Engaging. Relevant. Insightful.

We are lining up an incredible group of speakers to talk about current trends, opportunities, innovations and challenges facing our clinical trials community today – and in the future. Watch this space as we add to our line-up of speakers!

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Dr. Samantha Nutt

Founder of War Child Canada and War Child USA

Timothy Caulfield

Professor of Health Law and Science Policy | Bestselling Author

Dr. Fahad Razak

Internist, St Michael's Hospital; Associate Professor, University of Toronto; Provincial Lead, General Medicine, Ontario Health; Scientific Director, Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table

The Honourable Jill Dunlop

Minister of Colleges and Universities

Alison Orth

Unit Director, Clinical Trials BC, Michael Smith Health Research BC

Megan Bettle

Executive Director for Clinical Trials, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Dr. Jason Field

President and CEO, Life Sciences Ontario

Dr. Charles Weijer

Professor of Medicine and Philosophy, Western University

Andrew Casey

President & CEO of BIOTECanada

Dr. Jennifer Tsang

Physician Research Lead at Niagara Health; Associated Professor, Department of Medicine, McMaster University; Regional Deputy Research Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, McMaster University

Bibaswan Ghoshal

Director, Market Acceleration, Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization

Pamela C. Fralick

President, Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC)

Dr. Jordan Warford

Senior Director of Research, Nova Scotia Health

Rob Henderson

President & CEO, BioTalent Canada

Dr. Neil Arya

Director of Kitchener’s CFFM Refugee Health Clinic; Founding President of the PEGASUS Institute; Fellow at the Balsillie School for International Affairs; Adjunct Professor in Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University

Dr. Andrew Boozary

primary care Physician, Policy Practitioner, Researcher, and Founding Executive Director of the Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine at the University Health Network

Olivier Jérôme

Director, public and patient engagement, CATALIS Québec

Dr. Brittany Bingham

Director, Indigenous Research Indigenous Health | Vancouver Coastal Health Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE) Assistant Professor, Social Medicine | UBC

Dr. Prabhat Jha

Director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto

Tammy Mah-Fraser

Executive Director, Health Platforms, Alberta Innovates

Janette Panhuis

Board Member, Network of Networks (N2); Former Chief Operating Officer of the Population Health Research Institute

Melaina Boyce

Head of In-Country Clinical Study Operations, USA, Canada, & LATAM, EMD Serono Research and Development Institute

Dr. Christine Allen

Vice President, Ecosystem Development, adMare BioInnovations

Dr. Bradly Wouters

Executive Vice President of Science and Research, University Health Network

Maura Campbell, Ph. D.

President and CEO, OBIO®

Karen Dunlop

CEO, Research Manitoba

Dr. Sharon Walmsley

Director, Immunodeficiency Clinic, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Martin Offringa

Paediatrician, Trialist, Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto

John Amrhein

Vice President & Managing Partner, McDougall Scientific, a division of Alimentiv

Patrick Clifford

Former Director of Research and Innovation, at the Research Institute of Southlake Regional Health Centre

Sharon Freitag

Senior Director, Research Ethics, Unity Health Toronto

Dr. Scott A. Halperin

Director of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology; Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University; Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, IWK Health Centre

Dr. Stuart Nicholls

Senior Clinical Research Associate & Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR); Facilitator Clinical Epidemiology Program & Office for Patient Engagement in Research Activities (OPERA)

Dr. John Wallenburg

Chief Scientific Officer, Cystic Fibrosis Canada

Dr. Dawn Richards

Director, Patient and Public Engagement, Clinical Trials Ontario

Susan Marlin

President and CEO, Clinical Trials Ontario

Diana Ermel

Past-Chair of the Canadian Breast Cancer Network

Kevin Quach

Director, Senior Clinical Operations Lead, Hoffman-La Roche

Stay tuned for more speakers!