| Speaker |
World Affairs Conference. Counter-presentation and debate with Maureen McTeer on The New Genetics, Upper Canada College, Toronto. |
Feb. 15, 2000 |
| Speaker and Course Faculty |
Genetics and the Law for US-Supreme Court Judges. Einstein Institute for Science, Health and the Courts. Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
Sept. 17, 2000 |
| Speaker |
Human Genome and Ontario Hospitals- Now and the Future (on behalf of Dr. Allan Bernstein). Genetic Applications Workshop. Ontario Health Association Convention and Exhibition, Convention Center, Toronto |
Nov. 6, 2000 |
| Keynote Speaker |
Human Genome Project and Society Institute for Research on Public Policy Board Meeting. Montreal (guest of Hugh Segal) |
Feb. 22, 2001 |
| Convocation Address |
A Common Humanity. Address to the graduating class of the Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, University of Windsor |
June 9, 2001 |
| Speaker |
Annotation of Human Chromosome 7 for Genetic Disease Research. The J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine Symposium (Awardees J. Craig Venter and Eric Lander). The John P. Robarts Research Institute, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada |
Nov. 7, 2001 |
| Team Canada Member |
Accompanied Prime Minister Jean Chretien to the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin for strategic partnership signing in Berlin. Public presentation on human chromosome 7 research delivered |
Feb. 19, 2002 |
| Plenary Opening Speaker |
Functional and Medical Annotation of the Human Genome Sequence. Human Genome Meeting 2003. Cancun, Mexico |
April 27, 2003 |
| Plenary Speaker |
Human Genome Project and Society. Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors Annual Meeting; Including panel discussion with Jeffrey Simpson of the Globe and Mail and Curt Harnett, Olympian medalist. Ottawa, Canada |
May 26, 2003 |
| Invited Speaker |
Leaders of Tomorrow. The Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE). Discussions with parliamentarians, cabinet ministers, grant council leaders, press. Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada |
Oct. 7, 2003 |
| Speaker |
Human Chromosome 7q31, Dynamic Programming, and Leaving Kansas. Scientific Symposium in Recognition of Prof. Lap-Chee Tsui. Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto |
Jan. 19, 2004 |
| Plenary Speaker |
How to Combine Genomics and Clinical Investigation in Pediatrics? Trends in Pediatrics, from clinical research to patient care. Jerring Symposium. Karolinska Nobel Forum, Stockholm, Sweden |
May 12, 2004 |
| Steacie Prize Award Address |
Genomic Studies of Human Chromosome 7 and Application to Disease Research. Steacie Institute, National Research Council, Ottawa |
June 11, 2004 |
Chair and Speaker
(Co-Chair Dr. Ron Worton) |
Medical Genetics and Genome Medicine Bridging the 20th and 21st Century, as part of the Genetics Society of Canada Annual Meeting. A special session honoring Dr. Margaret Thompson. Toronto |
June 18, 2004 |
| Plenary Speaker |
Chromosomal Basis of Disease. Inaugural Symposium of the Genome Research Centre, Hong Kong |
March 9, 2004 |
| Plenary Speaker |
Chromosomal Genomics and Disease Studies. President's Symposium. American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting. Toronto |
Oct. 29, 2004 |
| Special Presentation to Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex (Princess Sophie) |
Autism Spectrum Disorder: the Canadian Experience, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto |
June 8, 2005 |
| Invited Speaker |
Discovery of large-scale copy number polymorphism and chromosomal inversions as common variants in the human genome. Howard Hughes International Scholar Meeting.
Medina, Mexico |
June 23, 2005 |
| Invited Speaker |
Large scale copy number variation, Federal Drug Administration Rounds, Bethesda, MA |
Nov. 2, 2006 |
| Plenary Speaker |
Discovery of Structural Variation in the Human Genome: New Insight for Disease Study. JC Venter Institute, Bethesda, MA |
Nov. 28, 2006 |
| Presenting Researcher |
How do our Genes Make us Healthy and Sick? The Next Big Question National Event Tour. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Capital
Theatre and Hart House. |
Nov. 13 & 14, 2007 |
