Standing Committee on Science

Christine Fahim (Chair)
Scientist and Director, TIES
St. Michael’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
Associate, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

Sylvain Baillet
Professor of Neuroscience at Université de Montréal
Director of Research and Innovation of the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM)
Director of the CHUM Research Centre (CRCHUM)

Cheryl Barnabe
Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences and Director of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Senior Scientist, Arthritis Research Canada

Lucy Chappell
Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care, UK
Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), UK

Christina Frangou
Independent journalist in Calgary

Samantha Green
Family physician, Unity Health Toronto
Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto

Cathy Kline
Assistant Director, Patient and Community Engagement
Office of the Vice-President, Health
Patient & Community Partnership for Education
University of British Columbia

Isra Levy
Retired Vice President of Medical Affairs and Innovation at Canadian Blood Services

Fei-Fei Liu
Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret (PM) Cancer Centre
Professor in the Departments of Radiation Oncology, Medical Biophysics, and Otolaryngology at the University of Toronto

Ariane Marelli
Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center
Professor of Medicine at McGill University

Mark Pitcher
Chief of Staff at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Mercury Shitindo
Chair and Executive Director of the Africa Bioethics Network (ABN)

Jeannie Shoveller
Vice-President Research at Nova Scotia Health
Professor at Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine

Carolyn Steele Gray
Senior Investigator at the Science of Care Institute and in the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health
Associate Professor in the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto in Canada

Sharon Straus
Director of the Knowledge Translation Program of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto
Professor in the Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Jesper Svejstrup
Professor and deputy chairman at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Denmark
Director of the Center of Gene Expression, University of Copenhagen

Dr. Paul Hébert
President, CIHR

Ex-officio, non-voting member