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Steering Committee

Mark Ansermino

I am the Director of the Center for International Child Health and a professor, researcher and clinician in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). I lead an interdisciplinary research team (with Professor Guy Dumont) of...
Marie-Maxime Bergeron

Marie-Maxime is a registered dietitian and member of the Ordre des diététistes nutritionnistes du Québec (ODNQ). She graduated from the University of Montreal with a BSc (Nutrition) in 2004. Nutrition counseling and patient education through webinars, cooking demonstrations and blogging are...
John Boyd

Dr. Boyd received his MD from the University of Western Ontario in 1998, trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, and subsequently trained in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at McGill University from 2001-2004. His Postdoctoral Fellowship was at the Meakins...
Guy Dumont

The Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine (ECEM) research group, which I co-direct with Prof Mark Ansermino, BC Children’s Hospital Anesthesiologist and Senior Associate Clinician Scientist, is a multidisciplinary team made up of control, signal processing and biomedical engineers,...
Bob Hancock

Dr. Hancock is a leading microbiologist in Canada and has researched and taught at the University of British Columbia for nearly 40 years.

The fundamental interest of Hancock and his laboratory is in designing new therapeutic strategies to treat infections in the light of increasing...
Liisa Holsti

Liisa completed her Bachelor of Science in Rehabilitation Medicine in 1985. She was trained in both Physical Therapy (PT) and Occupational Therapy (OT), but when a great OT job opened up at B.C. Children’s Hospital in the NICU and in the Neonatal Follow-up Program, she took it, working...
Wilfred Jefferies

My research program focuses on discovering and translating new therapies for disease. My current interests are in tumour immunology and cancer immunotherapy; antigen presentation and vaccines; and blood-brain barrier and angiogenesis. My work on cancer targets the restoration of the immune...
Tex Kissoon

Dr. Kissoon is Past President of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) and Professor in Pediatric and Surgery at UBC in Vancouver, Canada. He holds the UBC BC Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair in Acute and Critical Care for Global Child...
Craig Mitton

Dr. Mitton’s research is focused on the application of health economics to impact health policy and to inform clinical practice. He has worked extensively with health authorities in numerous countries on the development and implementation of priority setting and resource allocation processes....
Fiona Muttalib

Fiona Muttalib received her medical diploma and completed Pediatrics Residency at McGill University and a Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children. She completed a research fellowship in Global Child Health at the...
Manish Sadarangani

The aim of our research at the Vaccine Evaluation Center (VEC) is to lower the burden of childhood infectious disease through vaccination by building an evidence base for local, national and international vaccine policy. My research program includes laboratory studies to develop new and better...