TGMS External Advisory Board


Yasmin Ali

Yasmin Ali is Manager, Research & Innovation Advancement at the IWK Health Centre in Nova Scotia where she plays a key role facilitating the success of investigators and the reputation of research at the IWK.

Geraldine Balzer

Geraldine Balzer is an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan.

Lyne Bouret

Ms. Lyne Bouret has primarily built her career in higher education, specifically at Concordia University, where she has held several key positions.

Deirdre Coburn

Deirdre Coburn, MSc leads with authenticity, integrity, and a commitment to equity in her role as Graduate Funding Facilitator at the University of Lethbridge.

Trevor Davis

Trevor Davis an 18-year veteran of research administration, is SFU’s Executive Director, Research Operations, responsible for all central research support offices, human ethics, tech transfer, and all core facilities.

Annemieke Farenhorst

Annemieke Farenhorst is the Associate Vice-President (Research) at the University of Manitoba.

Andrea Fowler

Andrea Fowler has been working in Research Finance for 26 years.

Félix Giroux

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Félix Giroux is an Assistant Professor at the Université Laval’s Faculty of Business Administration and is passionate about issues that have significant social impact.

Michael Hoffman

Michael Hoffman creates predictive computational models to understand interactions between genome, epigenome, and phenotype in human cancers.

Krista Holmes

Krista Holmes is recognized for her deep collaboration across academia, industry and community.

Francis Lévesque

Francis Lévesque is a professor at the School of Indigenous Studies at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue.

Hector MacIntyre

Dr. Hector MacIntyre is currently Manager of the Postdoctoral Office at the University of Calgary and a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Administrators.

Anita Sharma

Anita Sharma Ph.D., is the Director of Research Services at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC.

Jim Woodgett

Jim Woodgett is President and Scientific Director of the Terry Fox Research Institute, Senior Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (LTRI) at Sinai Health and Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto.