Constadina (Dina) Panagiotopoulos
Associate Professor
Diabetes, children, youth, antipsychotics, obesity, metabolism, prevention, healthy active living
Dr. Jean Chanoine, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Pediatric endocrinology, Capacity building, access to medicine, clinical care in low-income countries,
Short CV:
Dr. Chanoine trained in Belgium and joined British Columbia Children’s Hospital (Vancouver) in 1998 as Head of the Endocrinology and Diabetes Unit. His previous experience includes a fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, USA; Pediatric Endocrinologist at Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola in Brussels; and Medical Director for Novo Nordisk Belgium.
Dr Chanoine has published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is increasingly active in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in low resource settings (Low and Middle Income Countries) as a researcher, a mentor and an advocate. He is presently Secretary General of Global Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (GPED, www.globalpedendo.org) a charitable organisation that he incorporated in Canada. He sits on the NCDChild working group for “access to Medicines” and on the expert committee for Essential InVitro Diagnoses at the WHO.
He was a teacher at the Pediatric Endocrinology Training Centers in Africa (PETCA) in Kenya and at the Maghreb School (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria). His primary interest in global health is “access to essential medicines” in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes.
Prof. Helen Tremlett, PhD
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis
multiple sclerosis, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health administrative data, drug safety and effectiveness, disease-modifying drugs for multiple sclerosis, gut microbiome, pediatric-onset MS, observational studies, real-world data, post-marketing research,
Prof. Maura MacPhee, RN, PhD
Professor
Healthcare delivery, quality and safety, program evaluation, nurses’ work environments,
Edmond Chan, MD
Head, Division of Allergy & Immunology, Dept. of Pediatrics
Clinical Associate Professor
Food allergy, eosinophilic esophagitis, asthma, allergies, allergens
Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc, PhD, RN, FSAHM, FCAHS, FAAN, FCAN
Professor and Director
SOGI education, LGBTQ2S+ health, adolescent health, nursing, public health nursing, trans and non-binary youth, homeless youth, stigma and discrimination, youth sexual health, youth mental health, adolescent substance use,
Paul Rogers
Clinical Professor Emeritus
Paediatric Oncology and Nutrition , Cancer Control
Michael Klein
Emeritus Professor of Family Practice and Pediatrics
Maternity and newborn care, meta-analysis, pediatrics, family practice
Dr. Julie Bettinger, PhD, MPH
Professor
Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Public Health Expertise Infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine clinical trials, vaccine safety, vaccine programs, infectious disease monitoring, vaccine hesitancy,
Suzanne Lewis, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Professor
Clinical genetics, neurodevelopmental disorders, genes and phenotypes of autism spectrum disorders, clinical genomics, molecular cytogenetics, personalized medicine, human genome, gene mutation
Stuart MacLeod, MD, PhD
Professor
Child health, medical education, clinical pharmacology, pharmacoepidemiology, global health, treatment of rare disorders, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, drugs in children
Kirk Schultz, MD
Professor
Pediatric cancer, blood and marrow transplantation, transplantation immunology, graft-versus-host disease, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndrome
Dr. Dzung Vo, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Head, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine
Adolescent Medicine, Adolescent Health, Resilience, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Eating Disorders, Substance Use Disorders,
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Derryck Smith, MD, FRCP(C)
Clinical Professor Emeritus
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, psychiatry, health care delivery, physician assisted dying, expert witness in psychiatry, traumatic brain injury
Prof. Ran Goldman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, UBC
Emergency Pediatrician, BC Children’s Hospital
Pediatrics, raising healthy children, medications in children, pain management, emergency medicine
Bruce Carleton, BSc, PharmD
Professor
Human drug therapy, clinical pharmacology, adverse drug reactions, side effects, drug outcomes, pharmaceuticals, pediatric drug use, genetics of drug action, pharmacogenomics
Dr. Shelina Babul, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
concussion, mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), brain injury, brain dysfunction, health care, pediatrics, sports,sports medicine, sports and recreation, sport-related concussion, sports injury, physical activity, injury prevention, hyperbaric medicine, hyperbaric oxygen therapy,
Dr. Jill Zwicker, PhD, OT
Associate Professor
developmental coordination disorder, motor skills disorder, neurodevelopment, rehabilitation, brain imaging, pediatric, prematurity, brain development,