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Honorary Patrons
Barbara Hall
The Honourable Barbara J. McDougall, O.C.
The Honourable Pamela Wallin, O.C., S.O.M.
Officers
Chair
Alan Bocking, M.D., FRCSC
Founding Chair
Walter J. Hannah, M.D., RCSC
Vice Chair
Jennifer Blake, M.D., MSc, FRCSC
Medical Research Director
Stephen Lye, Ph.D.
Medical Research Advisor
Robert Casper, M.D., FRCSC
Trustees
Christine
Derzko, M.D.,
FRCSC
Joan Murphy, M.D., FRCSC
Wusun Paek, M.D., FRCSC
Alex Szucs, MSc
Executive Director
Beverly Allen, CFRE |
Alan Bocking, M.D., FRCSC
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Chair, Genesis Research Foundation
Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics &
Gynaecology, University of Toronto
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist-In-Chief Mount Sinai
Hospital and The University Health Network
Dr. Alan Bocking graduated from
the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Medicine
in 1977 where he obtained specialty training in Obstetrics
and Gynaecology. As a recipient of an MRC fellowship,
he did further research training in the Department of
Physiology, Monash University, Australia. In 1985, he
joined the University of Western Ontario Faculty as
an Assistant Professor where he held continuous MRC/CIHR
funding since 1986 and received an MRC Scholarship in
1987. He has been a member of the MRC/CIHR Group in
Fetal and Neonatal Health and Development since 1989.
He was appointed Chair, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology at the University of Western Ontario in
1999.
Dr. Bocking’s research has contributed
substantially to our understanding of the mechanisms
whereby the fetus adapts to prolonged hypoxemia. With
other collaborators he has made important discoveries
related to biochemical predictors of preterm labour
and the mechanisms underlying preterm labour. He has
published over 60 original articles in the peer reviewed
literature related to his research and has over 90 published
abstracts related to his research findings. He has authored
and co-authored over 10 reviews and text book chapters
related to fetal and maternal health.
Dr. Bocking joined the University
of Toronto as Chair of the Department of Obstetrics
and Gynaecology in April 2003 and also is the Chief
of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Mt.
Sinai Hospital.
Dr. Alan Bocking is the Chair of the
Genesis Research Foundation.
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