CADTH Symposium - Plenary Speaker Announcement

We are pleased to announce an outstanding lineup of Canadian and international plenary speakers at the 2016 CADTH Symposium (Ottawa, Ontario, April 10 to 12, 2016):

• Mr. Anil Arora, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada (Canada)
• Dr. Robert Bell, Deputy Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Government of Ontario (Canada)
• Dr. Irfan Dhalla, Vice-President, Evidence Development & Standards, Health Quality Ontario (Canada)
• Dr. Cindy Forbes, President, Canadian Medical Association (Canada)
• Dr. C. Bernie Good, Professor, Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh; Chair, Medical Advisory Panel, Pharmacy Benefits Management, Department of Veterans Affairs; Co-Director, VA Center for Medication Safety (USA)
• Dr. Jove Graham, Director, Clinical Research Project Development Office, Geisinger Center for Health Research (USA)
• Dr. Allan Grill, Provincial Primary Care Lead, Ontario Renal Network; Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto (Canada)
• Mr. Simon Kennedy, Deputy Minister of Health, Government of Canada (Canada)
• Dr. Wendy Levinson, Professor and Past Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Chair of Choosing Wisely Canada (Canada)
• Dr. Guy Maddern, Director, Division of Surgery, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Surgical Director, Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures — Surgical (ASERNIP-S); President, Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) (Australia)
• Dr. Janice Mann, Knowledge Exchange Officer, CADTH (Canada)
• Ms. Suzanne McGurn, Assistant Deputy Minister and Executive Officer, Ontario Public Drugs Program, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Canada)
• Dr. Tom Noseworthy, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Department of Community Health Sciences and O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary (Canada)
• Dr. Jessica Otte, Family Physician and creator of the website www.lessismoremedicine.com (Canada)
• Dr. Murray Ross, Vice-President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.; Director, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy (USA)
• Ms. Janey Shin, Director, Real World Evidence, Janssen Inc. (Canada)
• Dr. Terrence Sullivan, Chair, CADTH Board of Directors (Canada)
• Ms. Linda Wilhelm, President, Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance (Canada)

If you haven’t already registered, space is still available at the 2016 Symposium. Please visit this link to Request to Register.

Visit the Symposium website for more information about this year’s workshops, breakfast sessions, and concurrent sessions. We hope to see you in Ottawa!