Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)
Corinne Hohl
Nominated Principal Applicant and SAC Chair. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia; Vancouver General Hospital
Christiaan Righolt
Vaccine and Drug Evaluation Centre, University of Manitoba
Christian Chabot
Department of Family Medicine, Laval University
Braden Manns
Department of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences, and Libin Cardiovascular Institute and Institute of Public Health, University of Calgary
Clare Atzema
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Danuta Skowronski
Epidemiology Lead of Influenza & Emerging Respiratory Pathogens at BCCDC, Clinical Professor in the UBC School of Population & Public Health and Principal Investigator, Canadian SPSN.
David Patrick
Centre for Disease Control, University of British Columbia
Eddy Lang
Department of Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Rockyview General Hospital
Elyse Berger Pelletier
Research Center of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Québec, Axe Santé des populations et pratiques optimales en santé (Population Health and Optimal health practices Research Unit), Traumatologie – Urgence – Soins Intensifs (Trauma – Emergency – Critical Care Medicine), CHU de Québec (Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus), Université Laval; Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval.
Finlay McAlister
(Professor, University of Alberta) leads the Alberta SPOR Support Unit Data Platform
Grant Innes
Department of Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Holly Longstaff
National Core for Neuroethics, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia and Engage Associates.
Jeffrey Kwong
(Professor, University of Toronto; ON) is a Public Health Scientist in infectious diseases epidemiology and health services research using linkable data with expertise in vaccine effectiveness, vaccine safety, and vaccine programs.
Jeffrey Perry
(Professor, University of Ottawa; ON) is a world-leading expert in multi-center observational studies and has experience implementing influential clinical decision rules.
Jennifer Grant
Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Vancouver Coastal Health, British Columbia; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Kieran Moore
Department of Emergency and Family Medicine, Queen’s University; Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health.
Kimberlyn McGrail
Scientific Director, Health Data Research Network Canada (and SPOR Canadian Data Platform)
Laurie Morrison
(Professor, University of Toronto; ON) is a Senior Scientist with international experience in networks, registries and randomized trials. She is an expert in graduate training and early career mentorship and will coordinate our graduate students (Li, Bola, Almazloum, MacDonald)
Marco Sivilotti
Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University. Medical consultant to the Ontario Poison Centre
Murdoch Leeis
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Manitoba
Rhonda Rosychuk
Department of Pediatrics, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA), University of Alberta; Women & Children’s Health Research Institute
Richard Lester
Associate Professor in Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases. Consultant, BC Centre for Disease and Control
Samuel Vaillancourt
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital; Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Toronto.
Sasha Bernatsky
(Professor, McGill University) is a Senior Scientist in the Centre for Health Outcomes Research and Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the Research Institute of the MUHC.
Shelly McNeil
(Professor, Dalhousie University) is the division head / service chief for the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Nova Scotia Health Authority and research director of the Division of Infectious Diseases.