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Laura Macdougall

Laura Macdougall

Founder | Laura Macdougall & Company

COVID-19 resilience in healthcare, senior women leaders, women, leadership, resilience, well-being, workplace well-being and resilience, healthcare, health transformation, transitions, patient and caregiver experience, partnering with patients to drive health care transformation, primary caregiving, caregiving for those with Alzheimers, dementia, healthcare leadership,

Nathalie Lamarche-Vane

Professor, Centre for Translational Biology | McGill University

Biology, Cancer, Diseases, Disorders, Cell migration

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Rachel Décoste

Motivational Speaker and Pundit | Independent

Rachel Décoste is a media critic, educator, and public speaker who has been involved in community activism since her youth.

Dr. Serasu Duran

Assistant Professor | University of Calgary

supply chain management, operations management, sustainability, energy access, renewable energy, rural energy, remote Northern energy, disruptive technologies

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Dr. Monica Granados

Post-doctoral fellow | University of Guelph/Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Conservation through open science.