Speakers

Regional Vice-President, Cancer Care and Vice-President, Social Accountability, Health Sciences North

Bio description coming soon.

Executive Director, Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, University Health Network

Dr. Andrew Boozary is a primary care physician, policy practitioner, researcher, and founding executive director of the Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine at the University Health Network. He completed his medical training at the University of Toronto and health policy training at Princeton University and Harvard University. His work at the intersection of health policy, social justice and equitable health care delivery aims to improve health outcomes for marginalized populations.

During the pandemic, Dr. Boozary served as co-lead of the Ontario Health Toronto Region COVID-19 Homelessness Response and holds the Dalla Lana Professorship in Policy Innovation at the University of Toronto. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Public Health Review and served in senior advisory roles for policymakers at various levels of government both nationally and abroad on public policy issues ranging from primary care reform to the implementation of pharmacare.

Dr. Boozary has published in high-impact academic journals, and his writing and analysis appear in print and broadcast media. He has been the recipient of a number of national and international awards, and is the youngest physician recipient of the Louise Lemieux-Charles Health System Leadership Award and the youngest Convocation speaker for the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine.

Clinical Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University

Dr. Jean Clinton of McMaster University is one of four renowned experts to advise the Ontario government on bold reforms to the province’s publicly funded education system.

The clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine is a specialist in child psychiatry. Her expertise is in the development of young minds and she is recognized internationally as an advocate for children’s issues. Her special interest lies in brain development, and the crucial role relationships and connectedness play therein.

She speaks to many groups, advocating the importance of relationships, early child development and brain development, parenting and asset building. Jean champions the development of a national, comprehensive child well-being strategy including a system of early learning and child care for all young children and their families, which she believes plays a vital role in promoting healthy human development.

She is equally committed to ensuring that children’s and youths’ needs and voices are heard and respected, and she actively promotes the celebration of National Child Day. She has authored papers on early child development and poverty, infant neglect, children’s mental health, resilience, and on adolescent brain development.

Dr Clinton holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Education and a medical degree and Fellowship in Psychiatry from McMaster University. Jean’s greatest accomplishment is being the mother of 5 great kids who range in age from 21-31 years.

Director, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions; Professor, Department of Medicine, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Canada Research Chair in Homelessness, Housing, and Health

Dr. Stephen Hwang is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Director of St. Michael’s Hospital’s MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Homelessness, Housing and Health. He is a physician specializing in general internal medicine who has worked as a health care provider for people experiencing homelessness for more than 3 decades. Dr. Hwang’s research focuses on interventions to end chronic homelessness and to improve the health of homeless patients.

Educator/Consultant; Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia

Based in British Columbia, Canada, Dr. Shelley Moore is a highly sought-after inclusive education researcher, teacher, consultant and storyteller. She has worked with school districts and community organizations around the world. Her research explores how to support teachers to design for all learners in grade level academic classrooms that include students with intellectual disabilities using strength based and responsive approaches. Shelley completed her undergraduate degree in Special Education at the University of Alberta, her Masters at Simon Fraser University, and her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia.