2019 AWARD WINNERS

Dr. Oremus has been a CSEB board member for ten years. During this time, he has served as President and Vice President, Communications Officer, and Membership Committee member. Further, Dr. Oremus was CSEB’s Primary Representative to the International Network for Epidemiology in Policy (INEP) prior to becoming INEP’s (current) Chair. He is also the faculty advisor for CSEB’s student chapter at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Oremus played a lead role, in conjunction with F2F Events Management, in organizing CSEB’s 2017 national conference in Banff, AB. He has played supporting roles in organizing CSEB’s 2018 student conference and CSEB’s 2019 national conference.

Dr. Wong received his PhD in May 2014 from McMaster University, making him eligible for the early career award. His accomplishments are extraordinary for a scientist this early in his career. Joining the DLSPH in 2017, his research program focuses on osteoarthritis and osteoporosis with an underlying theme of postmenopausal women and aging men. He specializes in time-to-event analysis, causal mediation/moderation, and structural equation modeling. A major accomplishment of Dr. Wong’s has been the formation of his own Canadian cohort to study how the differences in the size of bone and muscle may be related to fractures in postmenopausal women. He has successfully recruited over 20 investigators from 11 institutions to participate in a multi-centre prospective cohort study of bone and muscle quality in postmenopausal women. He was awarded a CIHR Operating Grant and received $650K in funding for the CaMos Bone Quality Study (BQS).

Dr. Tricco is a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis, an Associate Professor in the Epidemiology Division at the DLSPH, University of Toronto, Scientist and Director of the Knowledge Synthesis Team in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital (SMH), and the Co-Director & Adjunct Associate Professor of the Queen’s Collaboration for Health Care Quality, Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence, Queen’s University. Dr. Tricco is an internationally recognized epidemiologist who has made significant contributions to her field, advancing the science of knowledge synthesis and directly impacting clinical care and policy making, both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Steven Narod is a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Breast Cancer, a full professor in the DLSPH and the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and a senior scientist at Women’s College Research Institute (WCRI), where he leads the Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit. Dr. Narod is renowned for his research on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, that when mutated, substantially increase a woman’s lifetime risk of breast or ovarian cancer. Dr. Narod is an internationally renowned epidemiologist who has made major contributions to academic oncology for over 30 years. His studies have helped shape our understanding of prevention, screening and treatment of breast and ovarian cancer, in particular hereditary cancer.