Our Speakers Bureau

Alfonso Abizaid
Topics of Expertise

• Stress Eating
• Mental Health
• Obesity

Adrian Chan
Topics of Expertise

• Biomedical Engineering,
• Biomedical Signal Processing
• Biomedical image processing
• Noninvasive Biomedical Sensor Systems

Kristin Connor
Topics of Expertise

• Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
• Metabolic Diseases
• Nutrition Stress; Microbiome
• Fetal/Placental Development
• Maternal Health/Pregnancy
• Inflammation/Infection in Early Life

Francine Darroch
Topics of Expertise

• Community-Based Participatory Research
• Trauma-Informed Physical Activity

Katie Gunnell
Topics of Expertise

• Physical Activity
• Screen Time
• Motivation
• Well-being
• Psychological needs

Tanya Halsall
Topics of Expertise

• Youth Development
• Evaluation Mental Health Promotion
• Ecological Approaches and Interventions that support behaviour change

Kim Matheson
Topics of Expertise

• Anti-Racism in Research
• Resilience, Stress & Coping
• The Indigenous Youth Futures Partnership Project

David Miller
Topics of Expertise

• Mycotoxins
• Allergens, Mold and Dampness in the Built Environment
• Forestry

Paul Peters
Topics of Expertise

• Rural Health
• Spatial Analysis
• Health Inequities
• Community-Engaged Research

Paul Villeneuve
Topics of Expertise

• Epidemiology
• Biostatistics
• Environmental health

William Willmore
Topics of Expertise

• Stress
• Hypoxia
• Oxidative Stress
• Unfolded Proteins
• Tumour Microenvironments

John Zelenski
Topics of Expertise

• Subjective well-being
• Personality
• Nature
• Sustainability

Jenny Bruin
Topics of Expertise

• Diabetes
• Stem Cells
• Toxicology
• Islet Transplantation

Melissa Chee
Topics of Expertise

• Obesity
• Dietary Sugar
• Animal Research

Chad Danyluck
Topics of Expertise

• Discrimination
• Stress and Health
• Physiological Synchrony

Maria DeRosa
Topics of Expertise

• Biosensing
• Drug Delivery
• Aptamers
• Nucleic Acids
• Therapeutics

Amir Hakami
Topics of Expertise

• Air Pollution Modelling
• Health Policy
• Economics

Kim Hellemans
Topics of Expertise

• Student Mental Health
• Anxiety, Depression
• Addiction & Substance-Use Disorders
• Social Media
• Cannabis Use

Robyn McQuaid
Topics of Expertise

• Stress
• Trauma
• Student Mental Health

Marina Milyavskaya
Topics of Expertise

• Goal Pursuit
• Self-regulation
• Perfectionism

Chantal Trudel
Topics of Expertise

• Accessibility in Air Travel
• COVID-19 and Design
• Long Term Care Design
• Dementia-Friendly Design

Nicholas Watters
Topics of Expertise

• E-Mental Health (Virtual Care)
• Structural Stigma
• Access to Services
• Knowledge Mobilization
• Recovery

Alex Wong
Topics of Expertise

• Evolutionary Biology
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Microbiology