National Population Health Study of Neurological Conditions: Scientific Advisory Committee
Garth M. Bray, MD
Professor Emeritus, Departments of Medicine and of Neurology and Neurosurgery,
McGill University
Expertise: Clinical neurology, laboratory investigation of neuronal responses to injury
Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee
Celina Rayonne Chavannes, MBA
Director, Research Initiatives, Neurological Health Charities Canada
Katharina (Kathy) Kovacs Burns, PhD
Professor, University of Alberta
Director, Interdisciplinary Health Research Academy, Edmonton
Expertise: Interdisciplinary health research, qualitative health research
Ian McDowell, PhD
Professor, Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa
Expertise: Health research methodology, epidemiology of dementia
Thomas J. Murray, MD
Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University
Former Dean of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Director, Dalhousie Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit
Expertise: Multiple sclerosis, community health
Scott B. Patten, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry, University of Calgary
Expertise: Epidemiology of mood disorders
Vice-Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee
Louise Pelletier, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Medical specialist, Chronic Disease Surveillance Division, Public Health Agency of Canada
Expertise: Public health, epidemiology
Peter Rosenbaum, MD, FRCPC
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University
Canada Research Chair, Childhood Disability
Co-founder, CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research
Expertise: Childhood disability
Christopher A. Shaw, PhD
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia
Expertise: Genetic and environmental risk factors for neurological conditions