Our Experts

CDRD has built relationships with experts across academia, industry and government to support our training program and mission to develop the next-generation of key personnel in the drug development sector.

Training Team

The core Training Team at CDRD is comprised of:

  • Helen Burt, Principal Investigator, CIHR Strategic Training Program Grant
  • Kim Flock, Training Manager
  • Michel Roberge, Scientific Director; Division Chair, Screening
  • Kaity Weger, HR Coordinator, CDRD

Program Advisory Committee

The Program Advisory Committee will provide recommendations and guidance on the development and implementation of the CDRD Training Program to ensure that the program curriculum and implementation meets stated goals and objectives.

  • Helen Burt, Chair
  • Michel Roberge, Scientific Director; Division Chair, Screening
  • Harry Hubball, Academic Representative, UBC Senior Advisor, Teaching & Learning; Director, Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISoTL); and Academic Director Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology
  • Kim Flock, Training Manager, CDRD
  • Rob McMaster, Academic Representative, Affiliated Centre of Excellence in Commercialization and Research (CECR).  Professor, Medical Genetics, UBC; Director of Transplant and Immunology Research, BC Transplant Society; Executive Director, CCH VCH Research Institute
  • Mark Winnett, Industry Representative.  Director, Project & Program Management; Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Chesterbrook, PA, USA

  • Jeremy Gawryluk, Post-doctoral Fellow Trainee, CDRD

The following lists some key experts who have contributed to the CDRD training program: