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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Sickboy Podcast

North America’s Revolutionary Voice in Health and Wellness

Allen Chankowsky

Acclaimed Author, International Speaker, and resilient 33-year survivor of a rare form of stage-4 Androgen Receptor positive cancer

The Honourable Nolan Quinn

Minister of Colleges and Universities

Dr. Bradly Wouters

Executive Vice President, Science and Research, University Health Network

Munaza Jamil

Chair, N2 Public Engagement Committee

Dr. PJ Devereaux

Director, Division of Perioperative Care at McMaster University; Senior Scientist and the Scientific Leader, Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Surgical Research Group at the Population Health Research Institute; Professor, Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) and Medicine, McMaster University

Dr. Janet Smylie

Family Physician and Research Scientist, Unity Health Toronto; Professor, University of Toronto (Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Family and Community Medicine); Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Advancing Generative Health Services for Indigenous Populations in Canada

Dr. Megan Bettle

Executive Director for Clinical Trials, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Carley McPherson

Director of Research, Lakeridge Health

Dr. Stuart Nicholls

Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Program Facilitator, Office for Patient Engagement in Research Activities (OPERA), The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s Methods Centre

Dr. Fahad Razak

Internist, St Michael's Hospital; Provincial Clinical Lead, Ontario Health; Co-Lead GEMINI: https://geminimedicine.ca/ ; Canada Research Chair in Data-Informed Healthcare Improvement, University of Toronto

Sharon Freitag

Senior Director, Research Ethics, Unity Health Toronto

Donna Lillie

Member of the CTO College of Lived Experience

Mike Lapenna

Member of the CTO College of Lived Experience

Michelle Audoin

CCTG Breast Disease Site Committee, OICR PFAC

Dr. Nir Lipsman

Neurosurgeon and Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto.

Mani Kang

Senior Director, Research Operations and Chief Operating Officer at Unity Health Toronto

Alison Mitro

Head of Clinical Trial Solutions, Altis Labs

Chris O'Connor

Critical Care Physician | Former Director of Medical Informatics, Trillium Health Partners (THP) | Founder and Former President, Think Research

Meera Sidhu

Research Ethics Manager, Vice-Principal Research, Research Ethics Compliance, Queen's University

Liz Lylyk

Director of the Research Improvements Through Harmonization in Manitoba (RITHIM) initiative at Research Manitoba

Dr. Khaled El Emam

Scholar-in-Residence at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

Andrew Drummond

Director of Health Policy at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

Jennifer Cox

Legal Counsel and Manager, Research Contracts at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Dr. Shrikant I. Bangdiwala

Director of Statistics at the Population Health Research Institute, and professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University

Dr. Jason Field

President and CEO of Life Sciences Ontario

Dr. Michel Shamy

Attending Neurologist, The Ottawa Hospital; Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine & Epidemiology, University of Ottawa

Sarah Power

Health Data Strategy Lead for Takeda Canada

Dr. Michael Silverman

MD, FRCP, FACP, AAHIVMed, Chair of Infectious Diseases, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, Chief of Infectious Diseases for SJHC and LHSC, Associate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute.

John Clarkson

Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Ontario Brain Institute

Natascha Kozlowski

Executive Director, Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board (OCREB)

Stay tuned for more speakers!