Jean-Yves Savoie
Chair, OCRC Steering Committee
Jean-Yves Savoie completed his university education in chemistry with a PhD from Laval University. His postdoctoral studies in immunochemistry at the University of Alberta made him see the possibility of applying chemistry to the world of health. From then on, he directed his career towards applied research...
Paul Demers
Director and Member, OCRC Steering Committee
Paul comes to OCRC from the University of British Columbia, where he was a Professor in the School of Environmental Health. As well as being Director of the OCRC, he is also a Professor with the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He has an MSc in Industrial Hygiene and a PhD...
Sarah Bouma
Member, OCRC Steering Committee
Sarah Bouma is the Senior Manager of Research with the Canadian Cancer Society in Ontario. Sarah completed her undergraduate degree in Life Sciences at Queen’s University and obtained her Master’s degree in Medical Science from McMaster University in Hamilton. Since 2004, Sarah has led the Society’s...
Dafna Carr
Member, OCRC Steering Committee
Dafna Carr is the Director, Policy, Planning and KTE for Prevention and Cancer Control within CCO. She has a Master’s in Business Administration and has served all of her career in health care. Dafna brings knowledge and experience across a spectrum of health organizations. She specializes in healthcare...
D. Linn Holness
Member, OCRC Steering Committee
Dr. Holness graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto in 1977 and has a MHSc from the University of Toronto. She is certified in Occupational Medicine by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the...
H. Roland Hosein
Member, OCRC Steering Committee
Dr. Roland Hosein is a native of Trinidad who took his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees at the University of London and completed his Ph.D in Epidemiology at the University of Western Ontario. He did research on the epidemiology of lung diseases at Yale University, and later led a team in Occupational Health for...
Wolodymyr (Wally) Lewyckyj
Member, OCRC Steering Committee
Wolodymyr (Wally) Lewyckyj is the Manager of the WSIB Research Secretariat, which helps the Research Advisory Council (RAC) administer its research program. The RAC was formed in 1998 and held its first open grants competition in occupational health and safety in 1999. The RAC has also overseen the creation...
Gary Liss
Member, OCRC Steering Committee
Dr. Liss graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto in 1976, and undertook Occupational Medicine residency training at the University of Cincinnati, where he also obtained a Master of Science degree. Prior to returning to Canada, from 1981-84, Dr. Liss served as an Epidemic Intelligence...
Anthony B. Miller
Chair, OCRC Scientific Advisory Committee and Member, OCRC Steering Committee
Dr. Anthony Miller is currently Professor Emeritus at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. A physician-epidemiologist, he was a member of the scientific staff of the UK Medical Research Council, 1962-71, Director of the Epidemiology Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Canada...
