This year's conference promises an enriching experience with our keynote segment. These experts will not only share groundbreaking ideas and personal journeys but also offer invaluable advice on how we can make a significant impact in Canadian healthcare. Learn more about our past keynote speakers and their inspiring contributions below:
Dr. Paul Roumeliotis
Dr. Paul Roumeliotis (Dr.Paul) has been the Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) since 2007. Certified by the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, he received a First Class Honours Bachelors of Science degree in Microbiology and Immunology in 1979 and a medical degree (MDCM) in 1983 at McGill University. He is the founder and former director of the Montreal Children’s Hospital Asthma and Pediatric Consultation Centres and Multi-Format Health Communications at McGill’s Faculty of Medicine. He also holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he is an Associate faculty member, is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa and holds an Advanced Management Program Diploma from the Harvard Business School. His long-standing vision that communications are an integral part of healthcare delivery began in the early 1990’s. Consequently, as a health communications pioneer, he has created and produced hundreds of articles, booklets and videos on a wide range of health issues. Since the beginning of the pandemic, he has made hundreds of local and national TV, radio appearances to discuss various aspects of the pandemic response. As a passionate advocate for immunization, Dr.Paul is involved in several national projects that address vaccine hesitancy.
Dr. Noah Crampton
Dr. Noah Crampton is a family physician at Toronto Western Family Health Team in Toronto. After graduating, he pursued a career as a clinician researcher because he knew that digital technologies would likely transform his career as an early-stage clinician. Today, he is working diligently to advance the field of EMRs and AI as an effective method of improving quality of care across populations. Specifically, he is a lecturer at the University of Toronto with expertise in the EMR aggregator database UPLEARN/POPLAR and is the co-chair for the digital health planning table for the Mid-West Ontario Health Team. He is CEO of Mutuo Health Solutions which is commercializing Canada's leading state-of-the-art AI medical scribe tool called AutoScribe.
Dr. Qingling Duan
Qingling Duan is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen’s University. Her education and research training spanned biology, genetics and bioinformatics with a combination of wet-lab and dry-lab methods. She was awarded the Queen’s National Scholar in Bioinformatics, in recognition of her research training and productivity in this emerging, trans-disciplinary field. Dr. Duan leads the Computational Genomics Laboratory, which aims to generate novel hypotheses for the mechanisms underlying complex, multifactorial traits such as asthma, atopy and drug response outcomes. Major research themes in the lab include integration of genomics with environmental exposures to determine modulating effects of environment on health outcomes, and integration of multiple ‘omics datasets (e.g., transcriptomics, metagenomics and metabolomics) as well as application of network methods to investigate mechanisms of disease. Her research is in collaboration with multiple research networks such as the Canadian CHILD Cohort Study, the Canadian Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (CanCOLD) Cohort, the Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CRRN), and the pan-Canadian core for microbiome research (IMPACTT).
Dr. Heather MacNeill
Dr. Heather MacNeill, MD, BSc(PT), MScCH(HPTE), FRCPC, currently serves as the Interim Assistant Dean of Faculty Development at the newly established Toronto Metropolitan University School of Medicine (TMU SoM). In addition, she holds the position of Associate Professor and is the Faculty Lead for Educational Technologies in Continuing Professional Development at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. MacNeill is not only an esteemed academic but also a dedicated practitioner, working as a PM&R physician and the Medical Director of Stroke Rehabilitation at Sinai Health. Her expertise extends over a decade in the realm of educational technologies in healthcare, demonstrated through her significant contributions to the AMEE Guides to Online Learning, Parts 1 and 2. Her work in this field has been pivotal in shaping and enhancing healthcare education.
Past Keynotes
