On Friday, April 5th McGill’s principal, Heather Munroe-Blum, and University of Toronto’s president, David Naylor, will join in conversation with Robert Prichard, as they reflect on their careers and share their thoughts on what Canada’s universities have to do to thrive and succeed in the 21st century.
Special remarks by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, will follow the presentation.
Heather Munroe-Blum, O.C., O.Q., Ph.D., FRSC
Heather Munroe-Blum became 16th Principal and Vice-Chancellor
(President) and Senior Officer of McGill University in 2003. An
accomplished scholar in the fields of psychiatric epidemiology and
public policy, and a distinguished administrator, Prof. Munroe-Blum is a
member of McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and Professor in its Department
of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health.
She has dedicated her career to the advancement of higher education,
science and innovation, in Canada and internationally. She advises
governments on the role that progressive, evidence-based public policy,
and especially, policies concerning universities, health, research and
highly qualified talent play in enriching society and enhancing
international competitiveness.
She is the author of the groundbreaking report Growing Ontario’s Innovation System: The Strategic Role of University Research
that led to the creation of a new framework of science policies and
programs in Ontario, and is founding Co-Chair of the biannual State of the Nation Report of the Canadian Science, Technology and Innovation Council, which advises the Government of Canada.
David Naylor, O.C.; M.D.; D.Phil; F.R.S.C.
David Naylor has been President of the University of Toronto since 2005. He earned his MD at Toronto in 1978, followed by a DPhil at Oxford where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Naylor completed clinical specialty training and joined the Department of Medicine of the University of Toronto in 1988. He was founding Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (1991-1998), before becoming Dean of Medicine and Vice Provost for Relations with Health Care Institutions of the University of Toronto (1999 – 2005). Naylor has co-authored approximately 300 scholarly publications, spanning social history, public policy, epidemiology and biostatistics, and health economics, as well as clinical and health services research in most fields of medicine. Among other honours, Naylor is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Foreign Associate Fellow of the US Institute of Medicine, and an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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