Organizers’ Biography

Greg Bryson, MD, FRCPC, MSc is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the . He is an Associate Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the Chair of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society's Research Advisory Committee. He is the Deputy Editor-In-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia.

Kelly Cobey, PhD

is an Investigator in the Centre for Journalology. In her capacity as Publications Officer she provides educational outreach on best practice in academic biomedical publishing. Kelly also consults with researchers one-to-one to provide feedback on research designs and reports. She actively contributes to research on journalology topics, including projects related to predatory journals and research ethics. Kelly is a member of EQUATOR Canada, an Adjunct Professor in the School of , Public Health and Preventative Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and an Honorary Researcher at The University of Stirling. She obtained her PhD in Psychology (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) and has an MRes in Biology (University of Liverpool, England) and BSc in Psychology and Biology (McMaster University, Canada). Prior to her current post Kelly worked as a Lecturer at The University of Stirling (Scotland), and held a Fyssen Research Fellowship (University of Paris North, France).

Agnes Grundniewicz, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. She received her Ph.D. in Health Services Research from the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She holds a Scientist appointment at the Institut du savoir Montfort and is an affiliate investigator at the Bruyère Research Institute. Dr. Grudniewicz's research is focused on primary and community care and aims to improve health care systems and services for patients with complex health and social needs. She also studies health system improvement for older adults, individuals living with mental illness, and people with multiple chronic conditions. Using qualitative and mixed-methods research designs, Dr. Grudniewicz studies integrated care, coordination and collaboration across settings and care providers, and goal-oriented care. Manoj Lalu, MD, FRCPC, PhD is a practicing Anesthesiologist, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at The Ottawa Hospital. He holds an Associate Scientist appointment at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Clinical Epidemiology and Regenerative Medicine Programs. His current research is largely preclinical and translational, focusing on novel therapies (e.g. cellular therapies for inflammatory diseases and cancer). Dr. Lalu also investigates completeness of reporting and risk of bias in preclinical studies and ways we may overcome barriers to improve this.

David Moher, PhD is a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He is also an Associate Professor at the School of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Preventative Medicine, University of Ottawa, where he also holds a University Research Chair. Dr. Moher has received more than $100 million dollars in peer reviewed funding and has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles. His H-index (124, Scopus) indicates that his research is highly cited and has been used to inform policy. He has been recognized as one of the most highly influential biomedical researchers several times: Thomson Reuters (The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds, twice); and Boyack and colleagues (A list of highly influential biomedical researchers, 1996-2011. EJCI 2013;43:1339-1365). Dr. Moher is a member of the Advisory Board for the International Congress on and Biomedical Publication, a journal editor, as well as a member of editorial boards of several medical journals and other editorial functions, such as membership on PLoS One’s Human Research Advisory Board. Participant Biography

Kristiann Allen, MA, PhD (cand.) My career has spanned multiple levels at the nexus of science, government, and civil society. To help advance and deepen international science policy linkages, this year I am based back in Ottawa in a shared assignment with the Office of the Canadian Chief Science Advisor and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Immediately prior to this, I served for 5 years as Chief of Staff to the New Zealand Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor (www.pmcsa.org.nz). In this role I drew on my international experience and leading-edge science policy theory and practice to help build a culture of evidence-informed public policy and to advise on the national science system’s organizational arrangements that can help enable this. I continue to explore the multiple roles, tensions and opportunities in national and international science systems at the University of Auckland.

Clare Ardern, PhD is a physiotherapist, methodologist and senior researcher at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. Clare worked for 5 years as part the editorial team at British Journal of Sports Medicine (BMJ Group) – the top-ranked sports medicine journal and is the incoming Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy – a leading and independently-published rehabilitation journal.

Lesley Balcom, BA is the Dean of Libraries at the University of New Brunswick, a position she has held since 2015. As Dean, she provides leadership for UNB's network of four libraries across two campuses. Her role at UNB includes responsibility for copyright, research data management, electronic course reserves, and UNB’s institutional repository for electronic and other faculty publications. She serves on Deans Council at UNB, and the Executive Committee of the School of Graduate Studies. Lesley’s external affiliations include membership on the Board of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries as Treasurer; membership on the Executive Committees of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network and the Council of Atlantic University Libraries. She represents CARL Libraries on the Coalition Public.ca Advisory Committee, a CFI-funded partnership to advance research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada and support the social sciences and humanities journal community in the transition towards sustainable open access. She holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario and Mount Allison University.

Tiago Barros, PhD is the Product Lead at Publons in London, UK. His main focus is the development of products bringing more efficiency, transparency and quality to peer-review for Publishers and Funders. Previously, Tiago was the Product Strategy Manager at F1000 in London, UK. Tiago obtained his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry in 2004 from the University of Porto in Portugal. After internships in X-ray crystallography labs in Sweden and Portugal, he obtained his PhD in 2009 from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Monica Berger, MA Ms. Berger is an Associate Professor at NYC College of Technology, CUNY. She holds a Master’s degree form City University of New York, in liberal studies, concentration in American studies/popular culture. She is involved in many initiatives including regular workshops related to scholarly communications for City Tec including special series w/Assoc. Provost for associate professors needing help with publishing, intensive workshops, scholarly evaluation for all NWCCT appointments committees. Ms. Berger is an undergraduate research mentor and am member of NYCCT undergraduate research committee providing workshops for honors and emerging scholars related to literature review using Academic Works for their work and how to research graduate programs.

Alison Bourgon, MSc is the Acting Director General of Science Policy at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). She has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph, and a Master’s of Health Administration from the University of Ottawa. Before joining CIHR, Alison held several research positions at the University of Ottawa, the Ottawa Cancer Center, and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, including managing knowledge translation projects related to clinical decision making and patient decision aids. During her ten years at CIHR, Alison has held various leadership positions, including Deputy Director of investigator-initiated and priority-driven programs, and Manager of Knowledge Translation Strategies. In her current position, Alison oversees the breadth of CIHR’s science policies and strategies, including work in the area of ethics; research capacity; equity, diversity and inclusion; knowledge translation; open science; and health research data. Jairo Nabor Buitrago Ciro, MA Ciro is currently pursuing a doctorate in Electronic Business at the University of Ottawa. He is holds an ALA-accredited Master of Information Studies from the University of Ottawa in Canada. He has previously worked as an academic librarian at the Universite du Quebec en Outaouais in Canada, and at the library at the Universidad Simon Bolivar in Colombia.

Tammy Clifford, PhD joined CIHR on October 29, 2018 as its Vice-President of Research Programs. In this role, Dr. Clifford is responsible for the design, development, and administration of the agency’s funding programs and science policies. She is also an adjunct professor with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa, where she supervised a number of masters, doctoral, and post-doctoral students. For the last decade, Dr. Clifford served as a member of the Executive Team at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), most recently as Chief Scientist and Vice-President, Evidence Standards. At the beginning of her career, Dr. Clifford worked on a number of maternal and child health research projects at CHEO’s Research Institute, where she also served as a member of the Research Ethics Board. More recently, she had been a principal investigator on a number of knowledge translation research projects, a peer reviewer, and a member of CIHR’s Institute of Human Child and Youth Health Advisory Board. Dr. Clifford is recognized for her exceptional leadership abilities, as well as for her passion and commitment to knowledge translation, and to mentoring the next generation of health researchers. She received her PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario, and her BSc and MSc from McGill .

Lucia Cugusi, MSc, PhD is a research fellow in cardiovascular sciences in the Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Italy. Her specific research fields are related to the exercise-based rehabilitation programs adapted to individuals with chronic-degenerative diseases, with particular attention to the area of cardiovascular and neurological sciences.

Samantha Cukier, PhD, MBA is a Clinical Research Associate in the Knowledge Synthesis Group at the Ottawa Methods Centre. As Publications Officer, Samantha works with researchers to respond to questions regarding scholarly publication, including where to publish research, how to conduct and respond to peer-review, using proper reporting guidelines, predatory journals and open access publishing, among other similar topics. Additionally, Samantha works on education initiatives in journalology in order to share publication best practices. Samantha is also an instructor at Dalhousie University where she teaches online courses in the School of Health Sciences and the School of Health and Human Performance. Samantha completed post-doctoral training in Public Health (Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College) and a PhD in Public Health (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) where her research focused on the influence of alcohol marketing on underage drinking. Samantha completed an MBA (Dalhousie University) and an MA in Health Promotion (Dalhousie University).

Michael Donaldson, PhD My research focuses on understanding how organisms interact with their human-influenced environments. Through climate change, habitat development, species invasions, and fisheries, human activities can either directly or indirectly push animals to their physiological limits, affecting behaviour, reproduction, survival, and fitness. Understanding how animals respond to and recover from anthropogenic stressors is fundamental to predicting long-term consequences of these stressors, which is in turn essential for their management and conservation. In addition to my research activities, I work as the Content Development Manager at Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), the not-for-profit publisher of the NRC Research Press suite of journals and FACETS. My responsibilities at CSP include working with our journal editors to implement content development strategies with the ultimate goal of increasing quality submissions and enhancing the dissemination of scientific discoveries to the world. Matthias Egger, MD, PhD studied medicine at the University of Bern. His interest in epidemiology and public health was already evident during his student days. He spent his elective year at a rural hospital near Kumasi in Ghana, where he carried out his first scientific study (of the treatment of Buruli ulcer). Having completed his medical studies, he did his clinical training in surgery, pediatrics and internal medicine from 1984 to 1990 at various hospitals in Switzerland. Matthias Egger continued his education in epidemiology and biostatistics at the renowned London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This was followed by a two-year period of research at University College London. In 1994 Egger returned to the University of Bern on an Ambizione grant from the SNSF. There he helped to set up the Swiss HIV cohort study, a national longitudinal study that examines HIV-positive people at regular intervals and provides clinicians and public health specialists with important data on the treatment of HIV infection and the HIV epidemic in Switzerland. In 2002 Matthias Egger was appointed Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern. In subsequent years he reorganized the Institute, creating focus areas in infectious diseases and cancer, healthcare research and epidemiological methods. A Clinical Trials Unit (CTU Bern) to promote patient-oriented clinical research was set up in 2007 with the aid of start-up funding from the SNSF. Passionate about teaching, he overhauled the epidemiology and public health curriculum in Bern, taught on the Erasmus Summer Programme and European Educational Programme in Epidemiology and set up the Swiss Epidemiology Winter School. He is currently working on projects involving vaccination against Ebola, studies on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and cancer in southern Africa and methodological projects.

Kevin Fitzgibbons, MSc joined NSERC in October 2013. He works to support NSERC’s role in federal science, technology and innovation policy, to drive strategic and integrated planning, and to oversee corporate planning and policy management throughout the organization. Kevin has over 25 years of experience in the public sector and was previously the Director of Innovation Science and Technology at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development where he oversaw international science, technology and innovation cooperation projects and investments. He has also worked as the Executive Director of the Office of the National Science Advisor, and as a strategic planning and policy advisor with the National Research Council Canada (NRC). For his significant efforts and contributions in the public service Kevin was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for Public Service in 2002. In addition, while he was with the National Research Council, he was awarded the NRC Corporate Services Award for Excellence in 2002, 1999, and 1997, as well as the NRC Excellence Award for Administration in 2000. Kevin has a Master’s of Political Science from Université de Montréal. Ian Graham, PhD is a Professor in the School of Epidemiology & Public Health at the University of Ottawa and Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. From 2006-2012 he was on an interchange with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research where he held the position of Vice-President of the Knowledge Translation and Public Outreach. Dr. Graham obtained a Ph.D. in medical sociology from McGill University. His research focuses on knowledge translation (the process of research use) and conducting applied research on strategies to increase implementation of evidence-informed practice. He is the co-originator of the Ottawa Model of Research Use; the Practice Guideline Evaluation and Adaptation Cycle; the Knowledge to Action framework; and a founding member of the international ADAPTE collaboration. Dr. Graham has been twice awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal (2002, 2012) for contributions to research. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, New York Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Canada. He is the recipient of an inaugural Canadian Institutes of Health Research Foundation Grant entitled,“ Moving knowledge into action for more effective practice, programs and policy: A research program focusing on integrated knowledge translation.”

Matt Hodgkinson, BA (Hons) Qxon, M.Sc. Cantab Matt started in Open Access journal publishing in 2003 as an editor handling peer review on the BMC series with BioMed Central in London. He became a Senior Editor and Publishing Editor and worked on the journals BMC Biology and Trials and the launches of BMC Research Notes, BMC Medical Genomics, and BMC Systems Biology. He moved to the Public Library of Science in Cambridge in 2010, as an Associate Editor and then Senior Editor on PLOS ONE, screening submissions, helping academic editors with difficult manuscripts, training editors in critical appraisal, and working on clinical trials, article-level metrics, publication ethics, and reporting. He joined Hindawi in London in 2016 as Head of Research Integrity, overseeing the publication ethics processes and policies and representing the publisher at the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). He is an AuthorAID and about.hindawi.com/ blog, including about questionable journals.journalology.blogspot.com and about.hindawi.com/blog, including about questionable journals. Nolusindiso (Sindi) Kayi, MSc is the Director: University Research Support and Policy Development at the Department (Ministry) of Higher Education and Training (South Africa). She is responsible for the evaluation of research outputs from Public Higher Education Institutions and facilitation of policy development for the University sector in South Africa. Prior to joining the Department, she worked for a number of universities in research management including, Stellenbosch University, University of the Western Cape and University of Cape Town. Her portfolios focused on supporting and advancing research in South Africa mainly in research grants management and support for early career researchers. She has also worked for the National Research Foundation – a granting agency in South Africa.

Karim Khan, MD, PhD is a professor and clinician-scientist in the Department of Family Practice and School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he has taught since 2000. He is currently co-director of UBC’s Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, a $40-million centre funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. On the international stage, Dr. Khan took a two-year leave in 2014 to serve as the Director of Research and Education at Qatar’s Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital – the first of its kind in the Gulf Region. He has also taught at universities in Australia and Norway. Dr. Khan has achieved international recognition for studies promoting greater mobility among vulnerable seniors and is a respected leader in the field of tendon injuries, osteoporosis, fall prevention and exercise promotion for health. He has a track record of over 300 highly cited peer-reviewed publications, and has, since 2008, been the editor-in-chief of the high-impact British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM), a leading international journal that focuses on the role of physical activity for health. He is also the co-author of the best-selling textbook Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine. Dr. Khan is passionate about knowledge translation and patient engagement and was responsible for establishing the BJSM’s social media accounts, podcast and blog that have reached millions of viewers and listeners. His association with CIHR began 16 years ago, when he received funding as a CIHR New Investigator from 2001 to 2007. Dr. Khan earned his medical degree and PhD at the University of Melbourne, and his MBA at the University of British Columbia. Mahlubi (Chief) Mabizela, M.Ed. is a Chief Director responsible for University Education Policy and Development in the Department of Higher Education and Training, South Africa. The Chief Directorate’s main responsibilities are the measurement of research outputs from universities; research development in the university sector; administration of regulation of private higher education sector; internationalization of higher education; transformation and development of policies for the higher education sector. He holds a Masters in Education (M.Ed.) degree from the University of the Western Cape. Before joining the government he was a researcher of higher education at the University of the Western Cape and later at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in Pretoria. He is the author of The Business of Higher Education: A Study of Public-Private Partnerships in the Provision of Higher Education in South Africa. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers (2005) and principal co-editor of the special issue of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa, Volume 5, Nos. 2 & 3 (2007) with the theme Private Surge Amid Public Dominance: Dynamics in the Private Provision of Higher Education in Africa. He is an author of a few other peer-reviewed articles.

Andrea Manca, PhD is a Researcher in Human Physiology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy. He's committed to translational research where neurophysiology, exercise and sport physiology are jointly applied to help people with multiple sclerosis. Wojtek Michalowski, PhD is a Professor of Health Informatics and Vice-dean (Research) at the Telfer School of Management. He is a founding member of the MET Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. During the 1997/98 academic year, he was the Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. In 2013, the President of the Republic of Poland granted Dr. Michalowski the state title of Professor in recognition of his outstanding research accomplishments. This honour, the highest distinction given to researchers in Poland, comes at the recommendation of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr. Michalowski is member of several editorial boards and conference organizing committees. His research interests include computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines, use of machine learning for clinical decision-making, clinical decision support systems, and computer modeling of interdisciplinary healthcare teams. He has written over hundred twenty refereed papers and has published articles in leading analytics and health informatics journals. Dr. Michalowski is currently the Principal Investigator of an NSERC-funded research program that uses AI and computing technologies to make disease-specific clinical practice guidelines applicable for patients with multiple diseases and helping these patients adhere to prescribed therapies.

Katrin Milzow, PhD is the head of strategy support division at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). She studied in Oxford and Brussels and earned her doctorate in Geneva in the field of discourse analysis and European politics. At the SNSF, she coordinates strategy and positioning on key policy issues. She has recently published on evaluation and publishing issues and served as an independent EU expert on research policy.

Johann Mouton, PhD is professor in, and director of the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology at Stellenbosch University and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Scientometrics and STI Policy. He is on the editorial board of 5 international journals including the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, Science and Public Policy, Science, Technology and Society and Minerva. He has authored or co-authored 10 monographs including Understanding social research (1996), The practice of social research (2002, with E Babbie) and How to succeed in your Masters and doctoral studies (2001). He has also edited or co-edited 9 books, published 90 articles in peer reviewed journals and chapters in books, written more than 100 contract and technical reports and given more than 200 papers at national and international conferences and seminars. He has presented more than 60 workshops on research methodology and post-graduate supervision and supervised 82 doctoral and master’s students over the past twenty years. He has received two prizes from the Academy for Science and Arts in South Africa including one for his contribution to the promotion of research methodology in South Africa. In 2012 he was elected to the Council of the Academy of Science of South Africa. His main research interests are the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, higher education knowledge production, sociology of science, scientometrics and science policy studies.

Marvelous Muchenje, BSw, MSc (Patient Partner) Educator, advocate, mentor, and recognized community leader, Marvelous Muchenje has spent the last eighteen years passionately involved in the HIV/AIDS movement. She is currently a Case Manager at Women’s Health in Women’s Hands CHC. A human rights activist engaged in supporting reforms and interventions that promote and protect human rights of marginalized communities. Her research interests include mental health, social justice, human rights, women and HIV, sexual and reproductive rights, mental illness, social policy, transnationalism and globalization. Tom Olyhoek, PhD has been living and working in Africa for more than 7 years doing research into tropical and exotic diseases during much of his career. After obtaining his PhD in molecular mi- crobiology from Amsterdam University (1982) he has been at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin for 7 years. He has spent several years in Africa (Kenya, Algeria) doing research on malaria, sleeping sickness and meningococcal epidemics. Since 2012 he is advocating open access and open science as Open Access working group coordinator for Open Knowledge International. Shortly afterwards he became a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) advisory board and since 2014 he is Editor in Chief at the DOAJ. From Jan 2018 his main task has become managing of the global DOAJ ambassador programme and global outreach activities including connecting to other open communities like the Creative Commons Global Network and OCSD Net. His current research interests are the evaluation of new systems for the assessment of the quality of scholarly journals and articles, copyright and licensing in open access publishing and coordinating research in the area of soil microbiology in relation to soil health and human health (microbiome research).

Alexander Ommaya, DSc is a Senior Director of Clinical and Translational Research and Policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges. In this role, he is responsible for linking the research enterprise to clinical care and creating strategic alliances between U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals. Dr. Ommaya also represents the AAMC nationally on issues related to learning health systems, real world evidence, research administration, workforce development, and education. Prior to joining the AAMC, Dr. Ommaya held positions with the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Academy of Medicine, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the U.S. Senate. He has also served as a senior researcher for Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Institutes of Mental Health. Dr. Ommaya received his Doctoral degree in Health Policy and Management from Johns Hopkins University and a Master’s degree in Biopsychology from Mount Holyoke College.

Jigsha Patel, MD, PhD Jigisha earned her first degree in Medicine and her PhD on postprandial physiology from Queen Mary University of London, UK. She spent several years in hospital clinical practice and a year at the National Institutes of Health for her PhD before joining BMC in 2007 as Medical Editor of the BMC series journals. While with BMC, she moved on to have overall responsibility for BMC’s strategy, standards and expertise in research and publication ethics before becoming part of the Springer Nature Research Integrity Group in her current role as Head of Programme Management, Research Integrity in 2017. Bhushan Patwardhan, PhD is a present Vice Chairman of University Grants Commission, an apex regulatory body for providing grants and maintenance of standards in Indian higher education. He is a noted biomedical scientist and Fellow of National Academy Sciences India. He has pioneered efforts to establish a Center for Publication Ethics at Savitribai Phule Pune University. He is an Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine published by Elsevier and is on Editorial Boards of reputed Journals. He is a recipient of prestigious orations, awards, several research grants. He has guided 20 PhD students, 8 Patents, over 120 research publications and 7200 citations.

Deborah Poff, CM, PhD is currently the Vice-Chair and incoming Chair of COPE (May 2019). Dr. Poff works in the area of Business and Professional Ethics, Healthcare Ethics, Research Ethics and Publication Ethics. She was previously the President and Vice-Chancellor of Brandon University. From 1994 to 2004, she was Vice-President Academic and Provost at the University of Northern British Columbia. In 2004, she was awarded a Fellowship in Public Policy with the Sheldon Chumir Foundation in Ethical Leadership. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Academic Ethics. She is also the Editor in Chief of a book series, Advances in Business Ethics and the Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. She has a forthcoming edited collection entitled ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and University Governance’. She has numerous publications in journals, book chapters and books. In 1995, she was awarded a life-time honorary membership by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women in the category: Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship. She has served on many national and international boards and is currently the incoming Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics. In 2016, she was awarded the Order of Canada.

Laurie Proulx, Patient Partner, BA (Patient Partner) Laurie has lived with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis for over 28 years and it is her experiences and challenges of living with the disease that led her to become involved with Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance (CAPA). She is currently a Vice-President with the organization and advocates for patient- centred health care policies and increased awareness of rheumatic conditions. She has worked extensively as a patient partner in research in many specialties including rheumatology, surgical safety, maternal health and workplace projects. She has spoken at length about the importance of engaging patients in research and best practices to support the patient community. Laurie lives in Ottawa with her husband and two children (age 11 and 6). She received a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Ottawa and works as a Senior Policy Analyst with the federal government. Marc Rodger, MD, FRCPC, MSc is a full Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). He is Head, Division of Hematology situated in the Ottawa Blood Disease Center at The Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Rodger led the development of the Ottawa Blood Disease Center (OBDC) which opened in 2012 and now houses over 35 hematologists/scientists and 80 staff. He was previously Deputy Director and Director (acting) of the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (2007-2009). Dr. Rodger completed his post-graduate medical training at UBC and the University of Ottawa in Internal Medicine, Hematology, Thrombosis. He completed an MSc in Epidemiology in 2000. Dr. Rodger has been involved in leadership throughout his medical training and career. He was President of the Aesculapian Society in medical school at uOttawa and was on the executive of both provincial (PAIRO now PARO) and national resident organizations (CAIR now RDOC). Dr. Rodger’s teaching, clinical care and research focuses on venous thrombosis. He founded the Champlain LHIN Regional Thrombosis Program providing world class Thrombosis care with 365/24hr open referral access for the 1.4 million people in Canada’s capital. The Ottawa Thrombosis Fellowship program, which grew international in scope under his leadership, has trained over 20 Thrombosis experts, many of whom have become leaders locally, nationally and internationally. Dr. Rodger co-founded, co-directs and obtained CIHR funding for CanVECTOR (Canadian Venous Thrombosis Clinical Trials and Outcomes Research) Network (www.CanVECTOR.ca). This network includes over 145 members in over 25 research sites across Canada. Dr. Rodger also founded and is current Chair of INVENT (International Network of Venous Thrombosis Clinical Research Networks) (www.INVENT-VTE.com). INVENT includes 8 national research networks with over 450 investigators in over 150 research sites throughout the world. Dr. Rodger is co-Editor in Chief of Thrombosis Research, a major sub-specialty journal in his area of research. Dr. Rodger’s own venous thrombosis research agenda focuses on two areas: Duration of Anticoagulation and Pregnancy. He has published over 230 research articles including multiple first/senior author papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet. His work has been cited over 18,000 times. Over his career, he has secured over 38 million in peer reviewed research funding (18.7 million as Principle Investigator. Among other awards, Dr. Rodger has been a long-time beneficiary of a Career Scientists Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (2007-2019) and holds a Tier 1 Research Chair in Venous Thromboembolism and Thrombophilia from the University of Ottawa (2010-2020). He received the Heart and Stroke Foundation Maureen Andrew Award (2002), Ontario’s Premier’s Research Excellence Award (2006), the Canadian Hematology Society’s Paper of the Year Award (2014) and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s Researcher of the Year Award (2014). Anna Severin, MSc, MRes is a PhD candidate at the University of Bern and a doctoral researcher at the Strategy Support Department of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Research interests: Quality of peer review, research integrity, science policy.

Anna holds a BA in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Bonn, an MRes in Sociology and Research Methods from the University of Glasgow and an MSc in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Sussex.

Zena Sharman, PhD is the Director, Strategy at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, BC’s health research funding agency. In this capacity, she provides cross-cutting strategic leadership at the Foundation as well as overseeing evaluation and impact analysis, partnerships and research program design and development. Previously, Zena was the Director of Strategic Relations and Operations at ICVHealth and Assistant Director of the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health. She has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia.

Michaela Strinzel, MSc is a scientific collaborator at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), where she works for the strategy support services. In this position, she assists in providing the national research council with the resources and information needed for its strategic decisions related to the national science policy. She engages in different projects in the field of research on research including innovative evaluation processes, methods of impact assessment and predatory publishing. Before working for the SNSF, Michaela was a scientific assistant at the Neurolinguistics Department of the University of Groningen, where she participated in a study on automatic detection of speech disorders in Parkinson’s disease. She holds a BA in Linguistics from the University of Konstanz and a MA and MSc in Clinical Linguistics from the Universities Eastern Finland, Potsdam and Groningen. Mauro Sylos-Labini, PhD is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Pisa. Previously, he has been Assistant Professor at the University of Alicante and IMT Lucca. He earned a BA in Economics and Social Science from Bocconi University (Milan) and a PhD in Economics and Management from Strasbourg University and (jointly) Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa). He has a general interest in labour economics, the economics of science and Innovation, and applied econometrics.

Robyn Tamblyn, PhD Dr. Tamblyn conducts research aimed at improving the safety and quality of health care. Her research program includes studies that: 1) identify modifiable determinants of adverse events and improved health outcomes (e.g. health professional competence, nurse staffing, drugs, timely access to complete patient information, early detection of emerging epidemics), and 2) developing and evaluating computer-enabled interventions to address these determinants (e.g. computerized decision-support, personal health record portals and self-management tools, automated surveillance systems). The Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, and the MUHC Research Institute fund her research. The computerized solutions her research group has developed have won the QUALCOMM quality award for public impact and the Bombardier Award for Innovation.

Marthie van Niekerk, BA is the centre administrative manager of CREST (including SciSTIP and SciCOM) and the executive assistant to Professor Johann Mouton. Until August 2014 her duties included the programme administration of the postgraduate programmes (Monitoring and Evaluation &Science and Technology Studies) until July 2014. Marthie joined the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology in January 2000 as postgraduate programme administrator. She took up the position as Prof. Mouton’s executive assistant, as well as postgraduate programme administrator in September 2000. Her undergraduate studies were completed at the University of Stellenbosch where Marthie received a Bachelors in Consumer Studies (Educationis) in March 1995. She taught at several schools both locally and in London. She obtained a GNVQ Assessment Diploma while teaching Craft, Design and Technology in the UK. Jelte M. Wicherts, PhD is a Professor of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University. He received both his Master's degree (2002, cum laude) and PhD degree (2007, cum laude) from the Psychological Methods group at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on a wide range of topics related to reproducibility, replication, individual differences, statistics, peer review, and measurement. His research interests include group differences in IQ, reproducibility, biases in research, measurement invariance, stereotype threat, the Flynn Effect, structural equation modeling, errors with statistics, and data sharing. He is (co)author of 90 publications in various peer-reviewed journals, including Intelligence, Proceedings of the Royal Society: B, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Learning and Individual Differences, Structural Equation Modeling, Behavior Research Methods, Psychological Methods, Psychological Science, PLoS ONE, and Nature. Dr. Wicherts has reviewed for 62 different journals and is an editorial board member of the journals Psychological Science, Intelligence, Psychological Methods, and the Journal of Health Psychology. He is an Academic Editor at PLoS ONE and an associate editor at Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement. From 2007-2012 he was an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. From 2012-2017 he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University. In 2017, he became full professor in methodology of the social and behavioral sciences at the same department. He has acquired Open Competition (200K Euros) VENI (208K) and VIDI (800K) grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and a Consolidator grant (2000k) from the European Research Council. He is affiliate member of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS). He is head of the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University.

Tim Wilson, PhD is the Executive director of Research Grants and Partnerships at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), where he is responsible for overseeing the Agency’s granting programs. Prior to coming to SSHRC, Tim held a number of executive positions at the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Public Service Commission. In addition to his career in the Public Service, Tim also teaches English Literature part-time a the University of Ottawa, specializing in Renaissance Literature and Literary Theory. Susan Zimmerman, LL.M. is the Executive Director of the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research in Ottawa. SRCR is responsible for the implementation of the Tri-Agency Framework on Responsible Conduct of Research on behalf of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The Secretariat is also responsible for the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. She is a lawyer whose career has focused on health law and public policy. A native of Montreal, Susan received her undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College, civil law and common law degrees from McGill University, and a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto. Her professional experience includes positions as a senior research associate at the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, Director of Legislation and Law Reform at the Canadian Bar Association, legal counsel at Health Canada and Director of Research for the Law Commission of Canada. Prior to her appointment to the Secretariat in September 2007, Ms. Zimmerman was a member of the Health Law Group at the Toronto office of a national law firm, where she represented health care institutions and a variety of health care professionals. Ms. Zimmerman has also been a university lecturer in health law and ethics and a member of research ethics boards.