Leadership
Brain Canada’s Board of Directors volunteers its time and expertise to provide strategic advice and oversight to Brain Canada Foundation. The Board is committed to ensuring Brain Canada’s success as a leading brain research convenor and to supporting its engagement with the brain research community, stakeholders and the broader public.
As the national convenor and enabler of the Canadian brain research community, Brain Canada is supporting efforts to reduce health inequities. This includes efforts to assess the different ways that brain diseases and disorders affect men, women, and gender diverse groups, and various stages of neurodevelopment and aging. Brain Canada’s goal, in the process, is to advance sex and gender brain science and remove systemic barriers and biases to ensure that all individuals have equal access to – and will benefit from – the results brain research.
Patron
The Right Honourable David Johnston
C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D.
Former Governor General of Canada
Chair
France Chrétien-Desmarais, C.M.
Member, Finance, Committee
Member, Governance Committee
Member, Research Committee
Member, Marketing Committee
Executive Chair of TES Canada H2 inc.
Founding member and Executive President of Precinomics Health Solutions Canada inc.
(Montreal)
Immediate Past Chair
Naomi Azrieli, O.C., DPhil
Member, Finance Committee
Member, Governance Committee
Member, Research Committee
Member, Marketing Committee
Chair and CEO
The Azrieli Foundation
(Toronto)
Directors
Shernaz Bamji, Ph.D
Member, Research Committee
Associate Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Professor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Vice-President elect of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience
Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia
(Vancouver)
Wayne E. Bossert / Chair, Finance Committee
Member, Marketing Committee
Deputy Chairman and Global Head of Ultra High Net Worth Clients and Canadian Private Banking
RBC Wealth Management
(Toronto)
Anne-Marie Boucher, L.L.B., M.Fisc. / Chair of the Governance Committee
Co-Founder and Member of Investment Committee, BCF Ventures
(Montreal)
Graham Collingridge, Ph.D, CBE, FRS
Member, Research Committee
Krembil Family Chair in Alzheimer’s Research, University of Toronto
Director, Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Senior Investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
(Toronto)
Peter P. Dhillon, OBC
Member, Governance Committee
CEO of the Richberry Group of Companies, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ocean Spray Cranberries Ltd
(Vancouver)
Jane Enright
Member, Marketing Committee
Canadian Author and Wellness Expert
CEO of My Super Awesome Life Inc.
(British Columbia)
Eddie Goldenberg
Senior Advisor, Global Public Affairs
(Ottawa)
Mark Krembil
Member, Finance Committee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Krembil Foundation
(Toronto)
Blair Levinsky
President and CEO, Waratah Capital Advisors Ltd.
(Toronto)
Ravi Menon, Ph.D, FCAHS, FRSC / Chair of the Research Committee
Professor of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging & Psychiatry
Scientist, Robarts Research Institute
Principal Investigator, The Brain and Mind Institute
Co-Scientific Director, BrainsCAN, Western University
(London, Ontario)
Kate Pal, HBCom, CLU, FEA, CFP, CHS / Chair, Marketing Committee
President & Estate Planning Advisor at Pal Insurance
(Toronto, Ontario)
David S. Park, Ph.D, FRSC
Member, Governance Committee
Director, Hotchkiss Brain Institute
Lead, UCalgary Brain and Mental Health Research Strategy
Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, and Cell Biology and Anatomy
Cumming School of Medicine, UCalgary
(Calgary)
Joel Reitman, C.M.
Founder and President of Jillcy Capital Corp.
Co-Founder of The Cyril & Dorothy, Joel & Jill Reitman Centre for Alzheimer’s Support and Training at Mount Sinai Hospital
(Toronto)
Lawrence M. Tanenbaum, O.C. / Vice-Chair
Chairman and CEO
Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Ltd.
Chairman, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.
(Toronto)
Franco J. Vaccarino, Ph.D, FCAHS
Member, Research Committee
Former President and Vice-Chancellor
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Guelph
(Guelph)