Dr. Andy J. Smith is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario. In addition, he is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He completed medical school, including a Masters of Science, and General Surgery residency at the University of...
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Paul Moayyedi
Dr Paul Moayyedi qualified from Bristol University and obtained a PhD and Masters in Public Health from the University of Leeds. He moved to McMaster University in 2004 and was Director of the Division of Gastroenterology at McMaster in 2006-2017. He holds the Audrey Campbell Chair of Ulcerative Colitis...
Gillian Kernaghan
Dr. Gillian Kernaghan was appointed the President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Joseph's Health Care London (St. Joseph’s) in 2010. St. Joseph’s is a multi-sited, academic health care organization serving London and region. Her passion for integrated patient care, leadership and performance excellence has inspired the organization to...
Toby Cosgrove
Executive advisor to Google Cloud Healthcare Cleveland Clinic Executive Advisor Dr. Toby Cosgrove is a physician executive with strong interest in emerging technologies, and the potential of machine learning and AI to improve patient care. Toby Cosgrove is Executive Advisor and former CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic. Serving...
Marzyeh Ghassemi
Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Computer Science and Medicine, and a Vector Institute faculty member holding a Canadian CIFAR AI Chair and Canada Research Chair. She currently serves as a NeurIPS 2019 Workshop Co-Chair, and Board Member of the Machine Learning for...
Alison Paprica
As Vice President, Health Strategy and Partnerships, Alison Paprica is the Vector Institute’s corporate lead for health strategy, overseeing health research collaborations, health data partnerships and health AI application projects. Prior to joining Vector in November 2017, Alison was Director, Strategic Partnerships at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences...
Melissa McCradden
Melissa McCradden is a Junior Bioethicist with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). She holds a PhD in Neuroscience with a specific focus on neuropsychiatry, and she is currently completing her Master's in Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Melissa was the inaugural Clinical and Research Fellow in Ethics...
Andre Carlos Amaral
The focus of Dr. Amaral's research is on improving quality of care for critically ill patients. Dr. Amaral works within two streams to improve quality: communication, to prevent errors and improve efficiency; and quality assurance, which involves measuring quality and developing novel models for implementing evidence-based medicine. His work...
Bo Wang
Bo Wang is an assistant professor at the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, a faculty member at the Vector Institute, and Canada’s CIFAR chair in artificial intelligence. He also leads the AI team for the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at the University Health Network. Bo...
Leah Steinberg
Dr. Steinberg studied public policy and philosophy at Tufts University. Her medical degree is in Family Medicine from McMaster University. She trained in palliative care and for the past 16 years has been a palliative care physician at Mount Sinai Hospital. She currently teaches palliative care to all level...