Laurette Dubé (Chair) Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Karl Moore Faculty of Management, McGill University

Alain Dagher Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

Michael Meaney Douglas Research Center, Douglas Hospital, McGill University affiliate

Martin Dawes Family Medicine, McGill University

Mark Daniel Département de Médicine Sociale et Préventive, Université de Montréal

Robert Perreault Direction de la Santé Publique, Agence de Développement de Réseaux Locaux de Services de Santé et de Services Sociaux de Montréal

Lyne Mongeau Institut National de la Santé Publique du Québec

BIOS

LAURETTE DUBÉ

Dr. Laurette Dubé is the James McGill Professor of Consumer Psychology and Services Marketing and Management at the Faculty of Management of McGill University. Dr. Dubé received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1990. She has received prior to her doctoral degree a MPS in Services Marketing and Management (Cornell University), a MBA in Finances (HEC), and a B. Sc. in Nutrition (Laval). Her lifetime research interest has been various affects (i.e., sensations, moods and emotions) and the roles these play in decision making and behavior. She has been one of the first consumer researchers to focus her work at the interface between such affective facets of the client’s experience and the diverse professional and organisational practices aimed at modulating these in an effective manner, including communications and product and service design and management. Her work has been published in leading journals in the consumer (e.g., Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing), psychology (e.g., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Cognition and Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin), and health (Pain, Journal of Gerontology: Biological and Medical Sciences; Journal of the American Dietetic Association) disciplines. Dr Dubé received a scientist career award in 2000, as part of a special SSHRC/CIHR competition for the transition from the medical research council (MRC) to the health institutes (CIHR). She was chosen as the leader from the management disciplines in this effort to push the frontiers of health research at the same time as those of the social sciences. She has since spearheaded the creation of a strategic alliance between the Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Medicine to foster the development of an integrative approach to research and teaching in the domain of health management. Formed in 2001, the McGill Initiative in integrative management of health, still under Dr. Dubé’s scientific leadership, has now grown into well funded research programs and innovative educational and knowledge transfer activities, with the yearly McGill Health Challenge being a core platform in this evolution.

KARL MOORE

Associate Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, Associate Professor Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University Associate Fellow Templeton College, Oxford University.
Karl worked for eleven years in sales and marketing management positions in the high technology and consulting industry with IBM, Bull and Hitachi. Karl was on the faculty of Templeton College, Oxford University for 5 years from 1995-2000. He has taught extensively in executive education programs in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa including at Oxford, Duke, LBS, RSM, Queens, York University, McGill, UNC, The Drucker School at Claremont University. He moved to McGill University in 2000 to work with Henry Mintzberg on the new Advanced Leadership Program. Dr. Moore's publications include over seventy articles, books and papers on a variety of topics. His research has been published in a number of leading journals including: Strategy Management Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Marketing Journal, the Journal of Brand Management, JIBS, Business History, MIR, Chief Executive, Human Relations, Leader to Leader, Across the Board, Strategy + Business, and The Academy of Management Executive. Dr. Moore is active as a consultant and executive educator working with leading global firms including: Nokia, Morgan Stanley, IBM, Volvo, Bell Canada, Cable and Wireless, Accenture, Price Waterhouse, Logica, HP, Shell, Lilly, Pfizer and Regis McKenna.
Articles on his research have appeared in the Financial Times, The Times, The Independent, the Guardian, Les Echoes, the Australian Financial Review, Het Financielle Dagblad, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, La Presse, the Montreal Gazette, and other leading papers. He is a regular guest in the media and appears on CNN, BBC, CBC, CTV and Global Television and has been quoted in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Telegraph, the Globe and Mail, The National Post and other leading newspapers. He is a columnist for Marketing Magazine on high tech and strategic marketing issues.

ALAIN DAGHER

Alain Dagher, MD, is an associate professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. He is a neurologist specializing in Parkinson’s disease. His research focuses on the function of dopamine, basal ganglia, and frontal cortex using functional brain imaging (positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging). He has applied these methods to the study of cognitive deficits in Parkinson’s disease, and to an understanding of the neural bases of addiction. Recently he has studied feeding and hunger from the point of view of addiction neuroscience.

MICHAEL MEANEY

Michael Meaney, PhD is currently James McGill professor of Medicine and full professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Neurosurgery. He is also Director, Program for the study of Behavior, Genes and Environment at McGill University. He is interested in the mechanisms by which adversity in early life might alter neural development so as to render certain individuals at risk for pathology later in life. Early life events serve as potent determinants of vulnerability/resistance to chronic illness, including depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and drug abuse.

MARTIN DAWES

Martin Dawes MD is a family physician who undertook a PhD on weight gain in pregnancy. He set up and runs a prospective cohort study investigating the prognostic influence of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in 10,000 individuals. In 1995 he developed a multi-disciplinary Masters programme in Evidence Based Health Care run at the University of Oxford. He has organised multi-centred audits for primary care in Oxfordshire using data from electronic records. In 1999 he became Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Since October 2002 he has been chair of Family Medicine at McGill University. One of his main research interests is in knowledge management during the consultation.

MARK DANIEL

Mark Daniel is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair for Biopsychosocial Pathways in Population Health, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal. His expertise is in the areas of social epidemiology and disease prevention. He has worked in applied clinical research, health services research and the evaluation of community-based disease prevention trials in vulnerable populations internationally. His research targets a multi-level understanding of the biological pathways between social and physical environs and human health, social standing in multiple stratification systems, contextual/social stressors, allostatic load and chronic stress, and psychosocial mediators/modifiers of the link between context and outcomes including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, rheumatic disease, and HIV/AIDS. His research and substantive interests include methodological issues in the design and analysis of cluster trials in field settings, behavioural/psychosomatic medicine (mind-body relations), and the impact of macro and meso system influences on health at individual and aggregate levels of analysis. He is currently engaged in environmental measurement development for neighbourhood and household assessments, the application of geographic information systems and geo-spatial methods to multi-level health surveys, contextual influences on health behaviour including dietary fat consumption, physical activity and smoking, and research on biomarkers for estimating the cumulative impact of environmental stressors. His publications have appeared in Health & Place, Diabetes Care, Social Science & Medicine, International Journal of Obesity, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Diabetic Medicine, and the Journal of Health & Social Policy. His work has been funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia.

ROBERT PERREAULT

M.D. FRCPC Robert Perreault est professeur adjoint de psychiatrie à l’Université McGill, médecin conseil à la Direction de la santé publique de Montréal-centre et Directeur des affaires médicales et des communications d’IRIS-Québec. À l’invitation du ministre de la santé du Canada, il a été membre Conseil consultatif sur l’Infostructure de la santé et il a siégé à titre de membre fondateur du Conseil d’administration des Instituts canadiens de recherche en santé. À titre de vice-président aux affaires médicales de la société MédiMed, il est responsable du développement de contenu d’un nouveau service Internet d’information sanitaire à la population qui doit bientôt être offert au public à titre de trait d’union entre le citoyen et son système de santé.
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Robert Perreault is an associate professor of psychiatry at McGill University, Consulting Physician at the Direction de santé publique de Montréal-centre and Director of Medical Affairs and Communications with the IRIS-Quebec Consortium. He was asked by Canada’s Health Minister to serve on the Advisory Committee on Health Infostructure who’s report set the stage for Canada Health Infoway. He later attended as a Founding Board Member to the birth of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. As Vice-President for Medical Affairs of the MediMed Corporation, he is responsible for content development of a new major consumer health information Web service designed as a link between citizens and their healthcare system. Doctor Perreault’s core interest lies in knowledge translation, an interest he has pursued throughout his career.

LYNE MONGEAU

Lyne Mongeau is dietitian, graduated in 1981 from Université Laval in Québec. Then, she has obtained a Master degree in Community Health in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Public Health in 2004, both from Université de Montréal. From 1981, and for 15years, she worked as a clinician on obesity and weight preoccupation. In 2001, she began working at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec, in the Health Habits Unit, as a scientific consultant on weight issues, adopting from then a public health perspective on weight issues.