The Media Room
2009/62 (a)
Backgrounder
Biographies — Expert Review Panel
Richard Drouin
Counsel in the law firm of McCarthy Tétrault, Richard Drouin is the former Chairman of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of Hydro-Québec and, until recently, as Chairman of Abitibi-Consolidated. Mr. Drouin sits on the boards of Aéroports de Montréal, American Superconductor Corporation, Gesca (French daily newspapers) and President's Choice Financial, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Mr. Drouin received his undergraduate degree from the Université de Montréal and his law degree from l'Université Laval in Quebec City, and he holds an honorary degree from l’Université Lumière in Lyon, France. Mr. Drouin is a Companion of the Order of Canada, an Officer of l’Ordre national du Québec and an Honorary Consul for Great Britain in Quebec City. In 2001, he was nominated the Energy Person of the year by the Energy Council of Canada.
Peter Goodhand
President and CEO of the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS), Peter Goodhand joined the CCS in 2004 as the Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Division. During that time, Mr. Goodhand was instrumental in leading
initiatives in organizational change that have benefited the CCS across the country.
Mr. Goodhand brings with him more than 20 years of international experience in the health care industry. Before joining the Canadian Cancer Society, he was the President and CEO of MEDEC, a national association of Canada’s medical technology industry. In this role, he represented the industry to the Senate Committee and Romanow Commission on health care reform and at Canada’s Innovation Summit. In the private sector, his career included roles as vice-president of sales and marketing and vice-president of global marketing with leading health care companies. Mr. Goodhand has also worked with several not-for-profit organizations towards the goal of enhancing the overall performance of the health care system and ultimately improving the quality of patient care.
Dr. Thom Mason
Laboratory Director at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Dr. Mason is a condensed matter physicist. He held various directorships in experimental nuclear physics at the Oak Ridge Spallation Neutron Source following academic appointments in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto and he has served on a variety of advisory panels and review committees.
Dr. Mason received a B.Sc. in physics from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a Ph.D. in physics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He conducted research work at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and at Risø National Laboratory in Denmark, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 1997 to 1999. Dr. Mason has been an Associate of the Quantum Materials Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research since 1993, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007.
Dr. Éric Turcotte
A nuclear medicine specialist at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Dr. Éric Turcotte is the clinical head of the Molecular Imaging Centre of Sherbrooke, one of the most recognized positron emission tomography (PET) research centres in Canada. He holds an establishment license from Health Canada to operate one of the most advanced PET radiotracer synthesis facilities in Canada.
Dr. Turcotte is a an Associate Professor at the University of Sherbrooke, where he teaches nuclear medicine and PET imaging to students from Canada and around the world, as well as to many Canadian nuclear medicine specialists seeking special training in PET. He holds a degree in nuclear medicine from Univerité de Sherbrooke and recently returned to Sherbrooke following a two-year Fellowship in Positron Emission Tomography with Novel Radiotracers at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
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