Executive Committee
Andrew Baker, MD, FRCPC
CONNECT Director, Chief of the Departments of Critical Care and of
Anesthesia, and the Medical Director of the Surgery and Critical Care
Program at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. Cara Phelan Chair of Critical Care Medicine and a Professor and the Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto
Carmela Tartaglia, MD, FRCPC
CONNECT Co-Director, Cognitive/behavioral neurologist at the University Health Network Toronto, Memory Clinic, Scientist at the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mark Bayley, MD, FRCPC
CONNECT Co-Director, Physiatrist-in-Chief & Program Medical Director, University Health Network- Toronto Rehab Institute, Ontario
Matthew Burke, MD, FRCPC
Cognitive Neurologist and Clinician Investigator at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto
Vicki Kristman, PhD
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario Research Chair in Injury & Disability Prevention. Professor, Department of Health Sciences.
Director & Senior Scientist, EPID@Work (Enhancing the Prevention of Injury & Disability @ Work) Research Institute. CIHR University Delegate and UDEC Member, Lakehead University, Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
Karl Zabjek, PhD
Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Physical Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Affiliate Scientist, KITE Research Institute, University Health Network
Flora Matheson, PhD
Scientist and Lead, Justice & Equity Lab at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. Sociologist with expertise in gender, health and social-structural inequities
Ruth Wilcock
Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Brain Injury Association, St. Catherines Ontario
Billie-Jo Hardie, PhD
Indigenous Lead Assistant Professor at the Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Platform Leads
Michael Cusimano, MD, FRCSC, DABNS, FACS, PhD, MHPE
Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital
Professor of Neurosurgery, Education and Public Health, University of Toronto
Shawn Marshall, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Investigator, Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Carmela Tartaglia, MD, FRCPC
Cognitive/behavioral neurologist at the University Health Network Toronto, Memory Clinic, Scientist at the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative DiseasesRobin Green, PhD
Thomas Hoshizaki, PhD
Professor, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa
James Hutchison, MD, FRCPC
Research Director, Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children
Senior Scientist, Neurosciences & Mental Health, Research Institute
Professor, Departments of Critical Care and Paediatrics, University of Toronto
Tom Schweizer, PhD
Director, Neuroscience Research Program, St. Michael’s Hospital
Scientist, Keenan Research Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine (Neurosurgery), University of Toronto
Karl Zabjek, PhD
Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Physical Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Affiliate Scientist, KITE Research Institute, University Health Network
Michael Hutchison, PhD
Director, Concussion Program, MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Management Team
Cindy Hunt, Dr. PH, RN
Senior Research Associate, Head Injury Clinic Trauma and Neurosurgery Program, St. Michael’s Hospital, Assistant Professor Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Justina Zych, BSc
Central Research Coordinator, CONNECT Program
David Murty, BSc
Knowledge Translation Lead
Research Assistant & Clinical Delegate, Trauma and Neurosurgery Program, St. Michael’s Hospital