Scientific Directors
The Leadership Team provides guidance and leadership to CanPath’s pan-Canadian strategic directions, scientific priorities, continuing development and oversight of operations, including the development and approval of strategic plans, and approval of operational workplans that guide CanPath’s establishment, implementation, usage and sustainability.
Dr. Philip Awadalla
National Scientific Director, CanPath; Executive Scientific Director of the Ontario Health Study
Dr. Parveen Bhatti
Co-Scientific Director, BC Generations Project
Dr. Philippe Broët
Co-Scientific Director of CARTaGENE
Dr. Trevor Dummer
Co-Scientific Director, BC Generations Project; National Scientific Co-Director
Dr. Simon Gravel
Co-Scientific Director, CARTaGENE
Ms. Shandra Harman
Strategic Director, Alberta’s Tomorrow Project
Mr. Jason Hicks
Executive Director, Atlantic PATH
Dr. Guillaume Lettre
Co-Scientific Director of CARTaGENE
Dr. John McLaughlin
Executive Director, CanPath
Dr. Donna Turner
Scientific Director, The Manitoba Tomorrow Project
Dr. Jennifer Vena
Scientific Director, Alberta’s Tomorrow Project
Operations Committee
The CanPath Operations Committee is composed of the Scientific Directors and Operations Leads from each regional cohort, the CanPath Executive Director, the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Standing Committee Chair, the Harmonization Standing Committee Chair, and the Biosamples Standing Committee Chair.
It provides operational input on strategic plans and scientific priorities while determining work plans for CanPath Committees, Working Groups, and potentially ad-hoc Task Forces as needed, in consultation with the Leadership Team.
Operations Committee Members
- Philip Awadalla
National Scientific Director, CanPath; Executive Scientific Director of the Ontario Health Study - Parveen Bhatti
Co-Scientific Director, BC Generations Project - Philippe Broët
Co-Scientific Director of CARTaGENE - Trevor Dummer
Co-scientific Director, BC Generations Project; National Scientific Co-Director - Simon Gravel
Co-Scientific Director of CARTaGENE - Shandra Harman
Strategic Director, Alberta’s Tomorrow Project - Jason Hicks
Executive Director, Atlantic PATH - Guillaume Lettre
Co-Scientific Director of CARTaGENE - John McLaughlin
Executive Director, CanPath - Donna Turner
Scientific Director, The Manitoba Tomorrow Project - Jennifer Vena
Scientific Director, Alberta’s Tomorrow Project - Ma’n Zawati
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Committee Chair - Isabel Fortier
Harmonization Standing Committee Chair - Peter Watson
Biosamples Standing Committee Chair - Kelly McDonald
Program Manager, Ontario Health Study - Ellen Sweeney
Director, Strategic Research Initiatives, Atlantic PATH - Nolwenn Noisel
Research Associate, CARTaGENE - Kristi Rosko
Research Operations Lead, Alberta’s Tomorrow Project - Nikita Lysenko
Epidemiology Research Coordinator, The Manitoba Tomorrow Project - Treena McDonald
National Biosample Coordinator, BC Generations Project - Tedd Konya
Research Operations Manager, CanPath
Advisory Boards & Committees
International Scientific Advisory Board
The purpose of the ISAB is to advise CanPath on mechanisms to maximize the scientific value and merit of the platform, including providing advice to ensure CanPath activities meet high international standards of scientific excellence.
- Stephen Chanock, Chair
National Cancer Institute - Naomi Allen
University of Oxford - Nancy Cox
Vanderbilt University - Edward Dove
University of Edinburgh - Marc Gunter
Imperial College London - Teri Manolio
National Human Genome Research Institute - Jill Reedy
National Cancer Institute - John Spinelli
University of British Columbia - Roel Vermeulen
Utrecht University
National Strategic Advisory Council
A forum for sponsors, funders and key national organizations to provide advice and recommendations to the Executive Leads on the strategic direction of CanPath.
- Vivek Goel, Co-Chair
University of Toronto - Christine Williams, Co-Chair
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research - François Bénard
BC Cancer - Adalsteinn Brown
Dalla Lana School of Public Health - Timothy Buckland
Alberta Health Services - Brenda Hubley
Alberta Health Services - Garth Matheson
Cancer Care Ontario - Roger S.McLeod
Dalhousie University - Jacques Michaud
CHU Saint-Justine - Theresa Radwell
Alberta Cancer Foundation - Rami Rahal
Canadian Partnership Against Cancer - Stephen Robbins
Canadian Institutes for Health Research - Paula Robson
Alberta Health Services - Anne Simard
Heart and Stroke Foundation - Daniel Tessier
Genome Quebec - Neil Watkins
Cancer Care Manitoba - James Yip
Alberta Cancer Foundation
Access Committee
The Access Committee reviews and makes approval decisions on research applications submitted for CanPath data and/or biological samples. The committee is composed of 6 independent members from across Canada who have expertise in such relevant fields as biostatistics, epidemiology, and genomics.
Biosamples Standing Committee
The Biosamples Standing Committee provides sample counsel and input that have impact at the pan-Canadian level, as well as enhancing the level of sample coordination and best practice sharing at the regional level of the project.
It ensures that biosamples are collected, processed and stored in each CanPath region according to a core set of operating procedures that reflect as much consistency across the Regions as possible.
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Committee
The Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Committee (ELSI) Committee is responsible for advising on governance issues and emergent ethical, legal and social issues.
It produces Statements and Discussion Papers to be disseminated within CanPath nationally and regionally. Statements and Discussion Papers covered by the mandate of the ELSI Standing Committee include, but are not limited to: governance of the CanPath project, linkage, data management and sharing in the era of systems thinking research, ethics & scientific communication, the return of results & incidental findings, and, re-consent.
Harmonization Standing Committee
The Harmonization Standing Committee coordinates cohort data activities, provides recommendations on issues that impact data harmonization and data quality at the pan-Canadian level, and establishs the expected level of coordination and best practice sharing on matters related to harmonization at the regional level.