Chris Simpson Queen’s University, Ontario Professor of Medicine and Vice-Dean (Clinical), School of Medicine Chris Simpson was born in Moncton in 1967 and raised in Nackawic, a small pulp mill town of 1,000 people in western New Brunswick. Torn between pursuing a career in music or medicine, he obtained a BSc at the University of New Brunswick while playing saxophone with The Thomists, a 20-piece big swing band based in

Eugene Wu University of Richmond Professor of Biology and Biochemistry I study life at its borders. At the edge of our definition of life lies viruses, obligate parasites that invade cellular organisms to replicate. When a virus encounters a cell, it must recognize that cell through biomolecular interactions and then commandeer the cell to create copies of the virus’s proteins. Research in my laboratory focuses on those biomolecular interactions between

Wendy Liu wendy.liu@zurich.com Zurich Insurance Group Head of Global Employee Benefits Solutions Wendy Liu is the Head of Zurich Global Employee Benefits Solutions team, which works with multinational companies to implement appropriate financing solutions for the global employee benefit plans. Previous to this role, Wendy has held various positions with Zurich; most recently as the Global Partnership Director for Zurich Corporate Life and Pensions. In this role she was

Melissa J. Armstrong melissa.armstrong@neurology.ufl.edu University of Florida Assistant Professor, Neurology Dr. Armstrong is a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders and cognitive impairment, particularly Lewy body dementia. She also serves as an evidence-based medicine consultant on healthcare guidelines and investigates strategies relating to patient and carepartner engagement in clinical care, research, and guidelines.