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Collaboration is a key value at the heart of OICR.
Collaboration is an integral driver of our leadership team, which brings together experts with diverse voices, backgrounds and skill sets to lead our shared pursuit of world-class translational cancer research together. OICR is overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors, which is responsible for the success and sustainability of the Institute and the overall governance of the affairs of the corporation.
OICR has joined the 50 – 30 Challenge. This is a challenge to increase the representation and inclusion of diverse groups within the workplace
Executive

Christine Williams, PhD
Acting President and Head, Implementation Science

Lincoln Stein, MD, PhD
Acting Scientific Director and Head, Adaptive Oncology

Rebecca Tamarchak, PhD
Head of Strategy, Governance and Partnerships

Jeanette Dias D’Souza, CPA, CA, ICD.D
Senior Vice President, Corporate Services and Group Chief Financial Officer of OICR and FACIT
OICR Executive Advisors
Board of Directors
Susan Fitzpatrick (Chair)
Former Head, Canadian Drug Agency Transition Office at Health Canada
Laurie Harrison (Vice Chair)
Former Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Hospital for Sick Children
Kim Bellissimo
Jason Berman, MD
Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO); Research Institute and Vice President Research, CHEO
Jennifer Chan, MD
Director of the Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, at the University of Calgary
Rodney Cheung, P. Eng, EMBA
Global Chief Information Officer (CIO), BGIS
Bernita Drenth
Drenth Consultants Inc.
Michael Huynh
Amin Mawani
Professor of Taxation and a Schulich Research Excellence Fellow at the Schulich School of Business, York University
Nancy Ross, PhD
Vice-Principal Research, Queen’s University
John Stagg
Director, Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute at McGill University and Professor of Immunology
Alyssa Vito
Senior Director, Clinical Development, Alpha-9 Oncology
Bradly G. Wouters, PhD
Executive Vice President, Science and Research, University Health Network
Scientific Advisory Board
Sylvia K. Plevritis, PhD (Chair)
- Professor and Chair
William M. Hume Professor in the School of Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology
Chair, Department of Biomedical Data Science
Associate Director, Cancer AI for the Stanford Cancer Institute
Director, Biomedical Informatics NLM Training Program
Stanford University
Hakim Djaballah, PhD
- President and CEO
Keren Therapeutics
Olivera J. Finn, PhD
- Chair and Professor, Department of Immunology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - Director, Immunology Program
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Edward F. Patz, MD
- James and Alice Chen Distinguished Professor of Radiology
Professor of Radiology
Professor in Pathology
Professor in Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH
- Chair of the Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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