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Leadership

Executive Committee

Guillaume Bourque

Guillaume Bourque (Nominated Principal Applicant/Chair)

Dr. Bourque joined McGill University in 2010 and is a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics and the Director of Bioinformatics at the McGill Genome Center.
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Claude Bherer

Claude Bherer

Claude Bhérer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences, at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University.
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Michelle Brazas

Michelle Brazas

Dr. Michelle Brazas is the Director of Adaptive Oncology at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and the Scientific Director of Bioinformatics.ca, a national bioinformatics continuing education
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Kym Boycott

Kym Boycott

Kym Boycott is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa in Canada.
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Melanie Courtot

Melanie Courtot

Dr Mélanie Courtot is the Director of Genome Informatics and a Principal Investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research in Toronto.
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Vincent Feretti

Vincent Ferretti

Before joining Sainte-Justine, Vincent Ferretti was Principal Investigator and Director, Genome Informatics at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) in Toronto.
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Yann Joly

Yann Joly

Yann Joly, Ph.D. (DCL), FCAHS, Ad.E. is the Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) at McGill University.
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Jordan Lerner Ellis

Jordan Lerner-Ellis

Dr Lerner-Ellis is a molecular geneticist who serves as Head and Director of the Advanced Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital and an Associate at the Ontario
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Ian Stedman

Ian Stedman

Ian Stedman is an Associate Professor of Canadian Public Law & Governance and the graduate program director in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University.
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Wyeth Wasserman

Wyeth Wasserman

Wyeth Wasserman is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics Investigator, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute.
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Ma'n Zawati

Ma’n Zawati

Ma’n H. Zawati is an Associate Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and the Research Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy in the Department of
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International Advisory Board

Peter Goodhand

Peter Goodhand (Chair)

Mr. Peter Goodhand is a leader in the global health sector, holding senior executive and board member positions in the health research advancement community.
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Tom Hudson

Tom Hudson

Thomas James Hudson, O.C., is a Canadian genome scientist noted for his leading role in the generation of physical maps of the human and mouse genomes.
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Nicola Mulder

Nicola Mulder

Nicola Mulder heads the Computational Biology division and leads H3ABioNet, a Pan African Bioinformatics Network of ~30 institutions in 17 African countries.
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Augusto Rendon

Augusto Rendon

Augusto has a decade of experience growing and leading bioinformatics teams and overseeing the delivery of bioinformatics and genome analysis for population scale whole genome sequencing initiatives.
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Patient Partnership Team

Ian Stedman

Ian Stedman (Chair)

Ian Stedman is an Associate Professor of Canadian Public Law & Governance and the graduate program director in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University.
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Suzanne Deliscar

Suzanne Deliscar

Suzanne Deliscar has acted as a parent-partner/researcher on a number of on-going research studies, advisory groups, and committees, including RareKids-CAN.
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Atif Kukaswadia

Atif Kukaswadia

Dr. Atif Kukaswadia combines rigorous academic training with personal insight to advance genomic research in Canada.
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Keith Meldrum

Keith Meldrum

Keith is a civil engineer technologist and retired Vice President of a civil construction company.
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Megan Parker

Megan Parker

Megan brings valuable perspectives through her work with Cystic Fibrosis Canada during the >10 years leading the Adult CF Advisory Committee.
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Dani Taylor

Dani Taylor

Dani Taylor MSW RSW is an oncology social worker, researcher, and the Program Manager of Young Adult Cancer Canada.
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Knowledge User Committee

Kym Boycott

Kym Boycott (Chair)

Kym Boycott is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa in Canada.
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Francois Paul Bernier

Francois Bernier

Dr. François Bernier is the director of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute at the Cumming School of Medicine at UCalgary.
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Nada Jabado

Nada Jabado

Dr. Nada Jabado is a Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics at McGill University and a staff physician in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the Montreal
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Guillaume Lettre

Guillaume Lettre

Dr. Guillaume Lettre obtained his bachelor's degree in biology, majoring in biotechnology, from the Université de Sherbrooke in 2000.
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Vincent Mooser

Vincent Mooser

Since August 1st, 2019, Vincent Mooser MD is the holder of the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Genomic Medicine at McGill University in Montreal.
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Sorana Morrissy

Sorana Morrissy

Dr. Sorana Morrissy completed her PhD in Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, under the supervision of Dr. Marco Marra.
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Board of Governance

Bartha Knoppers

Bartha Knoppers (Chair)

Bartha Knoppers is uniquely suited to work on the ethical, legal and policy aspects of this proposed research project.
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Naveed Aziz

Naveed Aziz

With over 20 years of genomics experience, Dr. Naveed Aziz drives genomic innovation at Genome Canada by supporting leadership in the delivery of mission-driven challenges and strategic initiatives.
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Felipe Perez Jvostov

Felipe Perez-Jvostov

Felipe Pérez-Jvostov is Interim Director, Mandate Renewal at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
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Stephen Scherer

Stephen Scherer

Dr. Stephen Scherer has co-published over 690 papers and many of these have been in the highest impact periodicals,
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Patrick Sullivan

Patrick Sullivan

Patrick Sullivan became a passionate childhood cancer advocate after he heard the word “incurable” for the first time in May 2008.
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Additional Team Members

Laura Arbour

Laura Arbour

Dr. Laura Arbour is a Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics situated at the UBC Island Medical Program in Victoria, BC.
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Mouna Ben Amor

Mouna Ben Amor

Dr. Mouna Ben Amor's research program and expertise is in clinical genetics, with a specific interest in screening for carriers of common genetic diseases in New Brunswick.
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Yvonne Bombard

Yvonne Bombard

Dr. Yvonne Bombard is a genomics health services researcher and Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto.
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Mike Brudno

Michael Brudno

Michael is a Computer Scientist specializing in Computational methods for the analysis of Medical data (Computational Medicine), working as a Professor at the University of Toronto and the
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Nadine Caron

Nadine Caron

Dr. Caron is an advocate for marginalized peoples’ rights in health care and research. Her scholarly and professional activities centre on optimizing Indigenous and northern Canadians’ health, and
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Geoff Hicks

Geoff Hicks

Dr. Geoff Hicks has been a member of CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute for most of his scientific career - beginning in 1985 with his PhD training in Dr
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Steven Jones

Steven Jones

Dr. Jones’ research program is firmly entrenched in genome science to better understand the complete mutational landscape of cancers. His primary aim is to help uncover the diversity
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Holly Longstaff

Holly Longstaff

Holly is responsible for guiding the development, recommendation and implementation of innovative approaches to privacy policy and practice to build accountable information stewardship and privacy conscious practices that
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Hermann Nabi

Hermann Nabi

Hermann Nabi, PhD, HDR, is a senior researcher in the Oncology axis at CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center and Professor of Epidemiology at the Department of Social
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Lincoln Stein

Lincoln Stein

Dr. Lincoln Stein focuses on supporting biomedical research both in Ontario and around the world by making large and complex biological datasets findable, accessible and usable.
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Lisa Strug

Lisa Strug

Dr. Strug is Professor in the Departments of Statistical Sciences, Computer Science and cross-appointed in Biostatistics at the University of Toronto and is a Senior Scientist in the
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Daniel Taliun

Daniel Taliun

Daniel's research interests are in developing computational algorithms and software tools for analyzing genetic data combined with molecular, behavioural, imaging and environmental data.
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David Wishart

David S. Wishart

Dr. David S. Wishart (PhD Yale, 1991) is a Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science at the University of Alberta.
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