toronto

Jonathan Bagger

Director

TRIUMF

Jane Bailey

Full Professor

University of Ottawa

Sube Banerjee

Professor of Dementia and Associate Dean

University of Plymouth

Stefan Baral

Physician Epidemiologist

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Stéphanie Bélanger

Associate Scientific Director

Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research

Yoshua Bengio

Université de Montréal

Anne-Emanuelle Birn

Professor of Critical Development Studies and of Global Health at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

Roberta Bishop

Operations Manager

Rainbow Resource Centre

Jason Blackstock

Founder & CEO

How to Change the World

Gillian Booth

Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Practising Endocrinologist

Unity Health Toronto

Robyn Bourgeois

Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies

Brock University

Allison Brown

Medicine by Design

Patricia Brubaker

Professor, Endocrine and Diabetes Platform

University of Toronto

David Bryce

Professor and Research Chair

University of Ottawa

Tania Bubela

Simon Fraser University

Pino Buffone

Director of Education

Renfrew County District School Board

C

Joseph Cafazzo

University of Toronto

Lin Cai

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Victoria

David Campbell

Professor, Research and Wellness

University of Calgary

William Carroll

Department of Sociology

University of Victoria

Valerie Carson

Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation

University of Alberta

Sean Caulfield

Canada Research Chair and Professor of Printmaking

University of Alberta

Timothy Caulfield

Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy

University of Alberta

Zhangxing (John) Chen

Schulich School of Engineering

University of Calgary

Zhangxing (John) Chen

Schulich School of Engineering

University of Calgary

Sarah Colpitts

PhD student

University of Toronto

Steven Cooke

Professor, Canada Research Chair

Carleton University

Sheila Cote-Meek

Anaugural Vice-President Equity, People and Culture

York University

Andrew Coyne

Canadian Columnist

The Globe and Mail

Martha Crago

Vice-Principal (Research and Innovation)

McGill Univeristy

Allison Crawford

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry

University of Toronto

Julia Creet

Professor

York University

Wesley Crichlow

Professor

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Chantal Cyr

Département de psychologie

Université du Québec à Montréal

D

Sophie D'Amours

Rector

Université Laval

Raise Deber

University of Toronto

Frank Deer

Kanienkeha’ka from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake

University of Manitoba

Colette Derworiz

Journalist

Canadian Press

Nathalie Des Rosiers

Principal

Massey College

Isabel Deslaurier

Director of Youth and Volunteer Experience

Let's Talk Science

Jean-Pierre Després

Professor, Department of Kinesiology of the Faculty of Medicine

Université Laval

Richard Devlin

Professor of Law and Acting Dean

Dalhousie University

Irfan Dhalla

Vice-President, Physician Quality, and Director, Care Experience Institute

Unity Health Toronto

Leonard Diepeveen

Department of English

Dalhousie University

Michael Donaldson

Open Access Program Manager

Canadian Science Publishing

Jocelyn Downie

Research Professor

Dalhousie University

Daniel Drucker

Clinician-Scientist

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital

Karine Duhamel

Historian and Policy Consultant as well as Director of Research

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Benoît Dupont

Professor in Criminology

Université de Montréal

E

Sheila Embleton

RSC Secretary

Royal Society of Canada

Carole Estabrooks

Professor , Faculty of Nursing

University of Alberta

Adam Evans

Evan Tlesla II Adams is a Coast Salish actor & physician from the Tla’amin First Nation near Powell River, BC, Canada.

University of Calgary

Timothy Evans

McGill University

F

Len Findlay

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

University of Saskatchewan

Andrés Finzi

Canada Research Chair in Retroviral

Université de Montréal

Colleen Flood

Professor & University Research Chair in Health Law & Policy

University of Ottawa

Evelyn Forget

Professor of Economics and Community Health Sciences

University of Manitoba

Jon French

Director of Entrepreneurship

University of Toronto

G

Chad Gaffield

Past President

Royal Society of Canada

Tracey Galloway

Assistant Professor

University of Toronto

Rebecca Ganann

Assistant Professor (Tenure track), School of Nursing

McMaster University

George Georgiou

Professor, Faculty of Education

University of Alberta

Meric Gertler

President

University of Toronto

Monty Ghosh

Doctor of Internal Medicine, Disaster Medicine, & Addiction Medicine

University of Alberta

Vivek Goel

Special Advisor to the President and Provost, University of Toronto

University of Toronto

Richard Gold

Director, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy James McGill Professor Associate member

McGill Univerity

Anna Goldenberg

Senior Scientist

SickKids Research Institute

Danika Goosney

Vice-President

Research Grants and Scholarships, NSERCC

Jan Grabowski

Department of History

University of Ottawa

Sherrill Grace

University Killam Professor Emerita

University of British Columbia

Jessica Grahn

Cognitive Neuroscientist, Associate Professor, Brain and Mind Institute & Psychology

Western University

Kelly Grant

National Health Reporter

Globe and Mail

John Greyson

Department of Cinema and Media Arts

York University

Anatoliy Gruzd

Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies

Ryerson University

Mona Gupta

Professor

Université de Montréal

H

Susan Haigh

Executive Director

Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL),

Jess Haines

Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition

University of Guelph

Yuko Harayama

Tohoku University

Alexandra Harmon-Threatt

Associate Professor - Entomology

University of Illinois

Frances Henry

Professor Emerita

York University

J

Peter Jaffe

Faculty of Education,

Western University

Carl E. James

Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, Faculty of Education, Senior Advisor on Equity and Representation

York University

Yves Joanette

Cognitive Neuroscientist

Université de Montréal

Joy Johnson

Vice-president, research and international

Simon Fraser University

Esyllt Jones

Dean of Studies, Faculty of Arts, Department of History, St. John's College

University of Manitoba

K

Alan Katz

Director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP)

University of Manitoba

Karly Kehoe

Canada Research Chair | Atlantic Canada Communities

Saint Mary's University

Shana Kelley

Scientist and Distinguished Professor

University of Toronto

Rama Khokha

Department of Medical Biophysics

University of Toronto

Negin Khosraviani

University of Toronto

Askold Khovanskii

Department of Mathematics

University of Toronto

Sean Kinney

PhD student

University of Toronto

Audrey Kobayashi

Professor, Department of History

Queen's University

Valerie Korinek

Professor, History

University of Saskatchewan

Margaret Kovach

Professor Emerita, Educational Foundations

University of British Columbia

L

Guy Laforest

General Director of the École nationale d’administration publique

Université Laval

Amy Latimer-Cheung

School of Kinesiology and Health Studies

Queen’s University

Catherine Lebel

Department of Radiology

University of Calgary

Robert Leckey

Professor & Dean of Law

McGill University

Kelley Lee

Faculty of Health Sciences

Simon Fraser University

Karine Lefeuvre

Vice-présidente

CCNE

Josh Lepawsky

Department of Geography

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Patrick Leroux

Playwright, Director and Scholar

Concordia

Megan Leslie

President & Chief Executive Officer

WWF

Gary Lewis

Professor, Medicine and Physiology | Director, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre

University of Toronto

Sterling Lewis

University of Toronto

Sarah Linklater

Chief Scientific Officer

JDRF

Mark Loeb

Faculty of Health Sciences

McMaster University

Margarita López-Uribe

Professor

Penn State

David Lyon

Professor, Queen's Research Chair in Surveillance Studies

Queen's University

M

Heather MacDougall

Associate Professor, specializing in Canadian history and the history of medicine, public health and health policy

University of Waterloo

Lindsay MacLennan

University of Toronto

Laura Madokoro

Department of History

Carleton University

Mike Mahon

President & Vice-Chancellor

University of Lethbridge

Ian Mann

Department of Physics

University of Alberta

Madeleine Mant

Research Associate in the Anthropology of Health

University of Toronto

Maureen Markle-Reid

Canada Research Chair in the School of Nursing

McMaster University

Tom Marrie

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Dalhousie University

Clem Martini

Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter & Professor

University of Calgary

Christopher McCabe

Executive Director and CEO

Institute of Health Economics IHE)

Susan McDaniel

Sociologist/demographer - Prentice Research Chair in Global Population and Economy

University of Victoria

Emily McGaugh

PhD student

University of Toronto

Jon McGavock

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health

University of Manitoba

Kimberly McGrail

University of British Columbia

Patrick McGrath

Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry

Dalhousie University

Kwame McKenzie

Chief Executive Officer

Wellesley Institute

Jeremy McNeil

RSC President

Western University

Hélène Mialet

Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies

York University

Alex Mihailidis

Associate VP, International Partnerships

University of Toronto

Abbas S. Milani

Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute

The University of British Columbia

Laurence Monnais-Rousselot

Professor of history and Director of the Center for Asian Studies

Université de Montréal

Christy Morrisesey

Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

University of Saskatchewan

Christy Morrissey

Department of Biology and School of Environment and Sustainability

University of Saskatchewan

Ian Mosby

Assistant Professor, History

Ryerson University

Chris Mushquash

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Mental Health and Addiction

Lakehead University

N

Barbara Neis

Professor, Department of Sociology

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Mona Nemer

Canada’s Chief Science Advisor

Tom Nesmith

Department of History

University of Manitoba

Elizabeth Neswald

Professor, Historian of Science and Technology

Brock University

P

Muthu Packirisamy

Professor and Concordia Research Chair

Concordia University

Steve Paikin

Host of TVO's nightly current affairs program The Agenda

TVO.org

Krista Paquin

English Professor

Okanagan College

François Paré

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

University of Waterloo

Nav Persaud

Canada Research Chair in Health Justice and Associate Professor

University of Toronto

André Picard

Health Reporter and Columnist

The Globe and Mail

John Pomeroy

Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change

University of Saskatchewan

René Provost

Professor of Law

McGill University

Peter Pulsifer

Research Scientist

Carleton University

Q

Joanna Quinn

President, RSC College

Royal Society of Canada

Rémi Quirio

Chief Scientist of Quebec

R

Nigel Raine

Rebanks Family Chair

Pollinator Conservation

Vardit Ravitsky

Professor

Université de Montréal

Catherine Régis

Professor, Law Faculty

Université de Montréal

Chantelle Richmond

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health and Environment

Western University

Qajaq Robinson

Commissioner for the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls National Inquiry

Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Paula Rochon

Vice-President of Research

Women’s College Hospital

Johan Roorcyk

Executive Director

cOAlition S

Shayna Rosenbaum

Cognitive Neuroscientist

York University

Felix Rundel

Executive Director

Falling Walls

Christopher Rutty

Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Clinical Public Health

University of Toronto

Jane Rylett

Professor

Western University

S

Pauline Sameshima

Faculty of Education

Lakehead University

Paul Santerre

Biomedical engineer, Baxter Chair-Health Technology and Innovation

University Health Network

Edward Sargent

Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives

University of Toronto

Lynora Saxinger

Associate Professor of Medicine

University of Alberta

Asma Sayed

Canada Research Chair in South Asian Literary and Cultural Studies

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Peter Schiffer

Professor of Applied Physics

Yale University

Bonnie Schmidt

Founder and President

Let's Talk Science

Jöerg Schneider

Head of Division, International Affairs

DFG

Sara L. Seck

Associate Professor and Associate Dean Research

Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University

James Shapiro

Professor, Department of Surgery

University of Alberta

Clay Shirt

Traditional Knowledge Keeper

Gillian Siddall

President

Emily Carr

Slobodan P. Simonovic

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Western University

Malinda Smith

Vice provost

University of Calgary

Tammara Soma

Professor

Dalhousie University

Dawn Stacey

Assistant Director – Nursing Graduate Programs

University of Ottawa

Suzanne Stewart

Waakebiness-​Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health

DLSPH

Maria Strack

Department of Geography and Environmental Management

University of Waterloo

Sharon Straus

Director, Knowledge Translation Program

St. Michael’s Hospital

Elissa Strome

Executive Director, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

CIFAR

Marc Strous

Department of Geosciences

University of Calgary

Wayne Sumner

University Professor Emeritus

University of Toronto

Cheryl Suzack

Researcher of Indigenous literature

University of Toronto

Tomislav Svoboda

Associate Professor, Family Physician and Public Health Specialist

St. Michael’s Hospital’s

T

Tanya Talaga

Anishinaabe Canadian Journalist and Author

Globe and Mail

Kim TallBear

Associate Professor

University of Alberta

Robyn Tamblyn

Professor of Medicine

McGill University

Lindsay Tedds

Associate Professor and Scientific Director, Fiscal and Economic Policy

University of Calgary

Eric Tenkorang

Department of Sociology

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Mark Terry

Scholar, Explorer, Filmmaker

York University and Wilfrid Laurier University

Jeff Turnbull

Co-founder and Medical Director

Ottawa Inner City Health

U

Owen Underhill

Professor, Canadian composer/conductor

Simon Fraser University

V

Tracy Vaillancourt

Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair

University of Ottawa

Amanda Vincent

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries

The University of British Columbia

W

Gary Waite

Department of History

University of New Brunswick

Rinaldo Walcott

Director of Women and Gender Studies Institute and an Associate Professor

University of Toronto

Joshua Wales

Palliative Care Physician

Latner Centre for Palliative Care

Jennifer Walker

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health

Laurentian Univeristy

Douglas Wallace

Department of Oceanography

Dalhousie University

David Walmsley

Editor-in-Chief

Globe and Mail

Jessica Ware

Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology

American Museum of Natural History, NY, NY

Dan Wayner

Departmental Science Advisor and Chief Science Officer

National Research Council Canada

Carly Weeks

Health Reporter

The Globe and Mail

Karen Weisman

Professor of English, University of Toronto St. George; Interim Associate Director

University of Toronto

Laurel Weldon

Department of Political Science

Simon Fraser University

Barry Wellman

Director

NetLab Network

Catharine Whiteside

Executive Director

Diabetes Action Canada

Jessica Whitley

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education

University of Ottawa

Ryan Wiley

President

Shift Health

Jennifer Willet

Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology, and the Director of INCUBATOR Art Lab

University of Windsor

John Willinsky

Professor and Director

Stanford University & Public Knowledge Project

Tim Wilson

Associate Vice-President of Research Programs

SSHRC

Alicia Wise

Director

Information Power Limited

Holly Witteman

Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine

Université Laval

David Wright

Department of History and Classical Studies,

McGill University

Julia Wright

President of the Academy of Arts & Humanities of the RSC

Dalhousie University

Stephen Wyatt

Professor in social and policy dimensions of forestry

Université de Moncton

X

Shirley X.Y. Wu

Professor

University of Toronto

Y

Wei Yu

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Information Theory and Wireless Communications

University of Toronto

Z

Patrick Zylberman

Professor (emeritus) of History of Health

École des Hautes Etudes en santé publique en France