Pamela Dalziel
Associate Professor
Victorian literature, Victorian culture, visual representation, illustration, gender studies, religion, interdisciplinary studies, textual criticism, scholarly editing, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, George Eliot
Max Cynader, CM, OBC, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS
Professor of Opthalmology & Visual Sciences
Eye diseases, glaucoma, dyslexia, stroke, neurotrauma, memory, vision, learning disabilities, hearing development, recovery after brain damage, ischemia, gene therapy
Sander M. Calisal, P.Eng
Professor Emeritus
Naval architecture, ship design, ship stability, ship hydrodynamics, multimedia in engineering education, energy efficient ship design, surface wave mechanics
John Helliwell, DPhil
Professor Emeritus
The science of happiness, including its policy applications
Paul Bartha, PhD
Professor
Logic, probability, analogical reasoning
Dr. Nemy Banthia, PhD, PEng, FACI, FCSCE, FICI, FCAE, FRSC
Professor
Distinguished University Scholar and Sr. Canada Research in Infrastructure Rehabilitation
Civil infrastructure, bridges, concrete, repair, strengthening, rehabilitation, recycling, industrial by-products, environment, sustainable development
Prof. Ramon Victoriano
Assistant Professor
Dominican Republic, Dominican Literature and Culture, Dominican and Haitian relations, Dominican Diaspora, Caribbean Literatures, Caribbean Diasporas, Afro-Latinidad, Global Blackness
Danilo Caron
Engineer in Training
Decolonizing civil engineering, incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing within engineering design and delivery
Dr. Shenaz Hanif Shahban
Clinical Professor
Psychology, psychiatry, well-being, wellbeing, positive psychology, wicked problems, strategic design, Islam, interdisciplinary, migration, counselling, solutions
Dr. Nikhita Obeegadoo
Assistant Professor
Race, colonialism, immigrant, slavery, indenture, Global South, islands, archipelagoes, climate change, literature, medical humanities, Africa, Indian Ocean, neocolonialism, diaspora
Dr. Meaghan Thumath
Clinical Assistant Professor
Overdose, Substance Use, Addiction, Mental Health, Opioid Crisis, Drug Use, Harm Reduction, Homelessness, Gender, Women Drug Use, Child Welfare, Child Custody, Maternal Mortality, Marginalized Women, Vulnerable Women, Drug Treatment, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Communicable Disease Control, Outbreaks, COVID, Monkeypox, HIV, AIDS, Sexual Health, Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STIs), syphilis, congenital syphilis, Nursing, Nurses, Global Health, WHO, Ebola, International Health, Health Equity
Serge Guilbaut
Professor Emeritus
Post war cultural trends in U.S. and France, art history
Andre Ivanov, PhD
Professor
Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Microelectronics, integrated circuits, computer chip design, smart grid, engineering curriculum
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.
Chris Orvig
Professor
Medicinal inorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry of biological and medical relevance, coordination chemistry of the early transition metals, the lanthanides, and the actinides, main group bioinorganic chemistry (particularly group 13), role of metal ions in Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurological dysfunctions, metal complexes as nuclear medicine imaging and therapeutic agents, and as antitumour agents, technetium and rhenium chemistry, radiopharmaceutical chemistry, vanadium compounds as anti-diabetic agents, lanthanide coordination and bioinorganic chemistry
Michael Byers
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law
Politics, government, defense, military, Arctic, sovereignty, United States, human rights, civil liberties, terrorism, international, United Nations, NATO, Middle East, arms control, nuclear, treaties, diplomacy, environment, climate change, law
Lindsay Eltis
Professor
Bacterial catabolism, pollutant degradation, steroid degradation, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, biocatalysts
Patricia A. Shaw
Professor
Founding Chair, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program
First Nations languages, endangered languages, language revitalization, community capacity-building for language sustainability, archival research for endangered Aboriginal languages