Our Team

Dr. Louise Parker, Principal Investigator
Louise holds the Canadian Cancer Society (Nova Scotia Division) Chair in Population Cancer Research and is a professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Dalhousie University. She came to Nova Scotia from the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom where she was founding Director of the Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Faculty Research Group, Head of Child Health, and Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medical Sciences. Louise was also the Associate Director of Research and Development at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in London. Her major research interests include investigation of the causes of childhood cancer, adverse pregnancy outcomes and lifelong influences on adult health. She has published more than 165 peer-reviewed research papers, served on the editorial boards of several major journals, and was editor in chief of Pediatric Hematology Oncology from 2000 to 2006.

Dr. David W. Hoskin, Co-Principal Investigator
David is an immunologist who holds the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Atlantic Region Endowed Chair in Breast Cancer Research and is a professor of Pathology and of Microbiology & Immunology at Dalhousie University. His research interests include the mechanisms of tumor-induced immune suppression and the anticancer properties of naturally occurring substances that are found in fruits and vegetables.

Dr. Trevor J.B. Dummer, Academic Director
Trevor is a health geographer whose current research focuses on the use of mapping and other geographic tools to understand the relationship between the environment and health, particularly related to cancer risk. He holds an adjunct faculty appointment with the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology at Dalhousie University and is a member of the Population Cancer Research Program at Dalhousie and of the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at the IWK Health Centre.