Scientific Advisory Committee and
Disclosures of Potential Conflicts of Interest
My CHE Profile


Program Chairs

Karl Weiss, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Université de Montréal
Co-Chair, Montreal Regional Infection Control Board
Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital
Montréal, Québec
Member of an advisory board or similar committee with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Received payment, grants or an honorarium from a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Roche, GSK
Alan Kaplan, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP
Clinical Lecturer
University of Toronto
Chairperson, Family Physician Airways Group of Canada
Brampton Civic Hospital, Brampton
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Member of an advisory board or similar committee with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Astra Zeneca, Merck Frosst, Talecris
Member of a speaker’s bureau for industry.
Astra Zeneca, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, Merck Frosst, Purdue

Program Faculty

Marc Afilalo, MD, MCFP(EM), FACEP, CSPQ, FRCP
Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Director and Attending Physician
Emergency Department
SMBD-Jewish General Hospital
Montreal, Quebec
Affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Member of a speaker’s bureau for industry.
Received payment, grants or an honorarium from a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Roche: Unrestricted educational grant
HCWA protection in ED

John T. Axler, MD, CCFP
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Toronto
Active Staff
Toronto East General Hospital
Toronto, Ontario
None declared
Chris Bauch, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
Received payment, grants or an honorarium from a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of my presentation.
Received research contracts and acted as an external consultant for GSK on hepatitis A and cervical cancer vaccines
Ken Bayly, BSc, MD
Family Physician
Saskatoon District Health
Board of Directors
Family Physician Airways Group of Canada
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
None declared
Ross Davidson, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Director, Molecular Epidemiology/Microbiology
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Member of an advisory board or similar committee with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Member of a speaker’s bureau for industry.
Received payment, grants or an honorarium from a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Bayer, Abbott, Janssen-Ortho, Roche, BMS, GSK
Jean Desaulniers, MD, CCFM, FCFM
CME President, Association des Médecins
Omnipraticiens de Mauricie (AMOM)
Centre d'hébergement et de soins de longue durée (CHSLD) Le Trifluvien
Trois Rivières, Quebec
Member of an advisory board or similar committee with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Advisory board for GSK on type 2 diabetes
Gerald A. Evans, MD, FRCPC
Associate Professor of Medicine
Queen's University
Consultant, Infectious Diseases
Kingston General Hospital
Kingston, Ontario
None declared
Eleanor N. Fish, PhD
Professor, Department of Immunology
University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology
Toronto General Research Institute
University Health Network
Toronto, Ontario
Affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Received payment, grants or an honorarium from a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Biogen Idec: Speaker at symposium
InterMune - Sponsored research
Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals: Consultant
Amgen: Sponsored research
Roche: Sponsored research
Schering: Sponsored research
Allison McGeer MD, FRCPC
Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Toronto
Microbiologist, Infectious Disease Consultant
Department of Microbiology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, Ontario
Member of an advisory board or similar committee with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Member of a speaker’s bureau for industry.
Currently participating, or have recently participated, in a clinical trial sponsored by a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of my presentation.
sanofi-pasteur: Advisory Board
GSK: Sponsored research; speaker’s bureau
Roche: Sponsored research; speaker’s bureau
Elliot Mintz, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
University of British Columbia
Active Staff
Vancouver General Hospital, BC Women's Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia
Affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Received payment, grants or an honorarium from a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of presentation.
Brian Schwartz, MD, CCFP
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
Emergency Physician and Director of Prehospital Care
Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, Ontario
None declared
Ken Stakiw, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Medical Director
Palliative Care Services
Saskatoon Health Region
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
None declared
Robert Woodland, MD, CCFP, FCFP
St. John's, Newfoundland
None declared

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