Executive Steering Committee

Dr. Moira Kapral is the Sir John & Lady Eaton Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a senior scientist at ICES (formerly the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences) and the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and is cross appointed to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She is a staff physician at the Toronto General Hospital/University Health Network, where she also holds the Lillian Love Chair in Women’s Health. She performs health services research with a focus on addressing inequities in stroke care and outcomes. She is co-principal investigator of the Ontario Stroke Registry.

Dr. Laura Rosella is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics. She is also the Program Director for the DLSPH PhD Program in Epidemiology, Site Director at ICES U of T, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Laura leads the Population Health Analytics laboratory where she focuses on using linked population health data in new ways to support diabetes prevention. She has developed methodology to develop and validate population risk prediction tools, including the Diabetes Population Risk Tool and a new methodology to identify optimal cut-offs for diabetes screening. Her current research is focused on understanding how persons living with type 2 diabetes accumulate chronic conditions over their life course and elucidating what factors contribute to mortality outcomes.

Dr. France Gagnon is Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto. She is an expert in genomic and epigenomic epidemiology, with research focused on the genetic and epigenetic determinants of cardiovascular disease, particularly population-based genetics and sex-based differences in disease susceptibility. She is the founding lead director of STAGE (Strategic Training for Advanced Genetic Epidemiology), Canada’s first interdisciplinary training program in genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics, and has authored more than 65 peer-reviewed publications supported by over $10 million in research funding. Her leadership has advanced collaborative, interdisciplinary research and expanded capacity for innovation across the university.