Institute Advisory Board Members
(as of September 1, 2012)

Stephanie A. Atkinson (Chair)
Professor and Associate Chair (Research) the Department of Pediatrics
Associate Member in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario

Deirdre Freiheit
Executive Director
Health Charities Coalition of Canada (HCCC)

Amit X. Garg
Professor
Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of Western Ontario

Loren D. Grossman
Vice President, Research and Development
Eli Lilly, Canada

Stephen James
Director, Division of Digestive Diseases, NIDDK
National Institute of Health (Rockville)
Bethesda, Maryland USA

Marie-France Langlois
Professor
Departments of Medicine, Biochemistry and Physiology
Université de Sherbrooke

Doug Manuel
Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
PHAC/CIHR Chair in Applied Public Health Sciences
Senior Medical Advisor, Statistics Canada
Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine, University of Ottawa
Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

William G. Paterson
Professor of Medicine, Biology and Physiology,
Queen's University

Keith Sharkey
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada Chair in IBD Research
AHFMR Medical Scientist
University of Calgary

Guang Sun
Associate Professor
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Bruce Verchere
Professor, Departments of Surgery and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of British Columbia
Head of the Diabetes Research Program, Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI)
BC Children's Hospital
Irving K. Barber Chair in Diabetes Research

Tanya Verrall
Researcher
Health Quality Council, Saskatchewan

Rickey Yada
Professor and Tier 1 CRC
University of Guelph