Heyu Ni, MD, Ph.D.
Platform Director, Hematology, Cancer and Immunological Diseases, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto
Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Univ. of Toronto • Professor, Medicine, University of Toronto
Professor, Physiology, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Canadian Blood Services Centre for Innovation
Scientist, Laboratory Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital • Passed President, SCBA Toronto Chapter

Dr. Ni’s laboratory currently investigates the roles of adhesion molecules involved in thrombosis and hemostasis, inflammation/immune response, and tumorigenesis. His research team is currently studying the mechanisms of these processes using a confocal intravital microscopy suite, proteomics, and gene targeted mice. By directly monitoring molecular/cellular events in vivo, they hope to uncover some novel mechanisms of platelet aggregation, platelet-leukocyte/cancer cell interactions to enrich our knowledge in heart attack and stroke, inflammation and tumor metastasis. The laboratory also studies allo- and autoimmune diseases related to bleeding disorders such as Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP), Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia (FNAIT). They have established several novel murine models of ITP and FNAIT. His studies have been well funded by both internal and external grant agencies including Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) project, and CIHR Foundation, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC), Canadian Blood Services (CBS), Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA), and NSFC-CIHR (China- Canada Joint Health Research Initiative Program). Dr. Ni has many high impact publications, acts as a reviewer for more than 20 scientific journals, sits on various scientific committees and granting agencies in Canada (HSFC, CIHR, NSFCCIHR), China (NSFC), US (NIH), and Europe, and lectures at the local, national and international level. Dr. Ni have published >130 papers, and 3 book chapters, many in high impact journals, such as Blood (22), JCI (5), Nature series (5), Science Translational Medicine (1), PNAS (1), JEM (1), Circ Res (1), Diabetes (1) and Circulation (1). He is the first/senior author for 80 publications, have been cited ~ 5700 times, with an h-index of 44 (5yr h-index 36). Selected Awards: Graduate Student Mentorship Award (Faculty of Medicine), University of Toronto; Undergraduate Education Award, University of Toronto; S. C. Verma Young Investigator Award (Heart & Stroke/ Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence), University of Toronto; Keating Award for Hematology 2018.

James Crummey MD FCFP
Family physician, Humber River FHT.
Lecturer, University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Assessor the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
Mail address: 2050 Weston Rd, Toronto M9M 1X4

Dr. Crummey has spent his whole career in community based primary care in Ontario. After graduating from medical school at the University of Toronto he did a residency in family medicine at the Ottawa Civic hospital before beginning family practice in Manotick Ontario. Since 1981 he has practiced in the Mount Dennis Weston area of Toronto, associated with the Humber River Hospital. During that time, he has served on many hospital committees and was a founding member of the Humber River Family Health Team. He served many years as an examiner for the College of Family Practice residency exams. He currently teaches second year students and Family Practice residents through the department of Family and Community medicine at the University of Toronto while continuing in active family practice.

Dr. Xu-dong Ma MD, M Med.
Professor, Department of Hematology
President of Zhangzhou Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University
Zhangzhou, Fujian, China
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Professor Xudong Ma is a senior hematologist and the president in Zhangzhou Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University. She received bachelor’s degree in Fujian Medical University in 1982 and Master degree in 2000. She was a visiting scholar in hospital management at Houston Memorial Health Care System in USA from 1994 to 1995. She received postdoctoral training in research at New York Medical College in USA from 2003-2004. She currently is a supervisor for master’s and doctoral degree students at Fujian Medical University. Under her guidance more than 50 students have graduated and received master and doctor degree. Professor Ma has led her research team to study histone acetylaton and methylation and other epignetics in leukemia and others carcinoma. Her work has been financially supported by several research grants, including National Health Ministry research foundation and Fujian science and technology research funding and Fujian medical university research funding. She has published more than 60 clinical and research articles and received research award from Fujian province government. Professor Ma currently is Vice Chairman of Fujian Hematology Association and Vice Chairman of Fujian Internal Medicine Association.