Michael Rieder

Dr. Rieder obtained his MD at the University of Saskatchewan in 1980 and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 1992. His paediatric residency training was at Children's Hospital of Michigan followed by fellowships in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is a Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Paediatrics, Physiology and Pharmacology and Medicine at Western University and a Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute. He is a member of the Drug Therapy Committee of the CPS and has served as a consultant to Health Canada, the NIH, the MRC and the Canadian College of Academies. Dr. Rieder's research focuses on drug and food safety, novel assay development, pharmacogenomics, steroid biology and optimal therapeutics in children. His work is supported by Genome Canada, CIHR and NSERC. Dr. Rieder has published 4 books, 35 book chapters and over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has trained more than 50 fellows and graduate students. He received numerous awards and is the Senior International Editor of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and an Associate Editor of Paediatrics and Child Health.