Dr. Kelly Cobey is a scientist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute where she leads a program in meta-research and open science. She is also an adjunct professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Cobey holds a number of national and international leadership positions in the meta-research community. Since 2015 she has been a member of EQUATOR Canada which provides educational outreach and support for the use of reporting guidelines. She also presently sits on the Advisory Board of DORA (Declaration On Research Assessment) which aims to drive the use of more responsible metrics to evaluate research and researchers, and serves on the Science Policy Committee for Research Data Canada.
Dr. Cobey is interested in a range of themes pertaining to meta-research and open science. She has interests in topics including the implementation of open science, the reporting quality of research, data management and sharing best practices, research reproducibility, and patient engagement in research. She is also the Ottawa Data Champion Team lead.
Dr. David Moher is a senior scientist in the clinical epidemiology program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, where he directs the Centre for Journalology (publication science). Dr. Moher is also a Professor at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. Dr. Moher holds an MSc in epidemiology and PhD in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.
Professor Moher is an internationally recognized leader and pioneer in the conduct and reporting of randomized controlled trials, methodology of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, development of reporting guidelines for health research, research on research integrity and for pioneering the emerging field of journalology (publication science). He is one of the most cited and impactful researchers in the world with more than 450,000 citations (Google Scholar); he has received $100M in peer-reviewed funding throughout his career; he has been recognized several times as one of the world’s most highly influential biomedical researchers by Clarivate Analytics. Professor Moher is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Dr. Emilio I. Alarcon is a Scientist in the Division of Cardiac Surgery and Director of the Bio-nanomaterials Chemistry and Engineering Laboratory at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Ottawa. His research is focused on the fabrication, development and implementation of new materials with regenerative capabilities for tissue regeneration of heart, skin, and soft tissues.
Dr. Anna Catharina Armond is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Centre for Journalology. Dr. Armond is a dentistry graduate and holds a PhD in Health Sciences in the program of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine from the University of Debrecen, Hungary.
In the past 5 years, she has worked on several European projects on meta-research, and research ethics and integrity. She is also a co-founder of the Embassy of Good Science platform.
Dr. Boet is a Professor at the University of Ottawa and works as a hyperbaric medicine speciality and anesthesiologist at The Ottawa Hospital. He holds several leadership positions including Assistant Dean at the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the Research and Clinical Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. He completed his training in anesthesiology and intensive care in France in 2005, has extensive experience in pre-hospital emergency medicine and holds a PhD in education. Prior to joining the uOttawa team, Dr. Boet completed a simulation and medical education fellowship at the University of Toronto. His first research program investigates educational strategies to improve practices in acute care and his second research program explores hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Dr. Jamie Brehaut is a Senior Scientist with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Full Professor in the School of Epidemiology & Public Health at the University of Ottawa, and member of the Centre for Implementation Science and the Ottawa Methods Centre. Dr. Brehaut holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from McMaster University. Trained in issues of human memory, attention, and cognition, Dr. Brehaut has expertise in knowledge translation and implementation, psychological theory, judgement and decision making, decision support, and issues in caregiver health. Much of his work focuses on the application of psychological theory to facilitate health care practice change and ethical issues in health care decision making. His work involves a wide range of clinical disciplines (e.g. emergency medicine, critical care, oncology, lab medicine, public health).
Dr. Jocelyn Côté is a full professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He was Assistant Dean of Research and Special Projects from 2014 to 2019, during which time he led a number of large-scale space expansion and infrastructure projects. His leadership in promoting research space and resource optimization, as well as continued expansion and improvements to the Faculty of Medicine’s Core Facilities, have ensured that researchers across the Faculty of Medicine and affiliated hospital research institutes have access to state-of-the-art facilities, technical expertise and training to enable them to perform leading-edge research and remain competitive on the world stage.
Dr. Jodi Edwards is the Director of the Brain and Heart Nexus Research Program at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI), and an Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Edwards is a cardiovascular epidemiologist whose research program involves risk assessment and predictive modelling for the heart-brain interface, with a specific focus on the identification of novel cardiac markers of stroke and dementia risk and women’s heart and brain health and innovative health technologies for risk detection.
Dr. Khaled El Emam is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Medical AI at the University of Ottawa, where he is a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting research on privacy enhancing technologies to enable the sharing of health data for secondary purposes, including synthetic data generation and de-identification methods.
Khaled is a co-founder of Replica Analytics, a company that develops synthetic data generation technology, which was recently acquired by Aetion. As an entrepreneur, Khaled founded or co-founded six product and services companies involved with data management and data analytics, with some having successful exits. Prior to his academic roles, he was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
He participates in a number of committees, number of the European Medicines Agency Technical Anonymization Group, the Panel on Research Ethics advising on the TCPS, the Strategic Advisory Council of the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, and also is co-editor-in-chief of the JMIR AI journal.
In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement. He held the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa from 2005 to 2015. Khaled has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London, England.
Dr. Stefanie Haustein is associate professor at the School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at the University of Ottawa and co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab), an interdisciplinary team of researchers based in Vancouver and Ottawa, Canada, interested in all aspects of scholarly communication. Dr. Haustein’s research focuses on scholarly communication, bibliometrics, altmetrics, and open science. She is an associate researcher at the Centre for Journalology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, the Institute for Science Society and Policy (ISSP) and the LIFE Research Institute at University of Ottawa as well as the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), Université de Québec à Montréal.
Dr. Paul Hendry is a Cardiac Surgeon at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, and he is Professor of Surgery at the University of Ottawa. He has been involved at all levels of medical education since he joined the University of Ottawa.
His area of focus now is in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) having developed a Postgraduate Course in Cardiac Surgery for the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress and as Scientific Program Chair for Cardiac Surgery for the CCC. He became the Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education (CME) in 2009 and has worked to broaden the scope of the Office of CPD in providing education programs to physicians in our region and now oversees it as Vice-Dean for CPD.
Alison Hosey holds a PhD in biomedical science from Queen’s University in the United Kingdom. Alison has industry and academic experience as a researcher: at a precision medicine biotech company in the United States and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. During her research career, Alison published in high-impact scientific journals, was awarded peer-reviewed stipends from external agencies, and presented at international conferences.
Alison has granting agency experience having worked at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) supporting strategic initiatives for the Institute of Cancer Research. From 2012-2021, as Director, Research Services at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Alison led strategic planning, grant development and research operations and management activities. Since August 2021, as Director, Research Operations, Research Management Services, University of Ottawa, Alison oversees a uOttawa portfolio of support to grants and contracts including grant development and submission, contract negotiation, compliance and risk management, and post-award management of research funds. Dr. Hosey is a member of the uOttawa RDM Advisory Committee.
Dr. Heather Lochnan is the Head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Assistant Dean of Continuing Professional Development at the Faculty of Medicine and the Past- President of the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Her research interests have led to participation as site PI in many landmark diabetes trials like ACCORD. Dr. Lochnan is passionate about lifelong learning and education.
Dr. Manoj Lalu is an Associate Scientist appointed to the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Clinical Epidemiology and Regenerative Medicine Programs. He is also an Assistant Professor (uOttawa) in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and a staff Anesthesiologist at The Ottawa Hospital. His current research is largely preclinical and translational, focusing on stem cell therapy for systemic inflammation that is induced by perioperative and critical illness (e.g. myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury, sepsis). Dr. Lalu also has an interest in reducing the risk of bias in preclinical work and improving translation of preclinical work to the clinical domain. He is using knowledge synthesis methods (e.g. systematic reviews) in order to improve translation of bench discoveries to first-in-human and early clinical trials.
Chantal Ripp is a Research Librarian at the University of Ottawa, with a specialization in data services for Social Sciences, Management, Humanities, and Law. Prior to arriving at the University, Chantal was the Senior Manager, Data and Repository services at the National Research Council of Canada. She has a long-standing relationship with the Canadian data community, and currently serves as a Regional Representative on the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) Professional Development Committee. Chantal received her Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Western Ontario.
Dr. Roche is an ecologist and meta-scientist. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Carleton University funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship from the European Commission. He studies how publicly shared research data (open data) contribute to improving transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration in science. He is also actively engaged in science policy through various appointments with Research Data Canada, the NSERC-CREATE Living Data Project, and the Canada National Committee for CODATA, among others. Dr. Roche is a co-founder of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE) and serves on the society’s executive committee.
Felicity Tayler (MLIS, McGill University; PhD, Concordia University; postdoctoral studies, University of Toronto) is the Research Data Management Librarian at the University of Ottawa. She is an active contributor to the Digital Research Alliance of Canada National Training Expert Group. She is a co-applicant on the SSHRC-funded Spoken Web partnership, which foregrounds a collaborative approach to literary historical study and digital development; and a collaborator on the Sloan Foundation-funded project Meaningful Data Counts, which studies data (re)use and citation practices across academic disciplines. Her research interests include metadata modeling, data visualization and the print culture of literary and poetic community.
