Dr. Arnold Naimark

OC, OM, BSc (Med), MSc, MD, LLD (Mt. All, Toronto), FRCP (C), FRSC, FACHS

Dr.Naimark is the former president of the University of Manitoba as well as having served that university as dean of medicine and professor of medicine and physiology and director of the Centre for the Advancement of Medicine.

He is the founding chair of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, chair of the Science Advisory Board of Health Canada and Chair of Genome Prairie.

Dr. Naimark serves on the Council of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and on the National Statistics Council of Canada.

Dr. Naimark is the founding chair of the North Portage Development Corporation and currently serves as a director of or consultant to several voluntary, public and private sector organizations.

He has served as president of several academic bodies including, the Canadian Physiological Society, the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and as Chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. 

Dr. Naimark is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Member of the Order of Manitoba and Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He is recipient of the G. Malcolm Brown Award of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and Medical Research Council of Canada, the Osler Award, the Distinguished Service Award of Ben Gurion University, the Symons Award of the Association of Commonwealth Universities; and of honorary doctorates from Mount Allison University and the University of Toronto—and of several other awards and distinctions related to his professional, academic and civic activities.