Grant Pierce is considered one of the top cardiovascular scientists in the world. He has made major contributions towards the understanding of heart dysfunction in diabetes, the role of sodium-hydrogen exchange in ischemic heart disease and towards the prevention of cardiovascular disease through natural health products. His research, published in 200 manuscripts in high impact journals has been cited over 5000 times. He has authored/edited 8 textbooks. His services as Executive Director of Research at St. Boniface Hospital, Editor of the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Chair of Peer Review for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and Scientific Director of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences are but a few measures of his excellent leadership.

Grant Pierce est considéré comme l’un des plus grands spécialistes mondiaux des maladies cardiovasculaires. Ses travaux ont permis de mieux comprendre les dysfonctionnements du cœur chez les diabétiques, le rôle de l’échange sodium-hydrogène dans les maladies cardiaques ischémiques et la prévention des maladies cardio-vasculaires au moyen de produits naturels de santé. Ses quelque 200 articles sont parus dans des revues majeures et ont été citées plus de 5000 fois. Grant Pierce a publié huit manuels, seul ou en collaboration. Il est ou a été directeur de recherche à l’hôpital Saint-Boniface, rédacteur en chef de la Revue canadienne de physiologie et pharmacologie, responsable de l’évaluation par les pairs à la Fondation des maladies du cœur et de l’AVC du Canada et directeur scientifique de l’International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences. Tous ces postes témoignent éloquemment de son engagement et de son leadership.

Maurice Pinard, in his work on third party movements, voting behaviour, and ethnic group relations has distinguished himself in the fields of Sociology and Political Science. He is clearly one of the leading scholars in Sociology in Canada today, and the regard in which he is held in political science circles is probably as great as in sociological. His book on "The Rise of a Third Party" in itself merits his election to the Royal Society. When combined with the large number of papers he has published, his work represents, indeed, a major contribution to Canadian scholarship. His most recent book (with robert Bernier and Vincent Lemieux) is "Un combat inachevé" (1997).

James Pinfold is an internationally renowned particle physicist who was a leader in the discovery of the first hard evidence for Electroweak Unification and a founder of the ATLAS-LHC Experiment that has potentially discovered the Higgs boson. In the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model he was spokesman for an international collider experiment MODAL, co-spokesman for the SLIM astroparticle experiment, and now leads the newest LHC experiment, MoEDAL.

James Pinfold est un physicien des particules de renommée mondiale qui a joué un rôle prépondérant dans la découverte des premières preuves incontestables de l’union électrofaible. Il est le fondateur de l’ATLAS-LHC Experiment qui pourrait bien être à l’origine de la découverte du boson de Higgs. Son intérêt pour la physique qui s’écarte du modèle classique, l’a amené à être le porte-parole de l’expérience internationale de collisionneur MODAL et co-porte-parole de l’expérience sur l’astroparticule SLIM. Il dirige aujourd’hui la toute nouvelle expérience LHC, MoEDAL.

LONG Dr. B. Mario Pinto is a prominent organic chemist, who has made contributions to carbohydrate chemistry, conformational analysis and the stereoelectronic effects of non-bonded electron pairs belonging to heteroatoms in group 6 of the periodic table. He has contributed to the methodology of oligosaccharide synthesis and studied the three dimensional shape of these molecules when complexed with enzymes and antibodies. He has shown how peptides bind to carbohydrate specific antibodies by adopting three dimensional structures that mimic those of oligosaccharide. This work may find application in future vaccines against infectious diseases. He has designed a novel class of glycosidase inhibitor that shows promise for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. SHORT Mario Pinto is a prominent organic chemist in the fields of carbohydrate chemistry, conformational analysis, and the stereoelectronic effects of non-bonded electron pairs belonging to heteroatoms in group 6 of the periodic table. He has contributed to oligosaccharide synthesis and studied the three dimensional shape of these molecules and their peptide mimics when complexed with enzymes and antibodies.

Updated July 13, 2015 PIOMELLI, Ugo, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen's University Professor Ugo Piomelli, Queen's University, is a world expert in the area of fluid dynamics. He has made fundamental contributions to the field by developing numerical models capable of predicting turbulent flows, and by successfully applying them to understand the physics of turbulence. The models he developed are commonly used by the industrial and research communities, in aerospace, mechanical and environmental engineering, in geophysics and meteorology.

Updated Aug. 26, 2015 - French reviewed by M. Beugnot Professeur Ugo Piomelli, Université Queen's, est un expert mondialement reconnu en mécanique des fluides. Il a apporté plusieurs contributions fondamentales au domaine par le développement de modèles numériques et leur application à l'étude de la physique de la turbulence. Les modèles qu'il a développés sont utilisés couramment par les communautés scientifiques et industrielles en génie aérospatial, mécanique et de l'environnement, ainsi qu'en géophysique et météorologie.

Nicholas Pippenger, Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of British Columbia, is a world leader in theoretical computer science. His dozens of papers on switching networks have earned him the reputation of being the world expert in the field. He has also made fundamental contributions to Boolean circuit complexity, algebraic function complexity, and theory of parallel computation. He is noted both for his technical prowess and mathematical erudition. His results use tools from analysis, algebra, combinatorics, probability theory, coding theory, and information theory. His selection as an IBM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow and his technical achievement awards demonstrate that many of his results have practical importance in addition to their mathematical depth and elegance.

PLANT, David V. – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University David V. Plant is a world leader in photonic devices and systems. His creative innovations have produced record breaking optical transmission performance at multiple length scales ranging from centimetres to thousands of kilometres. His work has significantly advanced the field of optical communications and has contributed to the realization of a more efficient and faster Internet. His results have been commercialized and are being integrated into industrial standards.

David V. Plant est un leader mondial dans le domaine des composantes et systèmes photoniques. Ses innovations créatives ont produit des transmissions optiques à performance record sur diverses distances, allant de quelques centimètres à plusieurs milliers de kilomètres. Son travail a grandement fait avancer le domaine des communications optiques et a contribué à l’accroissement de l’efficacité et de la rapidité d’Internet. Ses résultats furent commercialisés et se font intégrer aux standards commerciaux.

Long Citation (for publication and press release) Gerald Pocius is English Canada's leading interpreter of ordinary objects. Whether through hooked rugs or gravestones, houses or chairs, he has revealed the complex ways human beings create meaning through artifacts. By looking at how everyday things are used, he has produced studies both sensitive and rigorous, earning him international standing as a scholar. While trained as a folklorist, he is a true interdisciplinarian, his research easily at home in anthropology, archaeology, geography or history. As an advocate for the study and preservation of Canadian intangible cultural heritage, he is influencing national policy toward a greater recognition of local traditions. Short Citation (to be read at the Induction Ceremony) Gerald Pocius is English Canada's leading interpreter of ordinary objects. Whether through hooked rugs or gravestones, houses or chairs, he has revealed the complex ways human beings create meaning through artifacts. By looking at how everyday things are used, he has produced studies both sensitive and rigorous, earning him international standing as a scholar. While trained as a folklorist, he is a true interdisciplinarian.

Guy Poirier is a Professor in the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo. He works on topics related to French Renaissance: discourse and homosexuality in Renaissance France, Henri III of France in literature and pamphlets, etc. He also published in areas such as Québec literature and British Columbia French Literature. More recently, he has been the principal investigator of research projects on early modern French missionary texts (Japan, Charlevoix).

Guy Poirier est professeur (département d’études françaises, University of Waterloo). Ses recherches portent sur la Renaissance française: imaginaire de l’homosexualité à la Renaissance, Henri III de France dans la littérature et la polémique, etc. Il a aussi publié dans les domaines de la littérature québécoise et de la littérature d’expression française en Colombie-Britannique. Il dirige, depuis quelques années, des projets de recherche portant sur les textes missionnaires de l’Ancien Régime (Japon, Charlevoix).

POISSANT, Louise – Doyenne de la Faculté des arts et membre fondatrice de l’Institut Hexagram CIAM, Université du Québec à Montréal The work of Louise Poissant has greatly contributed to the development of creative research in the field of media arts. It testifies to her ability to create spaces for reflection and exchange that have profoundly marked the short history of media arts and have largely contributed to make Montreal an international reference in this field. Her activities had a strong impact on the arts and academia, and her writings helped clarify some concepts and served as a springboard to an aesthetic reflection on the paradigm shift produced by the emergence of these art forms.

POISSANT, Louise – Doyenne de la Faculté des arts et membre fondatrice de l’Institut Hexagram CIAM, Université du Québec à Montréal Les travaux de Louise Poissant ont largement contribué au développement de la recherche-création dans le domaine des arts médiatiques. Ils témoignent de son aptitude à créer des lieux de réflexion et d’échange qui ont profondément marqué la courte histoire des arts médiatiques et ont en grande partie contribué à faire de Montréal une référence internationale dans ce domaine. Ses activités ont eu un effet structurant dans le milieu artistique et universitaire ; ses écrits ont permis de préciser des notions et de faire naître une réflexion esthétique autour du changement paradigmatique produit par l’émergence de ces formes d’art.

Long Citation Professor Polivy's research has had both an important theoretical impact, revolutionizing research on dieting and human eating behavior, and a practical impact on people's strategies for dieting, weight regulation, and self-change. Polivy's work has always proven to be counterintuitive and by virtue of that attribute, extremely important both theoretically and for the 'real world'. For instance, she and her colleagues showed that intermittent dieting, so common to women in our culture, can have clearly negative effects on body weight gain and regulation, in part by inducing 'binge' eating. Similarly, Polivy's identification of 'The False Hope Syndrome' illuminates factors in typical 'self-help' programs that make failure likely. Given the impact of her work on eating behavior, health psychology, self-regulation, and eating disorders/obesity, it is not surprising that Professor Polivy was identified as one of the most highly-cited psychological researchers in the world. She has a national and international reputation as a scientist, serving on numerous journal editorial boards and government panels/advisory groups. She also works to improve and regulate her profession, and educate the public. Short Citation Janet Polivy's research has had both an important theoretical impact, revolutionizing research on dieting and human eating behavior, and a practical impact on people's strategies for weight regulation. Professor Polivy was identified as one of the most highly-cited psychological researchers in the world. She has a national and international reputation as a scientist and also works to improve and regulate her profession and educate the public.