Scientific Advisory Board

 

Dr. Mark Bisby

Consultant, former Vice-President, Research for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Dr. Bisby holds an M.A. and D. Phil. from Oxford University and is a past-President of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies and the Canadian Physiological Society. A professor, researcher and former Assistant Dean of Medical Sciences at the University of Calgary, Dr. Bisby was Head of the Department of Physiology at Queen's University before joining the Medical Research Council and subsequently CIHR. He retired in 2006 and now works as a consultant in research program design and evaluation. He has published over 100 scientific articles in the area of neuroscience, most recently the inappropriate regenerative events that follow nerve injury which lead to chronic pain.