Organizers' Biography

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 University of Ottawa. 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 Epidemiology, 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 Peer Review 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 thesis 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,

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