Keynote & Plenary Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Dr. Timothy G. Evans
Dean at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
A dual national of Canada and the United States, Dr. Timothy G. Evans is the Dean at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. From 1995 to 1997, he was an Assistant Professor, International Health Economics at Harvard School of Public Health, as well as an Attending Physician, General Internal Medicine, at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2003, he joined the World Health Organization as an Assistant Director General with responsibility for Evidence, Information, Research and Policy. He is currently a Commissioner on the Commission on Health Professional Leadership in the 21st Century, a member of the Board of the Public Health Foundation of India, and serves as a scientific advisor to the Institute of Population and Public Health of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.
- • Bio
Plenary Speakers
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Dr. Erica Wheeler
Technical Officer, Department for Health Systems Policies and Workforce, World Health Organization (WHO)
Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Barry Kistnasamy
Executive Director, National Institute for Occupational Health, National Health Laboratory Service
South Africa
Dr. Ainsley McCaskill
Resident Medical Officer
Dr. Agnes Soucat, MD, MPH, Ph.D.
Director for Human Development for the African Development Bank
Tunis Belvédère, Tunisia
Dr. Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde
Director of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI ) Coordinating Center at The African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST)
Uganda
Dr. Gretchen Roedde
Family Physician, Haileybury Family Health Team
Haileybury, Ontario, Canada
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Dr. Charles Boelen, MD
International Consultant in Health Systems and Personnel
France
Dr. Della Yarnold
Research Chair Poche Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Dr. Doris Mitchell
Family Physician
Chapleau, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Bryan MacLeod and Cambrian Improv Theatre Group
“Failing well and learning to laugh about it”… lessons in regaining our humanity through improv theatre…
Friday, October 12, 2012
Dr. Ted Epperley, MD
Program Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho
Idaho, United States of America
Dr. Jill Downie
Professor, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education at Curtin University
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Dr. Jill Konkin
Associate Dean, Community Engagement, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Dr. Ian Couper (Dr. John Macleod Oration Award Recipient)
Professor of Rural Health at the University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
