Planning Committee
Stasia Hadjiyannakis, Co-Chair, MD, FRCPC, Pediatric Endocrinologist, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, ON
Annick Buchholz, Co-Chair, Clinical Investigator, Healthy Active Living and Obesity (HALO) research group, CHEO Research Institute; Clinical Psychologist, Lead in Outcomes Management and Research, Centre for Healthy Active Living, CHEO; Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Carleton University; Ottawa, ON
Geoff D.C. Ball, PhD, RD; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta; Director, Pediatric Centre for Weight and Health, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, AB
Tracey Bridger, MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Memorial University/Pediatric Endocrinologist, Medical Director Janeway Lifestyle Program, Janeway Child Health Centre, St. John’s, NL
Laurie Clark, C. Psych., Clinical Psychologist, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, ON
Katia Despot, Senior Education Manager, Interprofessional Continuing Education, University of British Columbia; Vancouver, BC
Elizabeth Dettmer, Ph.D., C.Psych., Psychologist, Sick Kids Team Obesity Program (STOMP), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON
Gary Goldfield, PhD, Registered Clinical Psychologist; Senior Scientist, HALO group, CHEO Research Institute; Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Human Kinetics and Psychology, University of Ottawa; Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, University of Ottawa; Adjunct Research Professor, Psychology, Carleton University; Ottawa, ON
Jonathan McGavock, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
Amy McPherson, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, Scientist, Participation & Inclusion, Bloorview Research Institute Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, ON
Katherine Morrison, MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Medical Director Metabolism and Childhood Obesity Clinical Programs, McMaster Children’s Hospital; Co-Director Metabolism and Childhood (MAC) Obesity Research Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Jane Rutherford, MSc, Exercise Specialist – Centre for Healthy Active Living, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, ON