Conference Leadership & Scientific Planning Committee

Meet the Conference Leadership & Scientific Planning Committee of the 2026 IPBIS Conference.

Conference Leadership

Keith Yeates

Conference Chair – University of Calgary

Vicki Anderson

Planning Committee Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

Miriam Beauchamp

Planning Committee – University of Montreal

Adam Kirton

Planning Committee – University of Calgary

Carolyn Emery

Planning Committee – University of Calgary

Nick Reed

Planning Committee/IPBIS Chair – University of Toronto

Scientific Planning Committee

Vicki Anderson
Australia

Shelina Babul
Canada

Miriam Beauchamp
Canada

Kate Bray
Australia

Leonie Kausel Camp
Chile

Jeff Caron
Canada

Mathilde Chevignard
France

Angela Ciccia
USA

Katie Davies
Australia

Carol DeMatteo
Canada

Naddley Désiré
Canada

Quynh Doan
Canada

Brenda Eagan-Johnson
USA

Carolyn Emery
Canada

Michael J. Esser
Canada

Linda Ewing-Cobbs
USA

Isabelle Gagnon
Canada

Gerard Gioia
USA

Eli Gunnarson
Sweden

Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa
USA

Adam Kirton
Canada

Sarah Knight
Australia

Andre-Anne Ledoux
Canada

Jennifer Lundine
USA

Gail Macartney
Canada

Andreas Meyer-Heim
Switzerland

Michael Noseworthy
Canada

Kaleigh Pennock
Canada

Marie-France Perrier
Canada

Elizabeth Pulcine
Canada

Vanessa Rausa
Australia

Nick Reed
Canada

Nina Rohrer-Baumgartner
Norway

Nicholas Ryan
Australia

Adam Scheinberg
Australia

Julia Schmidt
Canada

Leigh Schrieff-Brown
South Africa

Shannon Scratch
Canada

Rebecca Slykerman
New Zealand

Sandra Strazzer
Italy

Thsidi Thaane
Canada

Wan Winnie Yee Tso
Hong Kong SAR

Lyn Turkstra
Canada

Jillian Urban
USA

Frederike van Markus-Doornbosch
The Netherlands

Naznin Virji-Babul
Canada

Stephen West
Canada

Anne Wheeler
Canada

Keith Yeates
Canada

Roger Zemek
Canada