Steering Committee
Dr. Bruce Mazer, MD
- Senior Scientist, Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program, Centre for Translational Biology, MUHC-Research Institute
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
Dr. Mazer is a senior scientist in the Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program at the Meakins Christie Laboratories and is a pediatric allergist and immunologist
Dr. Christine McCusker, MD
- Scientist, Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program, Centre for Translational Biology, MUHC-Research Institute
- Division Head, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the MUHC -Research Institute
Dr. McCusker is the Clinical Director, Clinical Immunology Laboratory at the MCH, Head of Immunology, and Research Director, Meakins-Christie Laboratories
Dr. Ciriaco Piccirillo, PhD
- Senior Scientist, Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program, Centre for Translational Biology, MUHC-Research Institute
- Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
Dr. Piccirillo is the Canada Research Chair in Regulatory Lymphocytes of the Immune System
Dr. Sasha Bernatsky, MD, PhD
- Senior Scientist, Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program, Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, MUHC-Research Institute
- Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
- Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, MUHC
Dr. Bernatsky’s research focuses mainly on outcomes in rheumatic diseases, pharmacoepidemiology, and air pollution’s effects on health
Dr. John Kildea, MSc, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Medical Physics, McGill University
- Scientist, Cancer Research Program, MUHC-Research Institute
Opal powered Quebec SmartCare Consortium, a major research project that John created and leads as its principal investigator
Dr. Carolyn Jack, MD, PhD
- Junior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program
- Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
- Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, MUHC
Dr. Jack is a dermatologist and PhD-trained immunologist with expertise in molecular biology, cellular immunology, immunophenotyping of primary human cells and tissues, in vitro human pre-clinical modeling of disease, and skin biospecimen-enabled clinical trials.
Dr. Ines Colmegna, MD
- Scientist, RI-MUHC, Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program
- Centre for Translational Biology
- Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
- Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, MUHC
Dr. Colmegna’s research focuses on evaluating the mechanisms underlying the development and perpetuation of the most common form of inflammatory polyarthritis: rheumatoid arthritis.