Leadership

Network Director, Nominated Principal Investigator

Dr Olivier Drouin is a clinician-scientist in the Division of General Pediatrics at the CHU Sainte-Justine in Montréal. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor in both the Department of Pediatrics and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Université de Montréal. He holds a Clinical Research Scholar - Junior 2 award from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé. His research expertise includes both inpatient and outpatient general pediatrics, health services research, behavioural sciences, implementation science, health economics and public health. He is is a board member of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research and national co-lead for research for the Pediatric Inpatient Research Network.

Founder and Former Network Director

Dr. Quach-Thanh is the POPCORN director and NPA since the network’s inception in 2022. She is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and medical microbiologist at CHU Sainte-Justine and Professor in the Depts. of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases & Immunology and of Pediatrics at the U. de Montréal. She is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Infection Prevention: From Hospital to the Community. Dr. Quach was the National Advisory Committee on Immunization chair (PHAC) during the early days of the pandemic (2017- 2021) and saw, first-hand, the challenges and gaps for vaccine programs decisions in a time of uncertainty. Since 2021, she has been the chair of the Quebec Immunization Committee (INSPQ). Dr. Quach is the physician in charge of infection prevention and control at the CHU Sainte-Justine (pediatric and maternal) where she was able to apply her expertise and knowledge to ensure hospital capacity and patients/healthcare workers safety. During the pandemic, she led various cohort studies on risk of reinfections in healthcare workers (RECOVER1 and 2, CIHR and CITF funding), serosurveys in healthcare workers (co-PI, INSPQ) and in children using residual samples in Quebec (MSSS) and Canada (CIHR). She has been site PI on industry-sponsored and academic-led clinical trials and understands what needs to be addressed. She has had the opportunity to work closely with PHAC, INSPQ and INESSS and maintains strong ties with them. She has secured over 19M CAD in grant funding as NPI or PI and has published over 190 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Collaboration Centre Lead

Dr. Lacaze-Masmonteil is the scientific director of MICYRN and is responsible for implementing the Network’s scientific vision and direction in alignment with the strategic plan set by the Board of Directors (BOD). The coordinating role of MICYRN for the project POPCORN has been endorsed by the BOD. His leadership role in POPCORN therefore aligns with his MICYRN scientific director duties and responsibilities, including scientific and strategic leadership; operational, financial, program planning and management; and community relations and advocacy.

Emergency Medicine Pillar Lead

Dr. Samina Ali is a pediatric emergency physician (Edmonton, Canada) and a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine (University of Alberta). She trained at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and Memorial University (Newfoundland, Canada). She is a national award-winning researcher, mentor, educator, and leader. Dr. Ali is currently Chair of Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC), Research Director for Pediatric Emergency Medicine (University of Alberta), and the Western Canadian hub lead for Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP). Her research program concerns better treatment of children’s acute care with a focus on analgesic clinical trials, responsible prescribing of opioid analgesia, management of medical procedure-related pain, and more recently, equitable access to care and better meeting family needs in the ED. Dr. Ali has published over 200 articles in emergency and pain care and had her works featured in local and international media and podcasts.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion + Indigeneity Co-Lead

Dr. Banerjee is Assistant Professor, ECR, and the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism at the School of Population & Global Health, McGill U. Her interdisciplinary epidemiologic and qualitative research embeds a strong emphasis on community-based participatory pedagogy and research, which is grounded in collaboration and partnership with racialized communities funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, Social Science & Humanities Research Council and Public Health Agency of Canada. She developed and offered the first course on race and health in a school of public health in Canada. She is known for her anti-racism and anti-oppression practice in the learning environment and providing mentorship for racialized students in public health programs. She won the 2022 McGill Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine Teaching Innovation Award recognizing her unique pedagogy for inclusive public health education and serves on The Lancet’s International Advisory Board for Racial Inequalities. She will co-lead EDI+I with Dr. Li to address gaps in knowledge and practices for POPCORN 2.0.

Residual Samples for the Detection of Novel Pathogens Lead

Dr. Shelly Bolotin is an Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, and the Director of the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases at the University of Toronto. She is also a scientist at Public Health Ontario.
Shelly leads a multi-disciplinary research program aimed at evaluating whether our population is adequately protected from infectious diseases. Applying a public health lens, her studies combine epidemiological and laboratory methods to answer questions related to population immunity and vaccine effectiveness, and determine our future risk for outbreaks or epidemics. Shelly has a particular interest in measles control and elimination, and has worked nationally as well as internationally in this area.
In addition to working in academia, Dr. Bolotin has worked in public health at the provincial and national levels, focusing on infectious disease surveillance and public health emergency response.

Maternal Health

Dr. Isabelle Boucoiran is Clinical Associate Professor at Université de Montréal (QC). She is a mid-career clinician-scientist at the School of Public Health and the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the CHU Sainte-Justine, where she is co-director of the Women and Children Infectious Disease Centre (CIME). Her main area of research is the diagnosis, management, and prevention of infections in pregnancy. Her research expertise is at the crossroads of several fields, from basic science to epidemiology and public health. Her research program is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the US National Institutes of Health, the “Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Santé” and the Quebec health ministry. Dr. Boucoiran is a new member of POPCORN 2.0, adding her expertise for pandemic preparedness in maternal health.

Patient Engagement Lead; Governance Committee Co-Chair

Dr. Buchanan is the lead of the POPCORN Patient Engagement Pillar. She is the program manager of Patient Engagement at SickKids Research Institute and the Ontario Child Health SUPPORT Unit (OCHSU). Dr. Buchanan is a person with lived experience as a chronic pain patient and a caregiver to a child with medical complexity. She has a PhD in Health Services Research and is an expert in patient and family engagement methodologies. Dr. Buchanan provides methodological support, training, and capacity building for patient-oriented research in child health across Ontario. Since 2016, she has co-authored the SPOR-funded Patient Orientated Research Curriculum in Child Health (PORCCH), launched the SickKids Patient Engagement in Research Program (PEiR), published in leading journals (CMAJ, JAMA Network and BMJ Open), grown a community of patient and family advisors to support research engagement; trained over 100 trainees and organized 2 patient/family engagement symposia.

Indirect Consequences Co-Lead

Dr. Carwana is a pediatrician and early career clinician-investigator researching the intersection of pediatric clinical medicine, public health/policy, and the structural and social determinants of health. He is the Medical Director of the RICHER Social Pediatrics Program at BC Children’s Hospital, which provides outreach consultative care to equity-seeking children and families in Vancouver’s inner city, where his clinics focus on supporting families impacted by substance use. He also provides inpatient care as a pediatric hospitalist at BC Children’s Hospital. In addition to his clinical training, he completed a MPH in Epidemiology from Harvard University. Dr. Carwana’s research focus is on health equity, and research co-design and co-implementation with families experiencing structural marginalization. He is the Principal Investigator on multiple community-based participatory action research projects based in Vancouver. He serves as the Project Lead for Indirect Covid-19 Consequences for the POPCORN Platform, and the Group Lead for Health Equity and Integrated Knowledge Translation at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. He is also President of the Social Pediatrics Section of the Canadian Pediatric Society and the BC Children’s Hospital representative on PIRN.

Mentorship and Training Co-Lead

Dr. Constantin is an Associate Professor, Pediatrics, McGill University, Senior Clinician-Scientist at the RIMUHC, and Director of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Medicine Research at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. She was actively involved in the CCHCSP Executive Committee for 10 years where she served as Director of CCHCSP Curriculum and was leading the development/enhancement of the training curriculum and the oversight of all of the provincial CCHCSP centres). She was a past program director for pediatrics residency training (current interim director); she also was Assistant Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education at McGill University and University Lead for Competency Based Medical Education. She developed an innovative research education curriculum (PHRESCA: Pediatric Health Research Epidemiology Statistics CurriculA). She has held several mentorship and training leadership roles at the University and National levels (Past Assistant Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education; and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada executive committee as the University (Postgraduate) Competency Based Medical Education lead). For her contributions and innovations to research education and mentorship, Dr Constantin was awarded the McGill Faculty Honour List for Education Excellence. She is currently i) Mentorship Lead of PIRN’s Executive Committee; ii) pediatrics residency program director and member of the National Royal College Pediatrics Specialty Committee; and iii) Advisor to the Dean’s Office of International Affairs, leading training, education, faculty development, and continuing professional development dossiers, partnering with the Royal College and International Partnerships.

Outpatient Care

Dr. Décary is Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation at University of Sherbrooke in Québec and ECR. He has been involved in Long COVID research since April 2020 having received CIHR grants to study rehabilitation care models. He was mandated by the SPOR Evidence Alliance, COVID-END, Alberta Health System and the Public Health Agency of Canada to conduct living systematic reviews of care models and management options for Long COVID. In August 2021, he joined the World Health Organization expert committee for Post COVID-19 Condition and authored the WHO Living Guidelines. He conducted multiples online webinars for rehabilitation professionals and primary care clinicians on the management of Long COVID. In Quebec, his clinical trial led to the development of a 1.3M$ primary care rehabilitation ecosystem now delivering care to hundreds of patients. He joined the Quebec Task Force for Long COVID which published clinical tools for rehabilitation and primary care clinicians. He is now a scientific consultant to the Ministry of Health to support the implementation of a 20M$ provincial network of 15 post-COVID clinics, including one for paediatrics population. In January 2023, he became the co-scientific director for Long COVID Web with Dr. Angela Cheung, a 20M$ investment from CIHR to coordinate Long COVID research across Canada. Dr. Décary is joining POPCORN 2.0 as the outpatient care models experts, using post-COVID conditions as the pilot.

Critical Care Lead; Data Governance Co-Lead

Dr. Fontela is the POPCORN Data Pillar co-lead since the network’s inception. She is a pediatric intensivist and epidemiologist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics at McGill U. She is also FRQ-S Senior Clinical Research Scholar. Patricia has been the Chair of the Canadian Critical Care Pediatric Subgroup of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) since 2020. She has participated in several national and international studies on COVID-19 in adult and pediatric critical care patients. She is also the director of the Sepsis Canada Research Training Program and the co-director of the LifTING Research Training Program, both funded by CIHR. As a researcher, she has been the PI on several academic-led clinical trials that focus on infectious diseases in the pediatric critical care setting. Patricia is also the co-chair of the Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Consortium (CanPICC), which includes all pediatric intensive care units in Canada. As such, she is developing a national database to collect prospective data on pediatric patients for research and surveillance purposes, which will increase efficiency in case of a new pandemic.

Mental Health Expert

Dr. Baudouin Forgeot d'Arc is a psychiatrist-researcher, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at CHU Sainte-Justine. He was a psychiatrist at Robert-Debré Hospital (Paris), then at the Autism Program at Rivière-des-Prairies Hospital (CIUSSSNIM). He created and leads the ECHO(r) telementoring program on mental health and neurodevelopment. His experimental work initiated with his PhD (Département d'Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris), and pursued as an FRQS researcher (junior 1, 2013-2017) contributed to defining the socio-cognitive profile associated with autism using behavioral studies, computational models and neuroimaging. He is one of the principal investigators of the thematic network 'pour transformer les soins en autisme' (FRQS) and the 'Québec 1000 families' project (Fondation Coutu). He also co-leads research and social innovation projects on social support and mental health for people with autism, such as the 'autisme-ensemble' platform (MEI and Public Health Agency of Canada) and the 'pouvoir d'agir et soins sans stigma' experiential knowledge-based training project (CIHR).

Scientific Committee Chair

Dr. Rishi Ganesan is a pediatric neurocritical care physician and clinician-scientist whose pioneering work is transforming the understanding and management of brain injury and ICU delirium in critically ill children. He holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Paediatrics and Clinical Neurological Sciences at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, with cross-appointments in Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Physiology & Pharmacology. He also serves as a Scientist at the LHSC Research Institute and is a core member of the Western Institute for Neurosciences.
Dr. Ganesan’s research program focuses on improving neurological outcomes in critically ill children, particularly those with acquired brain injuries. His work integrates advanced neuromonitoring techniques including high-density EEG, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), and functional MRI to improve our understanding of PICU delirium, and to detect covert consciousness and guide neuroprognostication. His interdisciplinary approach bridges pediatric critical care, computational neuroscience, and functional neuroimaging.
Dr. Ganesan has received over $1 million in competitive research funding as principal or co-principal investigator, including grants from CIHR, Brain Canada, and AMOSO. His current projects include the ABOVE Trial (a pilot trial of inhaled sedation in critically ill children), the NuANCEd study (quantitative EEG based neuromonitoring by bedside nurses), the TraNSIEnCe study (functional brain connectivity in PICU delirium), and the PREDICT-ABI project, a novel study on covert consciousness. The PREDICT-ABI study is supported by the AMOSO Innovation Fund and uses multimodal neuroimaging to detect cognitive motor dissociation in comatose children. Dr. Ganesan has been a part of the POPCORN initiative since its inception as one of the Co-PIs, Site PI and the Central region representative on the Scientific Committee. He became the vice-chair of the scientific committee in 2024 and also leads a POPCORN sub-study focused on neurological complications in children with COVID-19 infection.
A prolific academic, Dr. Ganesan has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to several textbooks. He is a Fellow of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and serves on multiple national and international professional organizations, including the Neurocritical Care Society, the Pediatric Neurocritical Care Research Group and the Curing Coma Campaign, Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Consortium (CanPICC), the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG),. Dr. Ganesan is also a dedicated educator and mentor, supervising graduate students, medical students, residents and clinical fellows. With a rare combination of clinical expertise, research innovation, and compassionate care, Dr. Rishi Ganesan is redefining the frontiers of pediatric brain injury management. His work not only advances scientific understanding but also brings tangible improvements to the lives of children and families navigating the most challenging moments of critical illness.

Inpatient Medicine Pillar Lead

Dr. Gill is an Early Career Researcher, hospital pediatrician, Scientist at SickKids and its Research Institute, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and Co-Founder and Chair of the Canadian Paediatric Inpatient Research Network (PIRN). He is an epidemiologist and national leader in patient-oriented research in Pediatric Hospital Medicine. He conducts outcomes-based comparative effectiveness, patient-oriented and implementation science research, with experience leading large multisite studies and using administrative data. In his role as one of POPCORN's ECRs and Inpatient Medicine Lead, Dr. Gill is part of the scientific, governance, and executive committees.

Knowledge Mobilization Pillar Lead; Early Career Researcher

Dr. Lisa Knisley was recently appointed as an Assistant Professor within the College of Nursing at the University of Manitoba. She has been the Executive Director since 2012 for Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK), a national knowledge mobilization network based at the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba. Through TREKK, Lisa leads provincial and national research to accelerate the speed at which the latest evidence in children’s emergency care is accessible to and useful for healthcare providers and patients/families. Lisa’s POPCORN ENRICH mentor is Dr. Terry Klassen.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion + Indigeneity Co-Lead

Dr. Li is co-lead of the EDI+I pillar. Her clinical and research pursuits aim to advance health equity. She is a mid-career clinician-scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, associate professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics at McGill U., and general pediatrician at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and CLSC Parc Extension, where her outpatient clinical work focuses on immigrant and refugee populations. She has also recently joined the Northern and Native Child Health Program at the Montreal Children’s Hospital to provide care to Inuit children in Ungava Bay. She is a researcher member of SHERPA, a research institute to advance knowledge and best practices in primary care services in the multi-ethnic context. She is NPA on a CIHR-funded RCT to co-design a patient navigator intervention for migrant children and families and NPA on a CIHR planning grant to explore partnerships with Indigenous Communities for the Canadian Pediatric Inpatient Research Network. She contributes her EDI expertise as co-PI on the CIHR-funded Accelerating Clinical Trials (ACT) Canada ($39 million) and co-I on a CIHR team grant (CAPACITY; $2 million) to create a platform for diabetes research across pediatric hospitals in Canada. She leads the EDI+I team activities, including team training focused on EDI learning based on a research team needs, 2 qualitative studies to generate knowledge on lessons learned in working with marginalized communities during the pandemic, exploring partnerships with Indigenous communities. She will work to continue to address the gaps in EDI+I knowledge and practices within the research team through multifaceted learning opportunities, continue to support anti-oppressive and culturally safe research, and continue to develop community partnerships for ongoing pandemic preparedness.

Education and Development Expert

Dr. Tina Montreuil is an associate professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at McGill University, an associate member in psychiatry and pediatrics, and a researcher at the MUHC Research Institute and the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center. She directs the C.A.R.E. (Childhood Anxiety and Regulation of Emotions) laboratory and co-directs the MAWS (Montreal Antenatal Well-Being Study) longitudinal study. A recipient of the ENRICH (Empowering Next-Gen Researchers in Perinatal and Child Health) program and FRQ-S (Junior 1, 2) fellowships, her work focuses on the intergenerational transmission of mental health, emotion regulation, and parental resilience. She is one of the co-authors of the perinatal intervention Toi, moi bébé. In 2017, she created and published the Healthy Minds, Healthy Schools school program, which aims to promote academic success and psychological well-being in elementary school children before adolescence. Its implementation has led to partnerships with the Ministry of Education (MEES), the Conseil supérieur de l'éducation, and several schools in Quebec and Canada. Author of over 200 publications and international speaker, her work is supported by CIHR, SSHRC, NSERC, FRQS, FRQSC, FRQNT, and several other foundations. A member of the Ordre des psychologues du Québec and the Canadian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy, she has received several awards, including the title of “Champion” in mental health, and is among the 150 most influential Canadians in mental health.

Scientific Committee Vice-Chair

Shaun Morris is a Clinician-Scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases, a Senior Scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, and is the Co-Director of the Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). He is a Professor of Pediatrics is cross appointed to the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Morris’ research portfolio has several complimentary areas of focus and is conducted in Canada and internationally. Major research pillars include reducing newborn mortality and morbidity from sepsis, establishing burden and risk factors for severe infections in different populations and hosts, immunization and the epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases including influenza, COVID-19, and RSV, and pandemic preparedness. Internationally, he has led randomized trials and other studies in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Kenya.
Dr. Morris is Chair of the Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) and the Co-Primary Investigator of Canada’s Immunization Program Active (IMPACT). At SickKids he is the lead investigator for the GeoSentinel network (travel acquired infections) and co-lead for the Special Immunization Clinic Network (vaccine safety and immunization in special hosts).

Governance Committee Co-Chair

Dr. Murthy is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Murthy is a Researcher at BC Children's Hospital with a focus on biomarkers in pediatric sepsis. Infections in children are still a major cause of early morbidity and mortality throughout the world, despite the advances made in preventive care. Infections are often a reason for children to become critically ill, and often occur in the critically ill child. His research focuses upon stemming this burden through optimizing their management in a variety of settings. Additionally, the ability of various settings and healthcare systems to cost-effectively manage critically ill children, especially those with infection, is an area of focus.

Data Governance Co-Lead

Dr. Portales-Casamar is the co-lead of the POPCORN Data Governance Pillar. She is the director of data management and IT infrastructure at the research centre at CHU Sainte-Justine (CHUSJ). She has a PhD in neuroscience and postdoctoral training in bioinformatics and genomics, and is an expert in clinical research informatics, research data management and standardization, and repurposing of clinical data for research. She has 42 peer-reviewed publications and has received $3,029,000 in grant funding as PI or co-PI. She contributed to the development of bioinformatics tools and led the implementation of national data platforms and registries. For the past 10 years, she has been developing and maintaining informatics infrastructure to support clinical research activities at Canadian pediatric hospitals, including support for software such as REDCap for electronic data capture, and OpenSpecimen or ATIM for biobanking inventory management. Her research interests lie at the interface between health sciences, bioinformatics, and clinical informatics, focusing on methodologies to integrate heterogeneous datasets and facilitate re-use of existing data while ensuring data privacy and security.

Indirect Consequences Co-Lead

Dr. Roumeliotis is a pediatric intensivist and clinician scientist at CHU Sainte-Justine. Her research focuses on safety systems in the intensive care unit. After completing her M.Sc. at U Montréal, she pursued her pediatric intensive care fellowship and a Ph.D. in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services at the U of Toronto (2021). Her doctoral work was funded by the Fonds de Recherche Quebec Santé (FRQS) and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG). As an early career investigator, she is support by the FRQS as a junior 1 scholar, and has received CIHR funding for two projects: a prospective multicenter cohort evaluating medication errors and adverse drug events in critical care, and for a Pan-Canadian cohort evaluating the safety of discharge home directly from the PICU. She participates in the ‘comité délibératif permanent’ of Institut national d'excellence en santé et services sociaux in Quebec (INESSS). Within the POPCORN platform, Dr. Roumeliotis led two studies on the mental health hospitalizations in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the association between eating disorder hospitalizations and pandemic restrictions. She continues to work in partnership with POPCORN and youth with lived experience to explore the indirect consequences of the pandemic on youth.

Director of Operations; Biobank Pillar Lead

Dr. Rufiange has been in the field of Clinical Research for her entire career. She was an Analyst in a bioanalytical lab during her undergrad and thereafter, took the role of PK Scientist in her early years after her PhD. She then became a Project Manager for Phase I studies at Algorithme Pharma, a CRO based in Montreal. She obtained her PMP certification in 2014; then moved on to an Academic Research Organization, affiliated with Montreal Heart Institute, in 2017 as a Sr Project Manager for multicentric QC/CAN and international Phase II/III/IV clinical trials, managing both pharmaceutical industry studies and academic Investigator-initiated studies. Dr. Rufiange joins POPCORN as the Opertaions Manager working closely alongside the Network Director.

Infectious Diseases Pillar Lead

Dr. Sadarangani is an Associate Professor in the UBC Dept. of Pediatrics, and Director of the Vaccine Evaluation Center (VEC) at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR). His research encompasses the full breadth of vaccine science via a unique combination of laboratory, clinical and epidemiologic research. His work has informed strategies to combat the recent resurgence in infant pertussis (whooping cough) via immunization in pregnancy, a policy now adopted by many countries. He helped optimize current global immunization programs against Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis, the leading causes of septicemia and bacterial meningitis in childhood. Over his career, Dr. Sadarangani has shown strong capacity to secure funding with ~$51M in grants as PI and ~$113M as co-I from competitive agencies (e.g., CIHR, PHAC). He has published 170 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals (e.g., Nature Immunology). He was a member of the Systems Immunology Task Force for CEPI to establish a harmonized approach to immunologic evaluation of novel vaccine technologies, including mRNA vaccines, and an invited member of their translational immunology group to advise global vaccine manufacturers about best approaches for developing and evaluating highly immunogenic vaccines – this advice was vital in the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He is co-PI of the Immunization Monitoring Program ACTive (IMPACT) Network (research of vaccine preventable diseases and vaccine-related adverse events in 13 pediatric hospitals) – which has supported almost all immunization program guidelines in Canada. He is Chair, Canadian Association for Immunization Research, Evaluation and Education (CAIRE). CAIRE facilitates direct interactions of policy makers, industry, public health, clinicians, and researchers to ensure a rapid integrated approach for knowledge mobilization. Dr. Sadarangani is the pillar lead for infectious diseases.

Mentorship and Training Co-Lead

Dr. Tam is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. She practices as a pediatric infectious diseases physician at BC Children’s Hospital and also serves as the program director for the pediatric infectious diseases training program. She completed a Masters of Health Professions Education (MHPE) via Maastricht University in the Netherlands, in collaboration with the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES) at UBC. She currently holds educational leadership roles within the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (AMMI) Canada, including within the Mentorship Committee and National Curriculum Committee.

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