Protecting academic freedom

Gordon H. Guyatt, MD, FRCPC, is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Carol E. Cass, PhD, is Director of the Cross Cancer Institute and Professor and Chair of the Department of Oncology in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. Alan C. Jackson, MD, FRCPC, is Professor and Head of the Section of Neurology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC, is Head of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and Head of Psychiatry at the Children’s Health Centre of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. J. Philip Welch, MB, ChB, PhD, FCCMG, is a medical geneticist and retired Professor of Pediatrics at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. James L. Turk, PhD, is Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in Ottawa, Ontario.